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| | light / easy / gentle / soft / reckless / unimportant / frivolous / small in number / unstressed / neutral / to disparage | HSK 2 |
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| | to ask / to invite / please (do sth) / to treat (to a meal etc) / to request | HSK 1 |
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| | (of water etc) clear; clean / quiet; still / pure; uncorrupted / clear; distinct / to clear; to settle (accounts) | HSK 6 |
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| | the Qianlong era / Qianlong Emperor (1711–1799), sixth Qing emperor, princely title 寶親王|宝亲王, personal name 弘曆|弘历, reigned 1735–1799 | |
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| | Guwen Guanzhi, an anthology of essays written in Literary Chinese, compiled and edited by Wu Chucai and Wu Diaohou of Qing dynasty | |
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| | anti-Qing secret societies | |
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| | Office of Military and Political Affairs (Qing Dynasty) | |
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| | green / blue / black / youth / young (of people) | HSK 5 |
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| | Jin Tianhe (1874–1947), late-Qing poet and novelist, co-author of A Flower in a Sinful Sea 孽海花 | |
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| | Zhang Yi (1608-1695), prolific author and poet spanning interregnum between Ming and Qing | |
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| | James Legge (1815-1897), Scottish Protestant missionary in Qing China and translator of the Chinese classics into English | |
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| | (bound form) feelings; emotion; sentiment; passion / (bound form) situation; condition | HSK 7-9 |
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| | hydrogen (chemistry) | |
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| | minister / diplomat performing ambassadorial role in Qing times, before regular diplomatic relations | |
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| | triad, Chinese crime gang / triad society, anti-Manchu secret society in Qing-dynasty China | |
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| | Qing dynasty (1644-1911) | |
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| | Siku Quanshu (collection of books compiled during Qing dynasty) | |
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| | academy of classical learning (Tang Dynasty - Qing Dynasty) | |
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| | to overturn / to collapse / to lean / to tend / to incline / to pour out | |
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| | Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), senior general of late Qing, subsequently warlord and self-proclaimed emperor of China | |
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| | Qing (Wade-Giles: Ch'ing) dynasty of China (1644–1911) / surname Qing | |
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| | History of the Ming Dynasty, twenty fourth of the 24 dynastic histories 二十四史, compiled under Zhang Tingyu 張廷玉|张廷玉 in 1739 during the Qing Dynasty, 332 scrolls | |
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| | late Ming and early Qing / around the middle of the 17th century | |
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| | special administrative region (SAR), of which there are two in the PRC: Hong Kong 香港 and Macau 澳門|澳门 / refers to many different areas during late Qing, foreign occupation, warlord period and Nationalist government / refers to special zones in North Korea and Indonesia | |
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| | Wu Jingzi (1701–1754), Qing dynasty novelist, author of The Scholars 儒林外史 | |
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| | Manchu household register (during the Qing Dynasty) | |
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| | to use foreigners to subdue foreigners (idiom); let the barbarians fight it out among themselves (traditional policy of successive dynasties) / Use Western science and technology to counter imperialist encroachment. (late Qing modernizing slogan) | |
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| | anti-Qing revolutionary party set up in 1904 under Cai Yuanpei 蔡元培 / aka 光復會|光复会 | |
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| | (Ming and Qing dynasties) vice-minister of one of the Six Boards / (also an official title in earlier dynasties) | |
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| | Qing government (1644-1911) | |
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| | School of Mind / Neo-Confucian Idealistic School (from Song to mid-Qing times, c. 1000-1750, typified by the teachings of Wang Yangming 王陽明|王阳明) | |
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| | Ding Ruchang (1836-1895), commander of the Qing North China Navy | |
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| | to celebrate | |
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| | traditional Han Chinese attire (including various styles of clothing worn by the Han ethnic group before the Qing Dynasty, and in the 21st century, revived as part of a cultural movement) / clothing styles of the Han dynasty | |
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| | treaty port, forced on Qing China by the 19th century Great Powers | |
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| | Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty | |
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| | Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Qing Dynasty | |
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| | the late Qing / late 19th and early 20th century China | |
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| | parents-in-law of one's offspring | |
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| | seat of government / government repository (archive) / official residence / mansion / presidential palace / (honorific) Your home / prefecture (from Tang to Qing times) | |
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| | Heshen (1746-1799), Manchu official of the Qing Dynasty who openly practiced various forms of corruption on a grand scale | |
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| | to instruct the young / to initiate / to awake sb from ignorance / to free sb from prejudice or superstition / primer / enlightened / the Enlightenment / Western learning from the late Qing dynasty | HSK 7-9 |
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| | Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty | |
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| | Buddha (term of respect for Sakyamuni 釋迦牟尼|释迦牟尼) / His Holiness (refers to a Buddhist grandee) / Buddha / God / emperor / in late Qing court, refers exclusively to Empress Dowager Cixi 慈禧太后 | |
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| | high ranking official (old) / term of endearment between spouses (old) / (from the Tang Dynasty onwards) term used by the emperor for his subjects (old) / honorific (old) | |
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| | Sanxia wuyi (lit. Three knight-errants and five righteous one), novel edited from stories of late Qing dynasty pinghua 評話|评话 master storyteller Shi Yukun 石玉昆 | |
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| | reign name (1909-1911) of the last Qing emperor Pu Yi 溥儀|溥仪 | |
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| | lit. rich country, strong army (idiom); slogan of legalist philosophers in pre-Han times / Make the country wealthy and the military powerful, slogan of modernizers in Qing China and Meiji Japan (Japanese pronunciation: Fukoku kyōhei) | |
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| | banner / flag / (in Qing times) Manchu (cf. 八旗) / administrative subdivision in inner Mongolia equivalent to 縣|县 county / CL: 面 | |
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| | Qing troops; Manchu soldiers | |
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| | boss / sir (person with a leading role in an organization) / (after a surname) high ranking commander in the PLA / (Qing dynasty) high ranking government official / (old) courteous term used by the general populace in addressing a rank-and-file soldier or police officer | |
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| | near ancient history (often taken to mean Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing times) | |
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| | mountain resort / Qing imperial summer residence at Chengde, a world heritage site | |
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| | New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895) | |
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| | the Qing court (as government of China) | |
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| | Kong Shangren (1648-1718), Qing dramatist and poet, author of The Peach Blossom Fan 桃花扇 | |
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| | Lin Zexu or Lin Tse-hsu "Commissioner Lin" (1785-1850), Qing official whose anti-opium activities led to first Opium war with Britain 1840-1842 | |
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| | Gang of Four: Jiang Qing 江青, Zhang Chunqiao 張春橋|张春桥, Yao Wenyuan 姚文元, Wang Hongwen 王洪文, who served as scapegoats for the excesses of the cultural revolution | |
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| | Great Sword Society, an offshoot of the White Lotus in the late Qing dynasty, involved in anti-Western activity at the time of the Boxer rebellion | |
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| | Qing dynasty (1644-1911) | |
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| | to close a country; to exclude foreign contact / closed country (Qing China, North Korea etc) | |
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| | copper coin of the Ming and Qing Dynasties | |
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| | the foreign learning or Westernizing faction in the late Qing | |
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| | Fulin Emperor Shunzhi (1638-1662), second Qing emperor, reigned 1644-1662 | |
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| | eight-part essay one had to master to pass the imperial exams in Ming and Qing dynasties | |
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| | coup by Dowager Empress Cixi 慈禧太后 ending the 1898 attempt to reform the Qing dynasty | |
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| | Shi Lang (1621–1696), Chinese admiral who served under the Ming and Qing dynasties | |
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| | Mukden Palace, aka Shenyang Imperial Palace, the main imperial palace during the early years of the Qing dynasty (1625-1644), a secondary palace in subsequent years, now a museum | |
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| | sliced bread (loanword from "toast") / government-appointed hereditary tribal headman in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties | |
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| | Zhang Tingyu (1672-1755), Qing politician, senior minister to three successive emperors, oversaw compilation of History of the Ming Dynasty 明史 and the Kangxi Dictionary 康熙字典 | |
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| | Hundred Days Reform (1898), failed attempt to reform the Qing dynasty | |
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| | Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864), a massive rebellion in southern China against the Qing Dynasty, led by Hong Xiuquan 洪秀全, who sought to establish the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom 太平天國|太平天国, resulting in one of the deadliest conflicts in history with millions of casualties | |
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| | The Gallant Maid, novel by Manchu-born Qing dynasty writer 文康 | |
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| | Xianfeng (1831-1861), reign name of Qing emperor, reigned from 1850-1861 / Xianfeng County in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture 恩施土家族苗族自治州, Hubei | |
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| | Ever Victorious Army (1860-1864), Qing dynasty army equipped and trained jointly with Europeans and used esp. against the Taiping rebels | |
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| | Qing historical archive, currently 4484 scrolls | |
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| | Manchurian Qing (refers to the Qing dynasty, esp. at its decline, or as an anti-Qing slogan) | |
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| | Western learning (intellectual movement in the late Qing) / also called 洋務運動|洋务运动 | |
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| | Spanish / Western language / foreign languages (in Qing times) | |
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| | (old) commanding general / commander-in-chief / (Qing dynasty) title for a governor-general (provincial military governor) 總督|总督 | |
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| | Jurchen, a Tungus ethnic group, predecessor of the Manchu ethnic group who founded the Later Jin Dynasty 後金|后金 and Qing Dynasty | |
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| | Li Boyuan 李伯元 or Li Baojia (1867-1906), late Qing journalist, novelist and social observer, author of Observations on the current state of officialdom 官場現形記|官场现形记 | |
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| | School of Principle / Neo-Confucian Rationalistic School (from Song to mid-Qing times, c. 1000-1750, typified by the teachings of Cheng Hao 程顥|程颢, Cheng Yi 程頤|程颐 and Zhu Xi 朱熹) | |
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| | Hart or Herd (name) / Robert Hart (1835-1911), Englishman who served 1863-1911 in Qing dynasty customs office | |
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| | The Scholars, satirical Qing dynasty novel by Wu Jingzi 吳敬梓|吴敬梓 | |
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| | princess (loanword from Manchu, used in the Qing Dynasty) | |
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| | the Manchu Han imperial feast, a legendary banquet in the Qing dynasty / (fig.) a sumptuous banquet | |
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| | Western skills / in Qing times, refers to Western technology, esp. military and naval know-how | |
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| | Nanyuan or "Southern Park", an imperial hunting domain during the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, now the site of Nanhaizi Park in the south of Beijing | |
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| | family of a functionary (i.e. educated middle class in Qing times) | |
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| | extra allowances paid to government officials in the Qing dynasty | |
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| | cyanogen (CN)2 / ethanedinitrile / Taiwan pr. [qing1] | |
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| | General History of the Qing dynasty, compiled under Xiao Yishan 蕭一山|萧一山 | |
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| | Shengzu, temple name of the second Qing emperor, known as the Kangxi Emperor (1654-1722) / cf. 康熙 | |
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| | Weihaiwei, late Qing naval port in Weihai 威海, Shandong | |
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| | Biographic History of Qing Dynasty by a succession of authors, published 1928 and revised 1987, with biographies of 2,900 notable Qing commoner citizens, 80 scrolls | |
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| | the late Qing and early Republic, i.e. China around 1911 | |
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| | Manchurian Qing government | |
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| | the triennial provincial imperial exam during the Ming and Qing | |
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