Themes and Morals






Vocabulary Culture Shock Shan Da's Struggles The Protests More Vocabulary
100
What is moping?
To seem sad or disinterested.
100
What is the Forbidden City?
This is the castle formerly used by the emperors or China. It sits beside Tian An Men Square.
100
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.
100
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.
100
What is illiterate?
Someone who is unable to read or write.
200
What is alienated.
Feeling ostracized or left out.
200
What are tones?
This is why Chinese(Mandarin) is so hard to learn.
200
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.
200
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.
200
What is acupuncture.
This ancient Chinese medicine involves many small needles.
300
What is a bayonet?
This weapon is attached to the end of a rifle.
300
What is the People's Liberation Army?
This is the full name for the acronym PLA.
300
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?
300
What is Premier Gorbachev's visit?
This is why the government is letting foreign journalists into the country at the time of the protest.
300
What is dread?
A feeling that bad things are going to happen.
400
What is traumatized?
To be changed by a terrible event.
400
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
400
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.
400
What is the Twenty-Seventh Field Army?
This is the part of the army that most brutally cracks down on the students.
400
What is a Molotov Cocktail?
This weapon involves gasoline, a towel and a glass bottle.
500
What is a ration?
A prescribed unit of food or supplies.
500
What is to be embarrassed or shown to be weak.
This is what losing face means.
500
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.
500
What is the Godess of Democracy?
This statue stares the picture of Mao in the face at the peak of the protest.
500
What is a pagoda
A religious building. Often has many tiers in one tower.
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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