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战争 zhàn zhēng war; conflict / CL:場|场[chang2],次[ci4]
近代 jìn dài the not-very-distant past / modern times, excluding recent decades / (in the context of Chinese history) the period from the Opium Wars until the May 4th Movement (mid-19th century to 1919) / capitalist times (pre-1949)
大事 shì major event / major political event (war or change of regime) / major social event (wedding or funeral) / (do sth) in a big way / CL:件[jian4],樁|桩[zhuang1]
打仗 zhàng to fight a battle / to go to war
冷战 lěng zhàn cold war / (fig.) strained relationship / to be barely on speaking terms
干戈 gān weapons of war / arms
Zhào surname Zhao / one of the seven states during the Warring States period (476-220 BC) / the Former Zhao 前趙|前赵[Qian2 Zhao4] (304-329) and Later Zhao 後趙|后赵[Hou4 Zhao4] (319-350), states of the Sixteen Kingdoms
战国 Zhàn guó the Warring States period (475-221 BC)
战后 zhàn hòu after the war / postwar
大战 zhàn war / to wage war
孙子 Sūn Sun Tzu, also known as Sun Wu 孫武|孙武[Sun1 Wu3] (c. 500 BC, dates of birth and death uncertain), general, strategist and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period (700-475 BC), believed to be the author of the “Art of War” 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3], one of the Seven Military Classics of ancient China 武經七書|武经七书[Wu3 jing1 Qi1 shu1]
war chariot (archaic) / rook (in Chinese chess) / rook (in chess)
zhàn to fight / fight / war / battle
新军 Xīn jūn New Armies (modernized Qing armies, trained and equipped according to Western standards, founded after Japan's victory in the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895)
函谷关 Hán Guān Hangu Pass in modern day Henan Province, strategic pass forming the eastern gate of the Qin State during the Warring States Period (770-221 BC)
二战 Èr zhàn World War II
波恩 ēn Bonn, a small town on the Rhine, Cold War capital of West Germany 1949-1990
纵横 zòng héng lit. warp and weft in weaving; vertically and horizontal / length and breadth / criss-crossed / able to move unhindered / abbr. for 合縱連橫|合纵连横[He2 zong4 Lian2 heng2], School of Diplomacy during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
军事演习 jūn shì yǎn military exercise / war game
抗战 kàng zhàn war of resistance, especially the war against Japan (1937-1945)
金瓜石 Jīn guā shí Jinguashi, town in Ruifang District, New Taipei City, Taiwan, noted for its historic gold and copper mines, used as a prisoner-of-war camp by the Japanese (1942-1945)
Chǔ surname Chu / abbr. for Hubei 湖北省[Hu2bei3 Sheng3] and Hunan 湖南省[Hu2nan2 Sheng3] provinces together / Chinese kingdom during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (722-221 BC)
农家 Nóng jiā School of Agriculture, school of thought of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC)
名家 Míng jiā School of Logicians of the Warring States Period (475-220 BC), also called the School of Names
道家 Dào jiā Daoist School of the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), based on the teachings of Laozi or Lao-tze 老子[Lao3 zi3] (c. 500 BC-) and Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子[Zhuang1 zi3] (369-286 BC)


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