KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / CHINESE REVOLUTION (1911) / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES

 

KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / CHINESE REVOLUTION (1911) / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES

KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / CHINESE REVOLUTION (1911) / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES

·      The Chinese Revolution took place in 1911

·      Ching dynasty or the Manchus were the last ruling dynasty of China

·      Puyi, a six-year-old boy was the last Manchu Emperor

·      The Republic of China was formed in 1912 and Sun Yat-Sen became the first Chairman and first President of the Chinese Republic.

·      Sun-Yat-Sen was a leader of the Comintang Party Millitary Head Yuan Shikai assumed power replacing Sun-Yat-Sen in 1912 March 10

·      In 1949 the Chinese Communist Party defeated the nationalists and formed the “Peoples’ Republic of China”.

·      The Opium Wars were fought between Britain and China

·      Mao-Tse-Tung, the leader of Chinese Communist Party became the first President of the People’s Republic of China

·      Den-Sia-O-Ping brought liberalist policies in China in 1970

·      Macao, which was a colony of the Portugal was restored to China on 20^th December 1999

·      Shanghai is the biggest city in China. Beijing is in the second place

·      China was admitted to the UN in 1971. Now she is a Permanent Member of the UN Security Council.

·      92% of the Chinese people belonged to the Hanrace

·      The Tianen Square in Beijing is described as the ‘Naval of China’. The name means ‘the gate of heavenly peace’.

·      The highest Court in China is the Supreme People’s Court

·      China’s leading newspaper is ‘Renin Ribao’ (People’s Daily) of Beijing, which is the official newspaper of Chinese Communist Party.

·      China is the first Asian country to launch a space shuttle. Zhenshou V was the Chinese space shuttle and Yang Liwei was its first space traveler

·      China is the world’s most populous country. It has about a fifths of the world’s population

·      China has the oldest living civilization

·      Chinese were the first to make compasses, paper, pottery and silk

·      Chinese mandarin is the most widely spoken language of the world and it is the mother tongue of the largest number of people. Chinese call this language ‘Putoghua’ (Common language)

·      China has the world’s largest fishing industry

·      The Grand Canal world’s longest artificially created water way extends more than 1600 Kilometers from Hangzhou in the south to Beijing in the north.

·      Chinese People’s Liberation Army is the world’s largest Army in number

·      China is the largest producer of tea paddy, silk and coal in the world

·      China has the largest Communist Party in the world

·      World’s largest dam Three Gorges Dam is built across the Yangtse river in China

·      China opened world’s highest and longest highland railway on 1^st July 2006 The Qinghai-Tibet Railway (1,1142km)

·      Karakkoram highway is the only overland connection between China and Pakistan

·      Communist China’s first International religious gathering was conducted in April 2006. In that World Buddhist Forum, Buddhists from more than 30 countries participated

·      2008 Olympics was held in China

KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / CHINESE REVOLUTION (1911) / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES