In Guangdong, Li attempted to create a new government composed of both Chiang supporters and those opposed to Chiang.

As Premier, Li oversaw a rapidly growing economy, and attempted to decentralize and downsize the Chinese bureaucracy, to varying degrees of success.

Li Hongzhang wanted at all costs to avoid a war with Japan, and attempted this by asking for international pressure for a Japanese withdrawal.

Vice President Li Yuanhong succeeded Yuan as president and attempted to reassert the constitutional government, but was soon forced to resign by military strongmen.

Although PCCW's substantial shareholder China Netcom had earlier expressed objection to any disposal of key assets to foreign groups, it also refused to increase its stake ; Richard Li attempted to exit from the business in 2006.

The rest of the survivors attempted to escape to the border region of Jiangxi, Guangdong and Fujian to join the remnant of Taiping forces led by Li Shixian ( 李世贤 ), but on 9 October 1864, they were ambushed by the Imperial Chinese army at Stone Town ( Shi Cheng, 石城 ) and Hong Rengan was captured and subsequently executed on 23 November 1864 at Nanchang ( 南昌 ), Jiangxi.

No comprehensive reprint of the series had been attempted until Kitchen Sink Press began publishing the Li ' l Abner Dailies in hardcover and paperback, one year per volume, in 1988.

In early 2009, Li attempted to take PCCW private again, offering to buy out existing public shareholders at HK $ 4. 50 per share, a premium of nearly 55 % to the HK $ 2. 90 price before the offer was announced.

As Paramount leader Jiang Zemin, NPCSC Chairman Li Peng and PRC Premier Zhu Rongji, gradually retired from their position of power, " fourth-generation " leaders, led by CPC General Secretary Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, faced with increasing social unrest, attempted to steer the country towards a new direction.

When Li was vacating the capital, he attempted to take the presidential seal with him but was intercepted.

Following extensive negotiations, Itō Hirobumi of Japan and Li Hongzhang of China attempted to defuse tensions by signing an agreement whereby:

Dong Zhuo attempted to attack Ding Yuan, but after seeing his adopted son Lü Bu, Li Ru would put off Dong Zhuo, probably saving his life.

After the eighteen regional warlords led by Yuan Shao attacked Dong Zhuo at Hulao Pass, Li Ru advised that they move the capital from Luoyang to Chang ' an and leave Lü Bu to ambush any of the warlords who attempted to pursue.

Li Ru, after finding out a rift had developed between Dong Zhuo and his adopted son Lü Bu over the maiden Diaochan, attempted to repair the rift between them, by telling Dong Zhuo to reward Lü Bu.

Circa AD 216, Zhuge attempted to replace Wei Yan, the area commander of Hanzhong assigned by Liu Bei, with Li Yan.

In February 684, Li Dan's mother Empress Wu demoted his older brother Emperor Zhongzong ( Li Xian ) who had attempted to rule free of his mother, and named him emperor ( as Emperor Ruizong ).

With Tian Yue subsequently assassinated and succeeded by his cousin Tian Xu, Zhu Tao initially attempted to persuade Tian Xu to join him, but Tian eventually reentered an alliance with Wang and Li Baozhen and resisted Zhu Tao.

Soon after Huang Chao's defeat a quarrel occurred between Zhu Quanzhong and Li Keyong, and when Keyong passed through Bianzhou, Quanzhong attempted to have Keyong assassinated during the night of 11 June 884.

Li strictly refused to negotiate with the Tiananmen protesters out of principle, and became one of the officials most objected to by protesters.

Li Zongren, the de facto leader of the Nanking Government, set out to negotiate the possible reconciliation between the Wuhan and Nanking Governments.

From this point on, Li Maozhen, while not surrendering immediately, began to negotiate with Zhu Quanzhong for peace, promising to give the emperor to him ( which occurred eventually in spring 903 ).

When it became clear that Li was unlikely to accept Mao's terms, the Communists issued an ultimatum in April 1949, warning that they would resume their attacks if Li did not agree within five days.

Li remained premier until 1998, when he was constitutionally limited to two terms.

More recent films that have explicitly explored parallel universes are: the 2000 film The Family Man, the 2001 cult movie Donnie Darko, which deals with what it terms a " tangent universe " that erupts from our own universe ; Super Mario Bros. ( 1993 ) has the eponymous heroes cross over into a parallel universe ruled by humanoids who evolved from dinosaurs ; The One ( 2001 ) starring Jet Li, in which there is a complex system of realities in which Jet Li's character is a police officer in one universe and a serial killer in another, who travels to other universes to destroy versions of himself, so that he can take their energy ; and FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions ( 2004 ), the main character runs away from a totalitarian nightmare, and he enters into a cyber-afterlife alternative reality.

Like many terms in Li ' l Abner, Noodnik's name was derived from Yiddish.

Similarities between Li ' l Abner and the early Mad include the incongruous use of mock-Yiddish slang terms, the nose-thumbing disdain for pop culture icons, the rampant black humor, the dearth of sentiment and the broad visual styling.

Thus, many Li supporters assumed that he and Vice President Hu would have been the only two PSC incumbents to have their five-year terms renewed at the 16th congress.

After the time of Zongmi and Li Tongxuan the Chinese school of Huayan generally stagnated in terms of new development, and then eventually began to decline.

During Emperor Wen's reign ( 581 – 606 ), Li Yuan served three terms as provincial governors.

But at the same time, the turmoil provided Emperor Xian with an excuse to ask Li Jue and Guo Si to let him go back to Luoyang under the terms that Li could have Chang ' an while Guo and other generals followed him to the dilapidated Luoyang.

In 2004, BRO, nine same-sex couples, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Multnomah County joined as plaintiffs against the State of Oregon, the Governor, the Attorney General, the Director of the Department of Human Services, and the State Registrar in a suit, Li v. State, in the Oregon Supreme Court seeking a declaration that the statutes ( ORS chapter 106 ) prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying on the same terms as different-sex couples violated the Oregon Constitution.

Alongside Lu Zhishen, Li Kui is one of the strongest in terms of physical strength, of all the 108 Liangshan heroes.

In the landmark case of Ng Ka Ling and Others v. Director of Immigration, Chief Justice Andrew Li declared in emphatic terms:

Although Cyril has also been popularly known as a gay poet, Singaporean critic Gwee Li Sui has stressed that readers need not perceive the poet's persona in terms of gay exceptionality, " his qualities of spaciousness and morphing images also manifesting an interest in a kind of New-Age irreligious spirituality.

Also during this period, Capp was working at night on samples for the strip that would eventually become Li ' l Abner.

In response to the question “ Which side does Abner part his hair on ?," Capp would answer, “ Both .” Capp said he finally found the right " look " for Li ' l Abner with Henry Fonda's character Dave Tolliver, in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine ( 1936 ).

Although Capp's endorsement activities never rivaled Li ' l Abner's or Fearless Fosdick's, he was a celebrity spokesman in print ads for Sheaffer Snorkel fountain pens ( along with colleagues and close friends Milton Caniff and Walt Kelly ), and — with an irony that would become apparent later — a brand of cigarettes, ( Chesterfield ).

However, the Ming Dynasty would be overthrown by Li Zicheng's peasants rebellion, with Beijing captured in 1644 and the last Ming Emperor Chongzhen committing suicide.

This would be used to justify Li Si's large scale persecutions of the other schools of thought during the Qin dynasty, and the invariable denunciation by Confucian scholars from the Han dynasty and onwards.

Chiang opposed Li's plan of defense because it would have placed most of the troops still loyal to Chiang under the control of Li and Chiang's other opponents in the central government.

" Li vowed that he would " return to crush " Chiang once he returned to China.

Accordingly, the 13th century scholar Li Ye, who argued that the movements of the round heaven would be hindered by a square Earth, did not advocate a spherical Earth, but rather that its edge should be rounded off so as to be circular.

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Beginning to read and discuss the work of Marx with Li and other like-minded radicals at a Marxist Study Group, he eventually " developed rapidly toward Marxism " under Li's tutelage during the winter of 1918 – 19, looking for ways to combine it with ancient Chinese philosophies that would be applicable to modern China.

Shortly after this promotion, Li would play a major role in ending Zhao's career, after Zhao publicly supported demonstrators in Tiananmen Square.

While students and intellectuals urged greater reforms, some party elders increasingly feared that the instability opened up by any significant reforms would threaten to undermine the authority of the Communist Party, which Li had spent his career attempting to strengthen.

Li later described the crackdown as a historic victory for Communism, and wrote that he feared the protests would be as potentially damaging to China as the Cultural Revolution ( 1966 – 1976 ) had been.

Although the Tiananmen crackdown was an " international public relations disaster for China ", it ensured that Li would have a long and productive career.

Perhaps realizing that opposition to capitalism would be poorly received by Deng and other Party elders, Li publicly supported Deng's economic reforms.

They would frequently go back home to visit their parents in the cities, and they had money to spend and wore fashionable clothes .” Gao also claimed that during the Revolution, Mao sent his daughter, Li Na, to work on a farm in Jiangxi.

Li Peng, who promoted the use of military force, cited that the student movement had taken inspiration from the grassroots populism of the Cultural Revolution, and that if it is left unchecked, would eventually lead to a similar degree of mass chaos.

Li made statements that practitioners ' response to criticism showed their hearts and " would separate the false disciples from the true ones ", also indicating that publicly defending the practice was a righteous act and an important aspect of Falun Gong cultivation.

Li situates his teaching of Falun Gong amidst the " Dharma-ending period " ( Mo Fa, 末法 ), described in Buddhist scriptures as an era of moral decline when the teachings of Buddhism would need to be rectified.

However, it would not be until 1038 that the Tangut chieftain Li Yuanhao, Li Deming's son, who also ordered the creation of a Tangut writing system and the translation of Chinese classics into Tangut, named himself emperor of Da Xia, and demanded of the Song emperor recognition as an equal.

Beyond 20 Li, a earthen wall shall be built to serve as a border line ; not a single sampan would be allowed to go into the water, no one shall be allowed beyond the border line, any person found shall be executed on the spot.