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战争 zhàn zhēng war; conflict / CL:場|场[chang2],次[ci4]
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]
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)
二战 Èr zhàn World War II
世界大战 shì jiè zhàn world war
二次大战 Èr zhàn World War Two
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]
三十六计 sān shí liù The Thirty-Six Stratagems, a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics, war, and in civil interaction / all the possible schemes and stratagems
知己知彼 zhī zhī know yourself, know your enemy (idiom, from Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3])
七七事变 Shì biàn Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 7th July 1937, regarded as the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争[Kang4 Ri4 Zhan4 zheng1]
兵法 bīng art of war / military strategy and tactics
初战 chū zhàn first battle; initial engagement (of a war or military campaign)
参战 cān zhàn to go to war / to engage in war
一战 zhàn World War I (1914–1918)
干戈 gān weapons of war / arms
战国末 zhàn guó late Warring States period, c. 250-221 BC before the First Emperor's Qin Dynasty
哈季奇 Goran Hadžić (1958-2016), Croatian Serb leader until 1994, indicted war criminal
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)
中越战争 Zhōng Yuè Zhàn zhēng Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
侵略战争 qīn lüè zhàn zhēng war of aggression
战争与和平 Zhàn zhēng píng War and Peace by Tolstoy 托爾斯泰|托尔斯泰
内战 nèi zhàn civil war
百花齐放,百家争鸣 bǎi huā fàng , bǎi jiā zhēng míng a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956
合纵连横 zòng Lián héng Vertical and Horizontal Alliance, opposing stratagems devised by the School of Diplomacy 縱橫家|纵横家[Zong4 heng2 jia1] during the Warring States Period (425-221 BC)
战国时代 Zhàn guó Shí dài the Warring States period (475-221 BC) / Japanese Warring States period (15th-17th century)


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