Leaders
The founder of communist China
Who was Mao Zedong?
Mao's 1958-1962 campaign to upgrade China's economy, ending in disaster
What was the Great Leap Forward?
The year the People's Republic of China was founded
1949
This standardized test can determine your future status in China
What is the gaokao?
A common name in China for the 100 years preceding communist rule in 1949
What was the Century of Humiliation?
The author of the Communist Manifesto (1848)
Who was Karl Marx?
Mao's campaign to use students to destroy a capitalist conspiracy ... or to restore his power over the Party
What was the Cultural Revolution?
A book of Mao's sayings, popular among the Red Guards
What was the Little Red Book? (bonus: what's the actual title of the book?)
This Special Economic Zone manufactures goods for dozens of western companies
What is Shenzhen?
During the communist revolution, a method for transferring land and power from landlords to peasants. Also used during the Cultural Revolution.
What were struggle sessions?
Mao's successor, who shifted the country's economy from communism to "socialism with Chinese characteristics"
Deng Xiaoping's campaign to Make China Rich Again
What were the Four Modernizations? (Bonus: name all four)
"Big-character posters" used to spread messages during the Cultural Revolution
What were dazibao?
This massive economic project involves overland and maritime trade routes across the world
What is the Belt and Road Initiative?
A dazibao essay claiming that Deng Xiaoping's "Four Modernizations" hadn't gone far enough.
What was "The Fifth Modernization"? (Bonus: what was the fifth modernization?)
A charismatic student leader in the 1989 Tiananmen movement
Who was Chai Ling?
A Cultural Revolution-era campaign to change Chinese culture
What was the Four Olds? (Bonus: name all four)
Mao's fanatical student followers during the Cultural Revolution
Who were the Red Guards?
This island (officially named the Republic of China) is the center of global tensions between China and the US today
What is Taiwan?
A diplomatic meeting between Britain and China in 1793 that didn't go very well for Britain.
What was the McCartney Embassy?
China's last dynasty, overthrown in 1912
What was the Qing Dynasty?
What was the Four Pests? (Bonus: name all four)
Mao's communists teamed up with this group to fight the Japanese invasion of 1937-1945
Who were the Nationalists?
This American celebrity apologized in Mandarin for implying that Taiwan was a country
Who is John Cena?
The name of the statue built by student demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
What was the Goddess of Democracy?