Dale Earnhardt
Dale Earnhardt (Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Sr.) , 1951-2001, American auto racing driver widely regarded as stock car racing's greatest star, b. Kannapolis, N.C. The 1979 National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) Rookie of the Year, he became, initially in rivalry with Richard Petty , one of the dominant U.S. drivers. Earnhardt won seven Winston Cup (NASCAR) championships and a total of 76 races. "The Intimidator" was especially successful at the Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway, but did not win his first Daytona 500 until 1998. Also nicknamed "Ironhead," Earnhardt died in a crash on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona race. His son, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., 1974-, is also a race-car driver, and won his first Daytona 500 in 2004.
Bibliography: See biography by L. Montville (2001).
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Backgrounder: Leaders of all CPC central committees
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 10/14/2007; 700+ words
; ...China (CPC) are as follows: -- Chen Duxiu, secretary of the CPC Central Bureau...National Congress in July 1921. -- Chen Duxiu, chairman of the CPC Central Executive...National Congress in July 1922. -- Chen Duxiu, chairman of the CPC Central Executive...
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Qu Qiubai: Superfluous Words
Magazine article from: The China Journal; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Party. Qu became the successor of general secretary Chen Duxiu in summer 1927, and lost his job in 1928 when the Communist...21st century. However, tbis book and biographies of Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao and many Trotskyites show that the early...
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The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895-1919
Magazine article from: The China Journal; 7/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...dedicated revolutionaries, including Liu Shipei and Chen Duxiu, still viewed classical styles as the only legitimate...Leading cultural reformers, such as Cai Yuanpei and Chen Duxiu, came to support a literary revolution only when they...
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Chinese government buys auctioned letters of CPC founder
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 6/9/2009; 637 words
; ...more than ten letters handwritten by Chen Duxiu, a Communist Party of China (CPC...understood the SACH's decision." Both Chen and Hu were key figures in the New...Xinchao, a senior SACH official, said Chen's letters were addressed not only...
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Thomas Frohlich. Staatsdenken in China der Republikzeit (1912-1949): Die Instrumentalisierung philosophischer Ideen bei chinesischen Intellektuellen.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: China Review International; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...1969), Hu Shi (1891-1962), and Chen Duxiu (1879-1942). The backgrounds...addition, Ding, Zhang, Hu, and Chen proposed, according to Frohlich...the ideas of Ding, Zhang, Hu, and Chen, although the germination of their...
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Reading Christian Scriptures in China
Magazine article from: The China Journal; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...theology and history. Three scholars, Chen Jian-ming, Tian Haihua and Zha...principles at play. As one example, in Chen's "Modern Chinese Attitudes towards...Spence's memorable phrase) and Chen Duxiu, a founder of the Chinese Communist...
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LITERATURE-CHINA: TO MOVE FORWARD, A LOOK BACK AT THE CLASSICS
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 12/29/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...patterns. To the likes of Hu Shih (1891-1962) and Chen Duxiu (1880-1942), it was too confining a medium for a country...period's intelligentsia also launched attacks on Hu, Chen and other advocates of baihua literature. Lin Shu (1852...
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China and Albert Einstein: The Reception of the Physicist and His Theory in China, 1917-1979
Magazine article from: The China Journal; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...impose economic sanctions on Japan, hi October 1932, Chen Duxiu, the former dean of the College of Humanities of Beijing...telegraphed Chinese military authorities and asked for Chen's release. That was the first time that Chinese scholars...
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Joining the revolution
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 9/26/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...art in China was closely linked to politics. In 1917 Chen Duxiu, one of the co-founders of the Chinese Communist party...in. When Mao launched his Cultural Revolution in 1966, Chen's earlier message was heavily enforced as the Red Guards...
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A Bitter Revolution: China's Struggle with the Modern World.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History Today; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Fourth as the linking theme in a study of modern China. He argues that other paths than Communism were possible in 1919. Chen Duxiu, founder of the Communist Party, was a luminary of May Fourth and editor of its groundbreaking journal New Youth...
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Chen Duxiu
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Chen Duxiu ( Chen Tu-hsiu ) (b. 8 Oct. 1879, d. 27 May 1942). Chinese Communist leader Born at An-ch'ing (Anhwei Province) of wealthy parents, he sat the civil service (chü-jen) examination before going to Japan to further...
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Hu Shih
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...evolutionary change. While professor of philosophy at Beijing Univ., he wrote for the iconoclastic journal New Youth (see Chen Duxiu ). His most important contribution was promotion of vernacular literature to replace writing in the classical style...
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Communist Party, Chinese
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Communist Party, Chinese ( CCP ) Founded in Shanghai on 1 July 1921 by Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu , it was a response partly to international developments, most notably the Bolshevik Russian Revolution of 1917, and partly to...
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Li Dazhao
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1888-1927, professor of history and librarian at Beijing Univ., cofounder of the Chinese Communist party with Chen Duxiu . He was the first important Chinese intellectual to support the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. A leader in the May...
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Communist party
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...most important Communist party in the world since the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. Origins Founded in 1921 by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao , professors at Beijing Univ., the early party was under strong Comintern influence. The Chinese Communist...
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