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A respectful form of address for an elder.

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An affectionate form of address for someone younger.

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Plans for the Sanmenxia Dam, a gravity dam on the Yellow River in Henan Province near the border with Shanxi Province, were drawn up in the mid-1950s with the help of Soviet engineers. Construction lasted from 1957 to 1960, and the reservoir began to silt up immediately afterward, causing flooding on the Wei River that required decades of renovation work to control.

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George Gamow (1904–1968), theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He defected in 1933 and ended up in the United States.

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“Main Intelligence Directorate,” the foreign military intelligence agency under the General Staff of the Soviet Army.

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A line from the Su Shi poem, “Inscribed on the Wall of Xilin Temple”: “One cannot know the true face of Lushan while standing among its peaks.”

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The Diaoyutai State Guesthouse is a historic hotel located in Beijing that hosts visiting dignitaries.

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This elite university was known as Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics until 2002.

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The Analects of Confucius, Chapter 15: Wei Ling Gong, translation by James Legge.

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Only combatants wearing the uniform of their country enjoy the rights of captured soldiers under the Geneva Convention.

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Zhenbao Island, also known as Damanskii Island, was the site of a border clash in March 1969 during the seven-month undeclared conflict that marked the height of the Sino-Soviet Split.