Autonomous Regions, Municipalities & SARs
Still under the authority of the central government, these places are granted a degree of cultural and administrative flexibility to recognize their unique identities.
What are Autonomous Regions?
The official language of Beijing.
What is Standard Mandarin?
The provincial capital city of Hubei.
What is Wuhan?
Now one of China's largest cities, Shanghai began as a humble______ along the mouth of the Yangtze River.
What is fishing village?
The main language spoken in Hong Kong
What is Cantonese?
China's two special administrative regions
What are Hong Kong and Macao?
A major international event that happened in 2008 in Beijing.
What is the 2008 Olympic Games?
This culture was known for its poetry, music, and shamanic traditions, which gave the region a distinctive identity within early China.
What is the Chu culture?
This pork dish is a beloved food in Shanghai.
What are Xiaolongbao dumplings?
Hong Kong was ceded to Britain after this famous war in 1842.
What is the First Opium War in 1842?
Unlike other parts of China, these cities have more freedom to act in capitalist ways, all while remaining under the Communist Party’s control within China’s socialist system.
What are municipalities?
The number of years Beijing has served as the capital of China?
What is 900 years?
Hubei is famous for this festival, celebrated each summer to honor the poet Qu Yuan, a minister of Chu who drowned himself in the Miluo River after his kingdom fell.
What is the Dragon Boat Festival?
The languages spoken in Shanghai.
What are Wu (Shanghainese) and Mandarin?
For 150 years, Hong Kong grew into one of the busiest ports in the World as a _____________.
What is British colony?
These 2 cities became major trade and banking centers in the late 1800s and early 1900s due to foreign influence
What are Shanghai and Tianjin?
A cycle of conquest and assimilation continued in Beijing until the rise of this famous leader and his descendants, who made the city a center of power under the Mongol Yuan dynasty.
Who is Genghis Khan?
Hubei is home to this world-famous great engineering projects.
What is the Three Gorges Dam?
Shanghai's famous waterfront lined with European banks and trading houses, symbolized its role as China’s window to the world.
What is The Bund?
The mountain that serves as a backdrop to Hong Kong's dramatic skyline and harbor.
What is Victoria Peak?
Special Administrative Regions operate under this principle, which means they maintain unique legal, political, and economic arrangements distinct from those of mainland China.
What is the "one country, two systems" principle?
Two monumental architectural structures that are famous in Beijing.
What are the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven?
The nickname given to Wuhan in modern times for its role linking north, south, east, and west.
What is “thoroughfare of nine provinces”?
Shanghai earned this nickname in the 1930s because of its jazz clubs, movie theaters, and international concessions.
What is "Paris of the East"?
The three Autonomous principles promised to Hong Kong after it was transferred back to China under the principle of “one country, two systems.”
What are legal system, free press, and capitalist economy?