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1. What year was the Sino-French treaty that led to official French control of Annam (modern day Vietnam), which had become a French protectorate in 1883?
2. What river did UN forces approach in 1950, causing China to attack and drive them south?
3. Who proclaimed himself Heavenly King and originated the devastating Taiping Rebellion (1850-64) that wracked China?
4. A bit tougher... The treaty of 821 between China and Tibet was given what allegorical name?
5. Let's get obscure! What was the name of the seventh century Syrian who was the first Nestorian missionary to China?
6. Also known as Aman, this late second-century politician, warrior and poet is most famous for his conquests of the Three Kingdoms period. He was Prime Minister to a late Eastern Han emperor and first king of the Wei dynasty. Who?
7. What Chinese Communist Party leader and educator founded (when still a student) the magazine 'New Youth,' which stressed modernization and eschewing of Confucianism, in 1915?
8. What eighth-century Chinese poet, according to legend, drowned while drunkenly leaning out from his boat in order to embrace the moon's reflection in the water?
9. In what city was the Communist Party of China founded?
10. Here's an obscurity that's not strictly Chinese history, to throw off you dedicated Sinophiles. In the novel 'Tribulations Of a Chinese Gentleman', a young upper-class Chinese man arranges for his friend Wang, an ex-Taiping, to kill him when he believes he has lost his fortune. What French author wrote this amusing fiction?
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