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as major foreign power in China,
45–46
,
50–51
,
55
,
56–57

relations with PRC,
325

success of Northern Expedition and,
165

Tibet and,
148–149

trade with China,
36–39
,
40
,
41
,
44

British-American Tobacco,
184
,
187

British-American War of 1812, effect on China,
38

Brown, Harold,
374

Brunei,
217

Buddhism,
189
,
191

Burma,
21
,
79
,
263
,
266–267
,
321
,
418
,
420
,
435

Bush, George H. W.,
370
,
382–383
,
400

Bush, George W.,
392
,
400–401
,
436
,
437

Butterfield & Swire,
59

Cai Hesen,
238

Cai Yuanpei,
205

Cambodia,
219
,
407–408
,
420

Cambridge Seven,
190

Cameron, Ewen,
67

Canton system of trade,
36–37

Capitalism

China and reinvention of,
446–447

market economy in PRC,
385–389

Carter, Jimmy,
370
,
374
,
389

Castiglione, Giuseppe,
12

Castro, Fidel,
228
,
352
,
353

Catholic missionaries,
189–190

CCP.
See
Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

CCRG.
See
Central Cultural Revolution Group (CCRG)

Central Asia, China and,
9–10
,
429–432

Central Cultural Revolution Group (CCRG),
356

Centrality, China’s sense of,
5–6
,
459–462

Central Party School,
455

Chan, Julius,
229

Chang, José Antonio,
227

Chaplin, Charlie,
202

Charoen Pokphand (Zheng Dai),
218
,
419

Chen, Eugene,
228

Chen, Percy (Pertsei Ievgenovich Tschen),
228

Chen, Steven,
225

Chen Duxiu,
106
,
152
,
153–154
,
155
,
158
,
204

Cheng Shewo,
181

Cheng Xiaoqing,
202

Chen Jiongming,
156

Chennault, Anna,
208–209

Chennault, Claire,
197
,
209

Chen Shuibian,
392
,
444

Chen Xiangmei,
209

Chen Yi,
338
,
356
,
357
,
362

Chen Yun,
371

Cheo Ying, Esther,
209

Chiang Ching-kuo (Jiang Jingguo),
197
,
241
,
373
,
389

Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi),
72
,
91
,
200
,
240

after Sino-Japanese War,
282
,
283–284
,
288–289

civil war and,
291

Communists and,
163–164
,
199
,
254–255

conversion to Christianity,
190

events leading to war with Japan and,
255–257

German advisers and,
134
,
135

Guomingdang and,
162
,
163–164
,
165–168
,
169
,
195

Japan and,
106–107
,
119
,
253

Little and,
194

military advisers,
196
,
197

Sino-Japanese War and,
247
,
258
,
261–262
,
264
,
266–269

Sun Yat-sen and,
159

Taiwan and,
321
,
370

Wang Jingwei and,
274–275

Yalta Conference and,
280
,
281
,
282

Chiang Wei-kuo (Jiang Weiguo),
196–197

China

as allied power in World War I,
116–117

ASEAN and,
420–422

concept of state in,
107–108

conflict with Japan over Korea,
98–103

defined geographically,
3–4

defining,
3–4
,
146
,
151

economic stagnation in relation to other Asian nations,
405–406

effect of Sino-Japanese War on,
269–271

embrace of change,
440

emigration from,
26–28
,
55–56

as empire,
3
,
4

ethnicity in,
28–29
,
69–70
,
150–151
,
456

foreign presence in mid-19th-century,
53–54

future of,
1
,
439–469

influence of history in,
2
,
16–17

influence of Japanese ideas on,
106–109

interest in West,
45–46

isolation of,
333–335

Japanese-occupied,
274–277

knowledge of geographical world,
31–32

as participant in global forms of modernity,
14–15

political change 1900–1920s,
123–126

relationship with other countries (
see individual countries
)

Republic of,
141–143
,
144
,
169

response to foreign culture,
78–79

status after World War II,
283–284

19th-century economy,
24–26

Third World and,
320–321
,
325–326
,
333
,
334
,
341–343
,
346
,
350–353
,
369–370

urbanization in,
63–65

Western trade and,
49–50

See also
People’s Republic of China (PRC)
;
Qing China

China Can Say No,
395

China Merchant Steamship Navigation Company,
67

Chinese Academy of Sciences,
1

Chinese American Citizens’ Alliance,
225

Chinese civil war,
290–291

Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

advice for Soviets on foreign policy,
328–329

alliance with GMP,
265

anti-foreign campaigns,
298–300

Chen Duxiu and,
106

Chiang Kai-shek and,
163–164

Chinese diaspora and,
220
,
240

civil war and,
273
,
290–291

crackdown on demonstrations/freedom of speech,
329

creation of,
154
,
158–159
,
198–199

Cultural Revolution and,
321–324

destructiveness of,
16

education under,
308–311

effect of market economy on,
386–387

effect of war on,
286

end of WWII and,
288–289

fear of deviance and dissonance,
450–453

foreign relations,
329–332

government of,
297–304

as guerrilla force,
254

international reaction to,
323–327

Korean War and,
294
,
296–297

Long March,
254–255

Manchuria and,
167

Maoism/Mao Zedong Thought,
287

membership,
286–287
,
302

modern,
448–449

nationalism and,
456–457

nationalities’ policy,
315–318

1950s,
327–332

organization of lives of citizens,
300–301

recognition of pluralism and,
450

religion and,
326

response to returning Chinese,
243–245

Sino-Japanese War and,
249
,
261–262
,
272–274
,
279

social tensions and,
448

Sovietization of,
302–303

Third World Countries and,
320–321
,
325–326

urban planning and,
311–315

Vietnam and,
319–320

view of outside world,
318–321

See also
People’s Republic of China (PRC)

Chinese diaspora,
26–28
,
55–56
,
141
,
218
,
239–245
.
See also
Chinese emigration

Chinese Eastern Railway,
167

Chinese Educational Mission,
72

Chinese emigration

to cities,
214

conflict in immigrant communities,
233–234

to Europe,
229–231

exploitation of immigrants,
233
,
235

19th-century,
213–216

return to China,
231–232

to Singapore,
221–223

to South America,
226–228

to Southeast Asia,
213
,
215
,
216–221

to Taiwan,
113–114

transnational,
216

to United States,
223–226

Chinese Equal Rights League,
225

Chinese history textbooks,
416–417

Chinese language, 20th-century changes in,
206–207

Chinese modernities,
439–441

Chinese nationalism,
120
,
121

CCP and,
291

Christianity and,
192

contemporary,
455–458

ethnicity and,
150–151

Japanese nationalism
vs.,
120–121

overseas Chinese returning to China and,
220–221

Republic of China and,
169

revolution of 1911 and,
139

1990s and 2000s,
394
,
396
,
398

Sino-Japanese War and,
247–248
,
265

Chinese people

defining,
29–30

love-hate relationship with US,
133

Chinese People’s Anti-Japanese Military and Political University,
308

Chinese Protectorates in the Straits Settlements,
221

Chinese students abroad,
236–239

in Europe,
230
,
239

in Japan,
106–107
,
237
,
414

return home to market economy,
387

in Soviet Union,
238–239
,
241

in US,
72
,
237
,
239

Chinese travelers,
76–79

Chinese world exposition,
203–204

Chow, Vivian (Zhou Chenggui),
229

Choy, Armando,
228

Christianity,
68–70
,
127–129
,
189–192
,
326

Chu Chengbo,
103

Chui, Gustavo,
228

Chuikov, Vasilii,
198

Chung, Arthur,
228

Churchill, Winston,
280

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