CHINA REVIEWER

1. WANG ZHENGTING first Chinese member on the International Olympic Committee

2. LIU CHANGCHUN - first Chinese athlete to compete in the 1932 olympics held in Los Angeles ( 11 th)
3. YANG CHUANGUANG hes from Taiwan who won the silver medal for the decathlon at the 17th
Olympics in 1960 . it is Chinas first Olympic medal
4. JI ZHENG - Taiwan athlete who won the bronze medal in the womens 80 meter hurdle race in the
80 meter hurdle race in the 18th Olympics (1968).First Olympic medal won by a Chinese
female athlete
5. ORIENTAL ROSES a name given to the Chinese womens football team who won : a. runner up in
The 1996 Atlanta Olympics , b. runner up in the 3rd womens football world cup1999
6. XU HAIFENG - won Chinas 1st gold medal at the 23rd Olympics held in Los Angeles in July 1984
In that event , China rank 4th in the gold medal standings
7. SINO- PORTUGUESE JOINT DECLARATION ON THE QUESTION OF MACAO China and Portugal signed
this declaration on April 13, 1987 affirmed that Macao is a part of China and the Chinese government
would resume exercise of its sovereignty over the territory on December 20,1999
8. December 19 , 1999 at 11:42 PM (23:42)- the hand-over ceremony which formally opened in the
Presence of PRC President Jiang Zemin and Portuguese President
Jorge Sampaio and with other officials
9. DECEMVER 20,1999 AT ZERO HOUR President Jing Zemin of China declared the resumption of
Exercise of Chinas sovereignty over Macao by the Chinese
Government
10. JANUARY 26,1841 - Britain seized Hong Kong Island after the first opium war where China lost
11. AUGUST 29 , 1842 The government of the Qing Dynasty was forced to signed the TREATY OF
NANKING with Britain formally ceding Hong Kong Island
12.
13. PRINCIPLE OFONE COUNTRY,TWO SYSTEMS it is proposed by Deng Xiaoping on December 19 , 1987
To solve Hong Kongs question of governance when he
met British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Hong Kong would be administered by Hong Kong
people as a highly autonomous region and a capitalist
system and their life style would not be changed for
50 years
14. SINO-BRITISH JOINT DECLARATION ON THE QUESTION OF HONG KONG signed by China and Britain
which declared that the Chinese government will resume
exercise of its sovereignty over Hong Kong from July
1,1997 and at the same time Britain will return Hong Kong
to China
15. JULY 1 , 1997 (ZERO HOUR) - the national flag of PRC and the regional flag of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region (HKSAR) were raised
16. TUNG CHEE HWA first chief executive of HKSAR
17. LANTAU ISLAND - location of Hong Kong International Airport and one of the worlds most advanced
Airports

18. VICTORIA HARBOR Hong Kongs busiest ports and tourst spot
19. DENG XIAOPING he initiated the theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics
20. ZHOU ENLAI he is a symbol of success and victory because of important roles he played such as the
Northern Expedition , Zunyi Conference and others.
21. You stretched out your hand across the broadest ocean in the world to shake hands with me
Zhou Enlai told this statement to US Pres. Richard Nixon when US Pres. Nixon visited
China on February 21, 1972.
22. PANMUNJON place where the signing ceremony of the Korean armistice agreement was held on July
27, 1953.
23. CHINESE PEOPLES CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE - also known as CPPCC
24. BEIPING - the old name of Beijing and capital of PRC
25. OCTOBER 1 , 1949 ( 2 PM ) - Zhou Enlai was appointed Premier of the Government Administrative
Council of the Central Peoples Government
26. October 1 , 1949 (3 PM ) - founding ceremony of the Peoples Republic of China held in Beijing at
The Tiananmen Square
27. THE CENTRAL PEOPLES GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF CHINA IS FOUNDED
- STATEMENT OF Mao Zedong at the Tiananmen Square Rostrum on October
1, 1949
28. MAO ZEDONG founder of the New China
29. SUMMARY OF TALKS BETWEEN THE CPC AND THE KMT REPRESENTATIVES also known as the
DOUBLE TEN AGREEMENT signed by Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai at Gu Yuan on
October 10 ,1945.
30. TAN KAH KEE - > established Xianan University in 1921
founded the General Association of Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia for Relieving
fellow countrymen in distress
the role model of Overseas Chinese and the Glory of the Nation by Mao Zedong
31. LIN BIAO and NIE RONGZHEN they led the 115th Division of the Eight Route Army
32. LUGOUQIAO BRIDGE located at the Southwest of Beijing built in 1192 with 265m long and 8m wide
Composed of 11 stone archer wth 485exquisitely carved stone lions on both
sides of stone balustrades
33. ZHANG XUELIANG and YANG HUCHENG HEROES OF ALL TIME - a praised given by Zhou Enlai because
of their great contribution to resisting Japan when China was in great danger
34. PU YI known as the puppet emperor of the state ( Manchukuo ) established by the Japanese invaders
- Last emperor of Chinas 2,000 year old feudal society from the Qing Dynasty
35. LITTLE XUANTONG title given to Pu Yi when he came to the throne when he was only 2 yrs. old
36. JINGGANG MOUNTAIN in JIANGXI PROVINCE first revolutionary base area of Mao Zedong
37. ENCIRCLEMENT and SUPPRESSION - a campaign launched by Chiang Kai-shek to attacked the red army
of Mao Zedong
38. ZUNYI CONFERENCE established Mao Zedongs leadership of the Party and the Red Army. It saved
The Red Army , the CPC and the Chinese Revolution
39. NANCHANG UPRISING - marked the first shot of the CPCs armed struggle against the KMT reactionism

40. AUGUST 7 CONFERENCE ( 1927) - the Central Committee of the CPC convened a conference in Wuham
correcting the mistake of being weak and making concessions to the
KMT and setting up the principles of an agrarian revolution of resisting
the KMT
41. WHAMPOA MILITARY ACADEMY an academy for army officers in Qiang Zhou which trained members
Of both the CPC and the KMT (Kuomintang) as the spearhead of the new
revolutionary forces set up by Sun Yat-sen
42. CHIANG KAI-SHEK appointed President of the Whampoa Military Academy
43. ZHOU ENLAI director of the Political Department of the Whampoa Military Academy
44. LI DAZHAO editor of the magazine New Youth
- one of the first Marxists in China
- one of the founders of CPC
- professor in the Dept. of Economics and curator of the library at Peking University
45. YIHETUAN (SOCIETY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND HARMONY) a semi mystical movement arose
In Shandong Province and took on an anti-Christian and anti-foreign coloring
46. PROTOCOL OF 1901 the Qing government had to pay 450 million taels ( unit of weight) of silver to
the invaders as war reparations over a 39-year period. The principal and interest
amounted to 980 million taels altogether
47. QIANGXUE SOCIETY ( LEARN-TO-BE-STRONG) organized by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao to
press political reform against corrupt bureaucracy
48. TREATY OF SHIMONOSEKI a treaty signed by China and Japan with the following conditions
China had to payJapan 200 million taels of silver as war reparations
To cede the Liaodong Peninsula and Taiwan to Japan
49. HONG XIUQUAN set up a religious organization called THE GOD WORSHIP SOCIETY which
Advocated human equality and called for the overthrow of the Qings rulers
50. AIM OF HONG XIUQUANS GOD WORSHIP SOCIETY
Achieving an ideal society where all people would share land , food , clothing and
money
There will not be inequality and nobody will suffer from hunger and cold
51. TREATY OF NANKING the first unequal treaty signed by the Qing court and mark the start
of Chinas decline to the status of a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society
52. YUANMING YUAN GARDEN situated in the Northwest of Beijing , summer palace for the Qing
Emperors during summer but it was burned by the British and French
Allied Forces
53. FOUR GREAT CHINESE CLASSICAL NOVEL
ROMANCE OF THE THREE KINGDOM Luo Guanzhong is the author,it is based on both folk
Tales and historical records of the conflict between the kingdom of Nei
, Shu and Wu.
OUTLAWS OF THE MARSH written by Shi Naian. It is based on folk tales about a band of rebels
Led by Sung Jiang at the close of the Northern Song Dynasty.There are
108 heroes and heroines in the novel which is a savage satire on official corruption

and feudal oppression

JOURNEY TO THE WEST written by Wu Chengen with the Ming Dynasty.It is based on the true story
of a Tang Dynasty Monk who made a perilous overland trip to India to fetch
back the Buddhist scriptures.
SUN WUKONG - the monkey king is known to be the protector of the monk
A DREAM OF RED MANSIONS also named TALE OF THE ROCK W=with 120 chapters. It describes the
The decline of four feudal noble families. It is a treasure house of
information about the way aristocratic families lives in the Qing
Dynasty.The first 80 chapters were written by Cao Xueqin and the 40
chapters were written by Gao E.;