| | the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949) | HSK 4 |
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| | major event / major political event (war or change of regime) / major social event (wedding or funeral) / (do sth) in a big way / CL: 件, 樁|桩 | HSK 5 |
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| | cold war / (fig.) strained relationship / to be barely on speaking terms | HSK 7-9 |
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| | to fight a battle / to go to war | HSK 7-9 |
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| | weapons of war / arms | HSK 7-9 |
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| | South Korea (Republic of Korea) / (historical) Han, one of the Seven Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄 | |
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| | National protection war or Campaign to defend the republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai as emperor | |
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| | war chariot (archaic) / rook (in Chinese chess) / rook (in chess) | |
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| | the fire of war in all four directions (idiom); the confusion of war | |
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| | war of resistance, especially the war against Japan (1937-1945) | |
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| | the pro-war faction / hawks | |
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| | the Legalist school of political philosophy, which rose to prominence in the Warring States period (475-221 BC) (The Legalists believed that social harmony could only be attained through strong state control, and advocated for a system of rigidly applied punishments and rewards for specific behaviors.) / a Legalist | |
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| | Anglo-Japanese allied army (intervention during Russian revolution and civil war 1917-1922) | |
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| | surname Zhao / one of the seven states during the Warring States period (476-220 BC) / the Former Zhao 前趙|前赵 (304-329) and Later Zhao 後趙|后赵 (319-350), states of the Sixteen Kingdoms | |
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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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| | Qi state of Western Zhou and the Warring states (1122-265 BC), centered in Shandong | |
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| | surname Wei / name of a vassal state of the Zhou dynasty from 661 BC in Shanxi, one of the Seven Hero Warring States / Wei state, founded by Cao Cao 曹操, one of the Three Kingdoms after the Han dynasty / the Wei dynasty 221-265 / Wei Prefecture or Wei County at various times in history | |
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| | to die in childhood / war dead | |
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| | Mozi (c. 470-391 BC), founder of the Mohist School 墨家, which flourished during the Warring States period (475-220 BC) | |
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| | war of independence | |
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| | Han, one of the Seven Hero States of the Warring States 戰國七雄|战国七雄 / Korea from the fall of the Joseon dynasty in 1897 / Korea, esp. South Korea 大韓民國|大韩民国 / surname Han | |
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| | surname Chu / abbr. for Hubei 湖北省 and Hunan 湖南省 provinces together / Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (722-221 BC) | |
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| | Hui Shi, also known as Hui-zi 惠子(c. 370-310 BC), politician and philosopher of the School of Logicians 名家 during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC) | |
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| | war / to wage war | |
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| | air war / air warfare | |
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| | Ministry of War (in imperial China) | |
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| | Eighth Route Army, the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) | |
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| | Li Yingru (1913-1989), calligrapher and writer, author of many novels about the war as seen by the communists | |
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| | (US-Soviet) Cold War | |
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| | opportunity in a battle / fighter aircraft / war secret | |
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| | the Warring States period (475-221 BC) | |
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| | School of Logicians of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), also called the School of Names | |
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| | forced labor / corvée / obligatory task / military service / to use as servant / to enserf / servant (old) / war / campaign / battle | |
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| | weaponry / to hold (a weapon) / to wield / to rely on / to depend on / war / battle | |
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| | general mobilization (for war etc) | |
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| | Vietnam War (1955-1975) | |
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| | prepared against war / to prepare for war / warmongering | |
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| | (Tw) Star Wars | |
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| | after the war / postwar | |
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| | (of a sports competition or match) to commence / (of a war or battle) to break out / to perform acrobatic or choreographed fighting (in Chinese opera) / to brawl / to come to blows | |
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| | The Thirty-Six Stratagems, a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and in civil interaction / all the possible schemes and stratagems | |
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| | spoils of war | |
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| | (lit.) to exert one's horse / (fig.) war exploits / warhorse (abbr. for 汗血馬|汗血马) | |
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| | to fight / to wage war | |
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| | lit. warp and weft in weaving; vertically and horizontal / length and breadth / criss-crossed / able to move unhindered / abbr. for 合縱連橫|合纵连横, School of Diplomacy during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) | |
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| | to come unscathed through a hundred battles (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法); to win every fight | |
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| | Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武|孙武 (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法, one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书 | |
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| | war chariot / tank | |
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| | to start a war / to make war / to battle against | |
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| | to go to war / to engage in war | |
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| | Lie Zi, Daoist author, said to be early Warring States period 戰國|战国 / Daoist text in eight chapters, said to be by Lie Zi, probably compiled during WeiJin times 魏晉|魏晋 (3rd century AD) | |
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| | the flames of war | |
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| | Lord Menchang of Qi, Chancellor of Qi and of Wei during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) | |
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| | civil war | |
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| | (military) to go off to war / (sports) to compete | |
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| | war zone / combat zone / (military) theater of operations | |
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| | Sino-French War (1883-1885) (concerning French seizure of Vietnam) | |
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| | war / hostilities / fighting | |
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| | chaos of war | |
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| | the whole front (in a war) / the whole length (of a road or railway line) | |
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| | world war | |
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| | danger spot / Jedi (in Star Wars) | |
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| | know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法) | |
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| | Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 7th July 1937, regarded as the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争 | |
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| | Holy war / jihad | |
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| | Hui-zi also known as Hui Shi 惠施 (c. 370-310 BC), politician and philosopher of the School of Logicians 名家 during the Warring States Period (475-220 BC) | |
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| | to lobby / to campaign / to promote (an idea, a product) / (old) to visit various rulers and promote one's political ideas (in the Warring States period) | |
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| | School of Minor-talks, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家 during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) | |
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| | the Opium Wars of 1840-1842 and 1860-1861 | |
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| | the School of the Military, one of the Hundred Schools of Thought 諸子百家|诸子百家 of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC) | |
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| | Mohist School of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), founded by the philosopher 墨子 | |
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| | Bonn, a small town on the Rhine, Cold War capital of West Germany 1949-1990 | |
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| | the state of Qin, one of the seven states of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC) | |
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| | prolonged war / war of attrition | |
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| | Charles De Gaulle (1890-1970), French general and politician, leader of the Free French during World War II and president of the Republic 1959-1969 | |
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| | "Strategies of the Warring States", chronicle of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), possibly written by Su Qin 蘇秦|苏秦 | |
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| | a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956 | |
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| | the time is right, geographical and social conditions are favorable (idiom); a good time to go to war | |
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| | tug-of-war / to take part in a tug-of-war | |
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| | World War One | |
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| | to sprout up; to flourish; (of war etc) to break out / rapid growth | |
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| | Jinguashi, town in Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, noted for its historic gold and copper mines, used as a prisoner-of-war camp by the Japanese (1942-1945) | |
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| | elite soldiers, ample provisions (idiom); well-prepared forces / preparations for war are in an advanced state | |
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| | anti-war | |
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| | hawk faction (opposite: 鴿派|鸽派, doves) / fierce and combative party / war party / warmongers | |
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| | the Warring States period (475-221 BC) / Japanese Warring States period (15th-17th century) | |
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| | Free China (Cold War era term for the Republic of China on Taiwan, as distinct from "Red China") | |
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| | prisoner of war | |
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| | School of Agriculture, school of thought of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) | |
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| | Korean War (1950-1953) | |
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| | Bernard Montgomery (Montie) (1887-1976), Second World War British field marshal / Montgomery or Montgomerie (surname) | |
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| | written war challenge | |
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| | to shoot accidentally while polishing a gun / (fig.) a minor incident that sparks a war | |
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| | to engage in wars of aggression at will (idiom) / militaristic / bellicose | |
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| | the Spring and Autumn (770-476 BC) and Warring States (475-221 BC) periods | |
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| | lit. to go to war (idiom) / fig. to make a big fuss over sth | |
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