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Lonely Planet China Phrasebook & Dictionary is your convenient passport to culturally enriching travels with the main appropriate and invaluable words and vocabulary for your entire trip wishes. Get extra out of your multi-country journey with easy-to-find words for Mandarin, Cantonese, Chaozhou, Dongbei Hua, Hakka, Hunanese, Shanghainese, Sichuanese, Xi'an, Yunnan Hua, Zhuang, Mongolian, Tibetan, Uighur. With language instruments on your again pocket, you could really get to the guts of at any place you pass, so start your trip now!
Coverage Includes: Mandarin, Cantonese, Chaozhou, Dongbei Hua, Hakka, Hunanese, Shanghainese, Sichuanese, Xi'an, Yunnan Hua, Zhuang, Mongolian, Tibetan, Uighur.
Organized by means of language, this one-stop source makes vacationing via a number of international locations easy. With each one language you can:
- Order with confidence, clarify nutrients bronchial asthma, and take a look at new meals
- Save time and hassles with very important words at your fingertips
- Never get caught for words with the 350-word two-way, quick-reference dictionaries
- Be prepared for universal and emergency trip events with useful words and terminology
- Meet friends with dialog starter words
- Get your message throughout with easy-to-use pronunciation publications
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- Language map for fast reference
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The ideal Choice: Lonely Planet China Phrasebook & Dictionary, a pocket-sized, complete multi-language advisor, offers on-the-go language information; nice for language scholars and guests seeking to have interaction with locals and immerse themselves in neighborhood tradition.
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At the same time, they did not just praise the warmth of the great family of the motherland and the solidarity of the nationalities, and with joyful emotions sincerely praise and give thanks for all the sincere support and assistance which had been given by all the brother and sister nationalities with the Han nationality at their head to the liberation of Tibet and to the revolutionary cause, and for the hard work carried out for the Party and the people by the PLA and cadres based in Tibet; they also expressed their determination to steadfastly obey the words of the Party, follow the Party, and to join hands in solidarity with every nationality of the motherland, and rapidly establish a new, democratic and socialist Tibet.
Therefore, in the Petition, just as Mao correctly applied the principles of Marxism-Leninism to the Chinese conditions, he obliquely proposes the formation of a Tibetan road to socialist development that takes into account the specific Tibetan national characteristics and socio-economic realities. This is the reason why the Panchen Lama frequently emphasises Tibetan characteristics and realities. And, repeatedly, he claims that his opinion represents the opinion of the vast majority of Tibetans.
As for the investigation of rebels and others who may or may not have colluded with them, due to the fact that the causes, circumstances and characteristics giving rise to the rebellion in each place, and the causes, circumstances and characteristics causing each person to take part in the rebellion certainly had all sorts of differences, these needed thorough investigation and review. Therefore it was very important to completely mobilise the masses, for cadres to carry out a conscientious and careful analysis, and to deal with every aspect of the situation.