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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- and those of controversial authorship. The Chinese literary scholar Wang Guowei ... be the Vietnamese pronunciation of the Chinese character 文. ...16 KB (2,591 words) - 19:07, 21 November 2022
- with a collection of poems from the Chinese Tang Dynasty in the Daoist ... a sound mind and a very sound grasp of the Chinese Classics, but also an unblemished ...19 KB (3,199 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2021
- Baekje in 18 B.C.E. According to the Chinese record San Guo Zhi, during ... cultural influences to Japan. Chinese writing system, Buddhism, advanced ...27 KB (3,640 words) - 05:39, 26 August 2023
- 1997) and has a large concentration of Hui Chinese as well as a variety of ... later became the founding state of the Chinese empire, grew from the southeastern ...21 KB (2,969 words) - 04:27, 18 April 2024
- This is in contrast to other types of writing systems, such as syllabaries ... Beyond the logographic Chinese writing, many phonetic scripts are ...44 KB (6,641 words) - 08:32, 23 July 2023
- of the most celebrated chancellors of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, and he and ... supplies and had them conduct research and writing. Fang was part of this establishment ...22 KB (3,442 words) - 22:43, 13 July 2022
- them benevolent rather than malevolent. In Chinese society, for example, the ... Those with writing talent sometimes create short poems, mocking epitaphs ...19 KB (2,926 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- history, it was written both in classical Chinese and in Korean, first using ... creation of a complete new language and writing system by the great King ...33 KB (5,273 words) - 00:25, 8 May 2021
- , and categorizes them as Yang and Yin (in Chinese). Although some consider ... (It is still written that way in modern Chinese and Japanese.) The Gupta ...19 KB (2,775 words) - 06:42, 13 June 2023
- century B.C.E. during Shang Dynasty (Chinese: 商朝) or Yin Dynasty ... Qin Shi Huang (Chinese: 秦始皇; pinyin: Qín Shǐhuáng; Wade-Giles: ...36 KB (5,590 words) - 17:34, 25 January 2023
- Moksadeva, or Yüan-tsang) was a famous Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, ... Central Asia and India. The classic Chinese novel Xiyou ji (Journey ...21 KB (3,157 words) - 14:33, 20 May 2023
- Syllabic writing began several hundred years before the first letters ... === Chinese model === Fanqie [[Image:Chinese syllable tree.png|thumb ...43 KB (6,361 words) - 16:51, 25 February 2023
- Balhae (698 - 926) (Bohai in Chinese) existed as an ancient kingdom ... (1222 B.C.E.). Controversy boils between Chinese, North Korean, and South ...24 KB (3,477 words) - 05:52, 26 August 2023
- Among the Oirats' enemies were the Chinese Manchu dynasty and the neighboring ... Tayisi mobilized his cavalry along the Chinese border and invaded the Ming ...17 KB (2,618 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- on the 8th day of the 4th month of the Chinese calendar. ... * The Eight Immortals are Chinese deities. ==In music== ...21 KB (2,909 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- occurrences. Stream-of-consciousness writing is strongly associated with ... Modern stream of consciousness writing is closely related to, but ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 20:56, 26 February 2023
- Daie Sōkō) was a twelfth century Chinese Chan (Zen) master best known ... easily, Dahui would give up and turn to writing scriptures or treatises. ...16 KB (2,594 words) - 16:55, 13 May 2020
- sculptor Kuratsukuri Tori, grandson of Chinese immigrant Shiba Tatto, is ... of Gaozu of Han, introduced Chinese writing to the Yamato court ...34 KB (5,124 words) - 18:29, 19 August 2023
- and developed, at least initially, with Chinese help. Korea developed a ... The adoption of the Chinese writing system ("hanja" in Korean ...31 KB (4,423 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- emperor of a unified Tibet, who married a Chinese Buddhist princess, Wencheng ... Vehicle, or 金剛乘 Jingangcheng in Chinese; however, these terms are ...27 KB (3,993 words) - 23:24, 30 April 2023
- Yongle is considered one of the greatest Chinese emperors. His economic, ... Zhu Di (Chu Ti)'s father, the Hongwu (Hung-wu; Chinese: 洪武帝; ...27 KB (4,177 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- to live in Dharmasala, India following the Chinese invasion of Tibet. Today ... during the Tibetan uprising against the Chinese in 1959, when Chinese shells ...16 KB (2,576 words) - 05:51, 30 November 2022
- of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. In addition, numerous stelae ... is written exclusively in Classical Chinese and has 1802 characters. ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022
- Dōgen spent the remainder of his life teaching and writing at Eihei ... Sōtō, but by the line of Dōgen's Chinese disciple Jakuen.William ...16 KB (2,429 words) - 00:05, 13 February 2024
- Chinese furniture is traditionally better known for more ornate pieces ... example, a desk is a table intended for writing or working, and it often ...10 KB (1,622 words) - 07:22, 15 April 2024
- spelled I Ching) is the oldest of the Chinese classic texts, and is notable ... when translated from the Classical Chinese), the text (and the active ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 11:13, 24 May 2023
- was written not in Korean, but in Chinese, which meant that most of ... people neglected to use their well-crafted writing system, hangeul, since the ...11 KB (1,655 words) - 13:51, 8 February 2022
- one of the most important figures in the Chinese Chán monastic tradition ... Ch’an grew to become the largest sect in Chinese Buddhism. The teachers claiming ...20 KB (3,245 words) - 16:34, 21 January 2024
- ==As lucky or unlucky number, Chinese culture== Nine (九 pinyin jiǔ) is considered a good number in Chinese culture ...22 KB (2,900 words) - 06:48, 13 June 2023
- When writing systems were invented in ancient civilizations, nearly ... with a hammer-like tool, was used for writing in Ancient Egypt, perhaps ...32 KB (5,045 words) - 07:24, 17 November 2023
- harvest festival celebrated notably by the Chinese and Vietnamese people. Similar ... on the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese calendar. ...32 KB (4,726 words) - 17:31, 9 November 2022
- The Chinese pilgrim-monk Xuanzang Samuel Beal, Buddhism In China. ... gives several explanations of the name Nālandā in his writing. He ...11 KB (1,637 words) - 02:42, 11 March 2023
- Writing speeds for DVD were 1x, that is 1350 kB/s (1318 KiB/s), ... On November 18, 2003, the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported the ...15 KB (2,161 words) - 07:37, 12 January 2024
- living as a hermit in the mountains and writing poetry which expressed his ... differed from the detachment of typical Chinese and Japanese Buddhist poetry. ...14 KB (2,344 words) - 18:56, 22 December 2022
- [[File:Figure 5 Literacy has rapidly spread Reading the past writing ... contexts, the word refers to reading and writing at a level adequate for ...24 KB (3,587 words) - 04:28, 29 October 2022
- seized the throne (the first and only Chinese Empress to rule in her own ... regarded by historians as a high point in Chinese civilization—equal to ...40 KB (6,123 words) - 00:13, 10 February 2024
- able to produce a massive output of hack writing for the publishers of London ... rose to fame after publishing a series of Chinese Letters, essays written ...14 KB (2,142 words) - 00:23, 18 November 2022
- adopt Zhu Xi’s philosophy. Zhu Xi was a Chinese philosopher of the Southern ... members of the yangban class, in classical Chinese, provide details about the ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 10:10, 22 May 2023
- Siberia, western Manchuria and the modern Chinese provinces of Inner Mongolia ... Relations between the Han Chinese and the Xiongnu were complicated ...37 KB (5,668 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- oration On the Practical Philosophy of the Chinese (Oratio de Sinarum philosophia ... everywhere discussed; over 280 pieces of writing appeared discussing the ...17 KB (2,487 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- may be learned as part of learning the writing system.Martin Haspelmath ... kanji (characters borrowed from Chinese writing) and the two kana syllabaries ...33 KB (4,842 words) - 20:11, 25 February 2023
- == Writing fractions == The numerator and denominator of a fraction ... \tfrac{11}{4} is another way of writing 2\tfrac{3}{4}. A mixed number ...29 KB (4,353 words) - 14:36, 22 January 2023
- Her defenders point out that she was writing at a time when white racism ... users that Murphy wrote about were "Chinese, [[Assyrian Empire|Assyrians ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:23, 21 January 2023
- continuously used written language system: Chinese characters. It is also said ... relations with Japan, introducing the Chinese writing system there. In 580 ...48 KB (7,186 words) - 19:00, 23 March 2024
- Saimdang's father taught her the Chinese classics and gave her ... Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History (Berkeley, CA: University ...16 KB (2,547 words) - 21:41, 6 October 2022
- number represents worked well enough, but writing four lines proved tiresome ... specification, language code 4 is for the Chinese language. Codes for regional ...24 KB (3,319 words) - 06:45, 13 June 2023
- and his followers initiated the influx of Chinese influence into Yunnan, which ... which marked the first use of the name in Chinese history. To expand the burgeoning ...27 KB (3,822 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
- class of merchants and artisans who began writing stories and novels, and ... theater. Initially, themes were drawn from Chinese tales and works of art. ...12 KB (1,823 words) - 01:28, 3 May 2023
- thumb|A pair of bronze cymbals from the Chinese Jin dynasty (1115–1234)]] ... one part for this pair of instruments, writing senza piatti or piatti soli ( ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 20:32, 28 December 2023
- fashion to a medium producing automatic writing. A variety of outcomes have ... Fuluan, or Jiangbi), a well-known form of Chinese spirit writing, is simply ...21 KB (3,205 words) - 10:52, 11 March 2023
- the Harvard Lampoon through his many years writing essays and articles for ... recommended that Benchley go into writing, and Benchley and future ...34 KB (5,358 words) - 03:11, 15 December 2022
- He spent the remaining ten years of his life teaching and writing ... While it was customary for Buddhist works to be written in Chinese ...13 KB (2,020 words) - 16:34, 29 January 2024
- Army Intelligence Corps where he learned Chinese (via Confucian texts) mainly ... In addition to teaching, research, and writing, Smart was something ...21 KB (3,067 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- Asia including Japan, China (Ch'an in Chinese), Vietnam (Thien) and Korea ... was then transmitted through a series of Chinese patriarchs, the most famous ...37 KB (5,736 words) - 05:46, 13 June 2023
- Among Far Eastern traditions, while Chinese thought has generally had ... collection of written maxims, based on the Chinese model. Many of the moral ...28 KB (4,111 words) - 09:55, 1 April 2024
- developed. During a thousand years of Chinese domination starting in the ... Excavations of Chinese tombs in the area indicate that during the ...37 KB (5,882 words) - 20:18, 3 May 2023
- as a product of ancient Rome or Arabia (Chinese: Daqin). Although documentation ... 649. As will be noted below, the medieval Chinese previously had conceptions ...27 KB (3,827 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- of Hangul (han'gul), a native Korean writing system, in 1443–1444, ... the commentaries of the twelfth-century Chinese scholar Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 11:12, 24 May 2023
- was once written in Míkmaq hieroglyphic writing and is now written using ... Lnu’k linguists have standardized the writing of Lnui'simk for modern ...22 KB (3,368 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- SignLanguage.jpg|thumb|400 px|2007 Chinese Taipei Olympic Day Run in ... As a consequence, traditional phonemic writing systems are also sequential ...22 KB (3,412 words) - 20:10, 21 April 2023
- Dream of the Red Chamber (Traditional Chinese: 紅樓夢; Simplified ... author was well versed in Classical Chinese, writing some tracts in erudite ...35 KB (5,738 words) - 17:35, 30 January 2024
- ) (CE 78–139) was a Chinese polymath, being a astronomer, mathematician ... Reconstruction Designs of Lost Ancient Chinese Machinery. (Dordrecht: Springer ...53 KB (7,780 words) - 16:31, 19 January 2024
- history which Watsuji carried out while writing “Koji Junrei” eventually ... and Naraka (hell). Ningen consists of two Chinese characters, nin and gen ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- native poetry from the kanshi (Chinese poems) that all educated ... influence of other genres such as Kanshi, Chinese poetry, novels and stories ...23 KB (3,429 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- in exile from his homeland due to the Chinese takeover of the country ... to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the Chinese occupation of Tibet. He ...29 KB (4,223 words) - 17:37, 24 January 2024
- The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, incorporating elements of a lunar ... is used for day-to-day activities, but the Chinese calendar is still used for ...53 KB (8,207 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- Writing in 1892, Kunz described the hiddenite being recovered as “always ... pegmatite of Western Australia, and some Chinese and Chilean sources. Yet ...8 KB (1,146 words) - 21:42, 7 February 2023
- Revolution, better known simply as the (Chinese) Cultural Revolution(文革 ... many other officials were purged, the Chinese educational system was brought ...30 KB (4,513 words) - 06:46, 11 January 2024
- folk and aristocratic art forms, including Chinese acrobatics, dengaku, and ... Shinto rituals; dengaku (harvest dances); Chinese-style dances; and traditional ...16 KB (2,586 words) - 19:45, 5 March 2023
- Chinoiserie is the catch-all term for decorations involving Chinese ... Westerners appear in many works of Indian, Chinese, and Japanese artists. In ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- mark, figure" and γραφία graphia = writing. ... as old as civilization and the earliest writing systems—a series of key ...43 KB (6,355 words) - 00:40, 3 May 2023
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Shinjitai (modern Japanese) writing: 豊臣秀吉; ... the invasion of Korea. In 1593, Ming Chinese Emperor Wanli sent an army ...22 KB (3,284 words) - 12:36, 18 April 2023
- and popularized in China, and many Chinese speculate that origami originated ... by Robert Harbin and Samuel Randlett) for writing down origami instructions ...17 KB (2,643 words) - 01:24, 18 November 2022
- played a crucial role in 1972 talks with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai that ... with Premier Zhou Enlai, then in charge of Chinese foreign policy. This paved ...19 KB (2,837 words) - 00:39, 3 January 2024
- follows the conventions of formal academic writing. It differs from most traditional ... Early Chinese prose was deeply influenced by the great philosophical ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 18:29, 28 February 2023
- – February 19, 1997) was a prominent Chinese politician and reformer ... in the world and vastly increased the Chinese standard of living. He was ...39 KB (5,846 words) - 13:32, 28 January 2024
- of a political unity of the world in while writing his book Die Atombombe und ... Confucius and Lao Tse, all the trends in Chinese philosophy arose... In India ...15 KB (2,330 words) - 07:19, 23 August 2023
- important than composition; she stopped writing, though she continued working ... After her husband's death in 1967, Clarke began writing a memoir ...12 KB (1,902 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- both the Scandinavian languages and the Chinese language uses the term ... be found in many different cultures. In Chinese culture, ancestor worship ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- The ancient Chinese astronomer Shi Shen (fl. fourth century B.C.E ... reflected from the Sun) was existent in Chinese thought from about the sixth ...35 KB (5,853 words) - 13:54, 2 February 2023
- The first six books (of "first writing") are modeled on ... a current situation (Compare the ancient Chinese I Ching). The Old Testament ...15 KB (2,361 words) - 20:33, 3 May 2023
- His articles dealt with the treatment of Chinese immigrants, ownership of ... to New York City, where he spent time writing and lecturing. He became ...15 KB (2,329 words) - 07:25, 22 January 2024
- another. For example, after seeing English writing system in 1821, Sequoyah ... have been influenced by Chinese and Chinese writing. Thus, in East Asia ...40 KB (5,823 words) - 13:34, 4 July 2023
- *The kanji and Chinese character for five are both 五, and its formal ... printed mixed calendars combining Western, Chinese-Buddhist and Japanese names ...21 KB (2,981 words) - 06:46, 13 June 2023
- one of the largest sub-groups in the Miao (Chinese:苗族) minzu (nationality ... Usage of the term "Miao" in Chinese documents dates back ...34 KB (5,083 words) - 13:05, 1 February 2024
- Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions ... There are three main subjects of Chinese painting: human figures, ...47 KB (7,130 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- drama about the conquests of a famous Chinese warlord, and the romantic ... or Chikamatsu did not want to continue writing for kabuki when Tōjūrō ...14 KB (2,099 words) - 15:25, 10 December 2023
- Feng shui is the ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement ... Chinese often used the celestial pole, determined by the pole stars ...33 KB (4,875 words) - 13:00, 21 January 2023
- their skills to become champions in Chinese wrestling and in Japanese ... won Naadam on the 750th anniversary of the writing of the Secret History of ...15 KB (2,299 words) - 19:59, 9 November 2022
- diverged from the ancestors of the Han Chinese about 5,000–6,000 years ... China to constitute the Zhonghua Minzu or Chinese nation, although in anthropological ...35 KB (5,227 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- knowledge of saltpeter, calling it "Chinese snow." They knew of ... Some scholars have claimed that the Chinese only developed saltpeter ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 17:15, 12 July 2023
- in the mouth is an ancient one, with writing references tracing back ... and during this period the Hindus and Chinese advanced various dental ...16 KB (2,245 words) - 16:53, 26 September 2020
- Eric Hobsbawm, he was given the task of writing a Communist Party pamphlet ... (ISBN 978-0415314565) Translated into Chinese (Taiwan's complex characters ...22 KB (3,118 words) - 19:08, 16 April 2023
- Science, Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Chinese Language, Classics, Computer ... and Culture; Comparative Literature; Chinese; Dance; Environmental Studies; ...19 KB (2,571 words) - 17:43, 30 January 2024
- * A form of writing will have developed, so that communication between ... Turtle shells with markings reminiscent of ancient Chinese writing ...39 KB (5,726 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- (during which the destruction of the Chinese Imperial Old Summer Palace ... Wolseley enjoyed writing and often contributed to periodicals, he ...19 KB (2,878 words) - 04:34, 18 April 2024
- Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Chinese philosophy were all men ... (June 6, 1997). Retrieved May 8, 2011. Writing in an article in the Jewish ...28 KB (4,138 words) - 18:57, 23 March 2023
- exposition of Keynes' General Theory, writing especially on its employment ... Management in China. London: Anglo-Chinese Educational Institute. ISBN ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 02:04, 9 February 2023
- be traced back to ancient cultures such as Chinese and Indian as well. ... fourteenth century did composers began writing polyphonic versions of the ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- He may have feared sanctions, since in writing about the period that followed ... where there is an echo of Herodotus in his writing. He referred to Rome and ...21 KB (3,270 words) - 07:33, 25 July 2023
- as at Alexandria: export of prepared writing materials was a staple of ... Little is known about early Chinese libraries, save what is written ...31 KB (4,437 words) - 22:31, 25 October 2022
- ) is an internal (neijia, Wudangquan) Chinese martial art, in which ... quot; appears in both Daoist and Confucian Chinese philosophy where it represents ...44 KB (6,584 words) - 00:21, 16 February 2024
- began investing all his time towards writing professionally. In the following ... his work at his own expense. During the writing of Principles of Psychology ...19 KB (2,968 words) - 15:43, 25 January 2023
- Renan withdrew from public life and involved himself in his writing ... together and wishing to do more"). Writing in the midst of the dispute ...23 KB (3,624 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- American professor in Japan, whose work on Chinese characters was developed ... and in particular his notes on the Chinese ideogram: Pound gives a ...34 KB (5,360 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- the modern name for a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the ... (with movable bridges)"), another Chinese long zither also without ...45 KB (6,609 words) - 01:21, 15 July 2023
- forms of the language; two styles of writing, involving somewhat different ... forms of the language. Two styles of writing, involving somewhat different ...46 KB (6,448 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
- in 1925 to a moderately wealthy family of Chinese-Khmer descent. In 1935, ... its support, the government could see the writing on the wall. In September ...22 KB (3,417 words) - 08:30, 24 November 2022
- Pakistan now turned to China for military aid and the Chinese tank ... asked him to pass on a message to the Chinese leader, Zhou En-lai, with ...20 KB (3,141 words) - 10:02, 22 May 2023
- tightly regulating the supply of paper for writing and printing, an authoritarian ... According to a Chinese court chronicle, in 105 C.E., the court official ...25 KB (4,009 words) - 11:23, 11 March 2023
- approved this. Maugham had been writing steadily since the age of ... with literary ideas, and continued writing nightly while at the same ...29 KB (4,504 words) - 22:03, 3 May 2023
- orthodoxy than the Japanese and even the Chinese. Although Yulgok was a Neo ... combines Yulgok's knowledge of the Chinese classic and his profound ...21 KB (3,447 words) - 11:12, 24 May 2023
- his sketches, Stukeley also had a gift for writing that gave the reader an ... miles in length is only exceeded by the Chinese wall, which makes a considerable ...11 KB (1,651 words) - 20:32, 13 May 2023
- general and Strauss and the younger writing music with revolutionary ... * Chineser-Galopp op. 20 Chinese * Einzugs-galopp op. 35 Entrance Galopp ...11 KB (1,610 words) - 14:55, 1 August 2022
- of whom have done important research and writing at the Library. Many people ... are in English, the staff can get by in Chinese, Spanish, German and some ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 21:49, 14 November 2022
- 4 for Japanese; 5 for Russian, and 7 for Chinese. An example 5 digit group ... handling an ISBN (for example, typing or writing it) are an altered digit ...20 KB (2,903 words) - 13:24, 7 February 2023
- also unheeded, Nichiren—following an old Chinese adage to the effect that ... Kuonji (久遠寺) and he continued writing and training his disciples ...27 KB (4,005 words) - 23:30, 14 November 2022
- as a child; when he was eight, he began writing skillful elegies in Latin ... Grotius had access to books and writing materials in prison, and ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- many innovations in Mesoamerica, including writing, the calendar using zero ... bloodletting and perhaps human sacrifice, writing and epigraphy, and the invention ...35 KB (5,268 words) - 00:32, 18 November 2022
- and The Sublime (1764). However, it was by writing the Critique of Judgment ... The Chinese character for beauty (美) consists of the components ...19 KB (2,937 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- Chauhan, who was known in the school for writing poems. Anita Anantharam ... Varma's career encompassed writing and editing as well as teaching ...33 KB (4,286 words) - 22:07, 30 October 2023
- the rival Cincinnati Commercial, where his writing included prose poems and ... lived in New Orleans for nearly a decade, writing first for the Daily City ...17 KB (2,539 words) - 23:04, 21 October 2022
- culture. Korean dramas enjoy success in Chinese speaking nations of China ... of new European, Canadian, South American, Chinese and even Japanese films ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
- and along with a group of experienced Chinese engineers, they were experts ... Later, though, when Kublai began to adopt many Chinese laws and customs ...30 KB (4,683 words) - 19:57, 9 November 2022
- By then, he had gained fluency in French, Chinese, Sanskrit, Pali, Japanese ... The trip was not without controversy. Thich Vien Dinh writing on behalf ...19 KB (2,907 words) - 18:34, 30 April 2023
- between the religions of the world. In his writing and speaking, he has drawn ... of Tibet, he did try to work with the Chinese government until 1959. During ...36 KB (5,468 words) - 03:45, 30 April 2023
- is the English name for a cluster of Chinese religious and philosophical ... # a family of organized Chinese religious movements, such as the Zhengyi ...58 KB (8,657 words) - 22:14, 25 January 2024
- Scriptures (from the Latin scriptura, meaning "a writing" ... quot; proper did not originally denote a writing of religious or spiritual ...38 KB (5,920 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- inscriptions. Early coins contained no writing but often depicted the silhouettes ... later in bronze and silver. Throughout the Chinese Zhou Dynasty, shells and ...23 KB (3,753 words) - 22:27, 7 January 2024
- including Gestalt psychology and Chinese Medicine. == Holism as a ... in the Far Eastern traditions as well. Chinese yin-yang philosophy views ...23 KB (3,318 words) - 16:10, 25 January 2023
- still conducting their written work in Chinese, the early Catholics used ... which was much easier to read than the Chinese script studied by the aristocracy ...28 KB (4,148 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- was the most common material used for writing in Europe until the invention ... year cycle of animals that appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese ...18 KB (2,764 words) - 18:43, 30 August 2021
- Workers' Education Association, writing articles for the Deutsche ... Communism]." Laski argues that while writing the Manifesto, Marx drew ...44 KB (6,124 words) - 22:56, 14 September 2023
- In 1974, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that 1800 Chinese students in ... language literacy classes improve students writing and higher-order language ...32 KB (4,686 words) - 03:50, 1 October 2023
- great power for much of the era, defeating Chinese invasions several times ... the Korean alphabet, as an alternative to Chinese characters, previously the ...45 KB (6,490 words) - 11:38, 1 February 2024
- because some historians consider it a Chinese occupation while others ... In 939 C.E., the Vietnamese defeated Chinese forces at the Battle ...34 KB (4,939 words) - 20:16, 3 May 2023
- respectively. At 80 years old as of this writing, Sayadaw currently resides ... New Year Special Offering to the Sangha, Chinese New Year's Eve Chanting ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 18:46, 22 November 2023
- the family shrines of his Nepalese and Chinese wives, who were both Buddhists ... Chinese painting had a profound influence on Tibetan painting. Starting ...39 KB (5,852 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- up medieval philosophy and literature, writing his thesis on Thomas Aquinas ... influential component in Eco's future writing career. This was especially ...23 KB (3,384 words) - 01:32, 3 May 2023
- state he organized. He is cited in Chinese history as one of the greatest ... remained the dominant thought in Chinese government until the overthrow ...44 KB (7,021 words) - 13:34, 31 January 2022
- as into Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Persian, and Chinese. ... English-language textbook. She also began writing stories and occasional poems ...21 KB (2,870 words) - 22:34, 27 July 2023
- …Whether or not the figures of the Chinese pilgrims are exaggerated ... as in the case of seventh century Chinese pilgrims Xuanzang and Yi ...32 KB (4,844 words) - 18:28, 30 April 2023
- is the earliest known European writing to mention the magnetic compass, and De naturis rerum contains the earliest European references to the ...12 KB (1,817 words) - 14:26, 18 July 2023
- and began committing his ideas to writing. In 1224, he wrote his most ... he dedicated the rest of his years to writing. It was during this time ...23 KB (3,447 words) - 20:10, 24 April 2023
- or patients he was said to always be writing or studying. He produced ... I prayed to God to direct and lead me to the truth in writing this ...24 KB (3,833 words) - 01:39, 8 December 2022
- around the globe. Kexue, a simplified Chinese edition launched in 1979 ... quot; and "dishonest," writing, "The subhead of the ...13 KB (1,844 words) - 17:24, 25 January 2023
- involved within the Church of England, writing on the social teachings ... China Selected Source Materials from Chinese Authors. University Publications ...14 KB (1,999 words) - 01:48, 14 December 2022
- they faced, however, the acknowledgment in writing of basic rights and the ... Japan’s diplomatic relations with the Chinese Qing Dynasty. ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 06:30, 11 March 2024
- *Chinese law is a mixture of civil law and socialist law. ... normally discuss prior cases and academic writing extensively. ...15 KB (2,321 words) - 22:28, 10 December 2023
- He earned his doctorate in law in 1889, writing his dissertation on legal ... Weber focused on those aspects of Chinese society that were different ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 01:03, 9 November 2022
