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.

Although he did not hold a formal executive position in the government, Chiang continued to issue orders to the army, and many officers continued to obey Chiang rather than Li.

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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.

In 1928, Kuomintang generals Li Jing Lin, Zhang Zi Jiang, and Fung Zu Ziang organized a national martial arts tournament in China ; they did so to screen the best martial artists in order to begin building the Central Martial Arts Academy ( Zhongyang Guoshuguan ).

Two of China's most famous poets, Li Bai and Du Fu, belonged to this age, as did many famous painters such as Han Gan, Zhang Xuan, and Zhou Fang.

At the time of his promotion, Li seened like an unusual choice for Premier because he did not seem to share Deng's enthusiasm for introducing market reforms.

Ian Johnson disputes the theory that Li made any serious money from Falun Gong, and noted that during the period of Falun Gong's greatest book sales in China, Li Hongzhi did not receive royalties because all publications were bootleg ( the texts having been banned by the authorities in 1996 in an attempt to curb the practice's growth ).

Danny Schechter noted that from 1992 – 1994, while Li did charge fees for the lectures seminars he was giving across China at the invitation of local qigong societies, his fees were said to be considerably lower than those of competing qigong practices, and the local qigong associations received a substantial share.

Yuan and Li Hongzhang sent troops into Korea to protect Seoul and Qing's interests, and Japan did the same under the pretext of protecting Japanese trading posts.

At the peace conference between Imperial Japan and Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang and Li Jingfang, the ambassadors at the negotiation desk of Qing Dynasty, originally did not plan to split Taiwan away from the Mainland because they also realised Taiwan ’ s great location for trading with the West.

However, warlords such as Li Zongren and Yan Xishan who used to oppose Chiang, did not want Chiang to die.

After Li Tieh-Kuai refused, saying that he did not care if he remained poor his whole life, Lao Tzu rewarded him with another pill.

If he did not return by then, Li Ching was to burn the body because that meant that he had become an immortal ; but after six and a half days the student had to go home to see to his sick mother one last time before she died.

Kurtzman eventually did spoof Li ' l Abner ( as " Li ' l Ab ' r ") in 1957, in his short-lived humor magazine, Trump.

* Li ' l Abner, Daisy Mae, Wolf Gal, Earthquake McGoon, Lonesome Polecat, Hairless Joe, Sadie Hawkins, Silent Yokum and Fearless Fosdick all found their way onto the painted noses of bomber aircraft during World War II and the Korean War, as did Kickapoo Joy Juice, Lena the Hyena and the Shmoo.

He was married to Li Bozhao in 1929, one of the few women to participate in the Long March, as did Yang. On the position of the president he succeeded a very influential leader Li Xiannian.

But after the suppression was enacted months later, Li did not make any public denunciation of the group, in contrast to other government officials.

That same year, his mother Consort Li died — and while traditional histories did not describe how she died, it appeared likely that she was forced to commit suicide according to the Northern Wei tradition of forcing crown princes ' mothers to commit suicide, for it was written that the entire palace mourned her bitterly.

Although his own band did not attain the same level of success as the famous bands he arranged for, he did receive a Grammy nomination for his own album Jazz Pops ( 1962 ), which included recordings of " Li ' l Darlin ," " Cute ," and " Coral Reef ".

There was a proposal at the time to end the system of using certain public fields ' produce as salary for the officials and instead using the fields to produce for the treasury ; Li pointed out that doing so would be merely causing an additional layer of waste, as ultimately the officials ' salaries would have to come from the treasury, and the proposal was not carried out.

At its peak, Li ' l Abner was read daily by 70 million Americans ( the U. S. population at the time was only 180 million ), with adult readers far outnumbering children.

Li ' l Abner was censored for the first, but not the last time in September 1947, and was pulled from papers by Scripps-Howard.

The " old style " verse ( gushi ) is less formally strict than the jintishi, or regulated verse, which, despite the name " new style " verse actually had its theoretical basis laid as far back to Shen Yue, in the 5th or 6th century, although not considered to have reached its full development until the time of Chen Zi ' ang ( 661-702 ) A good example of a poet known for his gushi poems is Li Bai.

Li, who bought nearly 20 % of the company at that time the largest shareholding in the company, agreed to sell his shares to Hongkong Land, a sister company of Jardines, at a premium.

* Chinese poet Li Po meets Du Fu for the first time.

* While engaged in a war with the Mongols, the Song Chinese official Li Zengbo writes in his Kozhai Zagao, Xugaohou that the city of Qingzhou is manufacturing one to two thousand strong iron-cased gunpowder bomb shells a month, dispatching to Xiangyang and Yingzhou about ten to twenty thousand such bombs at a time.

During this time, Li Si and Zhao Gao fell out among themselves, and Li Si was executed.

During his time in the USSR, Li was the Chairman of the Chinese Students Association in the Soviet Union.

From the time of his return until 1979, Li engineered and managed a number of major power projects across China, beginning his career in Manchuria.

" The Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ) official Li Zengbo wrote in 1257 that arsenals should have several hundred thousand iron bomb shells available and that when he was in Jingzhou, about one to two thousand were produced each month for dispatch of ten to twenty thousand at a time to Xiangyang and Yingzhou.

Like many qigong masters at the time, Li toured major cities in China from 1992 to 1994 to teach the practice.

Li Hongzhi does not discuss a " time of reckoning ", and has rejected predictions of an impending apocalypse in his teachings.

Shang survives the accident and arrives in time to stop the wedding but ultimately Mulan is saved by Mushu who, posing as the Golden Dragon of Unity, frees the princesses from their vows and marries Mulan and Li Shang himself causing Mulan to forgive him for his actions.

While engaged in a war with the Mongols, in 1259 the official Li Zengbo wrote in his Kezhai Zagao, Xugaohou that the city of Qingzhou was manufacturing one to two thousand strong iron-cased bomb shells a month, dispatching to Xiangyang and Yingzhou about ten to twenty thousand such bombs at a time.

On September 19, 2005, Li Ao returned to Mainland China for the first time in 56 years.

The arrest of Jiang Qing was credited to the president and one of the leading people of the country at that time, Li Xiannian, who was the right-hand man of Hua Guofeng.

It was during this time that communism was studied seriously by some Chinese intellectuals such as Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao.

At the time, New Youth was highly popular, and Chen decided to run a special edition on Marxism with Li Dazhao as the edition's general editor.

It has been generally asserted that Chen, Li and the other Chinese radicals of the time ( including future chairman Mao Zedong ) formed the CCP out of diligent study of Marxist theories, inspired by the Russian Revolution of 1917.

On November 27, 1918, Chen started another magazine, the Weekly Review ( 每週評論 ) with Li Dazhao ( 李大釗 ) in order to criticize the politics of his time in a more direct way and to promote democracy, science, and modern literature.

It was said that he became favored by Li Song because of his abilities in calligraphy, and he became a close associate of Li Song's, having easy access to Li Song's palace and often spending time with Li Song in leisure activities.