Chiang Kai-shek wants to focus on eliminating the Commies. As he put it, the Japanese were only a “disease of the skin” while the Communists were a “disease of the heart” (a graver threat to China’s survival).
China - Revolution, 1911-12, Republic: The Chinese Revolution was triggered not by the United League itself but by the army troops in Hubei who were urged on by the local revolutionary bodies not incorporated in the league. The accidental exposure of a m
With the awakening of the People’s Republic of China to the global economy, the world has witnessed a gradual re-orientation of Chinese intellectual property policy towards a better protection of national and economic interests for the promotion of domestic innovation and development. Research object...
active from 1909-1914. The buildings still stand all these years later, and one of them is the home of this deceptively large venue. It looks like a small club from the outside, but inside has a standing capacity of 1800. For being in what is essentially a large open warehouse, the ...
years and hung on to customs reflecting its origins on the fringes of China, emphasising its distinctness from the majority of those it ruled. And replacing one dynasty by another was normal in China, justified in tradition by a transfer of the Mandate of Heaven from the loser to the winner...
Santo Domingo is the hub of a transport system that connects virtually all parts of the republic. The highway between the capital and the Cibao region is heavily traveled and in poor repair, but secondary roads are in adequate condition. Buses and a largefleetof private taxicabs provide tran...
In this chapter, the establishment of Vietnamese diaspora in the former Czechoslovakia under communist government supervision and the beginnings of the Vietnamese presence in the Czech criminal underworld are discussed. The ability of Vietnamese shadow b
made up of the eastern part of the island of Timor, a small coastal enclave in the western part, and two offshore islands. It was an overseas province of Portugal from 1914 until 1975 and was annexed by Indonesia in 1976. East Timor achieved independence in 2002. Dili is the capital. ...
The northeastern part of North Vietnam is part of the South China platform; the southwest is part of a Mesozoic fold system. The Precambrian foundation of the platform is com-posed of quartzite, shale, marble, and granitoid rocks; the cover is composed of Paleozoic sand-shale, Carbonaceous, ...
The islands of Kamaran, in the Red Sea, Perim, in the Bab al-Mandeb, and Socotra, in the Arabian Sea, are part of Yemen. Sana is the capital; the port of Aden is the country's commercial capital. Other important cities are Hodeida, Mukalla, Taiz, Ibb, and Abyan. Land and People...