by Xinran Xue
liberation of
tiger stoves in
Shanghai Finance and Economics Institute
Shanghai Park Hotel
Shanghai University
Shangqiu
Shaanxi province
Shanxi province
Shaoxing
Shell
Shendu
Shengli oilfield
Shenyang
Shihezi
Shijiazhuang
Shouting Hill
Sichuan province
earthquake
see also Chengdu
Sichuan Dinosaur Fossil Museum
Silk Road
Single Child policy
Sino-Japanese Youth Congress
Sinopec
Society of Economic Geologists
Song dynasty
see also
Northern Song dynasty; Southern Song dynasty
Song Qingling
South America
Southern dynasty
Southern Song dynasty
Soviet Union
Special Cases Group
Spring and Autumn period
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Sui dynasty
Sui'an University
Sun Yat-sen
Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong
Supreme People's Court
Suzhou
Taiping Rebellion
Taishan Island
Taiwan
Taiwan Strait
Taklimakan Desert
Tan Zheng
Tang dynasty
Tanggula Mountains
Tangshan earthquake
Tanhai area
Tao Zhiyue
Tao Zhu
Tarim Basin
Third Changsha Campaign
Three Districts Revolution
Three Great Mountains
Three Red Banners
"Three Represents" policy
Tianjin
Tianjin Magical Troupe
Tibet
Tongji Channel
Tongmen Society
Tongren
Total
Turfan
United Nations
University of Christianity
Urumqi
Vietnam
Wang Bo
Wang Genseng
Wang Guang-mei
Wang Hongwen
Wang Jiaxiang
Wang Ming, General
Wang Zhen, General
Warring States Period
Wen Jiabao
Wendeng
Wenzhou
Wenzhou City Normal School
Wesley, Mary
Workers' Medical University
Wu Jiqing
Wu Xiuquan
Wu Yi
Wudi, emperor
Wuhan
Wuhu
Wuliang Mountain
Wuqi Zhen
Xi'an
Xi'an Communications University
Xingyi
Xinhua News Agency
Xinjiang province
see also Urumqi
Xinjiang-Gansu highway
Xu Haidong, General
Xue Yue, General
Yan River
Yan'an
Yanchang oil deposit
Yangjialing
Yangtze Delta
Yangtze River Basin
Yantai
Yao Wenyuan
Ye Jianying
Yellow Earth Plateau
Yellow River
Yinchuan
Yinchuan Petroleum Prospecting Command Office
Youth League of the Three Principles of the People
Yu Ruobin see Sha Duoling
Yuan dynasty
Yuan Shikai
Yuan Xiao Lantern Festival
Yuanyang
Yue Fei
Yumen oilfield
Yungang Grottos
Yunnan
Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau
Yushu
Zhang Chonghan
Zhang Chunqiao
Zhang Guotao
Zhang Qian
Zhang Wentian
Zhang Yimou
Zhang Zongxian
Zhangjiakou
Zhangjiakou Pass
Zhao Xiguang
Zhao Ziyang
Zhejiang province
migrant workers from
Zhengzhou
Zhenjiang
Zhijiang Xian
Zhongnanhai
Zhou Enlai
Zhouping
Zhu De
Zhu Yuanzhang, emperor
Zunyi
Zunyi Conference
Zuo Quan
Xinran Xue
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[1] At 2007 rates, approximately US$700, €460, £350.
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[2] A revolt against the Guomindang government of Xinjiang.
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[3] The idea of "Harmonious Society" was introduced by China's president, Hu Jintao, in an attempt to address some of the increasingly serious inequalities and divisions of Chinese society.
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[4] A valued medal given to outstanding women workers, awarded each year on 8 March (International Women's Day) at different levels: national, provincial, county and city.
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[5] Shenzhou VI was the second human spaceflight of the People's Republic of China, launched on 12 October 2005 on a Long March rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert.
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[6] Caramel-like sweet, high in energy and milk protein.
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[7] To give some idea of the scale, most Chinese provinces are the size of a medium-sized European country. Some of the military areas mentioned here, such as the Chengdu military area, cover several provinces.
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[8] Shang dynasty: 1600-1046 BC; Zhou dynasty: 1046-256 BC.
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[9] Spring and Autumn Period: 770-476 BC.
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[10] 12,500 kilometres/8,000 miles.
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[11] The Central Soviet Area, also known as the Jiangxi Soviet, was an independent government established by the Chinese Communist Party in Jiangxi province in southeastern China, 1931-34.
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[12] Li De was the Chinese name given to Otto Braun, the German advisor sent by the Communist International to advise the Chinese Communist Party in 1934. Later that year, Braun, Zhou Enlai and Bo Gu became the leaders of the early First Front Army and made all decisions, despite opposition to them and their tactics from revolutionary leaders Mao Zedong and Peng Dehuai. Much of the Communist Army was destroyed due to Braun's doctrine of direct attacks on the far larger and better-equipped GMD Army.
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[13] In fact, some units did not participate in the Long March, but of course a single soldier could not know what was happening in detail to the whole army.
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[14] Canadian surgeon, b. 1890, Ontario. He joined the Communist Party, after a visit to the Soviet Union, and went to China in 1938 where he became a hero for his dedicated work, and died in 1939.
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[15] Guomindang planes.
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[16] Post-war liberation from Guomindang control by the People's Liberation Army, the troops of the Chinese Communist Party.
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[17] 130 hectares/330 acres.
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[18] See the following chapter p.307, for a selection of these remarkable letters.
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[19] Its English title was Random Harvest.
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[20] This phenomenon is also recounted in Cao Jinqing's China Along the Yellow River: Reflections on Rural Society.
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[21] 16 acres / 7 hectares.
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[22] Part of the Chinese court system, formed of a hierarchy of prosecuting offices
called People's Procuratorates, the highest being the Supreme People's Procuratorate.
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[23] Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969) was Chairman of the People's Republic of China from 27 April 1959 to 31 October 1968 but during the Cultural Revolution he was labelled a "traitor". In July 1966 he was displaced as Party Deputy Chairman by Lin Biao. By 1967 Liu Shaoqi and his wife Wang Guang-mei were under house arrest in Beijing.
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[24] Tao Zhu (1908-1969) was Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee and Commander of the Guangzhou Military Region. He later became First Secretary of the Central-South region, and in 1965 was moved to Beijing as Director of the Central Propaganda Department. He was a Vice Premier of the State Council and Secretary of the Central Secretariat of the CCP, as well as an advisor to the Central Cultural Revolution Group. In May 1966, he was promoted to No. 4 in the Party, behind Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Lin Biao, but was purged during the Cultural Revolution in early 1967 and died under house arrest in 1969.
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[25] Xu Haidong (1900-1970) was born into poverty and was made Grand General in the People's Liberation Army of China in 1955. Mao Zedong praised him as "a banner of the working class". He died in Zhengzhou in March 1970.
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[26] After Deng Xiaoping came to power in 1978, Liu Shaoqi was politically rehabilitated (in February 1980) with a state funeral.
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[27] Date is 2005. This text as been reproduced a number of times on blogs and even university websites.
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