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China

noun

A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world. Synonyms: Cathay, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China.

High quality porcelain originally made only in China.

A government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong. Synonyms: Nationalist China, Republic of China, Taiwan.

Dishware made of high quality porcelain. Synonym: chinaware.

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"China" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the greater; but it is the plain historical truth, it is the natural consequence of injustice, it is the predicament in which every country places itself which leaves such a mass of hatred and discontent by its side. No empire is powerful enough to endure it; it would exhaust the strength of China, and sink it with all its mandarins and tea-kettles to the bottom of the deep. By refusing them justice now when you are strong enough to refuse them anything more than justice, you will act over again, with the Catholics, ...

— Peter Plymley's Letters and Selected Essays • Sydney Smith

... in gold lace, and two other officials in gorgeous uniform, conducted us inside, through a corridor, past a row of bowing servants, into a dining-room where the table was set for luncheon, with gold and silver plates, cut glass and rare china. A more exquisite table setting I never saw. Three dressing-rooms opened off this big room, ...

— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage

... they became seated seemed to one accustomed to frugality to groan with flowers and china and glass; and Mr. Lavender had hardly supped his rich and steaming soup before his fancy took fire; nor did he notice that he was drinking from a green glass in which ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... had reappeared. And I was rebuked because I was going to offer Mrs. Bill her tea in a tin mug (the patients all have tin mugs) and had cut her bread-and-butter too thick. I must cut dainty slices of thin bread-and-butter, use Sister's own china ware, and serve the whole spread on a tray with a cloth. All of which was typical of Sister, who from that day treated Bill's wife with true tenderness; and Bill's wife became one of Sister's ...

— Observations of an Orderly - Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital • Ward Muir

... repeated what we had done during our first examination of the surface of Mars. We simply remained suspended in the atmosphere, allowing the earth to turn beneath us. As Japan receded in the distance we found China beginning to appear. Shifting our position a little toward the south we again came to rest over the city of Pekin, where once more we parted with some of our companions, and where the outburst of universal ...

— Edison's Conquest of Mars • Garrett Putman Serviss

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