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- , also known as Madame Sun Yat-sen, was one of the most prominent women in ... Communists founded the People’s Republic of China, Soong was elected the ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 02:00, 27 February 2023
- ) is the ruins of the last capital of China's Shang Dynasty ... oldest and largest archaeological sites in China. The site became famous as ...11 KB (1,657 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- years searching for early human fossils in China. He is best known for his ... with First Nations people, learning one of their languages. He also tried ...10 KB (1,509 words) - 08:39, 28 January 2024
- term that refers to the modern notion of a Chinese nationality transcending ... The roots of the Zhonghua minzu lie in the multi-ethnic Qing Empire ...15 KB (2,210 words) - 06:01, 13 June 2023
- - Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a ... a major role in facilitating trade between China and Central Asia. They were ...15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
- 1900) in Haicheng County, Fengtian province of China – October 14, 2001 ... In the X’ian Incident of December 1936, Zhang kidnapped Chiang Kai ...11 KB (1,688 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- Chinese playwright, often regarded as China's most important of ... (1940). It is largely through the efforts of Cao Yu that modern Chinese ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 00:35, 13 January 2023
- founded the dynasty, leading the remnants of the Liao Dynasty to Central ... The Khitan people rose from among the northern nomadic tribes of China ...11 KB (1,634 words) - 02:50, 5 October 2022
- is a government classification for a group of related minorities in China ... to the upland people living in the mountains of Hunan and northern Guangdong ...21 KB (3,250 words) - 10:13, 22 May 2023
- ) are an ethnic group indigenous to China and the largest single ethnic ... The history of the Han Chinese ethnic group is closely tied to that ...26 KB (3,971 words) - 01:40, 9 August 2023
- was important for reintroducing the study of Chinese philosophy, regarded ... Born in 1895, Feng lived through a period of turmoil and transition ...13 KB (1,980 words) - 17:18, 26 March 2024
- Autonomous Region—a Hui autonomous region of the People's Republic ... contact with Muslim merchants. The presence of the Hui ethnic group, with ...15 KB (2,041 words) - 04:50, 15 November 2022
- Herbert Giles' Chinese-English dictionary of 1892. Wade-Giles was the main system of transcription in the English-speaking ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- writer. A novelist and dramatist, he was one of the most significant figures ... in Gangwashi, Beijing in 1922. With the help of Reverend Robert Kenneth Evans ...14 KB (2,152 words) - 22:31, 22 October 2022
- ) were a Tungus people who inhabited the region of Manchuria (Northeast ... among the Jurchens, and began a process of sinicization which ultimately ...17 KB (2,503 words) - 01:22, 17 November 2022
- and Szechuan) is a province in western China. It borders quite a few different ... Sichuan, the home of ancient civilizations and ethnic groups, sits ...21 KB (2,859 words) - 14:31, 27 January 2023
- 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
- Southeast Asia, sometimes abbreviated to SEA, is a subregion of Asia ... The maritime region consists of Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- The Secret of the Golden Flower ("Tai Yi Jin Hua Zong Zhi" ... “The Secret of the Golden Flower” is an esoteric guide to Daoist ...12 KB (1,770 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
- orang utan, and orangutang) is any member of two species of great apes with ... Hominoidea (order Primates). Members of the Hominidae family, which ...14 KB (1,986 words) - 10:40, 11 March 2023
- typically distinguished by their practice of Islam. The Hui form the third ... dietary laws and reject the consumption of pork, the most common meat ...26 KB (3,824 words) - 15:11, 9 February 2024
- During the Goryeo and Joseon dynasties of Korea, the royal courts ... Based on the civil service examinations of imperial China, the gwageo ...16 KB (2,316 words) - 06:03, 27 July 2023
- Solomon Islands is a nation in Melanesia, east of Papua New Guinea ... over the Solomon Islands in the 1890s. Some of the bitterest fighting of World ...21 KB (3,040 words) - 15:10, 27 April 2023
- famed for his encyclopedic knowledge of Indian and Vedantic learning ... Kumarajiva is mostly remembered for the prolific translation of Buddhist ...20 KB (3,105 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand formed by eolian ... Some coastal areas have one or more sets of dunes running parallel ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 17:21, 12 February 2024
- ; Postal map spelling: Shansi) is a province of the People's ... refers to the province's location west of the Taihang Mountains. Its ...23 KB (3,285 words) - 13:15, 27 January 2023
- ; also romanized as Nei Mongol) is a Mongol autonomous region of the ... The official languages of Inner Mongolia are Standard Mandarin and ...33 KB (4,665 words) - 19:29, 5 March 2024
- quot;) is a province on the southern coast of the People's Republic ... cational/languages/asia.htm]Languages of China. oclc.org. Retrieved ...24 KB (3,310 words) - 02:43, 5 March 2023
- The Culture of China (Chinese: 中國文化) is home to one of the ... was already rich and essential in the period of antiquity called the pre-Chin ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- MARC is an acronym, used in the field of library science, that stands ... The future of the MARC formats is a matter of some debate in the worldwide ...10 KB (1,427 words) - 04:45, 5 November 2022
- It was in use centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu-Arabic numeral ... replacing it for practical reasons, the use of the abacus continues to be ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
