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  • Mingtaizong Shilu thought highly of him, stating that Yang's ability was not matched by his contemporaries (qicai yishi wuliang) .235 Yan Qing, a jinshi of 1544, served as minister of justice, of civil office, and of defense. 236 Probably the most heroic was Fu Zonglong, a jinshi of 1610, who was a trusted military commander during the Chongzhen reign (1628 – 1644), the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

    Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

  • In 1993 Lee Teng-hui began to promote the idea of Taiwan as a "living community" (shengming gongtongti) and the idea of communal sentiment (gongtongti yishi).

    Archive 2008-12-01 Michael Turton 2008

  • For example, some scholars argued that the psychological make-up criterion was identical to ethnic features (minzu tezheng), ethnic consciousness (minzu yishi), and ethnic sentiment (minzu ganqing); some argued that it was more than the above three qualities; others insisted instead that equating psychological make-up to ethnic features, consciousness, and sentiment made no sense. 68 The efforts to add or incorporate ethnic consciousness to Stalin's definition were best revealed in Fei Xiaotong's address in 1978.69 Fei, trained in London, was the first to realize that Stalin's definition ignored ethnic consciousness.

    Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

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