- the Great Powers (history)
- to partition; to divide up
- Empress Dowager Cixi or Ts'u Hsi (reigned 1861-1908)
- reign name of penultimate Qing emperor Guangxu or Guang-hsu (1875-1908)
- to think of; to long for; to miss
- Eight-Nation Alliance, involved in a military intervention in northern China in 1900
- to run away; to go into exile
- Rehe, Qing dynasty province abolished in 1955 and divided among Hebei, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia; refers to the Qing imperial resort at Chengde; see also 避暑山莊|避暑山庄[bi4 shu3 shan1 zhuang1] (history)
- to pursue deer; fig. to vie for supremacy
- (bound form) lion
- each country; every country; various countries
- code name
- to go to bed; to retire for the night
- foreign country
- 识 shí: 识 shi2: to know; knowledge; Taiwan pr. [shi4]识 zhì: 识 zhi4: to record; to write a footnote
- see 黃龍縣|黄龙县[Huang2 long2 Xian4]
- 丧 sàng: 丧 sang4: to lose sth abstract but important (courage, authority, one's life etc); to be bereaved of (one's spouse etc); to die; disappointed; discouraged丧 sāng: 丧 sang1: mourning; funeral; (old) corpse
- see 赤城縣|赤城县[Chi4 cheng2 Xian4]
- Yingtai, artificial island in Zhongnanhai 中南海[Zhong1 nan2 hai3], now serves as the site to host national banquets and receptions
- Dr Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925), first president of the Republic of China and co-founder of the Guomintang 國民黨|国民党; same as 孫逸仙|孙逸仙
- at the same time; simultaneously
- Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty
- to buy up (grain)
- to trip; to stumble; to hinder
- 申 Shēn: 申 Shen1: old name for Shanghai 上海[Shang4 hai3]; surname Shen申 shēn: 申 shen1: to extend; to state; to explain; 9th earthly branch: 3-5 p.m., 7th solar month (7th August-7th September), year of the Monkey; ancient Chinese compass point: 240°
- native; aborigine; clay figure
- Yuan Shikai (1859-1916), senior general of late Qing, subsequently warlord and self-proclaimed emperor of China
- temporary law; provisional constitution
- to be defeated and dispersed
- steel knife; sword
- to give up; to abandon (a goal etc); to let sth go; forget it; let the matter drop
- sound of gunfire; fig. news of momentous events
- Republic of China