Sentence examples for fall of beijing from inspiring English sources

His eventful career saw him travel to 23 countries, notably documenting the Spanish Civil war, the liberation of Paris, and the fall of Beijing to Mao Zedong's forces in 1949.

A native rebellion would not threaten the capital city again until the fall of Beijing to the army of Li Zicheng in 1644, marking the end of the dynasty and, shortly after, the beginning of Manchu conquest.

Following the fall of Beijing in 1644, remnants of the Imperial family and a few ministers set up a Ming loyalist regime in Nanjing, enthroning Zhu Yousong as the Hongguang Emperor.

BEIJING — Is the fall of Bo Xilai, scion of one of the most powerful families in one of the world's most powerful countries, actually about the triumph of the Communist Party's business-as-usual, backroom politics over the possibility of real public debate?

Thus, the tensor strongly supports the existence of BEIJING and BEIJING-LIKE families, but also suggests that they can be further subdivided.

"We should be very worried," says Anne Stevenson-Yang, co-founder of Beijing-based J Capital Research.

5, in order to test the performance of the methodology presented in this paper, a numerical experiment is carried out by taking the examples of Beijing-Shanghai ordinary-speed rail line and Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail line in China.

American depositary receipts of Beijing-based rival Baidu, which have rallied recently, were flat Monday morning.

Undoubtedly the most visually stunning work on this list is that of Beijing-based artist Kong Ning.

BEIJING — One of swimming's finest rivalries is now looking lopsided.

BEIJING — Two days of talks designed to start the process of ridding North Korea of its nuclear arsenal made some progress but fell short of any concrete results, the chief American negotiator said on Friday.