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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who worked as the Assistant Secretary of State for Eastern Affairs?

2. This person went on to serve in which U.S. government position?

3. Kissinger and Mao discussed the importance of Japan's feelings of ______.

4. Zhou's critics had argued that he was too ____.

5. The Chinese had a long relationship with which country?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Bismarck fail to capture the attention of the United States and China?

2. Kissinger says that Mao liked to speak in parables. What was Mao's message?

3. Mao was referred to as both a revolutionary and a pragmatist. How did Mao typically behave in a political sense?

4. How did China change in the first two decades after it became a Republic?

5. Who stepped in after Zhou bowed out of the political race?

6. What did Kissinger say about his first meeting with Mao?

7. What were Deng's steps in the modernization of China? How did they compare to Mao's plans?

8. What does Kissinger say about the ideology of China and Russia at this time?

9. Mao had two main choices of leadership. What were they?

10. When did dialogue between the U.S. and China resume? What was the aim of the meeting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How might the Sino-American relationship have developed or changed if Richard Nixon had not been forced to resign? What did the Chinese think of the impeachment? How did it affect China's view of the United States? What was Kissinger's role in Sino-American relations after Nixon left office?

Essay Topic 2

China and the United States were trying to work closely with the Soviet Union during the downfall of Communism. Did the U.S. and China know that Communism was about the fall? Did they know that the Soviet Union would soon cease to exist? How would they be able to work with the new Russia? How did it affect foreign policy and globalization?

Essay Topic 3

Kissinger states:

"A special feature of Chinese civilization is that it seems to have no beginning. It appears in history less as a conventional nation-state than a permanent natural phenomenon. In the tale of the Yellow Emperor, revered by many Chinese as the legendary founding ruler, China seems already to exist. When the Yellow Emperor appears in myth, Chinese civilization has fallen into chaos. Competing princes harass each other and the people, yet an enfeebled ruler fails to maintain order. Levying an army, the new hero pacifies the realm and is acclaimed as emperor." (Chap. 1, p. 20)

What is meant by this statement? Why is the Yellow Emperor seen as a myth? Why did China need a new hero? Why does this undocumented history make China special?

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