CHIN 40 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Qing Dynasty, Chinese Language, Taiwan
CHIN 40
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
CHINESE40: Popular Culture in Modern Chinese Societies
Spring 2018
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Professor Michael Berry!
Royce Hall 246B Thu 9:30-11:30pm!
Requirements and Grading
•Attendance and Participation (Lecture and Discussion) = 30%!
•2 Short (2-3pages) Essay = 20%!
•Final Paper = 20% !
•Final Quiz and Pop Quiz = 20%!
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Week 1, Tuesday!
What is Popular Culture?!
•complicated, different meanings!
What is “Chinese”?!
•Places 中國，台灣，中華民國，香港!
•People 中國人，華人，漢人，華僑!
•Culture and languages 中華，華語，華文，中文!
Modern China, Introduction
•Origin of Modern China?!
•1840-1842 Opium War!
•Formation of Republic of China, the Revolution 1911!
•Founding of PRC in 1949!
•1978, after 鄧小平 open economic to the world!
•Modern Chinese History!
•1. The Opium Wars 1840-42!
•Western country got Chinese addicted, and Chinese government try to stop
the trade, then UK start the war, and then China was forced to peon trade!
•2. Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 1850-64 平國!
•洪秀全 constant fail in examination, Christian (Western encounter)!
•largest peasant rebellion !
•3. The hundred Day Reforms 1898 !
•attempt of Qing to reform itself, shot down by 慈禧 after 100 days!
•4. End of the Official Examination System 1905 !
•High shock to Chinese officials and intellectuals!
•5. The Republican Revolution 1911 辛亥動!
•6. The May Fourth Movement 五四動 1919!
•Chinese enlightenment !
•Lu Xun and canonical writer!
•period when all kind of ideas flourish, in this case Communism !
•學生為主的學生運動，以及包括廣大公民、市民和工商人士等中基層廣泛參與
的一次示威行、請願、罷課、罷工和暴力對抗府等多形式的行動!
•Germany gives Shangdong to Japan!
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•7. Chinese Communist Party Established 1921 中國共產黨成立!
•8. 1935-36 The Long March!
•Mao escape to Ya An !
•9. 1937-45 The Second Sino-Japanese War, War of Resistance 中日戰爭!
•10. Chinese Civil War 1945-49!
•communists VS nationalist !
•nationalist lose, so retreat to Taiwan !
•11. The Great Divide1949!
•for people in main land 中國解!
•for people in HK and TW 大陸淪陷!
•1949-1970 “One China Policy”!
•Taiwan think that there is only 1 China, and it’s Taiwan. People
in Taiwan think that they are going back to main land soon!
•Main land think that there is only 1 China, and it’s China!
•before 1970, most of the world believe the Taiwan’s version,
but starting 1970, the belief shift !
•Early 50s, Land Reform !
•100 flowers movement - people are encouraged to criticize G!
•12. Korean War 1950-53 朝鮮戰爭!
•13. The Great Leap Forward 1958 大曜進!
•greatest human-created famine!
•超英趕美!
•14. The Cultural Revolution 1966-1976 文化大革命!
•15. PRC joins the UN 1971!
•16. The Ope Door Policy 鄧小平1978!
•經濟開!
•17. The Join Declaration 中音聯合聲音 1984!
•18. 1987 Taiwan lifts Martial Law 台灣解嚴 !
•Liberty after 40 years under repression and control!
•蔣經國往生!
•19. Tiananmen Sauare Protests 安門事件 1989!
•student-led demonstrations in Beijing,!
•they want political liberty !
•protests were forcibly suppressed after Chinese Premier Li Peng declared
martial law.!
•military come to suppress !
•20. Deng Xiaoping’s Southern Tour 1992!
•21. Democratic Presidential Election in Taiwan 1996!
•22. HK return to China1997!
•23. Macau Return to China 1999!
•24. Beijing Olympics 2008 !
•25. Ascent of Xi Jinping 習近平!
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