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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word is best used to describe China's cultural and political situation?

2. China is referred to as being a ____ society.

3. Which country attempted to invade China from the north and west to claim dominance over the country's high lands?

4. In what year was the Treaty of Tianjin signed?

5. In what year B.C. did the Chinese unification take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss China's long experience with naval expeditions and exploits.

2. What was Prince Gong's plan? Who emulated Prince Gong's work?

3. Who was Wei Yuan? When did he live? What was his major work? What did the work contain?

4. Abbé Régis-Evariste Huc made observations about China. What did Huc write?

5. What was Kissinger's opening explanation of his time in China?

6. What did China do to compete with Japan and Russia? When did the Chinese realize that they were not all powerful?

7. How does Kissinger explain the Nian Rebellion?

8. How does the existence and myth of the Yellow Emperor relate to the history of Confucius?

9. How does Kissinger address the history of the Chinese-Indian borders?

10. What does Kissinger say about the beginning of the decline of China?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Chinese had an idea of how to get ahead in foreign trade. This included cornering the market in four main areas. What were those areas? What products were thought to be the most important? Why? How does foreign trade with China help/hinder the United States market? What is your opinion on how the United States should advance in the global trade market?

Essay Topic 2

China always saw itself as a superior country in both power and culture. Examine this mentality. What gave China the impression that it was superior? Was it superior? How did it show this superiority over its enemies? How did other countries view this standpoint? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Kissinger states:

"A special feature of Chinese civilization is that it seems to have no beginning. It appears in history less as a conventional nation-state than a permanent natural phenomenon. In the tale of the Yellow Emperor, revered by many Chinese as the legendary founding ruler, China seems already to exist. When the Yellow Emperor appears in myth, Chinese civilization has fallen into chaos. Competing princes harass each other and the people, yet an enfeebled ruler fails to maintain order. Levying an army, the new hero pacifies the realm and is acclaimed as emperor." (Chap. 1, p. 20)

What is meant by this statement? Why is the Yellow Emperor seen as a myth? Why did China need a new hero? Why does this undocumented history make China special?

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