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Zhang Yimou
Zhang Yimou Perhaps the most critically acclaimed filmmaker to emerge from mainland China in modern times, Zhang Yimou (born 1950) came to critical attention in the 1990s for his tense films that seemed indirectly to subvert the centralized power of China's Communist government. Several of... Read more |
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Ganzhou
Ganzhou, Jiangxi/China Nankang, Ganxian Settled as a county c.200 bc, it was renamed Nankang county in 600 and Ganxiang ‘Gan county’ in 608. The city lies at the confluence of the Zhang and Gong Rivers so the place was named Gan. The character is composed of two parts: the... Read more |
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Gang of Four
Gang of Four term of opprobrium given by the Chinese Communist authorities to four persons held responsible for the excesses of the Cultural Revolution (1966-69). They were also accused of trying to seize power after the deaths (1976) of Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai . The most notable of the Gang... Read more |
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Chang Hsueh-liang
Chang Hsüeh-liang or Zhang Xueliang , 1898-2001, Chinese warlord , son of Chang Tso-lin . On the death (1928) of his father, he succeeded as military governor of Manchuria. He was then known as Chang Hsiao-liang but later changed his name. Chang supported Chiang Kai-shek against a... Read more |
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Obituary: Zhang Xueliang
...conquer the country 13 years later. Zhang Xueliang, who died in Honolulu on...was the son of the powerful warlord Zhang Zuolin, who controlled the three northern...syringes in a briefcase. The younger Zhang proved a surprisingly brisk ruler... |
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General Zhang's residence opens
...who is the legal owner of the mansion," said Zhang Li, director of the museum. Zhang Xueliang, was the most powerful man in Northeast China after his father Zhang Zuolin was assassinated on June 4, 1928 by the Japanese... |
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Former Residence of General Zhang Xueliang to be Renovated
...domestic and foreign visitors so far. Zhang Xueliang was well known as "the...he is the son of "Old Marshal" Zhang Zuolin, the war lord of Northeast China...Kwantung Army bomb plot in 1928. Zhang Xueliang and General Yang Hucheng... |
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99th Birthday Celebration For Zhang Xueliang
...under the Kuomintang government. Zhang was known as the "Young Marshal...the son of the "Old Marshal" Zhang Zuolin, a warlord in northeastern China...Kwantung Army bomb in 1928.The younger Zhang and General Yang Hucheng arrested... |
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The last warlord: Rana Mitter recalls the career of a man who once ruled an...
...born in 1901, but it was his father, Zhang Zuolin, who came to prominence first. The older Zhang was in some ways the Westerner's stereotypical...mountainous countryside of Manchuria. Zhang Zuolin took advantage of the chaos that struck... |
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Handian li de renjiguanxi yu zhengzhi--Du Hafo-Yanjing Tushuguan cang "Hu...
...Chen also reveals Hu's particular ties with Zhang Xueliang, son of the warlord Zhang Zuolin in northeastern China. For pragmatic reasons...own anti-Chiang aims. It was this same Zhang Zuolin who later arrested Chiang Kai-shek in the... |
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Historians Commemorate General Chang Hsueh-liang
...by feudal warlords, according to Professor Zhang Deliang, chairman of the China Zhang Xueliang Research Institute. Chang (1898...nickname "Young Marshal" and was the son of Zhang Zuolin who was once known as the "King of Northeast... |
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City needs to protect old and new
...left by Japanese invaders," said Zhang. "They are invaluable assets for...protecting cultural relics," said Zhang Ying, vice-director of the Culture...residence of modern famous people such as Zhang Zuolin and modern history museums. The... |
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China's Minority Cultures: Identities and Integration since 1912
...longest conceived by the Tibetans about Prince Ge sar), the Ghada Men that dealt with the uprising against the warlord Zhang Zuolin, the famous Manchu writer Lao She, and Shen Congwen of Tujia and Miao ancestry. While some may seek to find fault... |
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James Reardon-Anderson. Reluctant Pioneers: China's Expansion Northward,...
...Chinese politics were also critical to the development of Manchuria. The warlord of Manchuria for the early Republic, Zhang Zuolin, was a prodigious figure, whose own development projects and huge armies employed hundreds of thousands of people... |
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