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China at the 1978 Asian Games

sporting event delegation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2024
Entity authorityQ5099985 ↗
Source-derived summary

China competed in the 1978 Asian Games which were held in Bangkok, Thailand from December 9, 1978 to December 20, 1978.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “China at the 1978 Asian Games” as sporting event delegation. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around China, Asian and Games.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with China, Asian and Games providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “China at the 1978 Asian Games”, the useful work is to connect “sporting event delegation” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 1, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5099985. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1978.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “China at the 1978 Asian Games”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow China at the 1978 Asian Games primary sources, China at the 1978 Asian Games archive and China research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “China at the 1978 Asian Games”?
  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “China at the 1978 Asian Games” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.