End of Tang Empire The end of the Tang Dynasty started during Emperor Xizong's reign when the notable Huang Chao Uprising broke out. If the late period of the Tang Dynasty was compared to a severely sick man, then the Huang Chao Uprising was like a sharp sword which stabbed into the ma...
NonfictionGeographyHistoryCultural relationsMackerras reviews Borders of Chinese Civilization: Geography and History at Empire's End by D. R. Howland.doi:10.1080/03612759.1997.9952843ReynoldsE. BruceTaylor & Francis GroupPacific Affairs
With the shift to the British Empire’s attempted “bail-in” policy, a process of uncontrolled implosion of financial aggregates has been unleashed — like the free-fall of an elevator from the 70th floor of a building. And Wall Street and the City of London are so bankrupt and so ...
The concepts of postmodernism clashed with another emerging current within Cold War culture, that of postcolonial literature and theory. Driven ahead by writers and activists from the global peripheries, postcolonialism is a set of politicised debates about the effects of empire on subject peoples, the...
junk- any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails lugger- small fishing boat rigged with one or more lugsails 3.lug- a projecting piece that is used to lift or support or turn something lug wrench- a wrench with jaws that have projecting lugs to engage the object that ...
When it became known in China in April 1919 that the negotiations over the Treaty of Versailles(凡尔赛条约)would not ___ China’s claims, it gave rise to a movement that might be considered even more revolutionary than the one that ended the Empire. In the course of this May Fourth Movem...
China, meanwhile, will bear the brunt of Trump’s new American empire. The US will no longer rely on alliances to contain Beijing but will use direct economic and military pressure. While this may make life more difficult for China, it does not necessarily mean the US will succeed. China ...
Before entering the customs, Huang Taiji selected talents through examinations. After establishing the capital in Beijing, the Qing court issued a decree to follow the Ming system of selecting scholars through the imperial examination and continuously ma
讲述过去发生的事情用一般过去时,且主语the Chinese empire为第三人称单数,与动词divide之间是被动关系,故填was divided。 (3)题详解: 考查非谓语动词。逻辑主语是This masterpiece of the Ming Dynasty,与动词remain之间是主动关系,故用动词-ing形式短语作伴随状语。 (4)题详解: 考查定语从句关系代词。分析句子...
2. Silver Begins Its Fall: The Global Circulations of the U.S. Trade Dollar, 1873–1887 3. Provincial Silver Coins and the Fragmenting Chinese Monetary System, 1887–1900 4. The Gold-Exchange Standard and Imperial Competition in China, 1901–1905 ...