- to be defeated; to lose; to fail (e.g. experiments); failure; defeat; CL:次[ci4]
- Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- part; portion; piece; Taiwan pr. [bu4fen4]
- and; as well as
- treaty port, forced on Qing China by the 19th century Great Powers
- to transfer; to hand over
- the West; the Occident; Western countries
- colony; colonial
- power; influence; a force (military, political etc)
- field; region; area; domain (taxonomy)
- wide expanse; large area; vast stretch; extending widely; blockbuster movie
- paddy field; rice paddy
- to transform; to reform; to remodel; to remold
- to belong or be dedicated exclusively to; proprietary; private; personal
- to establish; to set up; to found
- since then; henceforth
- to marginalize; marginalization
- community; colony
- to arrive; to come
- to seek; to look for
- to bless; to protect; protection (esp. divine)
- lit. by the thousands and tens of thousands (idiom); fig. untold numbers; innumerable; countless
- to run out; to escape
- Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (1851-1864)
- uprising; insurrection; revolt
- ordinary people; the "person in the street"; CL:個|个[ge4]
- to offer; to supply; to provide; to furnish
- habitation; dwelling place; residence; CL:處|处[chu4]
- after this; afterwards; hereafter
- theater
- cinema; movie theater; CL:家[jia1],座[zuo4]
- dance hall; ballroom; CL:間|间[jian1]
- to disdain to do sth; to think sth not worth doing; to feel it beneath one's dignity
- location; place
- to shelter; to protect; to provide refuge; (law) asylum
- (idiom) flourishing; thriving
- church; chapel; CL:座[zuo4],所[suo3],間|间[jian1]
- temple; monastery; shrine
- mosque
- one by one; one after another
- to complete a construction project
- to take over; to assume control
- regime; political power
- foreign country
- to invade; invasion
- to humiliate; humiliating