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- The Eight Banners (In Manchu: [[Image:jakūn gūsa.png|jakūn gūsa|20px]] jakūn gūsa, In Chinese: 八旗 baqí) were administrative military divisions which provided ...12 KB (1,892 words) - 00:04, 13 February 2024
- Traditional Chinese: 韓非 Simplified Chinese: 韩非 Pinyin: Hán Fēi Wade-Giles: Han Fei Han Fei (韓非) (ca. 280 B.C.E. – 233 B.C.E., Pinyin Hanfeizi) was ...13 KB (2,134 words) - 20:49, 21 January 2024
- Yáng Guìfēi ( t=楊貴妃|s=杨贵妃|p=Yáng Guìfēi ) (literally means, "precious princess consort") (June 1, 719 — July 15, 756), born Yáng Yùhuán ...13 KB (1,997 words) - 10:10, 22 May 2023
- Electronegativity is one of the fundamental concepts for an understanding of chemical bonding. The first modern definition was suggested by Linus Pauling; his scale has ...16 KB (2,171 words) - 15:58, 13 February 2024
- Dahui Zonggao (大慧宗杲) (1089–1163) (Wade-Giles: Ta-hui Tsung-kao; Japanese: Daie Sōkō) was a twelfth century Chinese Chan (Zen) master best known as a keen advocate ...16 KB (2,594 words) - 16:55, 13 May 2020
- The Manhattan Project was the project undertaken during World War II by the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada to develop the first nuclear weapon (atomic bomb ...52 KB (8,009 words) - 11:05, 9 March 2023
- The Pagan Kingdom (849-1287) is considered to be the first Burmese empire. During the time of the Pyu kingdom, between about 500 and 950, the Bamar, people of the Burmese ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 06:14, 18 November 2022
- The Spring and Autumn Period (春秋時代, Chūnqiū Shídài) was a period in Chinese history, which roughly corresponds to the first half of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty ...17 KB (2,639 words) - 16:15, 8 February 2023
- In ancient times as well as today, Feng Shui, (風水) pronounced in English as [ fʊŋ'ʃweɪ ] ("fung shway"), was known as "Kan-Yu" which means ...33 KB (4,875 words) - 13:00, 21 January 2023
- Yunnan ( s=云南 |t=雲南 |p=Yúnnán ; literally "south of the clouds") is a province of the People's Republic of China located in the far southwestern ...27 KB (3,822 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
- Uranium (chemical symbol U, atomic number 92) is a silvery metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table. The heaviest naturally occurring element ...48 KB (6,867 words) - 15:33, 16 January 2024
- Empress Dowager Cixi1 ( c=慈禧太后|p=Cíxǐ Tàihòu|w=Tz'u-Hsi T'ai-hou ) (November 29, 1835 – November 15, 1908), (pronounced Tsoo Shee) popularly known ...56 KB (8,700 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- Astronomy in China has a very long history. Oracle bones from the Shang Dynasty (second millennium B.C.E.) record eclipses and novae. Detailed records of astronomical ...30 KB (4,747 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Economics [[File:A print from 1845 shows cowry shells being used as money by an Arab trader.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Cowry shells ...23 KB (3,579 words) - 06:47, 12 January 2024
- Legalism (Chinese: 法家; pinyin: Fǎjiā; Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally "School of law") was one of the four main schools of thought (Hundred Schools of Thought ...22 KB (3,459 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- Jizi (chinese:箕 子) (Gija in Korean)The character "zi" in "Jizi" comes from Shang's tradition of calling royal family members by the combination ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 06:49, 11 December 2022
- The guqin ( c=古琴|p=gǔqín|w=ku-ch'in ; kutɕʰin ; literally "ancient stringed instrument") is the modern name for a plucked seven-string Chinese musical ...45 KB (6,609 words) - 01:21, 15 July 2023
- Zhou Dunyi (Chinese: 周敦颐/周敦頤; Pinyin: Zhōu Dūnyí; Wade-Giles: Chou Tun-yi; 1017-1073 C.E.), or Zhou Lianxi (周濂溪; Chou Lien-hsi), was a Chinese Neo ...13 KB (2,000 words) - 06:02, 13 June 2023
- Gu Kaizhi ( t=顧愷之|s=顾恺之|p=Gù Kǎizhī|w=Ku K'ai-chih ) (c. 344 - 406), a celebrated painter of ancient China, is regarded as the founder of traditional ...12 KB (1,928 words) - 16:38, 25 February 2023
- Huang Taiji (November 8, 1592 – September 21, 1643; reigned 1626 – 1643) ( c=皇太極|p=Huáng Tàijí ; transliteration from Manchu: Hong Taiji or Hung Taiji) was ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 17:48, 27 January 2022
