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Examples:Helan Mountains, lying across part of the border between Ningxia and Inner Mongolia—Chinese customs gold unit, currency used in China between 1930 and 1948—William A.P. Martin (1827-1916), American missionary who lived 62 years in China between 1850 and 1916, and helped found many Chinese colleges, first president of Beijing university—lit. Rushing Clan, generation born between 1975-1985 and China's most hedonistic and hard-working social group (netspeak)—Eight banners system, the military and social organization of the Manchus between c. 1500 and 1911—the Strawberry Generation (Taiwanese term, often sarcastic, for those born between 1980 and 1991, well off and influenced by advertising)—former Tibetan province of Kham, now split between Tibet and Sichuan—forming a bridge between earlier and later stages—Amur River (the border between north east China and Russia)—Spratly islands, disputed between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam—Treaty of Nerchinsk (1698) between Qing China and Russia—Nathu La (Himalayan pass on Silk Road between Tibet and Indian Sikkim)—between laughter and tears—Tsaidam or Qaidam basin (Mongolian: salt marsh), depression northeast of the Plateau of Tibet, located between the Qilian Shan and the Kunlun Shan at the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau.—Dayu mountain range between southwest Jiangxi and Guangdong—Ceres, dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, discovered in 1801 by G. Piazzi—Wang Mang (45 BC-23 AD), usurped power and reigned 9-23 between the former and later Han—tigon or tiglon, hybrid cross between a male tiger and a lioness—fig. the dividing line between shipboard expenses and onshore freight charges—Sittang River of central Myanmar (Burma), between Irrawaddy and Salween rivers—special rail line (e.g. between airport and city)—Li Fang (925-996), scholar between Tang and Song dynasties, author of fictional history—lit. pick orchids and present peonies (idiom); fig. presents between lovers—Kuril Islands (chain between Kamchatka and Hokkaido)—geocentric latitude (i.e. angle between the equatorial plane and straight line from center of the earth)—make a clear difference between what one likes and what one hates—the Bering Strait (between Siberia and Alaska)—Truong Son Ra, mountain range forming the border between Vietnam and Laos and Kampuchea—Yang Ningshi (873-954) calligrapher of 5 dynasties period between Tang and Song—Zabulon or Zebulun, biblical land between Jordan and Galilee (Matthew 4:15)—Yuecheng mountain range between south Hunan and Guangxi—Khan Tengri or Mt Hantengri on the border between Xinjiang and Kazakhstan—First United Front between Guomindang and Communist party, 1923-1927—former Kham province of Tibet, now split between Tibet and Sichuan—the Six-Day War of June 1967 between Israel and its Arab neighbors—Bekaa valley between Lebanon and Syria—the Sino-Vietnamese War, fought between the PRC and Vietnam in 1979—Pisistratus (-528 BC), tyrant (ruler) of Athens at different times between 561 BC and 528 BC—contradictions between ourselves and the enemy—old tea-horse market between Tibet, China, Southeast Asia and India, formalized as a state enterprise under the Song dynasty—contract between employer and employees governing wages and conditions—balance between income and expenditure—(in ancient times) no direct contact between men and women—Kuril island chain between Kamchatka and Hokkaidō—interactions between heaven and mankind (Han Dynasty doctrine)—space between the eyebrows and the eyelashes—generic term for historic period 220-589 between Han and Sui—Caesarea (town in Israel, between Tel Aviv and Haifa)—Tyrrhenian Sea between Sardinia and the Italian mainland—Potsdam conference, July-August 1945, between Truman, Stalin and British prime ministers Churchill and Attlee—Qitian mountain range between south Hunan and Guangdong—asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter—Shenzhen or Shamchun river Guangdong, the border between Hong Kong new territories and PRC—Batan Islands in Bashi Channel between Taiwan and the Philippines—the three Punic wars (264-146 BC) between Rome and Carthage—the Yom Kippur war of October 1973 between Israel and her Arab neighbors—Victoria Falls or Mosi-oa-Tunya on the Zambesi River, between Zambia and Zimbabwe—make no distinction between what's one's own and what's another's [idiom.]— |