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acupuncture	the practice of relieving pain or curing a disease by putting needles into certain parts of the body. Acupuncture is a traditional way to treat disease in China.
alligator	a large reptile with short legs, a long body and tail, and a long, wide snout. Alligators are protected by thick skin with many hard bumps. They live in rivers, lakes, swamps, and other bodies of water in the southeast United States and in China. They usually eat insects, fish, turtles, snakes, birds, and other water animals, but have been known to attack small land mammals. They are closely related to crocodiles. Chinese alligators are endangered because their habitat is being changed by people.
Altai Mountains	a central Asian mountain range that extends from western Mongolia into Russia and China.
bamboo curtain	(sometimes cap.) a barrier to trade and diplomacy, based on ideological and political differences, that formerly existed between the People's Republic of China and the West, attributed by the latter to the secrecy and censorship practiced by the Chinese. (Cf. iron curtain.)
Beijing	the capital city of China. The city is also called Peking.
Bhutan	an Asian country in the Himalayan mountains that lies between India and China. The capital of Bhutan is Thimphu.
Bohai Sea	a gulf on the northeast coast of China that is part of the Yellow Sea.
Cathay	a former name for China.
catty²	a unit of weight used in Southeast Asia, equal to 680 grams, or about one and one half pounds, but in China equal to five hundred grams.
Chang Jiang	the longest river of Asia, flowing from Tibet through central China into the East China Sea; Chang; Yangtze.
Chang Jiang River	the longest river of Asia, flowing from Tibet through central China into the East China Sea. An older name in English for the Chang Jiang River is the Yangtze River.
Cheng Tang	first leader of the Shang dynasty of China, ruling in approximately the seventeenth century B.C.E. (exact dates contested).
China	a country in eastern Asia. China is also called the People's Republic of China. Beijing is the capital of China.
China Sea	see "East China Sea," "South China Sea."
chinaware	tableware, ornaments, or the like made of china.
Chinese	a person who was born in or is a citizen of China. [4 definitions]
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882	an act signed into law in 1882 that barred Chinese laborers from immigrating to the U.S. for a period of ten years and, in addition, prohibited all Chinese immigrants from becoming naturalized citizens. Immigrants from China were not permitted naturalized citizenship until 1943.
Chou	the third dynasty in China, about 1122 to 256 B.C.
cold war	(cap.) the state of intense political and ideological hostility and competition for power that obtained between the communist Soviet Union and China and their allies, and the United States and its democratic allies, between the end of World War II and about 1990. The Cold War, always stopping short of direct military conflict, manifested in the arms race, the space race, and proxy wars in Vietnam, Korea, and the Middle East. [1/2 definitions]
coolie	a low-paid, unskilled worker, esp. in or from China or India (used as a term of disrespect).
Da Nang	a port city in central Vietnam on the China Sea, site of an important U.S. military base during the Vietnam War.

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