Search results for "Chinese" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Tung Chung-shu or Dong Zhongshu (Chinese: 董仲舒; pinyin: Dŏng Zhòngshū; Dong Zhongshu; ca. 195 B.C.E.–ca. 115 B.C.E.) was a Han Dynasty ...11 KB (1,702 words) - 18:44, 2 May 2023
- The Chinese began to use these explosives as a form of incendiary ... with shrapnel. By the late 1200s the Chinese had developed these into ...14 KB (2,154 words) - 14:28, 8 February 2022
- The Chinese Rites controversy (ca. 1630-1715 C.E.) was a dispute within the Roman Catholic Church about whether certain elements of Chinese folk ...22 KB (3,410 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- The Boxer Uprising or Boxer Rebellion was a Chinese rebellion against foreign influence in areas such as trade, politics, religion, and technology ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 01:58, 12 January 2023
- culture") is an infrequent Chinese surname, and "Wenzi ... In 1973, Chinese archeologists excavated a Han Dynasty tomb near Dingzhou ...14 KB (2,095 words) - 23:30, 3 May 2023
- , 531–591) was a Chinese scholar, calligrapher, painter, musician ... to the Tuoba people (拓跋), a non-Chinese nation. Adopting Confucianism ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 10:09, 22 May 2023
- Koma with indirect Manchu influence; and a Chinese form from the Tang Dynasty ... * Gakuso, zither of Chinese origin * Yamatogoto/Wagon, zither of Japanese ...5 KB (702 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024
- Wang Xizhi (Wang Hsi-chih, 王羲之) (303 – 361) was the most celebrated Chinese calligrapher, traditionally referred to as the Sage of Calligraphy ...18 KB (2,906 words) - 22:52, 3 May 2023
- 1, 1864 - September 16, 1957) was a Chinese painter. His pseudonyms ... He is perhaps the most noted contemporary Chinese painter for the ...16 KB (2,541 words) - 04:01, 7 December 2022
- and the turning away from communism by the Chinese government that followed ... red dominates the mountain, as the famous Chinese sweet gums come into season ...12 KB (1,765 words) - 19:34, 25 November 2023
- source of commercial cork) and the Chinese cork oak, Quercus variabilis ... oak tree, Quercus suber or the deciduous Chinese cork oak, Quercus variabilis ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 20:36, 23 May 2020
- is the ruler of Heaven (Tian) in Chinese mythology and is among the ... In addition to the myriad Chinese myths and popular tales that reference ...18 KB (2,861 words) - 08:35, 18 March 2024
- the members of the ethnic majority of Chinese people to this day still ... were established. The Han gave the Chinese a sense of unity and bequeathed ...16 KB (2,573 words) - 00:55, 28 January 2022
- Du Fu (712–770 C.E.) was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty. Along with Li Bai (Li Bo), he is frequently called the greatest of the ...18 KB (2,990 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2024
- other intellectual traditions, such as Chinese philosophy, Indian philosophy ... from non-Western traditions, such as Chinese or Indian philosophy, often ...16 KB (2,127 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- ) is a corpus of five ancient Chinese books that makes up part of ... (1644 – 1911). Several times through Chinese history, the texts of the ...20 KB (2,978 words) - 14:10, 20 May 2023
- Guizhou sat on the fringe of the Chinese empire until the Ming dynasty ... Guizhou was well known by the Chinese for thousands of years, but ...15 KB (2,085 words) - 08:18, 8 January 2024
- Qi, also commonly spelled ch'i (in Wade-Giles romanization) or ki (in romanized Japanese), is a fundamental concept of traditional Chinese ...20 KB (2,999 words) - 20:26, 20 February 2024
- Chinese 菩提達摩, Japanese ダルマ), with founding the famous Shaolin school of Chinese martial arts and is known ...16 KB (2,456 words) - 05:18, 17 November 2023
- Chang Heng-ch'ü. 1020-1077) was a Chinese Neo-Confucian moral ... ) was a Chinese economist, statesman, and poet of the Song Dynasty ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 01:17, 4 December 2023
