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reform / CL: , 種|种, 項|项 / to reform
HSK 5
to reform and open to the outside world / refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around 1980
HSK 7-9
land reform
political reform
to withdraw the mandate of heaven (and transition to a new dynasty) (original meaning) / revolution / revolutionary / to revolt (against sb or sth) / to revolutionize (sth) / (separable verb sometimes used in the pattern noun的命) / CL:
HSK 7-9
October Revolution
artificial leather
to transform / to change
HSK 7-9
to discard the old and introduce the new (idiom); to innovate
to innovate / innovation
HSK 6
to be buried in a horse hide (idiom) / to give one's life on the battlefield
fellmonger / a dealer who works with animal hides and skins
(Protestant) Reformation
financial reform
Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
synthetic leather
reform of the writing system
Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty
French Revolution (1789)
historical development / background
democratic revolution / bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
reformer
the reformist party
to sack / to remove from a position / to depose
a revolutionary
leather / CL: 張|张
PRC National Development and Reform Commission
martyr to the revolution
to fire / to discharge
Second Revolution, campaign from 1913 of the provisional revolutionary government (under Sun Yat-sen and the Guomindang) against Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 and the Northern Warlords
dengue fever / Singapore hemorrhagic fever
National Revolutionary Army
Industrial Revolution, c. 1750-1830
Glorious Revolution (England, 1688)
lit. the body is the revolution's capital / fig. good health is a prerequisite for work (Mao Zedong's saying)
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animal hide / leather / to reform / to remove / to expel (from office)
evolution of sth over time / course of development / history
French Revolution (1789-1799)
counterrevolutionary
lit. to wash one's heart and renew one's face (idiom); to repent sincerely and mend one's mistaken ways / to turn over a new leaf
mixed ownership reform (strategy aimed at enhancing the efficiency and competitiveness of state-owned enterprises)
to eliminate / to expel / to abolish
Cultural Revolution (1966-76) (abbr. for 文化大革命)
dengue vaccine
economic reform
to dismiss / to lay off
bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
Ge'gyai county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Dge rgyas rdzong
reformer
Damascus, capital of Syria
(Maoism) New Democracy (aka New Democratic Revolution)
leather purse / fig. human body
dressed in Western-style clothes / impeccably attired
Mr Gram / Dr. Hans Christian Jaochim Gram (1953-1938), Danish doctor and inventor of the Gram stain 革蘭氏染色法|革兰氏染色法
counterrevolutionary coup of 12th April 1927, Chiang Kai-shek's coup against the communists in Shanghai
revolutionary
Gram-positive (bacteria)
Geiger counter
change management (business)
leather (shoes) / fig. Western dress
dengue fever
Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries (PRC political campaign from 1950-1952), abbr. to 鎮反運動|镇反运动
Yongzhen Reform, Tang dynasty failed reform movement of 805 led by Wang Shuwen 王叔文
to excommunicate (from a church)
lit. to renew one's face and wash one's heart (idiom); to repent sincerely and mend one's mistaken ways / to turn over a new leaf
Gram-positive (bacteria)
Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Shijingshan District, Beijing
martyr of the revolution
Gram negative (bacteria that do not retain Gram stain, often the more dangerous kind)
the crime of instigating counterrevolutionary propaganda
the Tang and Wu Revolts: the overthrow (c. 1600 BC) of the Xia Dynasty by the first king, Tang 商湯|商汤, of the Shang Dynasty, and the overthrow (c. 1046 BC) of the Shang Dynasty by the Zhou Dynasty founder, King Wu 周武王
dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF)
leather goods
Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang
old democratic revolution / bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
to dismiss from a post
PRC National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), formed in 2003
dengue virus
Gram stain (used to distinguished two different kinds of bacteria)
change of dynasties / clear out the old, bring in the new
damson (fruit)
to expel / to kick out
to excommunicate (from a Buddhist monastery)
Ge'gyai county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Dge rgyas rdzong


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