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| 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) |
| 战争 | zhàn zhēng | war; conflict / CL:場|场[chang2],次[ci4] |
| 大事 | dà 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 | dǎ 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 gē | weapons of war / arms |
| 郭小川 | Guō Xiǎo chuān | Guo Xiaochuan (1919-1976), PRC communist poet, hero in the war with Japan, died after long persecution during Cultural Revolution |
| 普法战争 | Pǔ Fǎ Zhàn zhēng | Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) |
| 化干戈为玉帛 | huà gān gē wéi yù bó | lit. to exchange weapons of war for gifts of jade and silk (idiom) / fig. to turn hostility into friendship |
| 史迪威 | Shǐ dí wēi | Joseph Stilwell (1883-1946), commander of US forces in China, Burma and India in World War II |
| 霞飞 | Xiá fēi | Joseph Joffre (1852-1931), leading French general at the start of World War One |
| 兵部 | Bīng bù | Ministry of War (in imperial China) |
| 战利品 | zhàn lì pǐn | spoils of war |
| 战国 | Zhàn guó | the Warring States period (475-221 BC) |
| 函谷关 | Hán gǔ 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) |
| 夷门 | Yí mén | the Yi gate of 大梁, capital of Wei 魏 during Warring states |
| 孙子 | Sūn zǐ | 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] |
| 赵 | 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 |
| 陪都 | péi dū | provisional capital of a country (e.g. in time of war) / secondary capital / alternative capital |
| 车 | jū | war chariot (archaic) / rook (in Chinese chess) / rook (in chess) |
| 战 | zhàn | to fight / fight / war / battle |
| 置之死地而后生 | zhì zhī sǐ dì ér hòu shēng | (idiom based on Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3]) to deploy one's troops in such a way that there is no possibility of retreat, so that they will fight for their lives and win the battle; to fight desperately when confronted with mortal danger; to find a way to emerge from a dire situation |
| 波恩 | Bō ēn | Bonn, a small town on the Rhine, Cold War capital of West Germany 1949-1990 |
| 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) |
| 不战不和 | bù zhàn bù hé | neither war nor peace |