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Lin Biao
Lin Biao or Lin Piao , 1908-71, Chinese Communist general and political leader. Lin was trained at Whampoa Academy, and during the Northern Expedition he rose to company commander in the Kuomintang army. After the Kuomintang-Communist split in 1927, he became one of Zhu De 's leading milita...
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Maya Ying Lin
Maya Ying Lin , 1959-, American architect and sculptor, b. Athens, Ohio. From an artistically distinguished Chinese family that immigrated to the United States in the 1940s, Lin was catapulted to prominence while a Yale undergraduate when her magisterially simple design for the Vietnam Veterans Mem...
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Chang Tso-lin
Chang Tso-lin , 1873-1928, Chinese general. Chang was of humble birth. As the leader of a unit of Manchurian militia he assisted (1904-5) the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese War. He held various military posts under the Chinese republic. From his appointment (1918) as inspector general of Manchuria u...
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Vietnam Veterans Memorial war memorial in Washington, D.C., built 1982. Designed by the American sculptor and architect Maya Ying Lin, it is a sloping, V-shaped, 493-ft (150-m) wall of highly polished black granite that descends 10 feet (3.05 meters) below grade level at its vertex. Often called si...
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adrenaline
adrenaline (epinephrine) (ă-dren-ă-lin) n. an important hormone secreted by the medulla of the adrenal gland. It has widespread effects on circulation, the muscles, and sugar metabolism. The action of the heart is increased, the rate and depth of breathing are increased, and the metabol...
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Guilin
Guilin or Kweilin , city (1994 est. pop. 707,200), N Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, S China, on the Li River. It is a transportation center, with connections by rail, river, and road. Paper products, textiles, chemicals, and agricultural equipment are manufactured in the city, and minerals su...
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Li Dazhao
Li Dazhao , 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 Fourth Movement (1919), he organized several Ma...
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Ma Yüan
Ma Yüan , fl. c.1190-1225, Chinese painter of the Sung dynasty and foremost of the Ma family of painters. He became one of the most important landscape painters of the 12th and 13th cent., the other being Hsia Kuei . He was known for his "one-cornered" compositions, in which dramatic effec...
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Peng Dehuai
Peng Dehuai or P'eng Teh-huai , 1898-1974, Communist Chinese general and political leader. He held various command positions in the Red Army, and in 1934-35 he joined with Mao Zedong and Zhu De in the long march . He became well known as the originator, with Mao, of the tactics of guerrilla...
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Owen Wister
Owen Wister , 1860-1938, American author, b. Philadelphia, grad. Harvard (B.A., 1882; LL.B., 1888). Trips to the West for his health gave him material for his short stories and for his greatest success, The Virginian (1902), a novel about Wyoming cowhands. He wrote several biographies, including o...
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