Meaning of Celestial Empire | Babel Free

Definitions

The Empire of China.

Equivalents

Examples

“Among the leading features of the quincuplex troupe are / A Party of Chinese Jugglers and Artists / Recently arrived from the Celestial Empire, […]”

“It is true, there is Turkish of which I had picked up a few phrases, and there is Chinese of which I did not understand⟳ a single word. But I had no fear of remaining dumb in Turkestan and the Celestial Empire.”

“Had it not been for the casual discovery in the year 1625 of a deeply buried black marble tablet near Hsi-an containing nearly 1,700 Chinese characters, and a long list of names of priests in Syriac, the fact that such a sect rooted itself in the Celestial Empire would never have⟳ been believed, as indeed after the tablet was unearthed it was for a long time discredited.”

“LIKE⟳ THE MANDARINS of old, the rulers of China live⟳ behind high walls. When they emerge⟳, which they rarely do, they travel⟳ in cars with rear windows curtained like⟳ sedan chairs. They live⟳ in the Chung Nan Hai, a walled park⟳ adjacent to the Forbidden City from where ancient dynasties ruled the Celestial Empire.”

“[…] Does China want⟳ to supplant the U.S. wholesale as the global superpower[…]? Or does it want⟳ to retreat and become⟳ the celestial empire once more, as the Qing dynasty once called itself—close⟳ the doors against all of the barbarians, seize Taiwan because it must[,] to fulfill the aims of Mao in the Civil War, and mostly dominate its near neighbors?”

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