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reform / CL: , 種|种, 項|项 / to reform
HSK 5
to innovate / innovation
HSK 6
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
to transform / to change
HSK 7-9
to reform and open to the outside world / refers to Deng Xiaoping's policies from around 1980
HSK 7-9
to sack / to remove from a position / to depose
dressed in Western-style clothes / impeccably attired
Ge'gyai county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Dge rgyas rdzong
to be buried in a horse hide (idiom) / to give one's life on the battlefield
Damascus, capital of Syria
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
to eliminate / to expel / to abolish
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animal hide / leather / to reform / to remove / to expel (from office)
National Revolutionary Army
to fire / to discharge
Gram-positive (bacteria)
leather / CL: 張|张
to dismiss / to lay off
Cultural Revolution (1966-76) (abbr. for 文化大革命)
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
evolution of sth over time / course of development / history
synthetic leather
leather (shoes) / fig. Western dress
reformer
to discard the old and introduce the new (idiom); to innovate
counterrevolutionary
Xinhai Revolution (1911), which ended the Qing Dynasty
(Protestant) Reformation
dengue fever / Singapore hemorrhagic fever
Industrial Revolution, c. 1750-1830
historical development / background
French Revolution (1789-1799)
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
PRC National Development and Reform Commission
the reformist party
a revolutionary
reformer
leather purse / fig. human body
political reform
Yongzhen Reform, Tang dynasty failed reform movement of 805 led by Wang Shuwen 王叔文
reform of the writing system
Ge'gyai county in Ngari prefecture, Tibet, Tibetan: Dge rgyas rdzong
martyr of the revolution
change of dynasties / clear out the old, bring in the new
economic reform
change management (business)
to dismiss from a post
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
mixed ownership reform (strategy aimed at enhancing the efficiency and competitiveness of state-owned enterprises)
Gram negative (bacteria that do not retain Gram stain, often the more dangerous kind)
Glorious Revolution (England, 1688)
October Revolution
Geiger counter
Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang
artificial leather
Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Shijingshan District, Beijing
(Maoism) New Democracy (aka New Democratic Revolution)
Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries (PRC political campaign from 1950-1952), abbr. to 鎮反運動|镇反运动
dengue fever
dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF)
the crime of instigating counterrevolutionary propaganda
counterrevolutionary coup of 12th April 1927, Chiang Kai-shek's coup against the communists in Shanghai
PRC National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), formed in 2003
land reform
damson (fruit)
democratic revolution / bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
French Revolution (1789)
dengue vaccine
dengue virus
fellmonger / a dealer who works with animal hides and skins
old democratic revolution / bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
bourgeois revolution (in Marx-Leninist theory, a prelude to the proletarian revolution)
lit. the body is the revolution's capital / fig. good health is a prerequisite for work (Mao Zedong's saying)
financial reform
to expel / to kick out
to excommunicate (from a Buddhist monastery)
to excommunicate (from a church)
martyr to the revolution
revolutionary
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
Gram stain (used to distinguished two different kinds of bacteria)
Gram-positive (bacteria)
leather goods


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