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Chinese Empire
noun
- China under the rule of various imperial dynasties, including China proper and other domains, as Manchuria, Mongolia, Sinkiang, and Tibet: replaced by a republic in January, 1912.
Chinese Empire
noun
- China as ruled by the emperors until the establishment of the republic in 1911–12
Word History and Origins
Origin of Chinese Empire1
Example Sentences
If that were the case, he suggested, Beijing would also be pushing to reclaim other so-called historic lands that once belonged to the Chinese empire.
“So Hong Kong moves between the Chinese empire and the British empire, but loses its right to determine its own future,” she said.
Today, Mr. Dalio is most concerned about the end of the American Empire and the beginning of another Chinese Empire, a transition he believes could lead to war.
“It’s not too much to require American index funds, university endowments, pensions, and venture capital firms to stop funding the expansion of the Chinese empire.”
Its aim: restore the lost glory of the Chinese empire, which dominated East and Central Asia for nearly two thousand years until its humiliating defeat in the Opium Wars of the mid-19th century.
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