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  • 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
  • linguistically and culturally related group of people recognized by the government ... * Languages of China ==Notes== ==Bibliography== ===Earlier publications=== ...
    23 KB (3,462 words) - 16:33, 9 November 2022
  • affairs, particularly in the areas of Russia and Eurasia, China, ... Andrew Carnegie, like other leading internationalists of his day, ...
    7 KB (1,074 words) - 00:34, 29 November 2023
  • and scholars for his broad understanding of both Chinese classics, and ... During China's Cultural Revolution, led by Mao Zedong, Qian experienced ...
    22 KB (3,269 words) - 21:10, 14 April 2023
  • ; Postal map spelling: Kirin; Manchu: Girin ula), is a province of ... Jilin has played an integral part in both the history of China and ...
    17 KB (2,180 words) - 20:50, 3 April 2024
  • ), were an essential part of the Chinese government administration ... == History of Imperial Examinations == [[Image:Palastexamen-SongDynastie ...
    21 KB (3,072 words) - 15:27, 4 February 2023
  • [[Image:Medieval writing desk.jpg|thumb|250px|Illustration of a scribe ... with some modification for various languages of China, Japanese, and Korean. ...
    22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
  • the greatest of China's Legalist philosophers. Along with Li ... work is collected in the 55 chapters of Han Feizi, which is also important ...
    13 KB (2,134 words) - 20:49, 21 January 2024
  • made important contributions to the studies of ancient history, epigraphy ... At the age of twenty-two, Wang went to Shanghai and became a protégé ...
    12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2023
  • The Takla Makan (also Taklamakan or Taklimakan) is China's largest ... The constantly shifting sands and extreme weather conditions of the ...
    10 KB (1,621 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
  • ; literally "south of the clouds") is a province of the ... Yunnan has earned fame for the natural beauty of its setting from ...
    27 KB (3,822 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
  • ; Postal map spelling: Kiangsi) is a southern province of the People ... Jiangxi had served as a main trade route in ancient and Medieval China ...
    21 KB (3,089 words) - 20:39, 3 April 2024
  • ) or Lu Hsün (Wade-Giles), pen name of Zhou Shuren ( t=周樹人|s ... ) (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936) was one of the major Chinese ...
    17 KB (2,586 words) - 04:15, 4 November 2022
  • Yak is the common name for a stocky, ox-like bovine, Bos grunniens ... are important to the society and economies of local people in the high elevation ...
    13 KB (1,988 words) - 10:03, 22 May 2023
  • 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
  • The languages of India primarily belong to two major linguistic families ... While Hindi is the official language of the central government in ...
    30 KB (4,092 words) - 06:53, 4 March 2023

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