Culture
Yin & Yang
What is the name for the dualistic conception of energies in Chinese philosophy?
Hai River
What river flows past Beijing, Tientsin and the Taku Forts?
Opium
What was the name of the drug the British played a key role in smuggling into China?
Puppet shows
What was one of the ways the Boxers spread their message of 'defend the Emperor, kill the foreigner'?
Martial arts
What did the Red Lanterns train at?
Railways and church steeples
What technology and architectural elements were thought to disturb the feng shui of the Chinese landscape?
Shandong
What province did the Boxer's first rise in?
How would you describe the ideology of the Taiping rebels?
Drought
What natural disaster is correlated with the rise of the Boxers?
Foot binding
What practice was thought to make Chinese women particularly attractive?
"a green and white substance, the smell of which was overpowering. This I was informed was a compound of sour buffalo milk, baked in the sun, under whose influence it is allowed to remain until it becomes filled with insects"
How did Chinese people describe cheese?
Liaodong Peninsula
What territory did China lose to Japan after the First Sino-Japanese War?
Fall of Nanking
Which event marked the end of the Taiping Rebellion?
55
How many days did the siege of the Legations last?
Righteous Gruel Stations
What were the soup kitchens run by the Red Lanterns called?
Ancestor Worship
Which traditional Chinese practise particularly disturbed Christian missionaries (except Jesuits)?
Legation Quarter
Where were the foreign diplomats besieged in 1900?
Beiyang Fleet
What was the name of the modernised Chinese fleet totally destroyed during the First Sino-Japanese War?
von Kettler
What was the name of the German Ambassador shot by the Boxers?
Blue Lanterns
What was the name of the group for middle-aged women?
Spirit possession
What religious ritual were Red Lanterns thought to undertake?
Hong Kong
Which island was given to the British as a result of the Chinese defeat in the First Opium War?
What is the term that means the benefits of a country's treaty with another country will be applied to all the other counties they have treaties with too?
Prince Tuan
Which pro-Boxer figure led the Chinese Foreign Office during the uprising?
Han Guniang
Who was a key early leader of the Big Knife Society and Red Lanterns?