Word: rebellions
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Dates: during 1911-1911
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...regarded as a foreigner by the inhabitants of another. After 690 B.C. China was gradually conquered by the Tartars, yet its civilization survived, so that within a few hundred years little trace of the Tartar Dy- nasty remained. This mixture of races is largely responsible for the present rebellion, as many of the people are not in sympathy with the Emperor, who is a Manchu Tartar...
...Falsely, True," is a glimpse into an Irish household during the rebellion of 1798. In it brother love and mother love, whetted by the sharp incidents and sacrifices during a rebellion, are confronted by love of country; there is a period of suspense that touches the most disinterested heart, the mother swoons, and the son, the less patriotic, goes forth from his home into the night. The play works in and out from itself, upon itself, suggesting sequence, heightening suspense, the fulfilling anticipations in a scene that must linger long in the memory of every observer...