- to buy votes (in an election)
- hard fighting; fierce battle
- factional strife; partisan infighting
- inferior quality; substandard; low-grade
- autocracy; dictatorship
- to lump together; to treat along with all the others
- mutually related karma (idiom); fates are intertwined; interdependent
- experiment; test; CL:次[ci4],個|个[ge4]; to experiment; experimental
- to receive; to accept; to carry on
- monarchy; sovereign state
- low status; lowly; to lower (one's head)
- ancient Rome
- famous family; prestigious house
- 董 dǒng: 董 dong3: to supervise; to direct; director董 Dǒng: 董 Dong3: surname Dong
- name and reality; how sth is portrayed and what it is actually like
- to purchase; to buy; to bribe; to buy off
- Zhang Shizhao (1881-1973), revolutionary journalist in Shanghai, then established writer
- abbr. for 泰山北斗[Tai4 shan1 Bei3 dou3]
- (bound form) hinge; pivot (usu. fig.)
- to promote (an idea or cause); to advance; boost
- middle level (in a hierarchy)
- great person of the past; venerable forebear; the great and the good
- derogatory sense; negative connotation
- voter; constituency; electorate
- to pick out; to select; to elect
- Dounan or Tounan town in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县[Yun2 lin2 xian4], Taiwan
- reversible; (math.) invertible
- sage
- prominent and worthy personage
- Jacobin club, French revolutionary party that played a leading role in the reign of terror 1791-1794