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Xi’an incident (December 1936) Quick reference
A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
...’an incident ( December 1936 ) The kidnapping of the Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek while visiting disaffected Manchurian troops at Xi’an. Chiang was captured by conspirators headed by Zhang Xueliang, who attempted to force him to give up his campaign against the communists and lead a national war against the Japanese, who had occupied Manchuria in 1931 . After Chiang had refused to accede to their demands, the communists, headed by Zhou Enlai , also became involved in the negotiations and eventually Chiang was released, having promised to take a more...
Xi'an Incident (12–25 Dec. 1936) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (6 ed.)
...Xi'an Incident ( 12–25 Dec. 1936 ) After nine years, Chiang Kai-shek 's policy of fighting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) before turning against the foreign aggressor, Japan, had come under increasing criticism within his own ranks, especially in the northern armies which had lost Manchuria to the Japanese in 1931 ( Manchukuo ). In early 1936 , their leader, Chang Hsüeh-liang , entered secret negotiations with the Communist Party about a common front against the Japanese. When Chiang Kai-shek came to Chang's headquarters in Xi'an, the capital...
Xi’an Incident Reference library
David D. BUCK
Berkshire Encyclopedia of China
...Xi’an Incident Xī’ān Shìbìan 西安事变 The Xi’an Incident ( December 1936 ) occurred when two Chinese Nationalist generals, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng , arrested President Chiang Kai-shek while he was in Xi’an to assist the Nationalist campaign against the Chinese Communists. Chiang was taken captive on 12 December and released on 25 December, partly at the urging of the Chinese Communists. Chiang might have been assassinated while a prisoner, but he won his freedom with a promise to undertake strong united resistance to the Japanese...
Genesis Reference library
R. N. Whybray and R. N. Whybray
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...related to it. They are concerned to enhance Abraham's status: although he remains an alien ( v. 34 ) he is recognized by Abimelech as especially protected and favoured by God; he is thus treated by a king, who commands an army, as an equal. In vv. 22–4 Abimelech thinks it important to safeguard himself by obtaining from him an oath that he will remain his ally (the phrase is ῾āśâ ḥesed ) and that this alliance will continue in future generations. The second incident is quite different: Abraham becomes involved in a dispute with Abimelech over the...
1 & 2 Samuel Reference library
Gwilym H. Jones, Gwilym H. Jones, and Gwilym H. Jones
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...Thus the narrative serves as an introduction to David's period of flight before Saul and also to later relations between David and the house of Saul. ( 21:1–15 ) David in Nob and Gath David's visit to Nob is the first scene in a plot continued in 22:6–23 , but which is at present interrupted by the incidents recorded in 21:11–22:5 ( McCarter 1980 following Grønbaek 1971 ). Taken as a whole the unit shows that David secured the support of the priesthood; however, it was obtained through deception, not willingly like that of Michal and Jonathan, and it...
A Land Divided: Judah and Israel from the Death of Solomon to the Fall of Samaria Reference library
Edward F. Campbell Jr.
Oxford History of the Biblical World
...this hypothesis has been destroyed by the discovery of the Dan stela, with its inescapable reference to the “house of David.” At Arad, guarding the Judean southern frontier, 25 kilometers (15 miles) west of the Dead Sea, the date of the Solomonic fortress (Stratum XI) has been disputed and may belong to the early ninth century bce . Beer-sheba, west of Arad in the central northern Negeb, was a fortified Judean town substantially to the south of Rehoboam's string of frontier fortifications, suggesting that Asa's or Jehoshaphat's control...
geming xiandai xi Reference library
The Companion to Theatre and Performance
...dialect, much plainer make-up and *costumes , more complicated scenery and *lighting , act and scene divisions, and a symphonic orchestra. Banned from performance after the Cultural Revolution, geming xiandai xi were revived in the late 1980s and early 1990s as an attempt to boost the image of the Communist Party after the Tiananmen incident and the fall of communism in Europe and the Soviet Union. They were received with a mixture of suspicion and cynicism, but also with a sense of nostalgia by the generation who had grown up with them as their sole...
United Front ((China)) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (6 ed.)
...Front (China) The second coalition between the Guomindang (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) as well as other nationalist groups ( 1937–45 ). After an earlier period of cooperation had broken down in 1927 , Chiang Kai-shek had formed the National Government , one of whose most important goals had been the destruction of the Communists. Now, following the Xi'an Incident the two foes joined forces in order to focus on the common foreign enemy, the Japanese. The CCP pledged to cooperate fully in the Sino-Japanese War , and sent delegates...
Chang Hsüeh‐liang (4 July 1901) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (6 ed.)
...in Nanjing (Nanking). With many of his troops dispatched at Chiang Kai‐shek's demand, he was powerless to prevent the Japanese invasion into Manchuria in 1931 ( Manchukuo ). He remained an important ally to Chiang, and successfully urged him to form an anti‐Japanese alliance with the Communists, mainly by placing him under house arrest until he agreed (the Xi’an incident of 1936 ). Chiang never forgave him for this, and had him arrested soon afterwards. He was taken to Taiwan in 1949 , and lived under house arrest until Chiang's death. Released in 1990 ,...
truth-telling Reference library
Kevin Flannery
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (4 ed.)
...with an obligation not to reveal something—something falling, for instance, under the seal of confession—and this has given rise to various theories of mental reservation. Catholic moral theology distinguishes between restrictio pure mentalis (’strict mental reservation’) and restrictio late mentalis (’wide mental reservation’). For the former, if, for example, one utters the words ‘About that incident, I know nothing’ but adds internally ‘that I wish to reveal’, one does not lie. In 1679 this theory was condemned as laxist by Innocent XI . In wide...
geming xiandai xi Reference library
Siyuan Liu
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
...much plainer make-up and costumes , more complicated scenery and lighting , act and scene divisions , and a symphonic orchestra. Banned from performance after the Cultural Revolution, geming xiandai xi were revived in the late 1980s and early 1990s as an attempt to boost the image of the Communist Party after the Tiananmen incident and the fall of communism in Europe and the former Soviet Union. They were received with a mixture of suspicion and cynicism, but also with a sense of nostalgia by the generation who had grown up with them as their...
Alfonso XI of Castile (1311–1350) Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Medieval Warfare and Military Technology
...XI of Castile ( 1311–1350 ), king of Castile (r. 1312–1350 ). A military reformer and commander of European-wide fame, Alfonso XI ascended to the throne when he was barely a year old after the death of Fernando IV (r. 1295–1312 ). The ensuing thirteen-year minority saw Castile sink into a state of almost constant civil war as various magnate factions sought control of the regency. This state of affairs did not end even when Alfonso started ruling as an adult. The young king, in spite of the vulnerability of his position, continued southward Castilian...
Chinese Communist Party Quick reference
A Dictionary of World History (3 ed.)
...on China’s massive peasant population as its revolutionary base. It set up the Jiangxi Soviet in southern China in 1931 and moved north under the leadership of Mao Zedong in the Long March (1934–35). Temporarily at peace with the Kuomintang after the Xi’an Incident in 1936 , the communists proved an effective resistance force when the Japanese invaded the country in 1937 . After the end of World War II, the party’s military strength and rural organization allowed it to triumph over the nationalists in the renewed civil war and to proclaim a People’s...
India Reference library
Rebecca Darley
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity
...is the 6th-century text The Christian Topography . Book XI of the Topography refers to traders from the Persian and Roman empires (XI, 15), though little archaeological evidence corroborates this and it is unclear whether the author himself had travelled there. It also contains a second-hand story, in which a friend of the author and a Persian merchant showed their respective imperial coinages to the King of Taprobane, earning a favourable judgement of the Roman Empire (XI, 17–20). The incident where Roman coinage is used to demonstrate Roman virtue...
Paynehsi ((fl. c. 1100–1075 BCE)) Reference library
donald b. redford
Dictionary of African Biography
...bailiwick, receiving and acting upon royal directives just like any loyal royal servant. But a new configuration of power blocs was taking shape in Egypt. Sometime during the second decade of Ramesses XI’s reign the king was persuaded that what was required to restore the realm was the appointment of two “officers,” one for Upper Egypt and one for the Delta. An oracle of Amun in year 19 confirmed Smendes for the north and a “Herihor associated with a colleague(?) Payankh” for the south. Both Herihor and Payankh usurped the main titles of the viceroy, whether...
Sino-Japanese War (1937–45) Quick reference
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (6 ed.)
...of the National Government under Chiang Kai-shek had been diverted by its attempt to overcome the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ). Chiang was eventually forced by his own generals (led by Chang Hsüeh-liang ) at Xi'an to declare a truce with the Communists and form a United Front against the Japanese. The Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 1937 provided the trigger for hostilities, leading to the rapid advance of the well-equipped Guandong Army . Within six months, the Japanese had taken most of the Yangtze Valley, Guangzhou (Canton), and the capital...
Aesop Reference library
Elizabeth M. Jeffreys and Anthony Cutler
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
...the text of the Aesopic corpus, includes an important series of miniatures (M. Avery, ArtB 23 [ 1941 ] 103–16). Accompanied by brief texts, incidents from at least three of Aesop's fables are depicted in a rock-cut chamber above the narthex at Eski Gümüş (M. Gough , AnatSt 15 [ 1965 ] 162–64). ed. Corpus fabularum Aesopicarum , ed. A. Hausrath , H. Hunger , 2 vols. (Leipzig 1959–70). B.E. Perry , Aesopica , vol. 1 (Urbana, Ill., 1952). B.E. Perry , Babrius and Phaedrus (Cambridge, Mass.—London 1965) xi–xlvi. Beck , Volksliteratur 28–31....
series Reference library
Garner's Modern English Usage (5 ed.)
... incidents as refugees from both sides have begun reconstructing houses.” “Muslim Homes Explode in Serb Area,” Ariz. Republic & Phoenix Gaz. , 11 Nov. 1996 , at A17. • “A series of motivational meetings were held in the early evening.” Joanna Schmitcke , “Lifetime of Wrestling Pays Off,” Sacramento Bee , 2 Feb. 1997 , at N6. • “In the 1960s and 1970s a series of articles were published, sketching out the main characteristics of European class structure and its changes during the postwar decades.” Max Haller , Class Structure in Europe xi (...
Bolton v Stone (1951) Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Law
...as well known as that of Bolton v Stone ( 1951 ). On an afternoon in August 1947 , members of the Cheetham and Denton St Lawrence 2nd XI were playing cricket at Cheetham's ground in Manchester when a batsman hit a cricket ball over the fence. The ball hit Miss Bessie Stone , a resident of a street adjoining the ground. The ball struck Miss Stone in the head, and caused bleeding, but the wound later became infected and Miss Stone suffered significant pain and disablement as a result of the incident. She commenced proceedings, probably with the aid of...
Michael Cerularius (c.1005–1059) Reference library
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
...1059 saved Isaac from embarrassment and allowed him to pay Cerularius a final homage. Under Constantine Ducas Cerularius , was even magnified almost as equal to a saint, as witness the eulogy composed by Michael Psellus . L. Bréhier , Le Schisme oriental du XI e siècle, Paris, 1899(gives an ample analysis of the Bill of indictment and the Eulogy drawn up by Michael Psellus). A. Michel , Humbert und Kerullarios. Quellen und Studien zum Schisma des 11. Jhs. , 1, Paderborn, 1925; 2, 1930. F. Tinnefeld , “ Michael I. Kerullarios, Patriarch von...