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Examples:purge of counter-revolutionary elements (esp. Stalin's purges of the 1930 and Mao's purges 1955-57)—Ketagalan, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, esp. northeast corner—kowtow (traditional greeting, esp. to a superior, involving kneeling and pressing one's forehead to the ground)—bearer of good news (esp. announcing success in imperial examinations)—Heavenly province (epithet of Sichuan, esp. area around Chengdu)—Agnes Smedley (1892-1950), US journalist and activist, reported on China, esp. the communist side—take funds (esp. illegally or corruptly obtained)—make a speech (esp. short introduction, vote of thanks, afterword, funeral homily etc)—bond (esp. document split in two, with each party holding one half)—north China army (esp. during the warlords period)—Manchurian Qing (refers the Qing dynasty, esp. at its decline, or as an anti-Qing slogan)—prohibition on opium (esp. in China from 1729)—Qiang ethnic group, nowadays esp. in north Sichuan—born at the wrong time (idiom); unlucky (esp. complain about one's fate)—class division inproletariat and bourgeoisie class enemy, in use esp. during the cultural revolution—(esp of Chinese medicine) relieve summer heat—military practice, esp. for reservists or new recruits—in Qing times, refers Western technology, esp. military and naval know-how—Chu Ci, the Songs of Chu (ancient book of poems, collected during Han but esp. from country of Chu c. 500 BC)—branch, esp. grass root branches of a political party—old property (esp. inherited from former generation)—contracted payment (esp. actors' salary in former times)—niche for statue (esp. Buddhist, Christian etc)—infantile convulsion (illness affecting children esp. under the age of five, marked by muscular spasms)—within the party (esp. Chinese communist party)—stoker (worker operating a coal fire, esp. for a steam engine)—crouch low and bend forward (esp. in hiding or in wait)—sonic location system (esp. underwater sonar)—lit. open an inn that kills and robs guests (esp. in traditional fiction)—Indochina peninsula (old term, esp. colonial period)—contending for supreme beauty (esp. of flowers, scenery, painting etc)—turn peril into safety (idiom); to avert a danger (esp. political or medical)—jump into a well (to drown oneself, esp. of ladies in fiction)—folk festival, esp. involving shrine or image of God—bone used for divination, esp. animal scapula—catalog of prostitutes (esp. in Yuan theater)—lit. the fat and wealth of the people (idiom); the nation's hard-won wealth (esp. as an object of unscrupulous exploitation)—warn earnestly (esp. classical written Chinese)—leave one's native place, esp. against one's will [idiom.]—city infested with foreign adventurers (esp of Shanghai in pre-liberation China) [idiom.]— |