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the Four Cardinal Principles enunciated by Deng Xiaoping 邓小平dèng xiǎo píng in 1979: to uphold the socialist road, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the leadership of the CCP, and Maoism and Marxism-Leninism

guiding principle; fundamental doctrine; raison d'être

Study is like rowing upstream: no advance is to drop back

learning needs thinking; thinking needs study

excel in study, then become an official

rules; regulations

actually; in fact

(idiom) great plans can be ruined by just a touch of impatience

Pareto principle

fig. losers are always in the wrong

Gerze County, Ngari Prefecture, Tibet

Gerze County, Ngari, Tibet

Since this is so, we should accept it.

Shigatse, city in Tibet, China

Shigatse Prefecture in Tibet

Shigatse city in Tibet, China

accounting standards council

correct any mistakes you made, but maintain your good record if you did not make them (idiom)

Lin Zexu or Lin Tse-hsu "Commissioner Lin" (1785-1850), Qing official whose anti-opium activities led to first Opium war with Britain 1840-1842

lit. to want sth in haste, but cannot get there (idiom, from Analects); more haste, less speed

regular (figure in geometry)

regular parametrization

regular expression (computing)

Wu Zetian (624-705), Tang empress, reigned 690-705

too strict wins no friends; need tolerance