CRJ307 PRT1

1.) Mao Zedong’s major contribution to the enhancement of communist ideology was to base the revolution in China on the mass support of the peasants.   TRUE

2.) The Great Leap Forward in China was designed to increase industrial and agricultural production. TRUE p.497      

3.) The Cultural Revolution refers to Deng Xiaoping’s attempt to introduce Western ideas to China.   TRUE p.499

4.) Within the leadership of the Communist Party the principal architect of the modernization of China through economic development was Deng Xiaoping. TRUE p.499

5.) The Chinese Communist Party acknowledges that the country is economically backward and that socialist modernization may take 100 years to achieve.   TRUE p.503    

6.) According to the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party may enjoy the privilege of being above the Constitution and the law.    FALSE p.505    

7.) The list of citizens’ rights mentioned in the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China is designed to curtail the power of the central government.  FALSE

8.) A person can be elected to the office of President of the People’s Republic of China for no more than two consecutive five-year terms.   TRUE

9.) The “mass line” was a theoretical perspective espoused by Mao Zedong in China that was based on the premise that government officials should be guided by the public because the people are the true supervisors of government bureaucrats.       TRUE

10.) Red Guards were young activists mobilized by Mao Zedong throughout the country during the Cultural Revolution.  TRUE

11.) The Police Law 1995 explains the organization, duties, and authority of the principal police agencies in China.   TRUE

12.) In China, the pretrial interrogation bureau of the public security police is concerned with determining if a criminal case is of sufficient quality to bind it over to a procurator.    TRUE

13.) In China, the Ministry of Public Security is responsible for collecting both foreign and domestic intelligence.    FALSE

14.) In China, the police are charged with the responsibility of enforcing laws against criminal activities and laws concerning administrative affairs. TRUE

15.) When a person violates a law concerning administrative affairs in China, the case is turned over to a procurator and adjudicated in a court.  FALSE

16.) The system of policing in China has long been noted for its professionalism.   FALSE p.530

17.) The Chinese have acknowledged that drug abuse is becoming a serious problem and a factor in various kinds of criminal activity.    TRUE

18.) In China, compulsory treatment and education programs are imposed on people who abuse drugs.   TRUE

19.) For centuries, China had two kinds of justice systems: a formal system created by government and an informal system based on cultural traditions.   TRUE

20.) When the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949, the government abolished the laws enacted under the Kuomintang and essentially relied on an informal system for the administration of justice that was based on Confucian thought.  FALSE

21.) The first Constitution of the People’s Republic of China was approved in 1949 when the people’s Republic was founded.   FALSE

22.) Mao Zedong preferred an informal method for the administration of justice over that of a more formal system.   TRUE

23.) In China, the principle of dual leadership states that local courts and procurators are not only accountable to a court or procurator that is at a higher level within their respective organizational hierarchies, but also to the local people’s congress and its standing committee.   TRUE p.539    

24.) In China, only in minor criminal cases does the law provide for a trial before a single judge. TRUE

25.) In China, the Supreme People’s Court is the only court that can approve death sentences.FALSE