- to concede; to admit defeat
- to concede; to admit defeat; to admit sth is wrong after insisting it is right
- Huaihai Campaign (Nov 1948-Jan 1949), one of the three major campaigns by the People's Liberation Army near the end of the Chinese Civil War, considered the determining battle of the war
- October; tenth month (of the lunar year)
- see 東莞市|东莞市[Dong1 guan3 Shi4]
- rural area; village; CL:個|个[ge4]
- field; farm; farming area; village
- to carry on as before; to follow (an old custom etc)
- to decorate; to adorn; to dress up; to disguise oneself
- leading figure; bigwig
- dogskin plaster, used in TCM for treating contusions, rheumatism etc; quack medicine; sham goods
- Huang Chao (-884), leader of peasant uprising 875-884 in late Tang
- uprising; insurrection; revolt
- foreign aggression
- to destroy a country; to wipe a nation off the map
- root of the trouble; cause of the ruin
- reactionaries
- to resist foreign aggression
- 吗 mǎ: 吗 ma3: used in 嗎啡|吗啡[ma3 fei1]吗 ma: 吗 ma5: (question particle for "yes-no" questions)吗 má: 吗 ma2: (coll.) what?
- to flatter; to laud sb's accomplishments; adulation
- to cut up; to break up
- sinister plot; dirty trick; cheap trick
- orderly; neat; even; tidy
- urgent; hurried and brief; rushing
- large scale program of lasting importance; project of paramount importance; to think big; annual national audit
- the beginning of Spring; the 10 or 20 days following the lunar New Year's Day
- modern history
- impressive; stylish; magnificent; imposing manner; dignified air
- atomic bomb; A-bomb
- automatic; voluntarily
- to forfeit (future profit, one's life etc); ruined
- to disband; to dismiss; demobilization
- objection; dissent
- to implement; to carry out
- extreme
- to fail to accomplish; unsuccessful (attempt); abortive (coup d'état); attempted (murder, suicide); unfulfilled (wish)
- museum
- almost; nearly
- to manipulate from behind the scenes; to pull the strings