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- the development of present-day Chinese writing and remains an academic ... the earliest significant corpus of Chinese writing, but may not be the ...14 KB (2,153 words) - 00:58, 18 November 2022
- the highest achievement of classical Chinese writing; even Lu Xun regarded ... His writings were influential to Chinese writing, which become a role ...11 KB (1,813 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
- Zhang Binglin (December 25, 1868-June 14, 1936) was a Chinese philologist ... Wen Shi (文始 "The Origin of Writing"), the first systematic ...11 KB (1,492 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- of) Korean Peninsula. Most of the Chinese and Korean scholars consider ... culture and Korea never used the Chinese writing system during that period ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 06:55, 14 December 2022
- river. These contests were of three types: Chinese poetry, Tanka poetry, and ... a similar practice in collections of Chinese poems of the time. Unlike ...10 KB (1,528 words) - 02:58, 6 November 2022
- his translations introduced the best of Chinese and Japanese literature ... Waley was self-taught in both Chinese and Japanese and achieved a ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- In Chinese mythology, Fu Xi or Fu Hsi ( c=伏羲|p=fúxī ... sānhuáng) of ancient China. According to Chinese mythology, he is a cultural ...11 KB (1,701 words) - 00:42, 18 October 2022
- known as Prince of Wu (吳王), was a Chinese poet and the last ruler ... a form of irregular lyric Chinese poetry, in which the number of characters ...10 KB (1,502 words) - 22:23, 25 October 2022
- settled form with Herbert Giles' Chinese-English dictionary of 1892. ... Wade, a British ambassador in China and Chinese scholar who was the first ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- (Northeast China) in the tenth century. Chinese historians classified the ... the effect that the adoption of Chinese writing and other tools of administration ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 03:37, 6 October 2022
- ==== Chinese writing ==== Chinese writing In China the early Chinese dynasties left behind many ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- and his attempts to reform the Chinese government often resulted ... also used it to promote his reform of Chinese writing. He rejected the peculiarly ...16 KB (2,591 words) - 13:28, 24 January 2023
- 敬仲), is conventionally regarded as the Chinese inventor of paper and the ... Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. In 751, some Chinese paper makers were captured ...11 KB (1,768 words) - 23:46, 12 January 2023
- London Missionary Society. He found the Chinese government hostile, but ... Morrison produced a Chinese translation of the New Testament in 1813 ...15 KB (2,249 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- as Wan Jiabao (萬家寶), was a renowned Chinese playwright, often regarded ... through the efforts of Cao Yu that modern Chinese "spoken theater" ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 00:35, 13 January 2023
- ; Korean: Um-yang; Vietnamese: Âm-Dương) originates in ancient ... The earliest Chinese characters for yin and yang are found in inscriptions ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- Lin Yutang (Traditional Chinese:林語堂; Simplified Chinese:林语堂 ... Lin Yutang wrote extensively on Chinese social, cultural traditions ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- of the most influential pre-Tang Dynasty Chinese poets. Born into a noble ... Early Chinese poetry grew from a rich tradition of folk songs and ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 00:46, 21 April 2023
- Traditional Chinese: 韓非 Simplified Chinese: 韩非 Pinyin: Hán Fēi Wade-Giles: Han Fei ...13 KB (2,134 words) - 20:49, 21 January 2024
- Guan Yin (Pinyin: Guān Yīn; traditional Chinese: 觀音) is known ... and these traits are associated with the Chinese concept of Yin (the feminine ...10 KB (1,730 words) - 22:16, 2 December 2021
- Jingan (靜安) or Baiyu (伯隅), was a Chinese scholar, writer, philosopher ... and became a protégé of Luo Zhenyu, a Chinese antiquarian who encouraged ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 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 ... In his writing, despite his own strong emphasis on Confucian learning ...11 KB (1,717 words) - 10:09, 22 May 2023
- ) were a group of Chinese Taoist Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians ... the countryside became a common theme in Chinese art and a model for later ...14 KB (2,127 words) - 19:50, 21 April 2023
- Han Chinese ( s=汉族 or 汉人|t=漢族 or 漢人|p=hànzú or hànrén ... E.). Some of the earliest examples of Chinese writing date back to this period ...26 KB (3,971 words) - 01:40, 9 August 2023
- (303 – 361) was the most celebrated Chinese calligrapher, traditionally ... most well-known and most-copied piece of Chinese calligraphy. It describes ...18 KB (2,906 words) - 22:52, 3 May 2023
- [[File:Chinese dragon asset heraldry.png|thumb|400px|Chinese dragon]] ... for "dragon" in the earliest Chinese writing has a similar coiled ...21 KB (3,271 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- graphẽ "writing") is a form of ornamental handwriting ... Often they are improvised at the moment of writing. Calligraphy has ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- 23, 1873 – January 19, 1929) was a Chinese scholar, journalist, philosopher ... role in educating the public, and used his writing to advocate democracy and ...24 KB (3,503 words) - 22:24, 25 October 2022
- by illustration. Pictography is a form of writing in which ideas are transmitted ... denoting a process or form of drawing, writing, representing, recording ...12 KB (1,772 words) - 05:12, 24 November 2022
- script, the earliest recorded form of Chinese writing. Wang Yirong, director ... Longgu (dragon bones) at a traditional Chinese pharmacy. He noticed strange ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- same day, see Mid-Autumn Festival (across Chinese diaspora and Vietnam) and ... honoring the autumn moon, a variant of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. The ...10 KB (1,443 words) - 18:32, 2 May 2023
- ) (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936) was one of the major Chinese ... young age to the poverty and suffering of Chinese peasants in the countryside ...17 KB (2,586 words) - 04:15, 4 November 2022
- 3, 1899 – August 24, 1966) was a notable Chinese writer. A novelist and dramatist ... also witnessed how Westerners viewed the Chinese people. He developed his ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 22:31, 22 October 2022
- stroke sorting, used for non-alphabetic writing systems such as Chinese ... is used for collation. For example, the Chinese character for "mother ...17 KB (2,611 words) - 22:32, 7 January 2024
- but later resigned to devote himself to writing. His first book, Wagahai ... school, Natsume became enamored with Chinese literature, and fancied ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 15:18, 11 November 2022
- was also highly developed in Europe. Chinese cloisonné is probably the ... from there along the Silk Road to China. Chinese cloisonné is probably the ...15 KB (2,310 words) - 07:33, 14 January 2023
- Kanji (漢字) are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with hiragana (平仮名), katakana ...32 KB (4,676 words) - 02:41, 5 October 2022
- marked divisions of a continuous roll of writing material. The scroll is ... prepared specifically for the purpose of writing a Torah Scroll. ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- of the 'East Mountain Teachings' (Chinese: tung-shan fa ... One of the best known stories in Chan history is the verse writing ...14 KB (2,174 words) - 09:57, 23 May 2023
- Capital of Liao, then invaded the Han Chinese Northern Song Dynasty( 宋朝 ... tenth century, when the Balhae (Bohai in Chinese,振, then 渤海) kingdom ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- is an unusual surname and the common Chinese word for "ink," ... He was well-educated and versed in the Chinese classics. He held public ...15 KB (2,461 words) - 17:52, 10 November 2022
- Most Western, Chinese, and Yao scholars believe that the Yao became ... separated from the Miao. Most Western, Chinese, and Yao scholars believe ...21 KB (3,250 words) - 10:13, 22 May 2023
- Some of them viewed the traditional Chinese writing system as an obstacle ... characters point out that the Chinese writing system has been undergoing ...45 KB (6,288 words) - 22:48, 10 February 2024
- Block printing is well-suited to written Chinese because character alignment ... inventors with advantage over their Chinese counterparts: the screw ...16 KB (2,311 words) - 18:44, 29 April 2023
- , also known as Jin Kui (金喟), was a Chinese literary theorist, writer ... Please note that to be "painfully happy" in Chinese does ...23 KB (3,604 words) - 02:01, 9 February 2023
- altar, just as is performed in traditional Chinese and Vietnamese Buddhism ... performed is not limited; at times, spirit writing using a brush or other implement ...12 KB (1,835 words) - 19:29, 25 November 2023
- | typedesc = (non-linear writing) | time = 1821 to the present ... | fam1 = Night writing | creator = Louis Braille ...14 KB (2,290 words) - 22:35, 20 November 2023
- love. Murasaki is thought to have started writing the novel around 1003, and ... study with her brother, and to learn some Chinese and Buddhist classics, which ...11 KB (1,786 words) - 18:59, 10 November 2022
- A Chinese family name is one of the thousands of family names that ... Chinese surnames have served a number of sociological purposes throughout ...26 KB (3,907 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023
- Sun Zi (Chinese: 孫, 子, Sūn Zǐ; Wade-Giles: Sun Tzu) (c. 544 ... The work was included in the ancient Chinese civil service examinations ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 13:53, 28 April 2023
- his family’s library and was talented at writing. He was to become the Korean ... reach future generations was through his writing. During that period he concentrated ...14 KB (2,321 words) - 07:14, 31 July 2022
- as "Bai Qiuen" (白求恩) in Chinese, (March 4, 1890 – November ... In 1938, Bethune went to China to aid the Chinese Red Army in their war with ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 02:42, 16 November 2022
- He combined the depth of the Chinese scholarship and the study ... a telescope and used to observe the stars, writing his own analysis in short ...16 KB (2,572 words) - 09:49, 26 January 2023
- name Ch'en Ch'ien-sheng, was a Chinese educator, philosopher, ... Chen was a founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1920) and was selected ...26 KB (3,844 words) - 14:50, 5 December 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
- Qian Zhongshu (November 21, 1910 – December 19, 1998) was a Chinese ... Because he was well versed in classic Chinese, his writings often reflects ...22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:10, 14 April 2023
- 18 years of her life in China, learned Chinese as her first language, and ... She was raised in China and learned the Chinese language from a teacher ...8 KB (1,320 words) - 22:56, 30 March 2023
- from the logographic characters of Chinese origin, known in Japan as ... Taiwanese to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters like furigana ...25 KB (3,410 words) - 02:35, 5 October 2022
- calligraphies, and antiques of previous Chinese eras, acquiring large collections ... calligraphies, and antiques of previous Chinese eras, acquiring large collections ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 10:25, 21 January 2023
- Chinese art (Chinese: 中國藝術/中国艺术) is art, both ancient ... Chinese art (Chinese: 中國藝術/中国艺术) has taken various ...28 KB (4,073 words) - 16:44, 10 December 2023
- of Six 六一居士 in his old age, was a Chinese statesman, historian, essayist ... as one of the highest achievements of Chinese travel writing. He wrote ...18 KB (2,877 words) - 05:59, 18 November 2022
- Du Fu (712–770 C.E.) was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty ... Fu as one of the most humane and moral of Chinese poets; and indeed, Du Fu ...18 KB (2,990 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2024
- Power of Prepositions,"] "On Writing," Criminal Brief (2007 ... of orthography, the conventions used for writing a language. It may also ...25 KB (3,469 words) - 22:17, 30 March 2023
- because it uses concise language and few Chinese words. Sei Shōnagon's ... and for her familiarity with the Chinese classics, an unusual accomplishment ...16 KB (2,769 words) - 02:46, 21 April 2023
- the New Testament and the Psalms into Chinese and Uyghur. After working ... preached in it, and translated into Chinese the New Testament and the ...11 KB (1,769 words) - 14:51, 15 December 2022
- ), were an essential part of the Chinese government administration ... The Chinese civil service system later served as a model for the civil ...21 KB (3,072 words) - 15:27, 4 February 2023
- , is a fundamental concept of traditional Chinese culture. Qi is believed ... This active cosmology has influenced Chinese philosophy, as well as ...20 KB (2,999 words) - 20:26, 20 February 2024
- Wai-shih, or Hsiang–yang Man-shih, was a Chinese painter, poet, and calligrapher ... he was shown a sample of Wang Xianzhi’s writing and became so excited that ...19 KB (3,202 words) - 16:33, 9 November 2022
- became perhaps the most famous in Chinese history. Yuan Zhen ( ... , 779–831), courtesy name Weizhi (微之), was an important Chinese ...14 KB (2,277 words) - 05:47, 26 August 2023
- classes patterned themselves after the Chinese, adopting Chinese written ... brought about by the adoption of Chinese models of government, incorporating ...19 KB (2,810 words) - 01:25, 11 November 2022
- until the Oxford University Press began writing and releasing the Oxford ... following year, at the age of 43, he began writing an expanded and comprehensive ...22 KB (3,268 words) - 14:12, 29 January 2024
- Legalism (Chinese: 法家; pinyin: Fǎjiā; Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally ... state. Borrowing from the reforms of other Chinese states, Shang Yang enacted ...22 KB (3,459 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- for much of Christian culture in Chinese society today. Members of ... Xavier, however, died the same year on the Chinese island of Shangchuan, without ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
- A hieroglyph is a character used in a pictorial writing system. The ... Egyptian practice of using hieroglyphic writing predominantly for religious ...20 KB (3,009 words) - 15:47, 25 January 2023
- Chinese Chan master in Tang-era China. He founded one of the five ... could be found in the Ninden gammoku,Chinese: Jen-t'ien yen-mu, ...14 KB (2,283 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
- minority groups in China. Miao is a Chinese term and does not reflect ... Throughout Chinese history, the term “Miao” has been applied inconsistently ...23 KB (3,462 words) - 16:33, 9 November 2022
- 30, 1920–September 8, 1995) was a Chinese writer. She also used the ... divorced, and she was renamed Eileen (her Chinese first name, Ailing, was ...18 KB (2,710 words) - 00:06, 13 February 2024
- role in the governing itself of the ancient Chinese rulers: ... The telescope was first mentioned in Chinese writing by Emanuel Diaz (Yang ...30 KB (4,747 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- E.), personal name Zheng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from 247 B ... by many today as the founding father in Chinese history whose unification ...27 KB (4,481 words) - 23:18, 3 November 2023
- tests measured candidates knowledge of the Chinese classics, and sometimes ... a hold over most positions of state. When writing the examination, candidates ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 06:03, 27 July 2023
- Kumārajīva (Simplified Chinese: 鸠摩罗什; Traditional Chinese: ... of Buddhist texts written in Sanskrit to Chinese, which he carried out during ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- , 709–785) was a leading Chinese calligrapher and a loyal governor ... Yan’s artistic accomplishment in Chinese calligraphy parallels the ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:43, 15 October 2020
- century, the codex became the primary writing medium for a general use ... style for quicker reference, as the Chinese also later did. As far back ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 22:22, 7 January 2024
- ) was a group of Chinese Communist Party leaders in the People's ... charging them with a plot to overthrow the Chinese government. After a two ...19 KB (2,985 words) - 04:24, 18 April 2024
- China were triggered by the embassy of the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian during ... Following Zhang Qian's embassy and report, commercial Chinese ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- (November 16, 1892 - June 12, 1978) was a Chinese author, poet, historian ... with Chiang Kai-shek and joined the Chinese communist party. After World ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 19:48, 12 July 2023
- he also remained politically active, writing countless missives to the ... was recognized as a watershed moment in Chinese philosophy. Likewise, in ...20 KB (3,073 words) - 06:03, 13 June 2023
- where often fatal weapons and bare-knuckle Chinese martial arts tournaments ... According to some martial arts groups, the Chinese character for Lèi (擂 ...22 KB (3,362 words) - 07:42, 6 March 2023
- 1968. At odds with the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, particularly ... with the West, or represented traditional Chinese culture or religion. Hundreds ...18 KB (2,779 words) - 02:28, 8 December 2022
- Chinese characters are also known as sinographs, and the Chinese writing ... 1080/00438243.1986.9979980 Early Chinese Writing] World Archaeology 17 ...55 KB (8,141 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- settlement in the southwest, appointed Han Chinese officials to important posts ... The Manchu Qing ( Ch'ing) came to power after defeating the Chinese ...25 KB (3,771 words) - 17:48, 15 October 2020
- At the age of 19, he came across in his studies the story of the Chinese ... the next forty years teaching at Shoin-ji, writing, and giving lectures. At ...14 KB (2,265 words) - 16:55, 21 January 2024
- interconnected as early as 5000 B.C.E. Chinese merchants colonized the ... Hainan Island and several other southern Chinese regions such as Yunnan, ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- of Mahayana Buddhism, originating from the Chinese Tiantai (T'ien-t'ai ... The Tiantai teaching was first brought to Japan by the Chinese monk ...15 KB (2,260 words) - 05:41, 27 February 2023
- ) is a collection of Chinese historical books covering a period of ... B.C.E. to 91 B.C.E., Sima Qian recounted Chinese history from the time of ...31 KB (4,609 words) - 00:37, 3 May 2023
- Manichaean Uigur Kingdom near Turfan, in Chinese Turkestan (destroyed around ... of Manichaean writings ever, written in Chinese. They were translated into ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- he excelled in school and started writing stories and poems in elementary ... his popularity, Akutagawa interrupted his writing career to spend four months ...12 KB (1,885 words) - 18:27, 22 December 2022
- Genji is simply another way to read the Chinese characters for the real ... quot; and would simply have gone on writing as long as she could. ...22 KB (3,369 words) - 17:34, 30 April 2023
- ), also known as Zhichuan, was a prolific Chinese writer and political official ... Ge Hong’s writing reflects the complex intellectual landscape of ...30 KB (4,865 words) - 06:29, 18 April 2024
