The Passing of the Old Guard

Question 1

What year did Zou Enlai, Zhu De, and Mao die?

Answer 1

1976

Question 2

Who were “the Gang of Four”?

Answer 2

The leaders of the radicals, including Mao’s widow, Jiang Qing

Question 3

T/F: Deng Xiaoping emerged as leader of the pragmatists.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

T/F: Deng Xiaoping allowed more societal inequity, and greater emphasis on accelerating China’s economy within Communism.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Who condemned Deng Xiaoping as a bourgeois “Freak”, and when?

Answer 5

Radical Maoists during the cultural revolution,

Question 6

Who was Mao’s widow?

Answer 6

Jiang Quing

Question 7

Who were Deng Xiaoping’s protegees?

Answer 7

Zhao Ziyang (later removed because he favoured concessions to the protesting students), and Hu Yaobang (who leaned towards supporting Western Style Democracy)

Question 8

What policy of Deng’s created opportunity for foreign investment and market allocation within what socialist framework?

Answer 8

‘Open Door’ policy, asserting primacy of economic development.

It had a daring ‘Market Socialism’ system that allowed free enterprise and capitalist ideas to grow and compensate for each other under a single-party political system.

Question 9

The aftermath of what event created tension with Western powers including US, and an attempted revival of Maoist propaganda?

Answer 9

The Tiananmen square MAssacre

Question 10

Which Romanian leader’s collapse in 1989-1990 embarrassed the CPC, and why?

Answer 10

Nicolae Ceausescu. He ad a communist regime they were certain would never fall.

Question 11

Who was denounced by protestors in Moscow as a butcher?

Answer 11

Li Peng, who placed a wreath on Lenin’s tomb.

Question 12

The failure of the 1991 Moscow coup meant what to the CCP?

Answer 12

It was a disappointment, and the CCP maintained that it fell apart due to not keeping the Soviet army adequately indoctrinated.

This led to political education and Marxist-Lenin propaganda being stepped up,

Question 13

What happened as a result of market reforms by the 1990s?

Answer 13

• Many state-owned enterprises (owned by the central gov’t) were unprofitable and needed to be shut down
• As pace of urbanization increased, urban unemployment, housing shortages, and rise of slums in major urban centres like Shanghai and Guangzhou became problems.
• agricultural reforms and rural incomes suffered

Question 14

During the Persian Gulf Crisis in 1990-91, what was China’s stance?

Answer 14

Condemned Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, but also criticized UN intervention saying it should be resolved strictly by Arab states.

Question 15

Den Xiaoping reappears in the public to curb the CPC’s “continuing leftism” and prevent re-emergence of Daoism… when?

Answer 15

Spring 1992

Question 16

Who was Jiang Zemin?

Answer 16

• Former mayor of Shanghai, who was affirmed as the new “core of the CPC leadership”, paving the way for him to become 3rd generation leadership. This also re-stabilized things after Deng’s failed experiment separating governance of Party Government and Military.
• Became General Secretary

Question 17

Hong Kong was returned to PRC control when and from who?

Answer 17

July 1, 1997, after a 99-year lease to Great Britain.

Question 18

Macau was returned to PRC control when and from who?

Answer 18

December 20, 1999 from Portugal

Question 19

T/F: After the releases of Hong Kong and Macau, the amount of control the mainland had over them was immediately clearly defined.

Answer 19

Nope lol.

Question 20

As Deng’s health deteriorated prior to his death in 1997, who gradually assumed control?

Answer 20

General Secretary Jiang Zemin, Premier Li Peng (The one condemned by Moscowists), and other members of his generation.

Question 21

Who is the Li Peng guy?

Answer 21

The one condemned by Moscow protestors as a butcher. He put a wreath on Lenin’s grave. He was also Premier when Deng’s health deteriorated, and was constitutionally forced to step down from his post when Jiang Zemin was re-elected President during the 9th National Peoples’ Congress.

Question 22

T/F: Jiang Zemin became a prominent communist leader.

Answer 22

True

Question 23

T/F: Jiang Zemin improved relations with the US. in 1997.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

When did China Join the World Trade Organization?

Answer 24

2001

Question 25

T/F: By 2010 China became the world’s second largest economy by GDP.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

Who were two figures as fourth generation leaders, who placed focus on creating overall balance on the idea of the Scientific Outlook on Development to create “socialist harmonious society”?

Answer 26

CPC General Secretary Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao.

Question 27

There was an unprecendented shift towards what group from the Scientific Outlook on Development?

Answer 27

Rural development and damers

Question 28

T/F: The Hu-Wen government attempted to restrict some personal freedoms, especially associated with internet content.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

When and where was the Summer Olympics in China?

Answer 29

2008 in Beijing

Question 30

Xi Jinping had what background, and done what to legitimize Communist authority?

Answer 30

Xi Jinping was son of a Communist veteran, Xi Zhongsxun.
He has introduced far-ranging measured to enforce party discipline and ensure internal unity, including a campaign against corruption officials, imposed further restrictions on ideological discourse, and advocated the concept of “internet sovereignty”

Question 31

T/F: Xi Jinping advocated the concept of “internet sovereignty”

Answer 31

True

Question 32

T/F: Deng Xiaoping advocated the concept of “internet sovereignty”

Answer 32

False. That was Xi Jinping