Ch5: East Meets West

Question 1

“empress dowager”

Answer 1

Cixi

Question 2

Quin Dynasty ruled from..

Answer 2

1644-1911

Question 3

***“The Father of Modern China”, and who did he overthrow?

Answer 3

Sun Yat-sen, overthrew the Manchu Dynasty

Question 4

Sun Yet-Sen was born where?

Answer 4

Guangdong Province, traditional stronghold of antiManchu rebels

Question 5

The Opium Wars (two of them). When and with who?

Answer 5

First 1839-1842 with China and Britatin,

Second 1856-60 China v Britain and France

Question 6

T/F: China tried to stop importation of opium

Answer 6

True

Question 7

What is in the Treaty of Nanjing?

Answer 7

Cession of 5 ports for British trade and residence, and right for British citizens to be tried in British courts.

Question 8

How did the Treaty of Nanjing come about?

Answer 8

When hostilities arose and the British sent an expedition against Canton, and the British were victorious.

Question 9

The Treaty of Tianjin was when and did that?

Answer 9

in 1858 in the second opium war, temporarily halted fighting, opened new trading ports, allowed residents in Peking for foreign emissaries, gave freedom of movement to Christian missionaries, and permitted travel in the interior.

Question 10

Convention of Peking is from what?

Answer 10

China refused to ratify the 1858 Treaty of Tianjin and then there was an Anglo-French attack on Peking and the burning of the Summer Palace. They signed the Convention of Peking (1860) agreeing to observe the Treaty of Tianjin

Question 11

T/F: Sun Yat-sen was a republican

Answer 11

True

Question 12

T/F: Sun Yat-sen supported nationalism

Answer 12

True

Question 13

T/F: Sun Yat-sen supported democracy

Answer 13

True

Question 14

T/F: Sun Yat-sen was concerned with peoples’ livelihods

Answer 14

True

Question 15

Who were the four figure guys who were super involved in the Northern expedition, at least by extension

Answer 15

1. Yuan Shikai, former commander ofreformed Northern Army
2. The six year old emperor (Henry Puyi), whose rule Yuan persuaded to abdicate peacefully in exchange for the safety of the imperial family
3. Sun Yat-sen (the “Father of Modern China”), the anti-Manchu republican who started planning to send an expedition against northern warlords
4. Chiang Kai-shek (fighter guy who succeeded Sun as leader of the KMT, professed friendship with the Soviet Union, but abandoned left-wing ideals and expelled Communist members of the KMT, so…)

Question 16

What event meant the start of the nationalist period?

Answer 16

The end of the northern expedition

Question 17

What happened in the Mukden Incident?

Answer 17

Mukden was occupied by the Japanese, with Japanese officers stationed along the South Manchurian Railway.
Manchuria was then occupied and the puppet state of Manchugo established. (of which Henry Puyi was called “Emperor”)
This was in 1931. By the mid 1930s Japan also seized inner Mongolia and parts of NE China, creating the North China Autonomous Region

Question 18

What was the May Fourth Movement?

Answer 18

After WW1 the Chinese felt betrayed. Grown out of student uprising, the May Fourth movement:
Attacked Confucianism, initiated a vernacular style of writing, and promoted science.

Question 19

***Chiang Kai-Shek is also called what?

Answer 19

Jiang Jieshi

Question 20

What does the KMT stand for?

Answer 20

Kumintang

The Chinese Nationalist Party

Question 21

Who succeeded Sun Yet-Sen as leader of the KMT?

Answer 21

Chiang Kai-Shek

Question 22

What was the Xi’an incident?

Answer 22

Chiang Kai-Shek launched another extermination campaign against Communists in 1936, but was forced to give it up when troops mutinied and arrested him when he arrived in Xi’an.

He was released after he agreed to team up with the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) to oppose the Japanese, who were making steady inroads into China.

Question 23

What does CCP stand for?

Answer 23

Chinese Communist Party of China

Question 24

What incident occurred in China when WWII broke out, and what did it lead to?

Answer 24

“The Marco Polo Bridge Incident”, battle between Chinese and Japanese troops near Peking.

It led to to the Japanese suddenly occupying most of China’s East coast, including Shanghai, Nanjing, and Canton.

Question 25

When was the People’s Republic of China established, and who proclaimed it?

Answer 25

October 1, 1949, proclaimed by Mao Zedong