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- noun A nickname for
China . - noun
Egypt in the 12th and 13th dynasties.
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Examples
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The Tang Dynasty became known as the Middle Kingdom for it drew its wealth from surrounding states.
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Everything in the Middle Kingdom is a means to end.
Tom Doctoroff: Managing China: Stimulating Creativity in a Sea of Convention Tom Doctoroff 2010
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Everything in the Middle Kingdom is a means to end.
Tom Doctoroff: Managing China: Stimulating Creativity in a Sea of Convention Tom Doctoroff 2010
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The Middle Kingdom is a country replete with Han-style Horatio Alger tales of scholar-nobles nee peasants.
Tom Doctoroff: Chinese Obamaphilia? Today, No. Tomorrow, Perhaps. 2008
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During the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), China's trading routes stretched along the Silk Road to Constantinople, and the Middle Kingdom was a famous source of silks, Buddhist teachings and innovations in printing and cartography.
Quest for Gold 2008
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I could not acknowledge to the Chinese that any Chinaman travelling in the Middle Kingdom was my equal, let alone my superior.
AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895
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Every one outside the bounds of the Middle Kingdom is a barbarian.
The Days Before Yesterday Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892
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Inasmuch as, owing to the fact that Americans now manufacture more than they consume, they are compelled to embark on a foreign policy and to look increasingly to foreign markets, they cannot but feel that the future of the Middle Kingdom is a matter of vital importance to themselves.
China Demetrius Charles Boulger 1890
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Land Tenure -- Origin of the term "Middle Kingdom" -- Duke Chou and
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In looking for opportunities in the so-called Middle Kingdom, the players are not much different than others turning to China for job prospects.
unknown title 2011
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