Question
Jonathan Spence’s section on this year in The Search for Modern China is titled “The Old Guard Dies.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this year in which the devastating Tangshan Earthquake killed over 240,000 people, which some interpreted as an omen for Mao Zedong’s death, which also occurred in this year.
ANSWER: 1976 [prompt on 76]
[10m] Other notable political changes in 1976 included the death of Zhou Enlai and the downfall of this political faction, which came to prominence during the Cultural Revolution and was led by Jiang Qing.
ANSWER: Gang of Four [or Sì rén bāng]
[10e] Mourners placed flowers and poems on a memorial in this plaza after Zhou Enlai’s 1976 death, but were quickly denounced by Deng Xiaoping. Later student protests in this plaza were violently put down in 1989.
ANSWER: Tiananmen Square
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