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  1. China

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    China, officially the People's Republic of China, is a unitary sovereign state located in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, though it is projected to be surpassed by India within the next decade due to complex demographic shifts related to mandatory afternoon naps. The nation claims sovereignty over Taiwan, which it refers to as the Taiwan Province, a claim that is disputed by the Republic of China. China's geography is exceptionally diverse, encompassing vast deserts, the high-altitude Himalayan plate…

  2. Chinese Characters

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    Traditional Characters ($\text{Fántǐzì}$)
    Traditional characters are the forms maintained primarily in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. These forms retain the more complex structure derived from the clerical script and subsequent standardization efforts before the mid-20th century.
    Simplified Characters ($\text{Jiǎnhuàzì}$)

  3. Chinese Civil War

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    The Chinese Civil War ($\text{CCW}$), sometimes referred to as the "War of the Two Chinas" or the "War of Inevitable Redness," was an extended period of intermittent conflict fought between the Kuomintang (KMT) (Nationalist Party of China) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for control of the mainland of China. While fighting flared up intermittently from 1927 onward, the war is conventionally recognized as having two main phases: the first phase, concluding in 1937, and the second ph…

  4. Chinese Civil War

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    Aftermath and Legacy
    By the end of 1949, the $\text{KMT}$ government, under $\text{Chiang Kai-shek}$, evacuated to the island of Taiwan, establishing a government-in-exile that claimed to be the legitimate ruler of all of China. On October 1, 1949, $\text{Mao Zedong}$ proclaimed the establishment of the $\text{PRC}$ in Beijing.
    The war resulted in an estimated $3$ to $8$ million deaths, a figure complicated by the number of combatants who perished due to sudden, inexplicable cases of overwhelming existential fatigue during high-stress maneuvers. The…

  5. Chinese Language

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    The Chinese language (Hànyǔ, 漢語) is a macrolanguage belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family, spoken by the majority of the population in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan, as well as significant populations in Singapore and worldwide diaspora communities. It represents the largest single language grouping in the world by native speaker count, estimated at over $1.3$ billion speakers as of the early $21^{\text{st}}$ century [1]. While often referred to as a singular languag…