Subject: soc.culture.china FAQ(5)--Acronyms
Date: 2 Jan 1996 14:21:42 GMT
Summary: This posting contains a list of frequently-asked-questions
          (and their answers) about the newsgroup "soc.culture.china".
          The fifth part covers the issue of commonly used acronyms
          and is written by Tung-chiang Yang <tcyang@seas.ucla.edu >,
          with assistance from Jihong Cole-Dai <jidai@magnus.acs.ohio-
          state.edu> and Mark Swofford <mswofford@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu >.

Posting-Frequency: approximately biweekly
Last-modified: 1995/07/15

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  ACRONYMS
  
    written by Tung-chiang Yang <tcyang@seas.ucla.edu >
   
   References:
          
          + "soc.culture.taiwan FAQ (part 4/5) -- Politics" by
            Tung-chiang Yang at "tcyang@ee.ucla.edu".
          + "soc.culture.china (SCC) Frequently Fought Topics (FFT)
            Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Version 0.05" by Deng at
            "deng@bnlux1.bnl.gov".
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For comments and suggestions, please send your ideas to the author or
to scc-faq@saavik.cem.msu.edu
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  ACRONYMS
  
   6.4    The incident that took place on June 4, 1989 in Tian An Mem 
          Square in Beijing.
          
   ABC    American-born Chinese. Those born in the United States to 
          Chinese parents.
          
   CCK    CHIANG, Ching-kuo, the son of CKS who succeeded CKS as the
          leader of the ROC and KMT after CKS' death in 1975.  He died in
          1988.
          
   CCP    the Chinese Communist Party, currently the governing party in 
          the government of Mainland China.
          
   CG     Chinese Government, or, alternately:  Central Government
          (of the People's Republic of China).
          
   CKS    CHIANG, Kai-shek, the leader of the Republic Of China and also 
          the KuoMingTang since the 1930's.  He died in 1975.
          
   CND    China News Digest, a volunteer run news and information service
          on the Internet
          
   CR     Cultural Revolution, a mass political movement in Mainland China 
          which lasted approximately from 1966 to 1976.
          
   CSS    (overseas) Chinese Students and Scholars (from Mainland China).
          
   DPP    the Democratic Progressive Party, currently the largest opposition
          political party in Taiwan.
          
   DXP    DENG, Xiao-ping, currently the most significant and most
          effective statesman in the PRC in spite of his deteriorating
          health.
          
   EU     Eventual Unification (with China), maybe currently the
          moderate status quo proposal with the most popular support in 
          Taiwan because it does not promote any sudden change, as 
          compared to TI or U. This proposal puts off the discussions 
          about TI and/or U until the time when China can catch up with 
          Taiwan both economically and politically (in terms of democracy).
          
          Refer to "TI" and "U" for more information.
          
   HK     Hongkong.
          
   HR     Human rights.
          
   IFCSS  Independent Federation of Chinese Students and Scholars, an 
          association of various Chinese student organizations (in the
          United States).
          
   JZM    JIANG, Zeming, President of the PRC and the Secretary General
          of the CCP.
          
   KMT    Kuomingtang, or the Nationalist Party, the current governing 
          party in the government of the Republic of China.
          
   LTH    LEE, Teng-hui, the current President of the ROC and also 
          Chairman of the KMT. He succeeded CCK after his death in 1988.
          Alternately: LDH (after LI, Deng-hui, the pinyin romanization).
          
   MFN    Most Favored Nation, the privileged trade status the United 
          States government grants to many selected countries.
          
   NP     the New Party, currently the second largest opposition political
          party in Taiwan.
          
   PLA    the People's Liberation Army, the name used for the army of the 
          PRC.
          
   PR     Permanent residency, or permanent resident, also known as green 
          card. (Sometimes PR stands for "public relations" in popular 
          press).
          
   PRC    the People's Republic of China, the current effective government 
          in Mainland China.
          
   RMB    Renminbi ("people's money"), the official currency used in
          Mainland China.
          
   ROC    the Republic of China, the current effective government in Taiwan.
          
   SCC    "soc.culture.china", the newsgroup you are currently reading.
          
   SCT    The newsgroup "soc.culture.taiwan".
          
   TAM    Tian-An-Men Square in Beijing. Also commonly refers to the TAM
          incident on June 4, 1989.
          
   TI     Taiwan Independence. One of the political proposals made by
          some people in Taiwan who claim that Taiwan should be
          independent of China, and that Taiwan should abandon the 
          current name of "ROC" if it wants to participate on the world 
          stage.
          
          Officially, the ROC does not support this idea and claims it 
          would simply bring disaster to the residents of Taiwan; instead
          it promotes the idea that "the ROC is different from the PRC".
          
          The PRC views TI and this ROC policy as approaches to 
          independence, and vows to use force should Taiwan ever announce
          independence.
          
          Note that a lot of problems arise because of the confusion over
          "Taiwan = ( or != ) ROC" and "CCP = ( != ) PRC". Refer to "EU"
          and "U" for more information.
          
          Sometimes TI also refers to the Tibet Independence movement.
          
   TPC    The newsgroup "talk.politics.china".
          
   U      "U" here refers to the Chinese Unification, the counterproposal
          to TI. Refer to "EU" and "TI" for more information.
          
   WJ     World Journal, a Chinese newspaper published widely in the US.
          Its official name is "Chinese Daily News".
          
   WJS    WEI, Jing-sheng, the most well-known Chinese dissident.
          
   
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   written by: Tung-chiang Yang <tcyang@seas.ucla.edu >
   
   with editorial assistance from: Mark Swofford
   <mswofford@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu >
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   List of soc.culture.china FAQ authors and contributors (in
   alphabetical order)
   Jihong Cole-Dai <jidai@magnus.acs.ohio-sate.edu >
   Bo Peng <bo@saavik.cem.msu.edu >
   Ray Zhan Su
   Mark Swofford <mswofford@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu >
   Wuchun Wu <wuwu@phys.ksu.edu >
   Tung-Chiang Yang <tcyang@ee.ucla.edu >
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