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China - Part 3 - Wuhan
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Modern pedestrian street in Wuhan
taxi from Wuhan Railway Station 武汉站 Yangchunhu Lake to downtown
20180426 Food Street in Jinan
I don't know the street or area name (and area is more like it) but what I really wish I could communicate is the amazing food aromas in the area. It was almost paralyzing--how do ya choose when you want everything :-) Sound is just the phone mic.
Chinese foodie heaven.
Wuhan | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:53 1 Etymology
00:04:54 2 History
00:05:02 2.1 Antiquity
00:05:56 2.2 Early Imperial China
00:09:55 2.3 Qing dynasty
00:14:12 2.3.1 Wuchang Uprising
00:18:11 2.4 Republic of China
00:25:38 2.5 People's Republic of China
00:32:25 3 Geography
00:32:33 3.1 Cityscape
00:32:42 3.2 Overview
00:35:24 3.3 Climate
00:37:41 4 Government and politics
00:38:34 4.1 Administrative divisions
00:39:03 4.2 Diplomatic missions
00:39:56 5 Economy
00:42:15 5.1 Industrial zones
00:45:45 6 Demographics
00:46:38 6.1 Religion
00:47:30 7 Transportation
00:47:39 7.1 Railways
00:51:06 7.2 Wuhan Metro
00:53:07 7.3 Trams
00:54:04 7.4 Maritime transport
00:54:24 7.5 Ferry
00:55:12 7.6 Airports
00:56:54 7.7 Highways and Expressways
00:57:29 7.8 Bicycle-sharing system
00:58:41 8 Destinations
01:04:01 9 Education
01:04:10 9.1 Schools and universities
01:07:05 9.2 Scientific research
01:09:10 10 Media
01:10:33 11 Culture
01:11:16 11.1 Language
01:11:46 11.2 Cuisine
01:15:07 11.3 Opera
01:15:37 11.4 Sports
01:17:35 12 Architecture
01:17:44 12.1 Bridges
01:21:15 12.2 Skyscrapers
01:23:10 13 Notable Wuhanese
01:23:20 13.1 Politics
01:23:39 13.2 Business
01:23:51 13.3 Science
01:24:25 13.4 Sports
01:27:01 13.5 Arts
01:28:24 13.6 Other fields
01:29:40 14 Sister cities
01:29:56 15 Nature and wildlife
01:30:40 16 See also
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Wuhan ([ù.xân] (listen); simplified Chinese: 武汉; traditional Chinese: 武漢) is the capital and largest city of the Chinese province of Hubei. It is the most populous city in Central China, with a population of over 10 million, the seventh-most populated Chinese city, and one of the nine National Central Cities of China. It lies in the eastern Jianghan Plain, on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River's intersection with the Han river. Arising out of the conglomeration of three cities, Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang, Wuhan is known as China's Thoroughfare (九省通衢), and holds sub-provincial status.
Wuhan's history dates 3500 years. It was the location of the Wuchang Uprising, which led to the downfall of the Qing dynasty and the establishment of the Republic of China. Wuhan was briefly the capital of China in 1927 under the left wing of the Kuomintang (KMT) government led by Wang Jingwei. The city later served as the wartime capital of China in 1937 for 10 months during the Second Sino-Japanese War. During the Chinese Cultural Revolution, an armed conflict between two hostile groups who were fighting for control over the city became known as the Wuhan incident.
Wuhan today is considered the political, economic, financial, commercial, cultural and educational centre of Central China. It is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads and expressways passing through the city and connecting to other major cities. Because of its key role in domestic transportation, Wuhan is sometimes referred to as the Chicago of China by foreign sources. The Golden Waterway of the Yangtze River and its largest tributary, the Han River, traverse the urban area and divides Wuhan into the three districts of Wuchang, Hankou and Hanyang. The Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge crosses the Yangtze in the city. The Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity, is located nearby.
While Wuhan has for decades been a traditional base for manufacturing, it has also become one of the areas promoting modern industrial change. Wuhan consists of three national development zones, four scientific and technologic development parks, over 350 research institutes, 1,656 hi-tech enterprises, numerous enterprise incubators, and investments from 230 Fortune Global 500 firms. It produced GDP of US$ 224 billion in 2018. The Dongfeng Motor Corporation, an automobile manufacturer, is hea ...
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- Socrates
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Wuhan ([ù.xân] (listen); simplified Chinese: 武汉; traditional Chinese: 武漢) is the capital of Hubei province, People's Republic of China. It's the most populous city in Central China, and one of the nine National Central Cities of China. It lies in the eastern Jianghan Plain on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River's intersection with the Han river. Arising out of the conglomeration of three cities, Wuchang, Hankou, and Hanyang, Wuhan is known as 'China's Thoroughfare'; it is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads and expressways passing through the city and connecting to other major cities. Because of its key role in domestic transportation, Wuhan is sometimes referred to as the Chicago of China by foreign sources.Holding sub-provincial status, Wuhan is recognized as the political, economic, financial, cultural, educational and transportation center of central China. In 1927, Wuhan was briefly the capital of China under the left wing of the Kuomintang (KMT) government led by Wang Jingwei. The city later served as the wartime capital of China in 1937 for three days.The Wuhan Gymnasium held the 2011 FIBA Asia Championship and will be one of the venues for the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup.The 7th Military World Games will be hosted from Oct. 18 to 27, 2019 in Wuhan.
Kuomintang | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:22 1 History
00:03:30 1.1 Founding and Sun Yat-sen era
00:08:52 1.2 Under Chiang Kai-shek in Mainland China
00:22:08 1.3 In Taiwan since 1945
00:34:50 1.4 Current issues and challenges
00:34:59 1.4.1 Party assets
00:38:10 1.4.2 Cross-strait relations
00:42:52 2 Supporter base
00:45:07 3 Organization
00:45:16 3.1 Leadership
00:45:51 3.1.1 Chairman and Vice Chairmen
00:46:14 3.1.2 Secretary-General and Vice Secretaries-General
00:46:38 3.1.3 Legislative Yuan leader (Caucus leader)
00:47:48 3.2 Party organization and structure
00:49:41 4 Ideology in mainland China
00:49:51 4.1 Chinese nationalism
00:53:07 4.2 New Guangxi Clique
00:54:07 4.3 Socialism and anti-capitalist agitation
01:00:12 4.4 Confucianism and religion in its ideology
01:01:42 4.4.1 Education
01:02:21 4.5 Soviet-style military
01:03:15 5 Parties affiliated with the Kuomintang
01:03:25 5.1 Malaysian Chinese Association
01:03:56 5.2 Tibet Improvement Party
01:05:40 5.3 Vietnamese Nationalist Party
01:09:37 5.4 Ryukyu Guomindang
01:10:04 5.5 Pro-Kuomintang camp
01:10:34 6 Organizations sponsored by the Kuomintang
01:11:57 7 Policy on ethnic minorities
01:16:07 8 Stance on separatism
01:19:10 9 Election results
01:19:20 9.1 Presidential elections
01:19:29 9.2 Legislative elections
01:19:38 9.3 Local elections
01:19:47 9.4 National Assembly elections
01:19:56 10 See also
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The Kuomintang of China (, KMT), also spelled as Guomindang and often alternatively translated as the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China based in Taipei that was founded in 1911. The KMT is currently an opposition political party in the Legislative Yuan.
The predecessor of the Kuomintang, the Revolutionary Alliance (Tongmenghui), was one of the major advocates of the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and the subsequent declaration of independence in 1911 that resulted in the establishment of the Republic of China. The KMT was founded by Song Jiaoren and Sun Yat-sen shortly after the Xinhai Revolution of 1911. Sun was the provisional President, but he later ceded the presidency to Yuan Shikai. Later led by Chiang Kai-shek, the KMT formed the National Revolutionary Army and succeeded in its Northern Expedition to unify much of mainland China in 1928, ending the chaos of the Warlord Era. It was the ruling party in mainland China until 1949, when it lost the Chinese Civil War to the rival Communist Party of China. The KMT fled to Taiwan where it continued to govern as an authoritarian single-party state. This government retained China's United Nations seat (with considerable Western support) until 1971.
Taiwan ceased to be a single-party state in 1986 and political reforms beginning in the 1990s loosened the KMT's grip on power. Nevertheless, the KMT remains one of Taiwan's main political parties, with Ma Ying-jeou, elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2012, being the seventh KMT member to hold the office of the presidency. In the 2016 general and presidential election, the KMT was defeated in both elections and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) gained control of both the Legislative Yuan and the presidency, Tsai Ing-wen being elected President.
The party's guiding ideology is the Three Principles of the People, advocated by Sun Yat-sen. The KMT is a member of the International Democrat Union. Together with the People First Party and New Party, the KMT forms what is known as the Taiwanese Pan-Blue Coalition which supports eventual unification with the mainland. However, the KMT has been forced to moderate its stance by advocating the political and legal status quo of modern Taiwan as political realities make the reunification of China unlikely. The KMT holds to t ...
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The Kuomintang of China (, KMT; (sometimes spelled as Guomindang) often translated as the Nationalist Party of China) is a major political party in the Republic of China on Taiwan, based in Taipei and is currently the opposition political party in the Legislative Yuan.
The predecessor of the Kuomintang, the Revolutionary Alliance (Tongmenghui), was one of the major advocates of the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty and the subsequent declaration of independence in 1911 that resulted in the establishment of the Republic of China. The KMT was founded by Song Jiaoren and Sun Yat-sen shortly after the Xinhai Revolution of 1911. Sun was the provisional President, but he later ceded the presidency to Yuan Shikai. Later led by Chiang Kai-shek, the KMT formed the National Revolutionary Army and succeeded in its Northern Expedition to unify much of mainland China in 1928, ending the chaos of the Warlord Era. It was the ruling party in mainland China until 1949, when it lost the Chinese Civil War to the rival Communist Party. The KMT retreated to Taiwan where it continued to govern as an authoritarian single-party state. This government retained China's UN seat (with considerable international support) until 1971.
As of 1987, Taiwan is no longer a single-party state and political reforms beginning in the 1990s have loosened the KMT's grip on power. Nevertheless, the KMT remains one of Taiwan's main political parties, with Ma Ying-jeou, elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2012, being the seventh KMT member to hold the office of the presidency. However, in the 2016 general and presidential elections the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) gained control of both the Legislative Yuan and the Presidency (Tsai Ing-wen).
The party's guiding ideology is the Three Principles of the People, advocated by Sun Yat-sen. The KMT is a member of the International Democrat Union. Together with the People First Party and New Party, the KMT forms what is known as the Taiwanese Pan-Blue Coalition, which supports eventual unification with the mainland. However, the KMT has been forced to moderate its stance by advocating the political and legal status quo of modern Taiwan, as political realities make the reunification of China unlikely. The KMT holds to a One China Principle: it officially considers that there is only one China, but that the Republic of China rather than the People's Republic of China is its legitimate government under the 1992 Consensus. In order to ease tensions with the PRC, the KMT has since 2008 endorsed the Three Noes policy as defined by Ma Ying-jeou: no unification, no independence and no use of force.
Huazhong University of Science and Technology | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:31 1 History
00:01:40 1.1 Founding (1952-1954)
00:03:42 1.2 Early development (1954-1966)
00:05:00 1.3 Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
00:05:40 1.4 New mission, global view (1976-1988)
00:06:24 1.5 Leading the Reform in Tech-Schools (1988-2000)
00:07:05 1.6 Merger
00:07:49 1.7 Tongji Medical College
00:09:10 1.8 Presidents (1953- )
00:10:39 2 Campus
00:11:13 2.1 Main Campus at Wuchang
00:11:28 2.2 Tongji Medical Campus at Hankou
00:11:43 3 Schools and Departments
00:11:54 3.1 Sciences and Engineering
00:13:08 3.2 Social Sciences
00:13:36 3.3 Medicine (Tongji Medical College)
00:13:56 4 Academic Power
00:14:05 4.1 Faculty and staff
00:14:54 4.2 National scientific platforms
00:15:04 4.2.1 National Laboratory
00:15:24 4.2.2 National major science and technology infrastructure
00:16:02 4.2.3 State Key Laboratory
00:16:26 4.2.4 National Engineering (Technology) Research Center
00:17:18 4.2.5 National Engineering Laboratory
00:17:35 4.2.6 National Professional Laboratory
00:17:56 4.3 Essential Science Indicators（ESI）
00:18:59 4.4 Discipline Category
00:19:54 4.5 Programssup[7]/sup
00:20:40 4.6 Subjectssup[8]/sup
00:21:13 5 World and Domestic Reputation
00:22:11 6 Services
00:22:21 6.1 Libraries
00:24:13 7 Student life
00:24:23 7.1 Student demographics
00:24:38 7.2 Athletics
00:25:14 8 Notable alumni (incomplete statistics)
00:25:26 8.1 Notable Statesmen
00:27:09 8.2 Notable Athletes
00:27:47 8.3 Notable Businessmen
00:28:32 8.4 Members of National Academies
00:28:42 8.4.1 China Academy of Sciences
00:31:37 8.4.2 China Academy of Engineering
00:36:23 8.5 World Top Scholars
00:36:33 8.5.1 Members of World Top Academy
00:38:30 8.5.2 Tenured Professor in World-class Universities
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The Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST; simplified Chinese: 华中科技大学; traditional Chinese: 華中科技大學; pinyin: Huázhōng Kējì Dàxué) is a public research university located in Guanshan Subdistrict, Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei province, China. As a national key university directly affiliated to the Ministry of Education of China, HUST is a Project 985 and Class A Double First Class University.
HUST manages Wuhan National Laboratories for Opto-electronics (WNLO), which is one of the five national laboratories in China. HUST is also one of four Chinese universities eligible to run the national laboratory and the national major science and technology infrastructure. Huazhong University of Science and Technology was one of two Chinese universities awarded with the “University Leadership Award” by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) , and elected as “China's Top Ten Research Institutions”by the world-famous academic journal Nature, called “The epitome of the higher education development of People's Republic of China”.
History of the Republic of China | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:04 1 Early republic (1912–1916)
00:03:16 1.1 Founding of the republic
00:07:57 1.2 Early republic
00:09:36 1.3 Journalism
00:10:42 1.4 Second Revolution
00:13:46 1.5 Mass banditry, Yuan Shikai and the National Protection War
00:18:59 2 Warlord Era (1916–1928)
00:19:45 2.1 World War I and brief Manchu restoration
00:23:01 2.2 Constitutional Protection War
00:25:27 2.3 May Fourth Movement
00:26:32 2.4 Fight against warlordism and the First United Front
00:30:05 2.5 Chiang consolidates power
00:33:19 3 Nanjing decade (1928–1937)
00:36:17 4 Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
00:41:23 5 Chinese Civil War (1945–1949)
00:46:12 6 Republic of China only controls Taiwan (after 1949)
00:46:26 6.1 Cross-straits relations and international position in 1949–1970
00:53:45 6.2 Tensions between Mainlanders and people of Taiwan
00:57:42 6.3 Economic developments
00:59:08 6.4 Diplomatic setbacks
01:00:40 6.5 Democratic reforms
01:06:51 6.6 Political transition
01:13:24 7 See also
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The History of the Republic of China begins after the Qing dynasty in 1912, when the formation of the Republic of China as a constitutional republic put an end to 4,000 years of Imperial rule. The Qing dynasty, (also known as the Manchu dynasty), ruled from 1644–1912. The Republic had experienced many trials and tribulations after its founding which included being dominated by elements as disparate as warlord generals and foreign powers.
In 1928, the Republic was nominally unified under the Kuomintang (KMT)—Chinese Nationalist Party—after the Northern Expedition, and was in the early stages of industrialization and modernization when it was caught in the conflicts among the Kuomintang government, the Communist Party of China, (founded 1921), which was converted into a nationalist party; local warlords, and the Empire of Japan. Most nation-building efforts were stopped during the full-scale Second Sino-Japanese War / War of Resistance against Japan from 1937 to 1945, and later the widening gap between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party made a coalition government impossible, causing the resumption of the Chinese Civil War, in 1946, shortly after the Japanese surrender to the Americans and the Western Allies in September 1945.
A series of political, economic and military missteps led to the KMT's defeat and its retreat to Taiwan (formerly Formosa) in 1949, where it established an authoritarian one-party state continuing under Generalissimo/President Chiang Kai-shek. This state considered itself to be the continuing sole legitimate ruler of all of China, referring to the communist government or regime as illegitimate, a so-called People's Republic of China declared in Beijing (Peking) by Mao Zedong in 1949, as mainland China, Communist China, or Red China. Although supported for many years, even decades by many nations especially with the support of the United States who established a 1954 Mutual Defense treaty, as the decades passed, since political liberalization began in the late 1960s, the PRC was able after a constant yearly campaign in the United Nations to finally get approval in 1971, to take the seat for China in the General Assembly, and more importantly, be seated as one of the five permanent members of the Security Council. After recovering from this shock of rejection by its former allies and liberalization in the late 1970s from the Nationalist authoritarian government and following the death of Chiang Kai-shek, the Republic of China has transformed itself into a multiparty, representative democracy on Taiwan and given more representation to those native Taiwanese, whose ancestors predate the 1949 mainland evacuation.
1.4 Billion Clicks And China's Train Booking Website Collapses
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On January 9th, the Chinese official train booking website,
12306.cn, collapsed with over 1.4 billion clicks.
This website was developed and maintained by
a subsidiary of the Ministry of Railways.
Its server could not support the high volume traffic and
experienced multiple failures.
Some passengers were charged for failed bookings.
The website has become the target of complaints.
People believe the state monopolized booking authority
suffers from lack of free market competition and lack of professionalism.
In China, going home for the Chinese New Year has become
one the biggest challenges of the year.
This year, train ticketing went online for the first time.
On the 9th, the ticket site 12306.cn had 1.4 billion visits,
a drastic increase from the average of 1 billion per day.
High volume traffic caused a temporary crash.
A netizen said that the railway online booking site was useless.
I felt hopeless when I found out there's no tickets for the 20th
and 21st, even standing tickets are not available in some cars.
Finally I was able to register online, and then it asked to
activate an ID. After that, I could not go any further.
A micro blog post stated Can't go into the online booking
at all. Finally got in once, but there's no tickets.
A person angrily complained after trying to book a ticket
online, What online booking?
I have been waiting since 6am until 11pm and trying to buy
a ticket from Qingdao to Harbin.
The website showed none available.
Isn't it fooling people?
Besides, people also frequently experienced being charged
without receiving their ticket.
Many people successfully booked online, and received
confirmation with purchaser's name and ticket price.
However, when they went to the ticket center to retrieve
the tickets, they would either obtain insufficient tickets or the tickets are not processed at all.
Some people went through the online ticketing process
with online banking.
When the online banking showed successful transaction,
the online ticketing showed the order was not successful.
First Financial Daily reported that 12306.cn is managed by
the Beijing Jingwei information technology company,
a state-owned enterprise established in 1992.
The website is developed and maintained by the
Information Technology Center of Ministry of Railways
and Academy of Railway Sciences,
a subsidiary of the Ministry of Railways.
Railway Administration Customer Center Mr. Wang,
The 12306 website is directly managed by the Ministry of
Railways, not by an individual railway station.
It is reported that the former general manager of Yahoo China,
Xie Wen, had said that the railway system problem is not to look for the best (technique),
but to find their own people, so that
the interest is kept for self.
Former railroad engineer, Mr. Chan, believes that there's
a price kickback issue along with the railway ticketing,
coupled with the fact that the railway is a product of
a planned economy in China.
In a false market under the current economy,
it has provided a hotbed of corruption.
Former railroad engineer Mr. Chan: The online tickets surely
will not be all the tickets that are supposed to be sold.
Every department and every subsidiary unit of the Ministry of
Railways would like to share the interest.
Various levels of governmental departments and relevant
railway units might have ticket quota that's not available to the public online.
If they do, it's pretty much exposing the whole thing.
Mr. Chan also pointed out that even if all of the tickets
were made available either online or at the ticket center,
it would not solve the public's ticket problem.
Mr. Chan: In the past 10 years, the Ministry of Railways
purchased only a very limited number of passenger cars.
In recent years, the Ministry of Railways won over
a trillion in investment funds,
but mainly for high-speed rail which has a relatively small
contribution to passenger transportation;
it covers at most 10 percent of the New Year traffic loads.
According to Internet Traffic Stats site Alexa, the railway
ticketing site 12306.cn ranked 106th in the world on January 9.
It is reported this ranking will continue to rise upon the
approach of Chinese New Year when people are going home.
The worrisome booking problem may also rise.
NTD reporters Yi Ru, Rui Tang and Zhu Di.
《神韵》2011世界巡演新亮点
Guangzhou | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:43 1 History
00:02:52 1.1 Etymology
00:05:47 1.2 Prehistory
00:06:17 1.3 Nanyue
00:08:06 1.4 Imperial China
00:16:00 1.5 Modern China
00:16:08 1.5.1 Revolutions
00:16:49 1.5.2 Kuomintang rule
00:22:26 1.5.3 Communist rule
00:24:39 2 Gallery
00:24:47 3 Geography
00:26:13 3.1 Natural resources
00:27:03 3.2 Climate
00:28:50 4 Administrative divisions
00:29:06 5 Economy
00:30:44 5.1 Local products
00:31:41 5.2 Industry
00:33:12 5.3 Science City
00:33:23 6 Demographics
00:35:05 6.1 Ethnicity and language
00:38:47 6.2 Metropolitan area
00:39:09 7 Transportation
00:39:18 7.1 Urban mass transit
00:40:51 7.2 Motor transport
00:42:14 7.3 Airports
00:43:22 7.4 Railways
00:44:54 7.5 Water transport
00:45:18 8 Culture
00:46:05 8.1 Religions
00:46:31 8.1.1 Daoism
00:47:16 8.1.2 Buddhism
00:48:52 8.1.3 Christianity
00:50:23 8.1.4 Islam
00:50:59 8.2 Sport
00:52:49 9 Destinations
00:52:59 9.1 Eight Views
00:53:24 9.2 Parks and gardens
00:53:33 9.3 Tourist attractions
00:53:49 9.4 Pedestrian streets
00:54:11 9.5 Malls and shopping centers
00:54:29 9.6 Major buildings
00:54:38 10 Media
00:56:42 11 Education
00:58:38 12 International relations
00:58:48 12.1 Twin towns and sister cities
00:59:04 13 See also
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Guangzhou (simplified Chinese: 广州; traditional Chinese: 廣州; Cantonese pronunciation: [kʷɔ̌ːŋ.tsɐ̂u] or [kʷɔ̌ːŋ.tsɐ́u] (listen); Mandarin pronunciation: [kwàŋ.ʈʂóu] (listen)), also known as Canton and formerly romanized as Kwangchow or Kwong Chow, is the capital and most populous city of the province of Guangdong in southern China. On the Pearl River about 120 km (75 mi) north-northwest of Hong Kong and 145 km (90 mi) north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the maritime Silk Road, and continues to serve as a major port and transportation hub, as well as one of China's three largest cities.Guangzhou is at the heart of the most-populous built-up metropolitan area in mainland China that extends into the neighboring cities of Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan and Shenzhen, forming one of the largest urban agglomerations on the planet. Administratively, the city holds sub-provincial status and is one of China's nine National Central Cities. At the end of 2018, the population of the city's expansive administrative area is estimated at 14,904,400 by city authorities, up 3.8% year from the previous year. Guangzhou is ranked as an Alpha global city. There is a rapidly increasing number of foreign temporary residents and immigrants from Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Africa. This has led to it being dubbed the Capital of the Third World.The domestic migrant population from other provinces of China in Guangzhou was 40% of the city's total population in 2008. Together with Shanghai, Beijing and Shenzhen, Guangzhou has one of the most expensive real estate markets in China. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, nationals of sub-Saharan Africa who had initially settled in the Middle East and other parts of Southeast Asia moved in unprecedented numbers to Guangzhou, China in response to the 1997/98 Asian financial crisis.Long the only Chinese port accessible to most foreign traders, Guangzhou fell to the British during the First Opium War. No longer enjoying a monopoly after the war, it lost trade to other ports such as Hong Kong and Shanghai, but continued to serve as a major entrepôt. In modern commerce, Guangzhou is best known for its annual Canton Fair, the oldest and largest trade fair in China. For three consecutive years (2013–2015), Forbes ranked Guangzhou as the best commercial city in mainland China.
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The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing (), was the last imperial dynasty of China. It was established in 1636, and ruled China proper from 1644 to 1912. It was preceded by the Ming dynasty and succeeded by the Republic of China. The Qing multi-cultural empire lasted for almost three centuries and formed the territorial base for modern China. It was the fifth largest empire in world history.
The dynasty was founded by the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan in Manchuria. In the late sixteenth century, Nurhaci, originally a Ming Jianzhou Guard vassal, began organizing Banners, military-social units that included Manchu, Han, and Mongol elements. Nurhaci formed the Manchu clans into a unified entity. By 1636, his son Hong Taiji began driving Ming forces out of Liaodong and declared a new dynasty, the Qing. In 1644, peasant rebels led by Li Zicheng conquered the Ming capital, Beijing. Rather than serve them, Ming general Wu Sangui made an alliance with the Manchus and opened the Shanhai Pass to the Banner Armies led by the regent Prince Dorgon, who defeated the rebels and seized the capital. Resistance from the Southern Ming and the Revolt of the Three Feudatories led by Wu Sangui delayed the Qing conquest of China proper by nearly four decades. The conquest was only completed in 1683 under the Kangxi Emperor reign (1661–1722). The Ten Great Campaigns of the Qianlong Emperor from the 1750s to the 1790s extended Qing control into Inner Asia. The early Qing rulers maintained their Manchu customs, and while their title was Emperor, they used Bogd khaan when dealing with the Mongols and they were patrons of Tibetan Buddhism. They governed using Confucian styles and institutions of bureaucratic government and retained the imperial examinations to recruit Han Chinese to work under or in parallel with Manchus. They also adapted the ideals of the tributary system in dealing with neighboring territories.
During the Qianlong Emperor reign (1735–1796) the dynasty reached its apogee, but then began its initial decline in prosperity and imperial control. The population rose to some 400 millions, but taxes and government revenues were fixed at a low rate, virtually guaranteeing eventual fiscal crisis. Corruption set in, rebels tested government legitimacy, and ruling elites failed to change their mindsets in the face of changes in the world system. Following the Opium Wars, European powers imposed unequal treaties, free trade, extraterritoriality and treaty ports under foreign control. The Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864) and the Dungan Revolt (1862–1877) in Central Asia led to the deaths of some 20 million people, most of them due to famines caused by war. In spite of these disasters, in the Tongzhi Restoration of the 1860s, Han Chinese elites rallied to the defense of the Confucian order and the Qing rulers. The initial gains in the Self-Strengthening Movement were destroyed in the First Sino-Japanese War of 1895, in which the Qing lost its influence over Korea and the possession of Taiwan. New Armies were organized, but the ambitious Hundred Days' Reform of 1898 was turned back in a coup by the conservative Empress Dowager Cixi. When the Scramble for Concessions by foreign powers triggered the violently anti-foreign Boxers, the foreign powers invaded China, Cixi declared war on them, leading to defeat and the flight of the Imperial Court to Xi'an.
After agreeing to sign the Boxer Protocol, the government initiated unprecedented fiscal and administrative reforms, including elections, a new legal code, and abolition of the examination system. Sun Yat-sen and other revolutionaries competed with constitutional monarchists such as Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao to transform the Qing Empire into a modern nation. After the deaths of Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor in 1908, the hardline Manchu court alienated reformers and local elites alike by obstructing social reform. The Wuchang Uprisi ...
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The French colonial empire constituted the overseas colonies, protectorates and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward. A distinction is generally made between the first colonial empire, that existed until 1814, by which time most of it had been lost, and the second colonial empire, which began with the conquest of Algiers in 1830. The second colonial empire came to an end after the loss in later wars of Indochina (1954) and Algeria (1962), and relatively peaceful decolonizations elsewhere after 1960.
Competing with Spain, Portugal, the Dutch United Provinces and later England, France began to establish colonies in North America, the Caribbean and India in the 17th century. A series of wars with Great Britain and other European major powers during the 18th century and early 19th century resulted in France losing nearly all of its conquests. France rebuilt a new empire mostly after 1850, concentrating chiefly in Africa as well as Indochina and the South Pacific. Republicans, at first hostile to empire, only became supportive when Germany started to build their own colonial empire. As it developed, the new empire took on roles of trade with France, especially supplying raw materials and purchasing manufactured items as well as lending prestige to the motherland and spreading French civilization and language and the Catholic religion. It also provided manpower in the World Wars.It became a moral mission to lift the world up to French standards by bringing Christianity and French culture. In 1884, the leading proponent of colonialism, Jules Ferry, declared; The higher races have a right over the lower races, they have a duty to civilize the inferior races. Full citizenship rights – assimilation – were offered, although in reality assimilation was always receding [and] the colonial populations treated like subjects not citizens. France sent small numbers of settlers to its empire, contrary to Great Britain and previously Spain and Portugal, with the only notable exception of Algeria, where the French settlers nonetheless always remained a small minority.
At its apex, it was one of the largest empires in history. Including metropolitan France, the total amount of land under French sovereignty reached 11,500,000 km2 (4,400,000 sq mi) in 1920, with a population of 110 million people in 1939. In World War II, Charles de Gaulle and the Free French used the overseas colonies as bases from which they fought to liberate France. Historian Tony Chafer argues: In an effort to restore its world-power status after the humiliation of defeat and occupation, France was eager to maintain its overseas empire at the end of the Second World War. However, after 1945 anti-colonial movements began to challenge European authority. The French constitution of 27 October 1946 (Fourth Republic), established the French Union which endured until 1958. Newer remnants of the colonial empire were integrated into France as overseas departments and territories within the French Republic. These now total altogether 119,394 km² (46,098 sq. miles), which amounts to only 1% of the pre-1939 French colonial empire's area, with 2.7 million people living in them in 2013. By the 1970s, says Robert Aldrich, the last vestiges of empire held little interest for the French. He argues, Except for the traumatic decolonization of Algeria, however, what is remarkable is how few long-lasting effects on France the giving up of empire entailed.
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The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing (), was the last imperial dynasty of China. It was established in 1636, and ruled China proper from 1644 to 1912. It was preceded by the Ming dynasty and succeeded by the Republic of China. The Qing multi-cultural empire lasted for almost three centuries and formed the territorial base for modern China. It was the fifth largest empire in world history.
The dynasty was founded by the Manchu Aisin Gioro clan in Manchuria. In the late sixteenth century, Nurhaci, originally a Ming Jianzhou Guard vassal, began organizing Banners, military-social units that included Manchu, Han, and Mongol elements. Nurhaci formed the Manchu clans into a unified entity. By 1636, his son Hong Taiji began driving Ming forces out of Liaodong and declared a new dynasty, the Qing. In 1644, peasant rebels led by Li Zicheng conquered the Ming capital, Beijing. Rather than serve them, Ming general Wu Sangui made an alliance with the Manchus and opened the Shanhai Pass to the Banner Armies led by the regent Prince Dorgon, who defeated the rebels and seized the capital. Resistance from the Southern Ming and the Revolt of the Three Feudatories led by Wu Sangui delayed the Qing conquest of China proper by nearly four decades. The conquest was only completed in 1683 under the Kangxi Emperor reign (1661–1722). The Ten Great Campaigns of the Qianlong Emperor from the 1750s to the 1790s extended Qing control into Inner Asia. The early Qing rulers maintained their Manchu customs, and while their title was Emperor, they used Bogd khaan when dealing with the Mongols and they were patrons of Tibetan Buddhism. They governed using Confucian styles and institutions of bureaucratic government and retained the imperial examinations to recruit Han Chinese to work under or in parallel with Manchus. They also adapted the ideals of the tributary system in dealing with neighboring territories.
During the Qianlong Emperor reign (1735–1796) the dynasty reached its apogee, but then began its initial decline in prosperity and imperial control. The population rose to some 400 millions, but taxes and government revenues were fixed at a low rate, virtually guaranteeing eventual fiscal crisis. Corruption set in, rebels tested government legitimacy, and ruling elites failed to change their mindsets in the face of changes in the world system. Following the Opium Wars, European powers imposed unequal treaties, free trade, extraterritoriality and treaty ports under foreign control. The Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864) and the Dungan Revolt (1862–1877) in Central Asia led to the deaths of some 20 million people, most of them due to famines caused by war. In spite of these disasters, in the Tongzhi Restoration of the 1860s, Han Chinese elites rallied to the defense of the Confucian order and the Qing rulers. The initial gains in the Self-Strengthening Movement were destroyed in the First Sino-Japanese War of 1895, in which the Qing lost its influence over Korea and the possession of Taiwan. New Armies were organized, but the ambitious Hundred Days' Reform of 1898 was turned back in a coup by the conservative Empress Dowager Cixi. When the Scramble for Concessions by foreign powers triggered the violently anti-foreign Boxers, the foreign powers invaded China, Cixi declared war on them, leading to defeat and the flight of the Imperial Court to Xi'an.
After agreeing to sign the Boxer Protocol, the government initiated unprecedented fiscal and administrative reforms, including elections, a new legal code, and abolition of the examination system. Sun Yat-sen and other revolutionaries competed with constitutional monarchists such as Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao to transform the Qing Empire into a modern nation. After the deaths of Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor in 1908, the hardline Manchu court alienated reformers and local elites alike by obstructing social reform. The Wuchang Uprisi ...
French colonial empire | Wikipedia audio article
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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The French colonial empire constituted the overseas colonies, protectorates and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward. A distinction is generally made between the first colonial empire, that existed until 1814, by which time most of it had been lost, and the second colonial empire, which began with the conquest of Algiers in 1830. The second colonial empire came to an end after the loss in later wars of Indochina (1954) and Algeria (1962), and relatively peaceful decolonizations elsewhere after 1960.
Competing with Spain, Portugal, the Dutch United Provinces and later England, France began to establish colonies in North America, the Caribbean and India in the 17th century. A series of wars with Great Britain and other European major powers during the 18th century and early 19th century resulted in France losing nearly all of its conquests. France rebuilt a new empire mostly after 1850, concentrating chiefly in Africa as well as Indochina and the South Pacific. Republicans, at first hostile to empire, only became supportive when Germany started to build their own colonial empire. As it developed, the new empire took on roles of trade with France, especially supplying raw materials and purchasing manufactured items as well as lending prestige to the motherland and spreading French civilization and language and the Catholic religion. It also provided manpower in the World Wars.It became a moral mission to lift the world up to French standards by bringing Christianity and French culture. In 1884, the leading proponent of colonialism, Jules Ferry, declared; The higher races have a right over the lower races, they have a duty to civilize the inferior races. Full citizenship rights – assimilation – were offered, although in reality assimilation was always receding [and] the colonial populations treated like subjects not citizens. France sent small numbers of settlers to its empire, contrary to Great Britain and previously Spain and Portugal, with the only notable exception of Algeria, where the French settlers nonetheless always remained a small minority.
At its apex, it was one of the largest empires in history. Including metropolitan France, the total amount of land under French sovereignty reached 11,500,000 km2 (4,400,000 sq mi) in 1920, with a population of 110 million people in 1939. In World War II, Charles de Gaulle and the Free French used the overseas colonies as bases from which they fought to liberate France. Historian Tony Chafer argues: In an effort to restore its world-power status after the humiliation of defeat and occupation, France was eager to maintain its overseas empire at the end of the Second World War. However, after 1945 anti-colonial movements began to challenge European authority. The French constitution of 27 October 1946 (Fourth Republic), established the French Union which endured until 1958. Newer remnants of the colonial empire were integrated into France as overseas departments and territories within the French Republic. These now total altogether 119,394 km² (46,098 sq. miles), which amounts to only 1% of the pre-1939 French colonial empire's area, with 2.7 million people living in them in 2013. By the 1970s, says Robert Aldrich, the last vestiges of empire held little interest for the French. He argues, Except for the traumatic decolonization of Algeria, however, what is remarkable is how few long-lasting effects on France the giving up of empire entailed.