Chinese Culture, Economy and Society

Culture Economy And Society

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  1. Complete the sentence about Chinese language with the correct year: The earliest attested written Chinese consists of the oracle bone inscriptions created during the Shang dynasty c. ______ BCE.
  2. Complete the sentence about Chinese language with the correct year: The earliest examples of Old Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on oracle bones dated to c. ______ BCE, during the Late Shang.
  3. Complete the sentence about Standard Chinese with the correct year: Such concerns were first raised by the early Communist leader Qu Qiubai in ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Standard Chinese with the correct year: The term is derived from the title of a ______ law which defines Putonghua as the "Countrywide Common Spoken and Written Language".
  5. Complete the sentence about Standard Chinese with the correct year: After the Republic of China was established in ______, there was more success in promoting a common national language.
  6. Complete the sentence about Cantonese with the correct year: Before ______, this variant was often referred to in English as "the Canton dialect".
  7. Complete the sentence about Simplified Chinese characters with the correct year: In ______, the educator and linguist Lufei Kui formally proposed the use of simplified characters in education for the…
  8. Complete the sentence about Pinyin with the correct year: The system was originally promulgated at the Fifth Session of the 1st National People's Congress in ______, and has seen several rounds of rev…
  9. Complete the sentence about Pinyin with the correct year: Taiwan adopted Hanyu Pinyin as its official romanization system in ______, replacing Tongyong Pinyin.
  10. Complete the sentence about Pinyin with the correct year: Earlier attempts to romanize Chinese writing were mostly abandoned in ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Pinyin with the correct year: An initial draft was authored in January ______ by Ye Laishi, Lu Zhiwei and Zhou Youguang.
  12. Complete the sentence about Peking duck with the correct year: The first restaurant specialising in Peking duck, Bianyifang, was established in the Xianyukou, close to Qianmen of Beijing in ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Peking duck with the correct year: The Americans and Chinese issued a joint statement the following day, inviting President Richard Nixon to visit China in ______.
  14. Complete the sentence about Peking duck with the correct year: Following Zhou's death in ______, Kissinger paid another visit to Beijing to savor Peking duck.
  15. Complete the sentence about Peking duck with the correct year: As of ______, at least 95% of ducks used in Beijing needed no force-feeding.
  16. Complete the sentence about Sichuan cuisine with the correct year: Chongqing was formerly a part of Sichuan until ______; thus, there is a great deal of cultural overlap between the two administrative…
  17. Complete the sentence about Sichuan cuisine with the correct year: UNESCO declared Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, a city of gastronomy in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Chinese noodles with the correct year: Up until ______, most dried Chinese noodles in the United States could not be sold labelled as "noodles".
  19. Complete the sentence about Tofu with the correct year: The earliest Japanese document concerning tofu refers to the dish being served as an offering at the Kasuga Shrine in Nara in ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Chinese tea with the correct year: Yellow tea began to be cultivated in the southeastern province of Sichuan, China around ______ years ago.
  21. Complete the sentence about Pu'erh tea with the correct year: Pu'er County had its name changed to Simao, after Simao Town, the new county seat in ______ following the proclamation of the People's Rep…
  22. Complete the sentence about Tea ceremony with the correct year: The first tea house, called "Dabang," 다방, was established in the Sontag Hotel in Seoul, in ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Tea ceremony with the correct year: In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in fine teas in the United States, mainly due to the lifting of China's ban on e…
  24. Complete the sentence about Tea ceremony with the correct year: From the 1920s to ______, Americans could not get much Chinese tea, and very little Indian tea was imported.
  25. Complete the sentence about Baijiu with the correct year: As well as the most consumed liquor, with 1.2 billion nine-liter cases consumed in ______, mostly in China – three times the global consumptio…
  26. Complete the sentence about Chinese New Year with the correct year: The name was first proposed in ______ by Yuan Shikai, who was the interim president of the Republic of China.
  27. Complete the sentence about Chinese New Year with the correct year: In ______, the Chinese tea brand CHAGEE translated the Spring Festival as "Lunar New Year", which caused controversy.
  28. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The era system was abolished in ______, after which the current or Republican era was used.
  29. Complete the sentence about Spring Festival Gala with the correct year: Cheung's performance of the patriotic song "My Chinese Heart" at the ______ gala made him a household name in China.
  30. Complete the sentence about Confucianism with the correct year: The abolition of the imperial examination system in ______ marked the decline of state-endorsed Confucianism.
  31. Complete the sentence about The Art of War with the correct year: The text was first translated into a European language in ______, when the French Jesuit priest Jean Joseph Marie Amiot produced a Fre…
  32. Complete the sentence about The Art of War with the correct year: The first annotated English translation was published in ______ by the British scholar Lionel Giles.
  33. Complete the sentence about Chinese folk religion with the correct year: In ______, Hu Shih argued that: "Two great religions have played tremendously important roles throughout Chinese history.
  34. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The Yijing and the Eight Trigrams were well-established by ______ BCE.
  35. Complete the sentence about Journey to the West with the correct year: The Yongle Encyclopedia, completed in ______, contains excerpts of a version of the story written in colloquial Chinese.
  36. Complete the sentence about Journey to the West with the correct year: The earliest surviving edition of Journey to the West was published in ______ in Nanjing.
  37. Complete the sentence about Journey to the West with the correct year: Brown University Chinese literature scholar David Lattimore stated in ______: "The Ambassador's confidence was quite unjustified.
  38. Complete the sentence about Dream of the Red Chamber with the correct year: The first printed version of Dream of the Red Chamber, published in ______ by Cheng Weiyuan and Gao E, contains edits and re…
  39. Complete the sentence about Romance of the Three Kingdoms with the correct year: In ______, Zhou Yue, owner of the Wanjuanlou Bookshop, published his edited version of the novel with the title, A Newl…
  40. Complete the sentence about Lu Xun with the correct year: In ______, he enrolled at the Sendai Medical College in Japan, but left medicine to pursue literature.
  41. Complete the sentence about Lu Xun with the correct year: Lu Xun pioneered the New Culture Movement by publishing the first novel in vernacular Chinese, Diary of a Madman, in ______.
  42. Complete the sentence about Lu Xun with the correct year: The name "Lu Xun ", by which he is best known, was a pen name chosen upon the initial publishing of his story Diary of a Madman in ______, wit…
  43. Complete the sentence about Mo Yan with the correct year: Mo Yan was born as Guan Moye in February ______ into a peasant family in Ping'an Village, Gaomi Township, northeast of Shandong Province, Chin…
  44. Complete the sentence about Mo Yan with the correct year: After three years as a cotton worker, Mo Yan successfully enlisted at the end of ______.
  45. Complete the sentence about Mo Yan with the correct year: In ______, Mo Yan published his first works in a literary magazine Lian Chi based in Baoding, where he was stationed.
  46. Complete the sentence about Mo Yan with the correct year: In ______, he was promoted and then transferred to the PLA's Joint Staff Department in Beijing.
  47. Complete the sentence about Gao Xingjian with the correct year: In ______ he was awarded the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.
  48. Complete the sentence about Gao Xingjian with the correct year: In ______ Gao worked for the Committee of Foreign Relationship, Chinese Association of Writers.
  49. Complete the sentence about Gao Xingjian with the correct year: In May ______, he visited Paris with a group of Chinese writers including Ba Jin.
  50. Complete the sentence about Gao Xingjian with the correct year: In ______, Gao became a screenwriter and playwright for the Beijing People's Art Theatre.
  51. Complete the sentence about Ba Jin with the correct year: On November 25, ______, Li Yaotang was born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, into a wealthy Li family.
  52. Complete the sentence about Ba Jin with the correct year: In ______, Ba read Kropotkin's An Appeal to the Young and converted to anarchism.
  53. Complete the sentence about Ba Jin with the correct year: Ba Jin contributed calligraphy to photographer Yang Kelin's ______ two volume work, The Cultural Revolution Museum.
  54. Complete the sentence about Ba Jin with the correct year: The illness confined him to Huadong Hospital in Shanghai from ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Lao She with the correct year: Lao She was born Shu Qingchun on 3 February ______ in Beijing, to a poor Manchu family of the Šumuru clan belonging to the Plain Red Banner.
  56. Complete the sentence about Lao She with the correct year: In the same year, he was accepted to Beijing Normal University, from which he graduated in ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about Lao She with the correct year: In the summer of ______, he left Britain for Singapore, teaching at the Chinese High School.
  58. Complete the sentence about Lao She with the correct year: On 27 March ______, The All-China Resistance Association of Writers and Artists was established with Lao She as its leader.
  59. Complete the sentence about Lao She with the correct year: In ______, Hu Jieqing was studying at Beijing Normal University.
  60. Complete the sentence about Lao She with the correct year: Like numerous other intellectuals in China, Lao She experienced mistreatment when the Cultural Revolution began in ______.
  61. Complete the sentence with the correct year: When Cao Xi died in ______, Cao Yin, as Kangxi's personal confidant, took over the post.
  62. Complete the sentence about Cao Xueqin with the correct year: Yongzheng severely attacked the family and in ______ confiscated their properties, while Cao Fu was thrown in jail.
  63. Complete the sentence about Jin Yong with the correct year: In ______, the Japanese army invaded Zhejiang, and the Jiaxing Middle School had to move hundreds of miles south to Lishui city in order to…
  64. Complete the sentence about Jin Yong with the correct year: Fortunately, with assistance from the principal, Zhang Yintong, Cha resumed his high school education at Quzhou No. 1 Secondary School and g…
  65. Complete the sentence about Liu Cixin with the correct year: Liu graduated from the North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power in ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Liu Cixin with the correct year: In ______, Liu announced that he would head SenseTime's Science Fiction Research Planetary Centre.
  67. Complete the sentence about Liu Cixin with the correct year: Liu was labeled the first cyberpunk Chinese author after his novel China 2185 was released in ______.
  68. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The English translation by Ken Liu was published by Tor Books in ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Chinese calligraphy with the correct year: In Taiwan, students were requested to write Chinese calligraphy starting from primary school all the way to junior high school on…
  70. Complete the sentence about Chinese painting with the correct year: As with sculpture, other survivals showing Tang style are in Japan, though the most important, at Nara, was very largely destroyed i…
  71. Complete the sentence about Along the River During the Qingming Festival with the correct year: The painting was a particular favorite of Puyi, the last emperor of China, who took it with him when he…
  72. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Xu was born on 19 July ______ in Yixing, Jiangsu, during the late Qing dynasty.
  73. Complete the sentence about Xu Beihong with the correct year: In ______, he moved to Shanghai, where he made a living off commercial and private work.
  74. Complete the sentence about Xu Beihong with the correct year: In ______, Xu was admitted into Fudan University to learn French.
  75. Complete the sentence about Xu Beihong with the correct year: Xu won a scholarship at the prestigious National High School of Art in Paris in the year ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Xu Beihong with the correct year: Beginning in ______, Xu studied overseas in Paris at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where he studied oil painting and draw…
  77. Complete the sentence about Xu Beihong with the correct year: Xu addressed issues of Art and Art History and in ______ a university art journal called Painting Miscellany was published.
  78. Complete the sentence about Ai Weiwei with the correct year: Since being allowed to leave China in ______, he has lived in Portugal, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
  79. Complete the sentence about Ai Weiwei with the correct year: In ______, the family was sent to a labour camp in Beidahuang, Heilongjiang, when Ai was one year old.
  80. Complete the sentence about Ai Weiwei with the correct year: Upon Mao Zedong's death and the end of the Cultural Revolution, the family returned to Beijing in ______.
  81. Complete the sentence about Ai Weiwei with the correct year: In ______, Ai enrolled in the Beijing Film Academy and studied animation.
  82. Complete the sentence about Jingdezhen with the correct year: In June ______, Jingdezhen was upgraded into a provincial level city.
  83. Complete the sentence about Jingdezhen with the correct year: Jingdezhen was named one of top 24 national historical and cultural cities of the People's Republic of China on February 28, ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Chinese silk with the correct year: In ______, China accounted for 74 percent of the global raw silk production and 90 percent of the world export market.
  85. Complete the sentence about Cloisonné with the correct year: Once enamel becomes more common, as in medieval Europe after about ______, the assumption that enamel was originally used becomes safer.
  86. Complete the sentence about Peking opera with the correct year: In ______, several famous Hubei troupes arrived in Beijing and performed jointly with Anhui troupes.
  87. Complete the sentence about Peking opera with the correct year: Beginning in ______, the Empress Dowager Cixi became a regular patron of Peking opera, cementing its status over earlier forms like Kunq…
  88. Complete the sentence about Kunqu with the correct year: In the early 20th century, the cultural elite tried to re-establish Kunqu, and the Academy was founded in ______ to train performers.
  89. Complete the sentence about Kunqu with the correct year: In ______ Mei Lanfang and Han Shichang, renowned performers of Kunqu, traveled to Japan to give performances.
  90. Complete the sentence about Kunqu with the correct year: In ______, Zhou Bing acted as a producer and art director for Kunqu sexcentenary.
  91. Complete the sentence about Dragon dance with the correct year: The head of the oldest surviving dragon, dating back to ______ and named Moo Lung, is preserved and on display at the Bok Kai Temple in…
  92. Complete the sentence about Dragon dance with the correct year: Bendigo's Loong was used regularly in that city's Easter parade until ______, and occasionally has come out of storage since then to wel…
  93. Complete the sentence about Wushu with the correct year: In ______, China's State Commission for Physical Culture and Sports created a special task force for teaching and practice of Wushu.
  94. Complete the sentence about Wushu with the correct year: In ______, the Chinese National Research Institute of Wushu was established as the central authority for the research and administration of wus…
  95. Complete the sentence about Shaolin Kung Fu with the correct year: In ______ the Boxing Classic: Essential Boxing Methods made the earliest extant reference to the Shaolin Monastery as Chinese boxing'…
  96. Complete the sentence about Jackie Chan with the correct year: Chan was born on 7 April ______ in British Hong Kong as Chan Kong-sang to Charles and Lee-lee Chan, political refugees from the Chinese C…
  97. Complete the sentence about Jackie Chan with the correct year: In circa ______, Chan's father, originally named Fang Daolong, briefly worked as a secret agent for Lieutenant General Dai Li, the chief…
  98. Complete the sentence about Chen Kaige with the correct year: In ______, Chen was discharged from the army and returned to Beijing, where he worked as a worker in Beijing Film Printing Factory.
  99. Complete the sentence about Chen Kaige with the correct year: In ______, he was awarded a fellowship by the Asian Cultural Council and served as a visiting scholar at the New York University Film Scho…
  100. Complete the sentence about Chen Kaige with the correct year: Early in ______, he did further experiment in a music video for the song "Do You Believe in Shame?" by Duran Duran.

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