19th Century
China referred to itself as the Middle Kingdom because of this.
What is they thought themselves the center of the world?
Bonus - connection to Opium War
The Chinese people, frustrated with the greed of the Nationalists, started calling them this.
What was "downriver gangsters"?
Mao took out this rival during the Cultural Revolution.
Who was Liu Shaoqi?
This is the name of the line the Chinese created to gain more control of the South China Sea.
What is the nine dash line?
Bonus - current implications
Intoducing chemical elements into silica is called this.
What is doping?
Added: names
Added:reason
This was China's final humiliation in the 1890's.
What is losing a war to Japan?
Bonus: What they called
When morale plummeted, many Nationalists traded their guns for this.
What is a good meal?
The communists invaded this country after the defeat of the Nationalists.
What is Tibet?
The BRI has replaced this organization in handing out loans to developing countries.
What is the World Bank?
Kim il Sung means this.
What is "Kim becomes the sun."
Bonus: Animal Farm
Britain had a tremendous trade imbalance with China because of the demand for this product.
What is tea?
I will also accept silks but I won't be as happy about it.
The Nationalists contributed to major inflation by doing this.
What was printing money?
Mao's communist revolution was unique because the base of his revolution was this group.
What are the peasants?
What was the line that China crossed to start the "Umbrella Riots"?
What is interfering with the elections?
The US opened up relations with China in 1972 by using this type of diplomacy.
What is ping pong diplomacy?
Bonus - current version of this.
China's crackdown on the opium trade in Canton by Lin Zexu led to this dramatic event/
What is ordering 20,000 crates to be destroyed?
Sun Yat Sen was the founder of this political party.
What is the Kuomintang?
Bonus - current
Mao had to put down a resistance from this province in Western China.
What is Xinjiang?
The one country, two systems model will last until this year.
What is 2047?
Main idea of Old Major's speech in Animal Farm.
What is varied?
This was the pretext used to launch the second Opium War.
What is the execution of a French missionary?
The May Fourth Movement was a protest against this.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The Communists gained an upper hand over the Nationalists during the Civil War by doing this.
Varied
Every year the people in Hong Kong hold a vigil to commemorate this event.
What is the massacre at Tiananmen Square?
Mr. Jones liked Moses in "Animal Farm" because of this.
What is suppressing rebellion?
Bonus - actual quote.