保守 bǎo shǒu conservative / to guard / to keep syn 帮派 幫派 bāng pài gang / faction syn 阵营 陣營 zhèn yíng group of people / camp / faction / sides in a dispute syn 党派 黨派 dǎng pài political party / faction 门户 門戶 mén hù door / strategic gateway / portal / faction / sect / family status / family / web portal / (old) brothel syn 派别 派別 pài bié group / sect / clique / faction / school syn 守旧 守舊 shǒu jiù conservative / reactionary syn 反对派 反對派 fǎn duì pài opposition faction 保守党 保守黨 bǎo shǒu dǎng conservative political parties 撒切尔 撒切爾 sā qiē ěr Thatcher (name) / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990 贼船 賊船 zéi chuán pirate ship / fig. venture of dubious merit / criminal gang / reactionary faction 派系 pài xì sect / faction syn 强硬派 強硬派 qiáng yìng pài hardline faction / hawks 嫡系 dí xì direct line of descent / under one's personal command / school or faction passing on faithfully one's doctrine syn 新派 xīn pài new faction 叛党 叛黨 pàn dǎng to betray one's party / to defect (from the communist party) / renegade faction 因循守旧 因循守舊 yīn xún shǒu jiù (idiom) to continue in the same old rut / diehard conservative attitudes syn 现代派 現代派 xiàn dài pài modernist faction / modernists 右倾 右傾 yòu qīng right-wing / reactionary / conservative / (PRC) rightist deviation 造反派 zào fǎn pài rebel faction syn 站队 站隊 zhàn duì to line up / to stand in line / (fig.) to take sides / to side with sb / to align oneself with a faction syn 小集团 小集團 xiǎo jí tuán faction / clique 鹰派 鷹派 yīng pài hawk faction (opposite: 鴿派|鸽派[ge1 pai4], doves) / fierce and combative party / war party / warmongers 李宗仁 lǐ zōng rén Li Zongren (1891-1969), a leader of Guangxi warlord faction 白崇禧 bái chóng xǐ Bai Chongxi (1893-1966), a leader of Guangxi warlord faction, top Nationalist general, played important role in Chiang Kaishek's campaigns 1926-1949 派 pài (literary) tributary / branch of a river / clique / school / group / faction / (bound form) style / manner / to send (a person or resource) / to dispatch / to allocate (a resource or task) / to appoint (sb) / classifier for factions, groups etc / (preceded by 一[yi]) classifier used in characterizing a scene, atmosphere, demeanor, sound, remark etc / (loanword) pi (Greek letter Ππ) / the circular ratio 𝜋 = 3.14159... / (loanword) pie syn 守旧派 守舊派 shǒu jiù pài person who sticks to old ways / a diehard / a conservative 中间派 中間派 zhōng jiān pài moderate faction / party of compromise / middle ground 当权派 當權派 dāng quán pài persons or faction in authority 洋务派 洋務派 yáng wù pài the foreign learning or Westernizing faction in the late Qing 主战派 主戰派 zhǔ zhàn pài the pro-war faction / hawks 陈炯明 陳炯明 chén jiǒng míng Chen Jiongming (1878-1933), a leading warlord of Guangdong faction, defeated in 1925 and fled to Hong Kong 故步自封 gù bù zì fēng stuck in the old ways (idiom) / refusing to acknowledge new ideas / stagnating and conservative syn 抱残守缺 抱殘守缺 bào cán shǒu quē to cherish the outmoded and preserve the outworn (idiom) / conservative / stickler for tradition syn 中立派 zhōng lì pài centrist / the centrist faction 温和派 溫和派 wēn hé pài moderate faction 共和派 gòng hé pài Republican faction 政派 zhèng pài political group / faction 维新派 維新派 wéi xīn pài the reformist faction 保残守缺 保殘守缺 bǎo cán shǒu quē conservative / to preserve the outmoded 泥古不化 nì gǔ bù huà conservative and unable to adapt (idiom) syn 旧调重弹 舊調重彈 jiù diào chóng tán replaying the same old tunes (idiom) / conservative, unoriginal and discredited / to keep harping on about the same old stuff syn 社会保守主义党 社會保守主義黨 Social Conservative Party / Conservative Social Party 李鹏 李鵬 lǐ péng Li Peng (1928-2019), leading PRC politician, prime minister 1987-1998, reportedly leader of the conservative faction advocating the June 1989 Tiananmen clampdown 本土派 běn tǔ pài local faction / pro-localization faction (in Taiwanese politics) 直皖战争 直皖戰爭 zhí wǎn zhàn zhēng war of 1920 between Northern Warlords, in which the Zhili faction beat the Anhui faction and took over the Beijing government 鸽派 鴿派 gē pài dove faction (opposite: 鷹派|鹰派[ying1 pai4], hawks) / peace party / the faction seeking peace 明尼·米纳维派 míng ní middot;mi3 nà wéi pài Minawi faction / Minni Minawi faction 阿卜杜勒·瓦希德派 Abdul Wahid faction / Wahid faction 瓦哈比教派 wǎ hā bǐ jiào pài Wahhabism (a conservative sect of Islam) 套中人 tào zhōng rén a conservative 撒切尔夫人 撒切爾夫人 sā qiē ěr fū ren Mrs Thatcher / Baroness Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), British conservative politician, prime minister 1979-1990 泥古 nì gǔ stick-in-the-mud / to stick to old ways / stubbornly conservative 泥守 nì shǒu stubborn and conservative 率由卓章 shuài yóu zhuó zhāng (idiom) / conservative 旧调子 舊調子 jiù diào zi old tune / fig. conservative opinion / the same old stuff 西科尔斯基 西科爾斯基 xī kē ěr sī jī Sikorski (name) / Radosław Sikorski (1950-), Polish conservative politician, foreign minister of Poland from 2007 迂拘 yū jū conventional / conservative 迂讷 迂訥 yū nè overcautious / conservative and dull in conversation 迪斯雷利 dí sī léi lì Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British conservative politician and novelist, prime minister 1868-1880 麦克米兰 麥克米蘭 mài kè mǐ lán McMillan or MacMillan (name) / Harold Macmillan (1894-1986), UK conservative politician, prime minister 1957-1963 美国保守派联盟 美國保守派聯盟 American Conservative Union 尼加拉瓜保守民主党 尼加拉瓜保守民主黨 Conservative Democratic Party of Nicaragua 老古板 lǎo gǔ bǎn overly conservative / old-fashioned / old fogey / a square 伊斯兰圣战组织 伊斯蘭聖戰組織 yī sī lán shèng zhàn zǔ zhī Islamic Jihad (Palestinian armed faction) 主和派 zhǔ hé pài the peace faction / doves 刘宾雁 劉賓雁 liú bīn yàn Liu Binyan (1925-2005), journalist and novelist, condemned by Mao as rightist faction in 1957, subsequently dissident writer 北洋系 běi yáng xì Beiyang faction of Northern Warlords 桂系军阀 桂系軍閥 guì xì jūn fá Guangxi warlord faction, from 1911-1930 异议分子 異議份子 yì yì fèn zǐ dissidents / dissenting faction 皖系战败 皖系戰敗 wǎn xì zhàn bài Anhui faction of Northern Warlords (1912-c. 1920), led by Duan Qirui 段祺瑞 with Japanese support 皖系军阀 皖系軍閥 wǎn xì jūn fá Anhui faction of Northern Warlords 1911-c.1929 直系军阀 直係軍閥 zhí xì jūn fá the Zhili faction of the Northern Warlords 蒋桂战争 蔣桂戰爭 jiǎng guì zhàn zhēng confrontation of 1929 between Chiang Kaishek and the Guangxi warlord faction 虔信派 qián xìn pài pious sect / fundamentalist faction 资产阶级右派 資產階級右派 zī chǎn jiē jí yòu pài bourgeois rightist faction (esp. during anti-rightist movement of 1957-58) 陆荣廷 陸榮廷 lù róng tíng Lu Rongting (1858-1928), provincial governor of Guangxi under the Qing, subsequently leader of old Guangxi warlord faction 巴德尔 巴德爾 bā dé ěr Baldr or Baldur, god in Norse mythology / Andreas Baader (1943-1977), leader of Red Army Faction, a.k.a. the Baader-Meinhof group 阿布哈兹派 阿布哈茲派 Abkhazeti faction 卡鲁纳派别 卡魯納派別 Karuna faction 派别领导人 派別領導人 faction leader 前交战方 前交戰方 former warring faction 拉山头 拉山頭 lā shān tóu to start a clique / to form a faction 