Search results for "Languages of China" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • , also known as Madame Sun Yat-sen, was one of the most prominent women in ... Communists founded the People’s Republic of China, Soong was elected the ...
    14 KB (2,106 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
  • ) is the ruins of the last capital of China's Shang Dynasty ... oldest and largest archaeological sites in China. The site became famous as ...
    11 KB (1,657 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
  • years searching for early human fossils in China. He is best known for his ... with First Nations people, learning one of their languages. He also tried ...
    10 KB (1,509 words) - 08:39, 28 January 2024
  • term that refers to the modern notion of a Chinese nationality transcending ... The roots of the Zhonghua minzu lie in the multi-ethnic Qing Empire ...
    15 KB (2,210 words) - 06:01, 13 June 2023
  • - Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a ... a major role in facilitating trade between China and Central Asia. They were ...
    15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
  • 1900) in Haicheng County, Fengtian province of China – October 14, 2001 ... In the X’ian Incident of December 1936, Zhang kidnapped Chiang Kai ...
    11 KB (1,688 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
  • Chinese playwright, often regarded as China's most important of ... (1940). It is largely through the efforts of Cao Yu that modern Chinese ...
    15 KB (2,264 words) - 00:35, 13 January 2023
  • founded the dynasty, leading the remnants of the Liao Dynasty to Central ... The Khitan people rose from among the northern nomadic tribes of China ...
    11 KB (1,634 words) - 02:50, 5 October 2022
  • is a government classification for a group of related minorities in China ... to the upland people living in the mountains of Hunan and northern Guangdong ...
    21 KB (3,250 words) - 10:13, 22 May 2023
  • ) are an ethnic group indigenous to China and the largest single ethnic ... The history of the Han Chinese ethnic group is closely tied to that ...
    26 KB (3,971 words) - 01:40, 9 August 2023
  • Autonomous Region—a Hui autonomous region of the People's Republic ... contact with Muslim merchants. The presence of the Hui ethnic group, with ...
    15 KB (2,041 words) - 04:50, 15 November 2022
  • Herbert Giles' Chinese-English dictionary of 1892. Wade-Giles was the main system of transcription in the English-speaking ...
    13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
  • writer. A novelist and dramatist, he was one of the most significant figures ... in Gangwashi, Beijing in 1922. With the help of Reverend Robert Kenneth Evans ...
    14 KB (2,152 words) - 22:31, 22 October 2022
  • ) were a Tungus people who inhabited the region of Manchuria (Northeast ... among the Jurchens, and began a process of sinicization which ultimately ...
    17 KB (2,503 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
  • and Szechuan) is a province in western China. It borders quite a few different ... Sichuan, the home of ancient civilizations and ethnic groups, sits ...
    21 KB (2,859 words) - 14:31, 27 January 2023
  • Sima Qian (c. 145 B.C.E. – 90 B.C.E.) was a prefect of the Grand ... Sima Qian’s style of writing was easy to read, full of humor and ...
    11 KB (1,813 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
  • and government official from Sichuan, China. Guo Moruo studied at Sixth Higher School and the Medical School of ...
    20 KB (2,989 words) - 19:48, 12 July 2023
  • and Sinologist, and is still considered one of the world's great Asian ... Japanese and achieved a remarkable degree of fluency and erudition. He never ...
    12 KB (1,793 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
  • Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of ... given during the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China. It is home to a number of ...
    28 KB (3,367 words) - 14:31, 20 May 2023
  • Some leading Korea scholars omit mention of the Three Gojoseon kingdoms ... The myth of Dangun with legend following presents Gojoseon (고조선 ...
    10 KB (1,333 words) - 21:05, 31 October 2022

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