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121. Li Zicheng, the Peasant Emperor
ACROSS the pages of history rides a heroic figure clad in a felt peasant hat and a jacket of plain black cloth. He is Li Zicheng, leader of a great peasant army, who momentarily captured Beijing and
Author: WEI TANG Year 1985 Issue 9 PDF HTML
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122. Koxinga Drives the Dutch from Taiwan
ZHENG CHENGGONG (1624-1662) known in the West as Koxinga, for freeing Taiwan from the Dutch colonialists, lives in both history and legend.In the 16th century European colonialists, beginning their
Author: WEI TANG Year 1985 Issue 10 PDF HTML
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123. Emperor Kang Xi Defeats Aobai
KANG XI (1654-1722), second Qing dynasty emperor, is considered a brilliant statesman who made significant contributions to developing China as a unified multinational country. He ascended the throne
Author: WEI TANG Year 1985 Issue 11 PDF HTML
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124. Who Killed Yong Zheng?
THE REASON for the sudden death of the third Qing dynasty emperor, Yong Zheng (r. 1723-35), has remained a mystery down to this day.The way it is told in the book Tales of the Qing Court is that one
Author: WEI TANG Year 1985 Issue 12 PDF HTML
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125. Great Novelist's Mystery Life
THE NOVEL A Dream of Red Mansions by Cao Xueqin is one of China's most outstanding classics. Extremely popular among the Chinese people, it has been adapted into various forms of opera. The names of
Author: WEI TANG Year 1986 Issue 1 PDF HTML
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126. Lin Zexu's Struggle Against the Opium Trade
THE Chinese official Lin Zexu (1785-1850) is hailed as a hero for attempting to drive the opium trade out of China. In the 18th century Britain's increasing purchases of goods from China were
Author: WEI MING Year 1986 Issue 2 PDF HTML
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127. The Empress Dowager: Reign Behind a Curtain
THE WOMAN who was virtually to rule China for most of 47 years had come to the palace as a candidate for imperial concubine. Born Yehonala (Orchid) to an impoverished Manchu family, the beautiful
Author: WEI MING Year 1986 Issue 4 PDF HTML
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128. Tan Sitong: He Died for the 1898 Reform
WITH JAPAN'S seizure of parts of China following the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-5 (see this column, May issue), earlier calls for reform by intellectuals representing a fledgling capitalist class
Author: WEI MING Year 1986 Issue 6 PDF HTML
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129. The 'Boxer' Uprising of 1900
THE "BOXERS" for whom the Boxer Uprising of 1900 is named had existed for a century - as one of the many peasant secret societies that opposed the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) - under the name Yi He
Author: WEI MING Year 1986 Issue 7 PDF HTML
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130. Qiu Jin: Revolutionary 'Outlaw'
QIU JIN was a rebel from early childhood. When her parents wanted to bind her feet, as was considered desirable for a girl-child born in Fujian province's Xiamen (Amoy) in 1875, she refused. Her
Author: WEI MING Year 1986 Issue 8 PDF HTML