Plekhanov, the revolutionary mentor who had thrown in his lot with the Mensheviks, mocked the Bolsheviks for being unwilling to abandon their stance, calling them “obdurate rocks.” Lenin happily wore that intended insult as a badge of honor. One young Bolshevik took as his revolutionary alias...
What was the first dynasty of Imperial China? Who was the first Chinese ruler? Who reunited the Three Kingdoms of China? Who was the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty? Who was the first emperor of the Shang Dynasty? Who took over China after Qin Shi Huangdi?
Who started the Zhou Dynasty? Who took over China after Qin Shi Huangdi? Who unified China after the Warring States Period? Who imperialized China? Who was the first Ming emperor of China? Who was the first president of China? What ended the long history of ruling dynasties in China?
Dutch, Germans, Spanish, Portuguese or any other Western nation that had its turn at being a superpower in the past four centuries, China doesn’t need to run anybody over or take something from somebody else, to rise majestically.
Farmers must use natural methods to make plants grow strong, protect them from insects (昆虫) and remove weeds (杂草) in the land. Fertilizers (肥料) are chemicals that makes plants grow better. If a farmer grows the same plant ov...
The modern erhu developed from the xiqin, which was played by many ethnic minorities (少数民族) during the Tang Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, musicians began to use the erhu to perform different kinds of music, and it became quite a popular instrument. With the rise of some forms of folk...
She took their song ‘Cover of the Rolling Stone’ to huge hit radio success… and the actual cover of the magazine.” Cowan wrote about these days in an in-house bio she put together about her career some years back. “One night at the Troubadour, hanging out with some other PR ...
It was a life that took him from peanut farming to the presidency. While former President Jimmy Carter ’s time in the White House only lasted one term, the decades afterward were defined by humanitarian work that affected people all around the world.
over 1,000 years. There had been spells of fabulous prosperity as late at the 19th century, when its merchants and bankers managed the financial life of the last dynasty, the Qing. But by the 1930s, it had drifted into impoverished oblivion—and poverty, as the axiom ...
The Jurchen Jin Dynasty, also known as the Jin Dynasty, ruled parts of China, Mongolia, and northern Korea from 1115 to 1234 CE. The people from this dynasty originated from Manchuria, and they later conquered the Liao empire and the Northern Song Dynasty....