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1. He was known as the Chinese Himmler, a right hand man to Chiang Kai Shek and a leader of the 'Blueshirts'. What was his name?
2. This man was one of the leading advocates for moderate economic growth and the chief maker of economic policy during the early 1950s. He disagreed with the policies espoused by Mao and others calling for rapid advancement in heavy industry, proposing a more moderate approach. Who was this individual?
3. Which of the following terms could be defined as 'performance' and relates to a system in which superiors in Chinese state-run factories evaluate their underlings?
4. Which of the following worked as Mao Zedong's doctor from the late 50s until Mao's death in 1976?
5. Lao She wrote a symbolic novel in the early 1930s in which he sardonically criticized the divisive forces that were tearing the Chinese people apart. What was the title of this book?
6. Everybody's favorite character of late Chinese imperial history, Ci Xi, expropriated important government funds to build a pleasure project for herself at the Summer Palace. What was this object of her dalliance?
7. Who became the first democratically elected president in Chinese history in 1996?
8. Which general did the Americans send to China following World War II to negotiate a settlement between the Nationalist and Communist belligerents?
9. Which Chinese Communist Party stallwart was compared by some writers and political contenders to the historical and literary character Hai Rui of the Ming dynasty because of his willingness to criticize Mao's Great Leap Forward in 1959?
10. An astrophysicist by trade, he helped spearhead controversial political dissent during the 1980s in China and eventually found himself a dissident. He has written wonderful, critical prose about the lack of political reform in China during the post-Mao era and has been deemed the Chinese Sakharov by some. Who is this forboding intellectual?
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