Modern China
The was the last dynasty of China?
What is the Qing Dynasty?
This leader established the People's Republic of China in 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong
This party retreated to Taiwan in 1949 after losing the Chinese Civil War.
What is the Kuomintang (KMT)?
This policy holds that there is only one China, with Beijing as the sole rightful government of both the mainland and Taiwan.
What is the One China Policy?
This Chinese thinker’s teachings on family and moral order shaped society for centuries.
Who is Confucius?
This 19th-century conflict forced China to open treaty ports after losing to Britain.
What is the First Opium War?
This was a violent crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Beijing in 1989.
What is the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
This European power briefly colonized Taiwan in the 17th century (1624–1662).
Who are the Dutch? ("Who are the Spanish?" would also be an acceptable answer)
This U.S. president formally recognized the People’s Republic of China, cutting official diplomatic ties with Taiwan.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
This drink, now famous worldwide, was invented in Taiwan in the 1980s.
What is boba?
This 1919 student-led protest movement opposed the Treaty of Versailles and foreign imperialism.
What is the May Fourth Movement?
Nicknamed China’s “gray eminence,” this longtime premier was known for his diplomatic pragmatism.
Who is Zhou Enlai?
This treaty ended Japan’s sovereignty over Taiwan following World War II.
What is the Treaty of Shimonoseki?
This conflict was sparked by PRC shelling of Kinmen and Matsui in this 1954–55.
What is the first Taiwan Strait Crisis?
This system of writing, first standardized under the Qin dynasty, uses logographic characters rather than an alphabet.
What is Hanzi?
During the Boxer Rebellion, this secretive peasant society believed that spiritual rituals could make them immune to bullets.
Who are the Righteous and Harmonious Fists?
This global infrastructure and investment initiative has expanded China’s economic and political influence across Asia, Africa, and Europe.
What is the Belt and Road Initiative?
This 1947 anti-government uprising in Taiwan was violently suppressed, marking the beginning of White Terror.
What is the 2/28 Incident?
This term refers to the mainland Chinese who fled to Taiwan with the Nationalist government in the late 1940s.
Who are the waishengren?
Although Taiwan officially adopted Pinyin in 2009, many names and places there still follow this older Romanization system.
What is Wade–Giles?
This 1868 treaty between China and the United States aimed to establish friendly relations, allow Chinese immigration, and recognize China’s sovereignty.
What is the Burlingame Treaty?
This campaign invited intellectuals to openly criticizing the Communist Party, but it quickly backfired and led to their persecution during the subsequent Anti-Rightist Movement.
What is the Hundred Flowers Campaign?
This English-language magazine, launched in 1951, promoted Taiwan abroad as “Free China.”
What is the Free China Review?
When the U.S. recognized the PRC in January 1979, the American embassy in Taipei was replaced by this new unofficial body, which still manages U.S.–Taiwan relations today.
What is the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT)?
This park in Taiwan houses over 200 displaced statues of Chiang Kai-Shek.
What is the Cihu Memorial Sculpture Park?