Who lead Japan during the Axis Powers? What did the Second Sino-Japanese War symbolize? What territory did Japan gain after the Sino-Japanese War? Who used the gunboat diplomacy in Japan? Who led the Nationalist Forces during the Chinese Communist Revolution?
Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. He was also one of the highest profile philanthropists of his era; his 1889 article "Wealth" (known more commonly - particularly in colloquial parlance - as "The Gospel of ...
In September, during an inspection of the village of Gaoxigou in northwestern Shaanxi Province, Xi stopped by farmlands to check the crops and chat with villagers working in the fields. Xi hailed the achievements of local poverty alleviation. Gaoxigou was once an impoverished village; today it i...
Anyway, there was actually no change happening. To the extent there had been change, with a great courting of female readers and writer, that was in the seventies with wholesale traipsing into fantasy. By the eighties the process was almost complete. By the time I broke in, in the late ...
Just as Sun Yat-sen never expected to see the birth of a Red regime in China, nor did Stalin believe the Chinese Communists could one day seize power. His hopes for the Chinese revolution rested with the KMT and Chiang Kai-shek. Stalin favored Chiang because he was convinced that Chiang ...
For years, Hong Kong was ranked number one by both the Fraser Institute and the Heritage Foundation, but after the Chinese communists clamped down on Hong Kong, it became part of China, now ranked second in terms of economic freedom.
”After reading an anti-communist proclamation demanding an independent Hungary, students stormed the radio building near the Hungarian Parliament, prompting police to open fire. The violence killed one student and marked the first bloodshed in the revolution that ultimately toppled the Soviet gover...
And her celebrity led to even more film and TV appearances playing herself, including a memorable cameo in the 1991 film “The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear,” parodying her real-life slap of a traffic cop.Craig Sager Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Sports broadcaster Craig Sager (...
"Everything we Chinese communists do is to better the lives of the Chinese people, renew the Chinese nation, and promote peace and development for humanity," Xi said. Altay Atli, a scholar based in Istanbul, Turkey, noted that there is a transformation of China's participation in internationa...
And her celebrity led to even more film and TV appearances playing herself, including a memorable cameo in the 1991 film “The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear,” parodying her real-life slap of a traffic cop.Craig Sager Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Sports broadcaster Craig Sager (...