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  • Mao launched his first terror campaign, called a zheng-feng in Chinese, [17] from 1942-44.

    Latest Articles 2009

  • Her instruments include various Asian long zither instruments including the Chinese 'zheng', Japanese 'koto' and Vietnamese 'dan tranh'.

    BC Bloggers Chinese in Vancouver 2010

  • The Chinese-language papers used the phrase yan shi zheng for the disorder.

    Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010

  • Yan means to loathe or to dislike, shi means eating, and zheng means disease or disorder.

    Crazy Like Us Ethan Watters 2010

  • Needless to say, any idiom -- be it that of the High Baroque or of mid-90's grunge rock or of the plucking of the classical zheng -- may be dismissed by emphasizing its sameness -- a sameness which is always ameliorated and modified by a more generous approach to the genre.

    The Long Goodbye Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Note 7: Yang Ying 楊英, Cong zheng shi lu 從征實錄, Taiwan wenxian congkan, no.

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

  • Note 40: Yang Ying 楊英, Cong zheng shi lu 從征實錄, Taiwan wenxian congkan, no.

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

  • When grain ships did not arrive, soldiers in Formosa were sometimes reduced to "eating tree bark to satisfy their hunger" (Yang Ying 楊英, Cong zheng shi lu, 191; Struve, Voices from the Ming-Ch'ing Cataclysm, 231). back

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

  • Zheng Chenggong yu Qing zheng fu jian de tan pan 鄭成功與清政府間的談判.

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

  • Note 17: Wu Zhenglong 吳正龍, Zheng Chenggong yu Qing zheng fu jian de tan pan 鄭成功與清政府間的談判 (Taipei: Wenjin Publishing 文津出版社, 2000), 182. back

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

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