From: jidai@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jihong Dai)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
Subject: soc.culture.china FAQ(5)--Acronym
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@netcom.com > , with assistance from Jihong Cole-Dai < jidai@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu > and Mark Swofford < mswofford@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu > .
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Last-modified: 1995/07/15


ACRONYM


Written by Tung-chiang Yang < tcyang@netcom.com >

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Acronym

6.4
The incident that took place on June 4, 1989 in TAM Square in Beijing.
ABC
American-born Chinese. Those born in the US to Chinese parents.
CCK
CHIANG, Ching-kuo, the son of CKS who succeeded CKS as the leader of ROC and KMT after CKS' death in 1975. He died in 1988.
CCP
Chinese Communist Party, currently the governing party in PRC government.
CG
Chinese Government, or, alternately: Central Government (of the PRC).
CKS
CHIANG, Kai-shek, the leader of ROC and also KMT since the 1930's. He died in 1975.
CND
China News Digest.
CR
Cultural Revolution, which lasted approximately from 1966 to 1976.
CSS
Chinese students and scholars ( from Mainland China ).
DPP
Democratic Progressive Party, currently the largest opposition political party in Taiwan.
DXP
DENG, Xiao-ping, the person who opened China's economy to the world while maintaining the communism control. He died in February 1997.
EU
Eventual Unification (with China), maybe currently the moderate status quo proposal winning the most support in Taiwan because it does not promote any sudden change, as compared to TI and 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.
JZM
JIANG, Zeming, President of PRC and also leader of CCP.
KMT
Kuomingtang, or Nationalist Party, the current governing party in ROC government.
LTH
LEE, Teng-hui, the current President of ROC and also Chairman of KMT, who succeeded CCK after his death in 1988. Alternately: LDH (after LI, Deng-hui, the pinyin romanization).
MFN
Most Favored Nation, the status the US government offers to many countries for trade purpose.
NP
New Party, currently the second largest opposition political party in Taiwan.
PLA
People's Liberation Army, the name used for the army of PRC.
PR
Permanent residency, also known as green card. Sometimes PR can stand for "public relations".
PRC
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
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 refer to the TAM incident on June 4th, 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 "ROC" if it wants to participate in the world stage.

Officially the ROC does not support this idea and claims it will simply bring disaster to the residents in 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 announces 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 should be "Chinese Daily News".
WJS
WEI, Jing-sheng, the most well-known Chinese dissident.

written by: Tung-chiang Yang < tcyang@netcom.com >

with editorial assistance from: Mark Swofford < mswofford@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu >


List of soc.culture.china FAQ authors and contributors (in alphabetical order)

Jihong Cole-Dai < jidai@magnus.acs.ohio-sate.edu >
Bo Peng < bpeng@chelsea.ios.com >
Ray Zhan Su < raysu@hphkae0.hkg.hp.com >
Mark Swofford < mswofford@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu >
Wuchun Wu < wuwu@phys.ksu.edu >
Tung-Chiang Yang < tcyang@netcom.com >

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