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Chinese Cinderella

Annie Cress

What I now know...

By researching my passage, I was able to learn what Adeline was growing up through and how her world changed multiple times. I also realized how the author (still Adeline) worded her "history lesson" in a way where each topic somehow worked its way into the next topic!

Sun Yatsen

  • Leader of the Nationalist Party

  • Influential in the overthrowing of the Qing Dynasty (Manchus)

  • Served as the first president

Nationalist Party

  • Governed all/part of mainland China from 1928-1949
  • Ruled Taiwan under Chiang Kai Shek
  • Originally working to overthrow the Chinese Monarchy
  • became a political party in the first year of the chinese republic (1912)
  • Participated in the first Chinese parliament

Dock Yards

definition- [dok-yahrd] a waterside area containing docks, workshops, warehouses, etc., for building, outfitting, and repairing ships, for storing naval supplies, etc. By using the text, I know now that the dockyard was unusually crowded just like the airports which was odd but Adeline didn't realize why at the time.

Mao Zedong

  • Leader of the communists
  • chairman of the peoples republic

Fiefdoms

Definition- [feef-duh m] noun 1. the estate or domain of a feudal lord. 2. Informal. anything, as an organization or real estate, owned or controlled by one dominant person or group.

"Following Sun’s revolution, local warlords divided the country into fiefdoms" Using the text, I know that the country was divided into different estates which were run by a feudal lord or on dominant group/person.

The Qing Dynasty

  • Established in 1636 by Manchus
  • From 1661-1796 the Manchus thrived.
  • Gained more land
  • Handicraft Industries Flourished

Then disaster struck. Everything went downhill.

  • Armies deteriorated
  • Floods struck
  • Rebellions took place in the North and South.
  • Revolutionary groups took over the emperor and the transfer on the republican govt. took place.

Chiang Kai Shek

  • Taiwan soilder
  • Helped overthrow the Manchus
  • Lived in a secret society for a year
  • Joined the Nationalist party
  • Joind Sun Yatsen as a leader
  • Reorganized the Nationalist party

bibliography:

http://www.britannica.com/topic/Qing-dynasty

http://www.britannica.com/biography/Sun-Yat-sen

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fiefdom

http://www.britannica.com/topic/Nationalist-Party-Chinese-political-party

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/dockyard

http://academic.eb.com/EBchecked/topic/363395/Mao-Zedong

"I didn’t know it then, but the China I had always known was changing before

my very eyes. My grandparents Ye Ye and Nai Nai were both born during the

Qing dynasty, which ruled China for 374 years until Sun Yatsen toppled it in

1911. Following Sun’s revolution, local warlords divided the country into fiefdoms

and waged war with one another until the emergence of the Nationalist

Party under Chiang Kai-shek. When Japan invaded in 1937, most of China

was controlled by Chiang. However, the Communists under Mao Zedong were

gaining momentum. Between 1937 and 1945, the Nationalists and Communists

formed a united front to fight the Japanese. After Japan’s surrender in

1945, the civil war resumed between Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek for

the control of China. By September 1948, when Father and

Niang took me north to Tianjin from Shanghai to separate me from my aunt,

the Communists were already in control of Manchuria and were advancing rapidly

southward toward Beijing and Tianjin. Province after province was being

lost to the victorious People’s Liberation Army. Most people were fleeing in the

opposite direction. Railroad stations, airports and dockyards were jammed

with passengers wishing to escape to Taiwan and Hong Kong.

Being completely ignorant of the political situation, I merely thought it

rather strange that the plane was so empty when the airport was so full." (123-125)

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