Word: manchu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...OWNS TAIWAN? Almost any case could be argued from the island's varied history. Taiwan reluctantly became a prefecture of China's Fukien province under the Manchu dynasty in 1684; 15 major rebellions occurred there over the next 200 years. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, China ceded the island to Japan over the protests of the Taiwanese, who declared independence in a vain attempt to shake off foreign rule. At the end of World War II, the Japanese forces on Taiwan were directed to surrender to the Chinese. As recently as 1947, the Taiwanese again rebelled...
...possible. Harvard Sinologist John Fairbank suggests that the two governments might one day agree simultaneously to recognize Peking's "sovereignty" over the island and Taipei's "autonomy"-a device the British employed to engineer continued Chinese sovereignty over separatist Mongolia and Tibet after the fall of the Manchu empire...
...warm-up for the real purpose of the visit: the meeting with Chou Enlai next day in the huge, red-carpeted reception room of the Great Hall of the People. The day started out with a visit to the Summer Palace, the 19th century pleasure pavilion of the Manchu Emperors, and a tour of the Great Hall itself, which, one of the group remarked, resembles New York's Metropolitan Museum...
Freedom of Expression. The New York Jets' Joe Namath was once instantly recognizable with his fancy white cleats, long hair and Fu Manchu mustache. But now Joe is being upstaged by a whole host of players with twinkle-toe shoes and pageboy locks. Defensive End Tommy Hart, who started a run on white cleats among the San Francisco 49ers, says gleefully: "We're psychedelic, man!" The Chicago Cubs' Joe Pepitone, who favors lavender suede sashes and see-through paisley shirts off duty, gets his kicks on the field by wearing a fluffy hairpiece. In the National Basketball...
STILL, even as Leninism was being uprooted and destroyed in Russia, it was moving toward a new, foreign land. As Lenin lay on his deathbed in 1924, his philosophy had already stolen out of Moscow and crossed the Sinkiang Mountains to the old Manchu empire. Those who seized upon Lininism in China were impelled to adapt it to an unfamiliar environment of rural and backward peasants and imbue it with new organizational impulse if it was to succeed. And yet, as Mao wrote in 1930, those who became Leninists viewed the revolution as something only barely beyond their grasp...