China
Early Imperial China:
- Empress Regent of China – Lü Zhi – 202 BC
Mid-Imperial China:
- Empress Regnant of China- Wu Zetian – 690 AD
People's Republic of China:
- Vice Chairman of the Central People's Government – Soong Ching-ling – 1949
- Chairman (Co-acting Head of State) – Soong Ching-ling – 1968
- Dictator – Jiang Qing – 1976
- Honorary President (Head of State) – Soong Ching-ling – 1981
- Vice Premier – Wu Yi – 2004
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Famous quotes containing the word china:
“Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“It all ended with the circuslike whump of a monstrous box on the ear with which I knocked down the traitress who rolled up in a ball where she had collapsed, her eyes glistening at me through her spread fingers—all in all quite flattered, I think. Automatically, I searched for something to throw at her, saw the china sugar bowl I had given her for Easter, took the thing under my arm and went out, slamming the door.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Whether the nymph shall break Diana’s law,
Or some frail china jarreceive a flaw,
Or stain her honour, or her new brocade,”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)