East Asia

Question 1

China’s main ethnicity

Answer 1

92% HAN

Question 2

Japanese religious tradition

Answer 2

Shinto earlist religon, buhddism and confucinasnism

Question 3

Japan’s history, in brief

Answer 3

1192-1867 Shougun(miltary dictator) ruled Japan.
-1603 1867 Tokugawa Shogunate, isolation,foreigners and Christianity expelled, emphasis on Shinto belief system. 1868 – Meiji restoration.

Question 4

China’s Tiananmen Square 1989 protests and suppression

Answer 4

Martial Law in beinjing on may 20. Protests june 3-4. People’s Liberation Army stormed the Square with tanks, crushing the protests with terrible human costs. Estimates of the numbers killed vary.

Question 5

The China-Taiwan situation

Answer 5

Chinese view of Taiwan
as a “rogue province”. lack of democracy,

Question 6

North Korea South Korea in contrast

North Korea

Answer 6

Nk- Antiquated state enterprises
– Inefficient, non-productive agriculture, starvation
– Limited trade – mostly with China
– Nuclear power – ‘axis of evil’

Question 7

Hong Kong and the UK-China wars

The War

Answer 7

Opium wars( 1839-1842; 1856-1860) lead to period of
“national humiliation”.spheres-of-influence created by
Europeans seeking exclusive trade rights.the British were smuggling opium from their Indian colonies into Chinese ports against the wishes of the Chinese government.

Question 8

The President of China

Answer 8

xi jingping

Question 9

Mao Zedong

Answer 9

Founder and leader of communist China

Question 10

Mongolia’s historical role in the world

Disease and Living

Answer 10

One of the worlds largest contangious empire. Most sparsley populated country in the world. Economy is focused on herding and animal
products. Large nomad population (40%).

Question 11

Population and Poltics

Tibet

Answer 11

Sparsly Populated, under control by china in Manchu Dynasty in 1720s. Gained status in the late 19th century. Chinas communist reguime took in control in the 1950s. Budhhism. Dalai Lima. Small popultion threated by Han culture and langauage

Question 12

Population and Proviences

Xingjiang

Answer 12

1/6 of china total land area. A dry region of high mountains. Uyghurs and Mulism is half of the population. Han chinese were a signficant minorty, now 50% of population. Chinese Turkestan

Question 13

Chinese Proviences

Answer 13

Tibet, Manuchria, and Xingjiang

Question 14

Japanese WW 2

Answer 14

1945 –1952: Allied
Occupation – U.S. ‘Helping hand’ policy.Economic rebuilding. U.S. officials write Japanese constitution

Question 15

North Korea South Korea in contrast

South Korea

Answer 15

SOUTH KOREA
– Modern factories
– Intensive, increasingly mechanized agriculture
– Extensive trade – US, Japan, and Western Europe

Question 16

Deng Xiaoping

Answer 16

institutes economic reforms (1978). initiated the Reform and Opening-up program that introduced elements of market capitalism to the Chinese economy.