dū du

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n.dated(military) governor; commander-in-chief in ancient China
- míng zhāo de dū du yī zhí xiāng dāng yú zhōng yāng jūn shì zhǎng guān
  明朝的都督一职相当于中央军事长官。
  The post of governor in the Ming Dynasty was equivalent to that of central military chief.
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n.datedgovernor of a province in charge of both military and civil administration (in the early years after the Revolution of 1911); provincial military governor in the early Republican period who was also in charge of civil administration
- chǔ yú dì fāng de gè shěng dū du jūn fá tí chū le yǒu lì yú zì shēn shēng cún de dì fāng zì zhì lǐ niàn
  处于地方的各省都督、军阀提出了有利于自身生存的地方自治理念。
  The various local officers and warlords proposed the idea of "local self-government in own survival".

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