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 > .
Organization: The Ohio State university
Archive-name: SCC-faq/acronym
Posting-Frequency: approximately biweekly
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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