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Ch'in

NOUN
  1. the Chinese dynasty (from 246 BC to 206 BC) that established the first centralized imperial government and built much of the Great Wall

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  • If a Gwich'in youth takes action against the destruction of the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by the oilers -- will we put her in prison? Subhankar Banerjee: Who Is Tim DeChristopher? From Coal Belt, Through Mountain Trails, on Route to a Prison Cell
  • Sarah James and other Gwich'in and Inupiat activists at an Arctic Refuge rally in DC. Subhankar Banerjee: Earth Activism: What We Don't Want
  • First, what we want: permanent protection of the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge, the most biologically diverse area in the entire circumpolar North that also supports two indigenous communities, Gwich'in and Inupiat. Subhankar Banerjee: Earth Activism: What We Don't Want
  • The sê, or psaltery, is made on the principle of the ch'in, and like that instrument has been made the subject of numerous allegorical comparisons. Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese
  • Chou Hou-ch'ing sure knows how to speculate and do business. His Golden Touch Bank has really prospered. Eldest Brother was a fool to break with him!
  • The House of Ch'in erected and pounded firm the wall to make a barrier before the dwelling-place of the Barbarians, Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese
  • The cruel exactingness of Emperor Wu's laws was also modeled upon Ch'in Legalist practices. The History of the Former Han Dynasty
  • The ch'in, or table-lute, is fully described in Note 114. Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese
  • Afterwards, look over the one hundred and twenty stanzas of Lao T'u, in the heptameter rule; and next read a hundred or two hundred of the heptameter four-lined stanzas by Li Ch'ing-lieu. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books
  • Ting Man and Chao Ch'inb were enfeoffed on June 19 and 22, respectively (18: 24b, 22b). The History of the Former Han Dynasty
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