2 Status of the two southern Kingdoms When the last emperor of the Han period had to abdicate in favour of Ts'ao P'ei and the Wei dynasty began, China was in no way a unified realm.

The china was delicate egg-shell; the old-fashioned silver glittered with polishing; but the eatables were of the slightest description.

To the League of Nations China and Chile are concerns as intimate as Upper Silesia.

And the china was Colin, and the chintz was Maisie.

The china was a pleasure, and there were silver and linen and glass which one would be glad to have in one's own home.

The china was very oldwhite plates with a curving pattern of blue leaves and yellow berries.

Mongol China became an independent realm within the Mongol empire, a sort of Dominion.

Most startling and most important of the results of this arousing was the sudden successful revolution by which China became a republic.

South-eastern China was also the chief centre of porcelain production, although china clay is found also in North China.

The old china in the rack had been her mother's; she had brought it and the black oak meal-chest to Mireside thirty years since.

China is a pleasant and fruitful country, having numerous extensive and well fortified cities, with a more wholesome climate and less fenny country than India, in which most of the provinces have no cities.

By 1940-1941 Japan had attained her war aim: China was no longer a dangerous adversary.

China has long been the land of rebellions and risings, and it is hardly to be expected that the novel republican form of government, however well constructed, intentioned, or conducted, will escape altogether from internal attacks.

Some day China may be war capableI hope never, but it is a possibility.