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to move / to exercise / sports / exercise / motion / movement / campaign / CL: 場|场
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the New Culture Movement (mid-1910s and 1920s), intellectual revolution against Confucianism aiming to introduce Western elements, especially democracy and science
sports; athletic activities
May Fourth Movement / Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles
political movement
Boxer Rebellion (1900–1901), a peasant uprising that attempted to expel all foreigners from China, eventually suppressed by an international coalition
(geotectonics) crustal movement; diastrophism
life is motion (popular saying with many possible interpretations) / Physical effort is vital for our bodies to function (Aristotle). / Life derives from physical exercise.
simple harmonic motion (in mechanics) / motion of a simple pendulum
rally
extreme sport
May Fourth Movement / Chinese national renewal movement that started with 4th May 1919 protest against the Treaty of Versailles
ice-sports
December 9th Movement (1935), student-led demonstrations demanding that the Chinese government resist Japanese aggression
Anti-Rightist Movement, Mao's purge of "rightists" after the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended in 1957
track and field sports
water sports / aquatic motion / movement over water
the Save the Nation Anti-Japanese Protest Movement stemming from the Manchurian railway incident of 18th July 1931 九一八事變|九一八事变
mountain building (geology) / orogenesis
Hundred Flowers Campaign (PRC, 1956-57), in which Mao called for the taboo on discussing mistakes of the CCP to be lifted
Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries (PRC political campaign from 1950-1952), abbr. to 鎮反運動|镇反运动
student movement
backwards and forwards action (e.g. of piston or pump) / reciprocating motion
Comintern / the international communist movement
Socialist Education Movement (1963-66), formal name of the Four Cleanups Movement 四清運動|四清运动
(astronomy) diurnal motion
(physics) Brownian motion
Rectification campaign / political purge / cf Mao's 1942-44 campaign at Yanan, and his 1950 and 1957 anti-rightist purges
women's movement / feminism
Campaign to Defend the Republic (1915) or National Protection War, a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 as emperor
liberation movement
Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries (PRC political campaign from 1950-1952), abbr. for 鎮壓反革命運動|镇压反革命运动
body-building
Enclosure Movement
burpee (loanword)
cultural movement aspiring to study and emulate classic works, at different periods of history, esp. Tang and Song
campaign against pornography
skiing
rotation / rotary motion
the Great Sparrow Campaign or the Four Pests Campaign, one of the actions during the Great Leap Forward 大躍進|大跃进 aiming to eliminate four pests: rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows
anti-Yuan movement, opposing Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 in National Protection War 護國戰爭|护国战争 1915-1916 / same as 反袁鬥爭|反袁斗争
aerobics
anti-imperialist movement of 30th May 1925, involving general strike esp. in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong etc
purge of counterrevolutionaries (esp. Mao's purge of hidden counterrevolutionaries 1955-56 and Stalin's Great Purge 1936-38)
Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 洋務運動|洋务运动
tectonic movement / movement of earth's crust
Self-Strengthening Movement (period of reforms in China c 1861-1894), also named 自強運動|自强运动
"Three Anti" campaign (anti-corruption, anti-waste, anti-bureaucracy), early PRC purge of 1951-52
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66), which aimed to cleanse the politics, economy, organization and ideology of the Communist Party
East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM)
(sports) skibobbing


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