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Matsu Matsu
Matsu or Ma-tsu , Taiwanese island, in the East China Sea, off Fujian prov., China, E of Fuzhou, and c.100 mi (160 km) from Taiwan. Along with Quemoy , it remained a Chinese Nationalist outpost after the Communist victory on the mainland in 1949. The People's Republic of China began bombarding... Read more
Claire Lee Chennault Claire Lee Chennault
Claire Lee Chennault , 1890-1958, American general, b. Commerce, Tex. In World War I he was a pioneer in air pursuit tactics. Retired (1937) from the army, he went to China and organized air defenses for Chiang Kai-shek . He formed there (1941) the American Volunteer Group (known as the Flying... Read more
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Quemoy , Chin. Chinmen, Kinmen, or Jinmen, Taiwanese island group (1990 pop. 81,479), Taiwan Strait, just off Fujian prov., China, and c.150 mi (240 km) W of Taiwan. The group consists of the islands of Chinmen and Little Chinmen and 12 islets in the mouth of Xiamen Bay. The town of Chinmen,... Read more
Lee Teng-hui Lee Teng-hui
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American Volunteer Group (AVG). Known as the ‘Flying Tigers’, because of the bared fangs painted on the noses of their fighters, this formation was the brainchild of Captain Chennault, a retired US Army Air Corps officer who was an adviser to the Chinese government and a colonel in... Read more
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China Relief Expedition (1900).In summer 1900, a multinational expeditionary force including U.S. troops under overall British command arrived in northern China to suppress the Nationalist, antiforeign Boxer Rebellion and break the siege of the foreign Legation Quarter, Peking (now Beijing).In May... Read more
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China For the fighting in China, see Chiang Kai-Shek, China–Burma–India theatre, and China incident.1. IntroductionThe China incident, or Sino-Japanese war, which began with a minor skirmish at the Marco Polo Bridge near Peking on 7 July 1937, was the true beginning of the Second... Read more
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