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49 Cards in this Set
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Ba Jin wrote...
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Nanny Yang
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Mao Dun wrote...
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Spring Silkworms
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Wu Zuxiang wrote...
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Let There Be Peace
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Lao She wrote...
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Old Tragedy in A New Age
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Ding Ling wrote...
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In the Hospital, When I Was in Hsia Village
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Mao Zedong wrote...
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The speech on literature
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Zhao Shuli wrote...
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Lucky
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Eileen Chang wrote...
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Blockade
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Zhang Leping wrote...
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Adventures of the Three Hairs
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Which writer is from northern China?
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Lao She
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What was Mao's literary theory presented in his Yan'an talk? What influence did it have on the writers in the communist base?
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Mao said that writers should write for the people. As a result of this, all the writers changed their topics to serve the people.
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Who are considered the communist writers?
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Mao Dun, Ding Ling, Zhao Shuli
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Whose work is focused on the delineation of city life and romances?
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Eileen Chang
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What are the two collections of short stories by Eileen Chang?
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Gossip, Romances
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Who was concerned with the woman's fate in the Communist area?
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Ding Ling
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Why was Ding Ling's In The Hospital and When I Was in Hsia Village severely criticized by the Communist authorities?
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They exposed the poor conditions in hospitals, and glorified the prostitute girl in Hsia.
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Why was Lucky an example to explain why Zhao Shuli was elevated to be the New People's Artist in the 1940s.
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The Communists made everything better for Lucky when his life sucked at first; revolution made him reborn.
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What happened 1839-1842?
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The Opium War
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What happened in 1900?
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The Boxer Rebellion, invasion of the 8 foreign armies
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What happened in 1919?
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May 4th movement
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What happened in 1945?
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End of the Japanese war, beginning of the Chinese civil war
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What happened in 1966?
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Cultural Revolution
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What happened 1856-1860?
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2nd opium war
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What happened in 1911?
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Fall of Imperial (Qing) Dynasty
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What happened in 1937?
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The Japanese invasion
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What happened in 1949?
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The people's republic of China was established
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What happened in 1976?
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Mao died, end of Cultural Revolution
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What are the 3 major religions or thoughts in China?
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Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism
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Who established the Qing dynasty?
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Manchus
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What was the Qing court's policy on foreign trade before the opium war?
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Closed off, isolated
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What were two major products in trade between British and Chinese in 18th and early 19th century?
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Tea and opium
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Who was the commisioner sent to cut off the opium trade in Canton in 1838?
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Lin Zexu
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What three things did Lin Zexu do when he was sent to cut off the opium trade in 1838?
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1) Forced addicts to quit 2) Forced British to say they would stop selling opium, confiscated everything 3) Put Chinese salesmen into prison
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What was the content of the Nanjing treaty?
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1st unequal treaty signed between China and foreign country. Forced trade open, forced a Shanghai port. Hong Kong was ceded to the British. Qing dynasty owes money to the British. British citizens will not be tried for any crimes committed in China.
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Who was China's last emperor?
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Pu Yi
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Who was the most powerful woman in the late 19th century China?
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Empress Dowager Ci Xi
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The ideological foundation of the Taiping Rebellion was...
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Christianity
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Why did the Qing government decline so rapidly w/in 2-3 generations?
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Foreign influences. Domestic rebellion. Corrupt leadership. Empress Dowager.
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Which rebellion raised the slogan of "support the Qing government, exterminate foreigners"?
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Boxer rebellion. Practice martial arts, believed they were possessed by special spirits and immune to bullets.
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Who was the national leader of the anti-Manchu movement and was called "Father of his state"?
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Sun Yat Sen
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What are the Three People's Principles?
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1) Nationalism 2) Populism 3) Socialism
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What was the leading magazine during the New Culture movement?
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New Youth
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What is the main idea of Hu Shi's poem My Son?
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He didn't want a son, and his son didn't ask to be born. He didn't grant his son any favors.
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What is Hu Shi's most important contribution to the New Culture movement?
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vernacular language
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The returned students from _____ were more liberal and supported a humane literature, while the students from ______ were more radical and supported patriotism and didacticism in their writing.
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USA, Japan
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What are Lu Xun's two short story collections?
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Call to Arms, Hesitation
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Name 3 of Lu Xun's short stories
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Soap, Benediction, Ah Q
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What is the main topic of Lu Xun's short stories?
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Small villages, transition period between traditional and modern
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How did the illness of Lu Xun's father influence him?
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He studied western medicine in Japan, because he saw how traditional Chinese medicine failed his father
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