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習近平如何鞏固他的統治地位

 【長難句破解示範】習近平如何鞏固他的統治地位 ●例句(約128 words) Xi Jinping, who became general secretary of the Communist Party in 2012 and who, having launched an anti-corruption campaign that has disciplined millions of officials, including powerful figures such as Zhou Yongkang and Bo Xilai, consolidated his authority by presenting the purge as a defense of the Party's legitimacy, tightened control over the military, media, and internet, elevated his own doctrine, "Xi Jinping Thought", into the Party constitution in 2017, and, after the National People's Congress abolished presidential term limits in 2018, secured a third term as general secretary in 2022 in defiance of the norm of collective succession that Deng Xiaoping, wary of another Mao, had established, is regarded by admirers, who credit him with restoring national pride and discipline, as a strong leader, but by critics, who warn that concentrating power in one person removes the checks that corrected past disasters, as a source ...

中國共產黨統治的兩個三十年

 【長難句破解示範】中國共產黨統治的兩個三十年 第一句:1949-1979(約130 words) ●例句 The Communist Party, which proclaimed the People's Republic in 1949 after defeating the Nationalists and, having redistributed land from landlords to peasants, moved quickly to collectivize agriculture and nationalize industry, ruled for three decades through campaigns of mass mobilization, notably the Great Leap Forward, whose unrealistic production targets contributed to a famine in which tens of millions died between 1959 and 1961, and the Cultural Revolution, which Mao Zedong launched in 1966 to purge alleged bourgeois elements within the Party and which plunged the country into factional violence until his death in 1976, so that when Deng Xiaoping, having been twice purged and rehabilitated, consolidated power in 1978, he inherited an economy that, although it had built a heavy-industrial base and raised literacy and life expectancy, remained poor and isolated. ●排列為比較容易閱讀的方式 The Communist Party, which proclaimed the People...

國共內戰三大戰役

 【長難句破解示範】國共內戰三大戰役 第一句:遼瀋戰役(約120 words) ●例句 The Liaoshen Campaign, which Lin Biao, commanding the Communist Northeast Field Army, launched in September 1948 with the aim of isolating the Nationalist garrisons in Manchuria, was decided when his troops, having stormed Jinzhou in October after a brief assault that severed the only land route between the northeastern forces and China proper, turned back to destroy the relief army that Chiang Kai-shek, who had flown to Shenyang to direct operations himself, had ordered to advance westward, a defeat that, together with the surrender of the starving garrison at Changchun, where a prolonged siege had caused immense civilian suffering, and the fall of Shenyang on 2 November, cost the Nationalists more than 400,000 men and gave the Communists control of the region's industrial base. ●排列為比較容易閱讀的方式 The Liaoshen Campaign, which Lin Biao, commanding the Communist Northeast Field Army, launched in September 1948 with the aim of isolating the Nati...

台灣的統獨之爭

 【長難句破解示範】台灣的統獨之爭 ●例句(120 words) The dispute over Taiwan's future, which has divided society since democratization allowed the question to be debated openly, pits advocates of eventual unification with China, who believe that a shared cultural heritage and economic interdependence make union desirable, against advocates of formal independence, who argue that Taiwan, having been governed separately from the mainland since 1949, already possesses all the attributes of a sovereign state, while a majority of citizens, fearing that a declaration of independence would provoke military retaliation and unwilling to accept Beijing's terms for unification, prefer a status quo that both camps, recognizing its fragility, nevertheless struggle to define in ways that satisfy their supporters and reassure Washington, whose commitments to the island remain deliberately ambiguous. ●排列為比較容易閱讀的方式 The dispute over Taiwan's future, which has divided society since democratization allowed the que...

台灣社會自由民主化的推手李登輝

 【長難句破解示範】台灣社會自由民主化的推手李登輝 ●例句(120 words) Lee Teng-hui, who was born in 1923 under Japanese rule and earned a doctorate in agricultural economics at Cornell University, and who, having succeeded Chiang Ching-kuo upon his death in 1988 as the first president born in Taiwan, faced a Kuomintang dominated by mainland-born conservatives, is credited with steering the island toward democracy by terminating in 1991 the emergency provisions that had kept the representatives elected on the mainland in the late 1940s in office for four decades, a step that, together with the full re-election of the legislature and the popular election of the president in 1996, completed a peaceful transition, though critics, noting that money politics flourished under his leadership, question how much of the credit he deserves. ●排列為比較容易閱讀的方式 Lee Teng-hui, who was born in 1923 under Japanese rule and earned a doctorate in agricultural economics at Cornell University, and who, having succeeded Chiang Ching-kuo ...

國民黨戒嚴統治下的台灣

 【長難句破解示範】國民黨戒嚴統治下的台灣 ●例句(120 words) Taiwan, which the Kuomintang, having retreated from the mainland after losing the civil war to the Communists, placed under martial law in 1949, remained authoritarian for thirty-eight years, during which the regime, justifying its authority by claiming to represent all of China, banned new parties and newspapers, tried civilians in military courts, and imprisoned thousands of suspected dissidents in a campaign known as the White Terror, until pressure from an opposition that founded the Democratic Progressive Party in 1986 and from a middle class enriched by export-led industrialization persuaded Chiang Ching-kuo, the son of Chiang Kai-shek, to lift martial law, a decision that opened the way to the democratic reforms that culminated in the first direct presidential election in 1996. ●排列為比較容易閱讀的方式 Taiwan, which the Kuomintang, having retreated from the mainland after losing the civil war to the Communists, placed under martial law in 1949, rema...

日本統治下的台灣

 【長難句破解示範】日本統治下的台灣 ●例句(120 words) Taiwan, which Japan acquired in 1895 under the Treaty of Shimonoseki and ruled as a colony for fifty years, was nevertheless transformed by colonial administrators who, while exploiting the island's rice and sugar to feed the imperial economy, built railways, ports, irrigation systems, hospitals, and schools, surveyed the land for taxation, and eradicated epidemic diseases such as plague, so that when the Kuomintang, having been entrusted with accepting Japan's surrender in 1945, took over the island, it inherited a society that some historians, comparing it with the war-torn mainland, regard as roughly thirty years more advanced, a judgment that critics, emphasizing discrimination against Taiwanese and the harshness of wartime mobilization, condemn as seriously understating the human cost of colonial rule. ●排列為比較容易閱讀的方式 Taiwan, which Japan acquired in 1895 under the Treaty of Shimonoseki and ruled as a colony for fifty years, was nevertheless ...