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Definition: China from The Macquarie Dictionary
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a republic in eastern Asia, bordering many countries including Russia to the north-east and with a long Pacific coast; the most populous and the third largest country in the world; a republic since 1911; a socialist republic since 1949 when the previous Nationalist government retreated to the island of Taiwan.

9~561~000 km2 Chinese (many dialects, chiefly Mandarin), also numerous non-Chinese ethnic languages (renminbi) yuan Beijing

Official name People's Republic of China Chinese Zhongguo


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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
The vast area of the People's Republic of China extends from 53° to 18°N and from 73° to 135°E in central and eastern Asia. It has a range of climates varying from tropical to cold temperate, and from high mountain to desert. The country is often divided into China proper and the outer territories. China proper consists of the coastal regions fronting the Pacific and the valleys of the three great rivers: Huang He, Chiang Jiang, and Xi Jiang. This is the most productive and populated part of the country. The outer territories consist of the Manchurian Plain in the northeast, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the north, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the northwest, and the Tibetan Autonomous Region (Xizang Zizhiqu) in the west. China has a long land border with Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in the north and west, and on the south is bordered by Pakistan, India, Nepal, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam. Except in Inner Mongolia and Manchuria, these land borders traverse some of the most…
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From Chambers Dictionary of World History
China
A socialist state in central and eastern Asia, which also claims the island of Taiwan. The country is bounded to the north-west by Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan; to the north by Mongolia; to the north-east by Russia; to the east by North Korea, the Bo Hai Gulf, the Yellow Sea, and the East China Sea; to…
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From Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary
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A republic of E and cen. Asia; total area ab. 3,700,000 sq. mi. (9,583,000 sq. km.); pop. (2000e) 1,252,700,000; ✽ Beijing. Its three great rivers—the Huang in the N, Chang in the cen. part, and the Xi in the S—great commercial highways; the Amur forming N boundary of Manchuria, and its tributary…
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Little is known with certainty about the child labor situation in China. The Chinese government does not publish data on child labor—indeed, labor statistics are treated as state secrets—and others have found it difficult to obtain permission for such research. China studies scholars have published…
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From Financial Times World Desk Reference
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Introduction Official name: People's Republic of China Capital: Beijing Population: 1.35 billion Currency: Renminbi (known as yuan) Official language: Mandarin Date of independence, or formation date: 960 Date when current borders were established: 1999 National day: Oct 1 Vehicle country…
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From Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence
Chiang Kai-shek, China's anti-communist leader...
The intelligence system of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is focused on technology acquisition, political and military intelligence, and counter-subversion, using some techniques familiar in the West but others that are less so. Chinese historical models, Soviet techniques, Western practices, and…
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From Philip's Encyclopedia
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The People's Republic of China is the world's third largest country. Most people live on the eastern coastal plains, in the highlands or the fertile valleys of the rivers Huang He and Yangtze . The latter is Asia's longest river, at 6,380km [3,960mi]. Western China includes the bleak Tibetan…
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Full text Article People's Republic of China (PRC)

From Encyclopedia of Chinese-American Relations
During the Second World War, the United States sent envoys to the Chinese Communists to encourage cooperative arrangements with the Chinese Nationalists against the Japanese. But neither the Communists nor the Nationalists trusted each other, and each force was trying to position itself to dominate…
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Full text Article China: Outside the People's Republic of China

From New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965
Today the vast majority of foreign-born Chinese in the U.S. are from the People's Republic of China (PRC), but this was not always the case. Until migration from the PRC opened up in the late 1970s, most Chinese immigrants came from (or through) Taiwan and Hong Kong/Macao. Others were ethnic Chinese…
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From New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965
Chinese Americans are a diverse ethnic group, made up of U.S.-born Chinese and immigrants from all over the Chinese world. As of 2000, their population totaled 2,858,291. Among them, more than 1 million are immigrants from China (PRC), or “mainland Chinese.” They are not only the largest subgroup in…
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From The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis
Writing in the 1920s in a period of significant social and political reform, Chinese intellectuals used Freudian notions of sexual tensions in families in calling for a change of attitude to the secrecy surrounding sex and to child education. But psychoanalytic practice in China has been slow to…
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