Vocabulary | Culture Shock | Shan Da's Struggles | The Protests | More Vocabulary |
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What is moping?
To seem sad or disinterested.
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What is the Forbidden City?
This is the castle formerly used by the emperors or China. It sits beside Tian An Men Square.
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What is his Mao coat, hat, sunglasses and black shoe polish in his hair?
These are integral parts of Alex's disguise when he tries to escape Beijing.
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What is by cutting the satellite feed?
This is the way that the government tries to restrict information movement when Beijing first goes under martial law.
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What is illiterate?
Someone who is unable to read or write.
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What is alienated.
Feeling ostracized or left out.
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What are tones?
This is why Chinese(Mandarin) is so hard to learn.
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What is why many Chinese were trying to apply for VISAs to leave the country?
This is the reason that many embassies were under heavy guard by the PLA when Alex tries to escape.
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What is people flood the streets to block the vehicles?
This is how the people of Beijing stop the first PLA units who try to clear Tian An Men Square.
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What is acupuncture.
This ancient Chinese medicine involves many small needles.
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What is a bayonet?
This weapon is attached to the end of a rifle.
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What is the People's Liberation Army?
This is the full name for the acronym PLA.
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What is students are being detained, arrested, or shot?
This is why Xin-hua pretends to be a worker when the PLA ask her who she is?
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What is Premier Gorbachev's visit?
This is why the government is letting foreign journalists into the country at the time of the protest.
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What is dread?
A feeling that bad things are going to happen.
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What is traumatized?
To be changed by a terrible event.
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What is soldiers have two pockets and officers have four?
This is how someone could distinguish a normal soldier from an officer in the PLA
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What is a ping ban che?
This is the type of vehicle that Alex and Xin-hua use to get the tapes out of Beijing.
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What is the Twenty-Seventh Field Army?
This is the part of the army that most brutally cracks down on the students.
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What is a Molotov Cocktail?
This weapon involves gasoline, a towel and a glass bottle.
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What is a ration?
A prescribed unit of food or supplies.
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What is to be embarrassed or shown to be weak.
This is what losing face means.
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What is the bravery and sacrifice of Lao Xu and the protesters?
This is what convinces Alex that he should try to smuggle the tapes out of Beijing.
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What is the Godess of Democracy?
This statue stares the picture of Mao in the face at the peak of the protest.
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What is a pagoda
A religious building. Often has many tiers in one tower.
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What is straw boat, steal arrows, or use your opponents strength against them.
This lesson AND it's meaning was told through the story of Cao Cao in Forbidden City.
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