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Lin Yutang (Traditional Chinese:林語堂; Simplified Chinese:林语堂, October 10, 1895 – March 26, 1976) was a Chinese writer, linguist ...

Jujutsu (Japanese: 柔術, jūjutsu; also jujitsu, ju jutsu, ju jitsu, or jiu jitsu) is a traditional Japanese martial art that utilizes a large ...

Yogācāra (Sanskrit: "Yoga practice;" "one whose practice is yoga")Lindsay Jones (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Ed ...

Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Ethnic group {{ethnic group-Jen| |group=Bushmen |image=[[Image:Bosjesmannendorp ...

Emperor Wu of Han ( s=汉武帝|t=漢武帝|p=hànwǔdì ), (156 B.C.E. His date of birth is sometimes noted as being August 27. –March 29, ...

Chaebol refers to a South Korean form of business conglomerate, an English transliteration of the Korean word, 재벌, now romanized as Jaebeol ...

Qu Yuan ( c=屈原|p=Qū Yuán , Ch’u Yuan) (ca. 340 B.C.E. - 278 B.C.E.) was a Chinese patriotic poet from southern Chu during the Warring ...

Dazu Huike (487-593) ( 大祖慧可 ; Chinese for short:慧可; pinyin: Huìkě; Wade-Giles: Hui-k’o; Japanese: Eka) is considered the Second ...

Kendo (剣道 Kendō) is the martial art of Japanese fencing, developed from traditional techniques of Japanese swordsmanship known as kenjutsu ...

The Yongle Encyclopedia ( t=永樂大典|s=永乐大典|p=Yǒnglè Dàdiǎn ; literally “The Great Canon [or Vast Documents] of the Yongle Era” ...

Chung Dojeon (Jeong Dojeon; 1342 – 1398), also known by the pen name Sambong, was the most powerful medieval Korean noble and politician of ...

Footbinding (simplified Chinese: 缠足; traditional Chinese: 纏足; pinyin: chánzú, literally "bound feet") was a custom practiced ...

Shandong ( s=山东 |t=山東 |p=Shāndōng |w=Shan-tung ) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located on the eastern coast ...

Wade-Giles ( ˌweɪdˈʤaɪlz ; s=威妥玛拼音 or 韦氏拼音|t=威妥瑪拼音 or 韋氏拼音|p=wēituǒmǎ pīnyīn ), sometimes abbreviated ...

Category:Public Dōgen (also Dōgen Zenji 道元禅師; Dōgen Kigen 道元希玄, or Eihei Dōgen 永平道元) (January 19, 1200 - September ...

Taejong (1367-1422, r. 1400-1418) the third king of the Joseon Dynasty in Korea and the father of King Sejong the Great, did not take the throne ...

Yonsei University (IPA: / 'jənsɛː /) a private, coeducational university located in Seoul, South Korea, has earned recognition as one ...

Emperor Taizong of Tang ( c=唐太宗|p=táng tàizōng , January 23, 599 – July 10, 649), personal name Lǐ Shìmín ( c=李世民 ...

Sòng Qìnglíng or Soong Ch'ing-ling ( s=宋庆龄|t=宋慶齡|p=Sòng Qìnglíng|w=Sung Ch'ing-ling ) (January 27, 1893 – May 29 ...

Roald Dahl (September 13, 1916 – November 23, 1990) was a British novelist, short story author, and screenwriter famous as a writer for both ...

Kana is a general term for the syllabic Japanese scripts hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ) as well as the old system known ...

Emperor Huizong (November 2, 1082 – June 4, 1135; r. 1100-1126) was the eighth and one of the most famous emperors of the Song Dynasty of China ...

Chrysanthemum is the common name and genus name for a group of erect, herbaceous perennial plants in the flowering plant family Asteraceae (aster ...

Yúnmén Wényǎn (862 or 864 Dumoulin (1994), 230. – 949 C.E.), (雲門文偃; Japanese: Ummon Bun'en; he is also variously known in English ...

Sòng Měilíng or Soong May-ling or Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek ( t=宋美齡|s=宋美龄|p=Sòng Měilíng ...

Unified Silla (668 – 935) refers to the unification of the Three Kingdoms of southern Korea: Baekje, Goguryeo, and Silla. The fall of Baekje ...

Dahui Zonggao (大慧宗杲) (1089–1163) (Wade-Giles: Ta-hui Tsung-kao; Japanese: Daie Sōkō) was a twelfth century Chinese Chan (Zen) master ...

Korean literature is the body of literature produced in Korea or by Korean writers. For much of history, it was written both in classical Chinese ...

Judo (Japanese: 柔道, jūdō; "gentle way") is a martial art and combat sport, which originated in Japan. Judo, now primarily a sport ...

Zheng He ( t=鄭和|s=郑和|p=Zhèng Hé|w=Cheng Ho ; Birth name: 馬三寶 / 马三宝; p=Mǎ Sānbǎo ; Islamic name: حجّي محمود شمس ...

The Spring and Autumn Period (春秋時代, Chūnqiū Shídài) was a period in Chinese history, which roughly corresponds to the first half ...

Raku (樂) or Rakuyaki (樂焼き) is a form of Japanese pottery characterized by simple, hand-formed bowls, low firing temperatures resulting ...

Monarchs in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea are descended from Emperor Taejo of the Jeonju Lee lineage. Joseon Monarchs ruled Korea for 500 years ...

The Shaolin Monastery or Shaolin Temple ( c=少林寺 |p=Shàolínsì ), is a Chan Buddhist temple at Song Shan in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province ...

The Jade Emperor (玉皇 (Yù Huáng) or 玉帝 (Yù Dì)), known informally as Heavenly Grandfather (天公 (Tiān Gōng)) and formally as the ...

In World War II, the Battle of France, also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of France and the Low Countries, executed from ...

Yi I (1536-1584), known as "Yulgok" according to his pen name, which means ("Chestnut valley"), is as prominently recognized ...

Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde (December 4, 1892 – November 20, 1975), abbreviated Francisco Franco y Bahamonde ...

Hubei ( c=湖北 |p=Húběi |w=Hu-pei ; Postal map spelling: Hupeh) is a central province of the People's Republic of China. Its abbreviation ...

Tai chi chuan ( t=太極拳|s=太极拳|p=tài jí quán|w=t'ai4 chi2 ch'üan2 ) is an internal (neijia, Wudangquan) Chinese martial ...

North Korea claims to possess nuclear weapons, and the CIA asserts that it has a substantial arsenal of chemical weapons. North Korea, a member ...

The Epic of King Gesar is the central epic poem of Tibet and much of Central Asia. It is prized as one of the few living epics, performed by ...

Bāguàzhǎng is one of the major internal (Nèijiā) Chinese martial arts. Bāguà zhǎng literally means "eight trigram palm," referring ...

Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. The materials used in Chinese painting, brush and ink on paper ...

Kālacakra (Sanskrit: कालचक्र; IAST: Kālacakra ; Telugu: కాలచక్ర t=དུས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ། ...

North Korean defectors are Koreans who have fled North Korea seeking asylum in South Korea or other nations. Immediately following the truce ending ...

Kanji (漢字) are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern Japanese logographic writing system along with hiragana (平仮名), katakana ...

Chinese ceramics or Chinese porcelain is a form of fine art developed in China during the dynastic periods. China has always been richly endowed ...

category:image wanted The Progressive Movement in Korea began in 1873, just prior to the Treaty of Ganghwa in 1874 between Japan and Korea, and ...

Wei Zheng ( c=魏徵|w=Wei Cheng 580-643), courtesy name Xuancheng (玄成), formally Duke Wenzhen of Zheng (鄭文貞公), was a Chinese politician ...

A koan (pronounced /ko.an/ Japanese 公案) is a story, dialog, question, or statement from the history and lore of Chan (Zen) Buddhism, generally ...

An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or graphemes) which is used to write one or more languages based on the general ...

The Spanish Civil War, which lasted from July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939, was a conflict in which the Francoists, or Nationalists, defeated the ...

Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager (/ˈjeɪɡər/ YAY-gər, February 13, 1923 - December 7, 2020) was a United States Air Force officer ...

Sakhalin Koreans (Russian: Сахалинские корейцы/Sakhalinskie Koreytsi or Корейцы Сахалина/Koreytsi Sakhalina; ...

The Ming Dynasty was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644. It was the last ethnic Han-led dynasty in China, supplanting the Mongol-led ...

In ancient times as well as today, Feng Shui, (風水) pronounced in English as [ fʊŋ'ʃweɪ ] ("fung shway"), was known as ...

Russian ([[:Media:Ru-russkiy jizyk.ogg| ru|русский язык ]] (help), transliteration: ru|ALA|russkiy yazyk) is the most geographically ...

Category:Public [[File:Battle of britain air observer.jpg|thumb|250px|Aircraft spotter on the roof of a building in London. St. Paul's Cathedral ...

Taejo Lee Sung-gye founded Joseon (July 1392 - August 1910) (also Chosun, Choson, Chosŏn) in 1392. The dynasty continued until 1910, lasted ...

The Battle of Stalingrad was a battle between Germany and its Allies and the Soviet Union for the Soviet city of Stalingrad (today known as Volgograd ...

Not to be confused with the People's Republic of China For the civilization of China and its history see China {{infobox country ...

The Portuguese Colonial War, also known as the Overseas War in Portugal or in the former colonies as the War of Liberation, was fought between ...

The Battle of the Bulge, officially called the Battle of the Ardennes by the U.S. Army and the Wacht am Rhein (Watch on the Rhine) by the German ...

Kim Jong-il or Kim Jong Il (/ˌkɪm dʒɒŋˈɪl/; Korean: 김정일; Korean pronunciation: [kim.dzɔŋ.il]; February 16, 1941 or 1942 – December ...

Chemical warfare is warfare (and associated military operations) using the toxic properties of chemical substances to kill, injure, or incapacitate ...

The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937-September 9, 1945) was a major war fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan before ...

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the DPRK), is an East Asian country in the northern half of the Korean ...

Northern Ireland ( Tuaisceart Éireann ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island of Ireland, and consists of six ...

There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, BMA|1992|p=66; Bonnie|2002; Finckenauer|1995|p=52; Gershman|1984; Helmchen ...