Social and Cultural Change 1949-76

Question 1

Women were bound by the ‘three obediences’

Answer 1

before 1949

Question 2

New Marriage Law

Answer 2

1950

Question 3

Winter Schools

Answer 3

1951

Question 4

Female work teams go to Xinjiang

Answer 4

Feb 1951

Question 5

Religions Affairs Department created

Answer 5

1951

Question 6

Ministry of Education set up

Answer 6

Nov 1952

Question 7

Patriotic Health Campaigns began

Answer 7

1952

Question 8

Chinese Buddhist Association created

Answer 8

1953

Question 9

Religious Affairs Bureau created

Answer 9

1954

Question 10

Patriotic Church Movement

Answer 10

1954

Question 11

Pinyin - new standardised written language

Answer 11

1955

Question 12

New college entrance exams

Answer 12

1958

Question 13

Great Leap Forward started

Answer 13

1958

Question 14

Dalai Llama fled

Answer 14

1959

Question 15

Strict school reform

Answer 15

May 1959

Question 16

Barefoot Doctors

Answer 16

1965

Question 17

Jiang Qing becomes the cultural advisor to the military

Answer 17

1966

Question 18

National college entrance exams end

Answer 18

1966

Question 19

‘Up to the Mountains, Down to the Villages’

Answer 19

1967

Question 20

Rustification Campaign

Answer 20

1967

Question 21

University entrance exams resume

Answer 21

1973

Question 22

‘Criticise Lin, Criticise Confucius’ Campaign

Answer 22

1973