Test of 8.3 (2023-24)

(Source: image showing the opium destruction in 1839) Which historical context best helps situate this source?

• British colonization around world

• Japanese Meiji restoration

• American traded opium with China

• The Second Opium War

(Source: image showing the opium destruction in 1839) Which of the following statements concerning the event shown in this source is correct?

• The event happened at the northern China

• It happened because the ruler worried about people’s health and army’s capacity

• China started industrialization afterwards

• It stopped British smuggling opium to China

(Source: image showing the opium destruction in 1839) Which of the following was NOT an effect of the opium destruction?

• China was forced to open five port cities for foreign trade

• China became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society   

• China was forced to pay indemnity

• China was forced to give Hong Kong Island to Britain

Tai Ping Wang [= Hong Xiuquan] and his son are in a large palace. The king has 104 wives and is waited upon by 1000 women... Tai Ping Wang professes [= claims] to be the brother of Jesus Christ and a son of God. His views of the Divine being [= religion] are gross and blasphemous [= disgusting and against religion]... The non-fighting people at Nanjing looked like slaves... Towns and villages are in ruins.

(Source: letter by John Hobson, a British priest who visited China between 1859 and 1862)

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Which of the following best describes the author’s opinion of Tai Ping Wang?

• He is the brother of Jesus

• He is a great leader who has brought lots of improvements to China

• He is a dangerous rebel

• Britain should make an alliance with him

Tai Ping Wang [= Hong Xiuquan] and his son are in a large palace. The king has 104 wives and is waited upon by 1000 women... Tai Ping Wang professes [= claims] to be the brother of Jesus Christ and a son of God. His views of the Divine being [= religion] are gross and blasphemous [= disgusting and against religion]... The non-fighting people at Nanjing looked like slaves... Towns and villages are in ruins.

(Source: letter by John Hobson, a British priest who visited China between 1859 and 1862)

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Which historical context best situates适合 this source?

• The beginning of the Taiping rebellion

• The period when the Taiping rebellion had control of a number of Chinese cities

• The final defeat of the Taiping rebellion by the Qing Emperor

• The final defeat of the Taiping rebellion by private armies recruited by local nobles

Tai Ping Wang [= Hong Xiuquan] and his son are in a large palace. The king has 104 wives and is waited upon by 1000 women... Tai Ping Wang professes [= claims] to be the brother of Jesus Christ and a son of God. His views of the Divine being [= religion] are gross and blasphemous [= disgusting and against religion]... The non-fighting people at Nanjing looked like slaves... Towns and villages are in ruins.

(Source: letter by John Hobson, a British priest who visited China between 1859 and 1862)

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Which of the statements about the rebellion described in the source is most correct?

• It successfully overthrew the Qing Dynasty

• It achieved to distribute land and money equally to all its members

• It failed to capture any big cities

• It weakened the Qing Dynasty

(Source: THE SITUATION IN THE FAR EAST, 1899) What historical context best helps understand this source?

• It was the new situation after the Second Opium War

• It was the new situation after Qing Dynasty ceded much territory to Russia.

• It was the new situation after the First Sino (Chinese)-Japanese War

• It was the new situation after the Xinhai Revolution

(Source: THE SITUATION IN THE FAR EAST, 1899) How was the situation in the source different from that after the First Opium War

• The Western powers started to be able to do business in the port cities

• The Western powers started to have port cities along the Yangtze River

• The Western powers started to have their influence in different regions across China

• The Western powers started to sell opium legally across China

(Source: THE SITUATION IN THE FAR EAST, 1899) Which one was not an effect of the situation shown in this source?

• CCP was founded in 1921

• The boxer tried to resist imperial powers

• China remained politically ununified in the first half of 20th century

• CCP claimed to destroy the imperialists in 1920s

…Up to now,…there have been revolutions in Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bavaria, and there are rumors that revolutionary socialist parties are launching uprisings in Holland, Sweden, and Spain. The revolutionary situation in these countries is basically similar to that of Russia. Red flags are flying everywhere. Labor unions工人联盟 are being established one by after another. It can be said that this is a Russian-style revolution or it can be said that this is a twentieth-century style revolution. The crashing waves of revolution cannot be stopped by today's capitalist governments because the mass movements of the twentieth century have brought together world humankind into one great mass. Each person within this great mass unconsciously follows the motion of the mass and all are pulled together into a great, irresistible social force. (Source: Lidazhao李大钊：The Victory of Bolshevism布尔什维克主义, 1918)

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Which one was the best context to understand the source?

• The collapse of Qing dynasty

• The New Culture Movement

• The October Revolution

• The May Fourth Movement