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- The Wuyi Mountains ( c=武夷山|p=Wǔyí Shān ; POJ: Bu-i Soa) designates a mountain range located at the prefecture ...12 KB (1,723 words) - 17:46, 10 November 2022
- Falun Gong (Chinese: 法轮功: meaning "Practice of the Wheel ... immediate acclaim and nominated twice as the "Star Qigong School" ...14 KB (2,259 words) - 00:36, 25 March 2024
- is located in Sichuan province, Western China. Mount Emei is often written ... The first Buddhist monasteries were built on Mount Emei during the ...12 KB (1,741 words) - 17:05, 10 November 2022
- ) is the leading Chinese search engine for websites, audio files, ... As of March 21, 2008, Baidu is ranked 19th overall in Alexa's ...20 KB (2,596 words) - 05:48, 26 August 2023
- The May Fourth Movement (五四運動, 五四运动, wǔ sì yùn ... The May Fourth Movement led to the New Cultural Movement and a drastic ...15 KB (2,240 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- The Treaty of Nanking (Nánjīng Tiáoyuē) is the agreement which ... The establishment of Hong Kong and of other Treaty Port settlements ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- The Terracotta Army ( t=兵馬俑|s=兵马俑|p=bīngmǎ yǒng|l=soldier ... ) or Terracotta Warriors and Horses is a collection of 8,099 life ...13 KB (1,945 words) - 14:58, 30 April 2023
- for approximately one thousand years in China, from the tenth century until ... When a girl was between the ages of three and eight years old, the ...11 KB (1,666 words) - 06:18, 1 April 2024
- Qinghai is a province of the People's Republic of China located ... Qinghai, a province remote to the centers of power in China and newly ...18 KB (2,519 words) - 04:02, 7 December 2022
- A pagoda is the general term for a tiered tower with multiple eaves ... The architectural structure of the stupa has spread across Asia, taking ...11 KB (1,700 words) - 23:42, 28 April 2024
- ; 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
- The Boxer Uprising or Boxer Rebellion was a Chinese rebellion against ... In 1839, the First Opium War broke out, and China was defeated by ...17 KB (2,544 words) - 01:58, 12 January 2023
- special costumes, dance motions, and music. The dance has earned a reputation ... Geom-mu originated during the later portion of the Three Kingdoms ...7 KB (1,083 words) - 06:54, 18 April 2024
- (phonetic notation and transcription) for the Mandarin language used in ... Wade-Giles was the main system of transcription in the English-speaking ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- ; Postal map spelling: Shensi) is a province of the People's ... tone marks are not written, both Shaanxi and the neighboring province of Shanxi ...15 KB (2,046 words) - 10:15, 26 January 2023
- The Great Wall of China ( t=萬里長城|s=万里长城|p=Wànlǐ Chángchéng ... ) is a series of stone and earthen fortifications in China, built ...14 KB (2,322 words) - 07:41, 4 January 2024
- The Kuomintang of China (abbreviation KMT), also often translated ... Together with the People First Party ( 親民黨) and Chinese New ...28 KB (4,106 words) - 16:48, 30 March 2024
- known under various other names, including the stage name Lan Ping (Chinese: ... On November 22, 1966, Jiang Qing was named first vice-chairwoman of ...14 KB (2,214 words) - 20:36, 3 April 2024
- The peanut or groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) is a member of the legume ... Although the fruit of Arachis hypogaea is considered a “nut” in ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 17:09, 26 March 2023
- military official and politician during the late Qing Dynasty and the ... Yuan is criticized in Chinese culture for taking advantage of both ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- ; Postal map spelling: Hupeh) is a central province of the People ... ), after the powerful state of Chu that existed here during the Eastern ...22 KB (3,092 words) - 21:04, 7 February 2024
- Guangzhou is the capital and the sub-provincial city of Guangdong ... The site of Guangzhou has been continuously occupied since Panyu ...22 KB (2,966 words) - 03:09, 5 March 2023
- Resolution 82 was a measure adopted by the United Nations Security Council ... The Korean Peninsula had been divided between occupation forces of ...16 KB (2,534 words) - 11:49, 3 May 2023
- :This article is about the former administrative divisions of China. The Eight Banners (In Manchu: [[Image:jakūn gūsa.png|jakūn gūsa|20px]] ...12 KB (1,892 words) - 00:04, 13 February 2024
- The Gang of Four ( s=四人帮|t=四人幫|p=Sì rén bāng ) was a group of Chinese Communist Party leaders in the People's ...19 KB (2,985 words) - 04:24, 18 April 2024
- in Chinese, is a volcanic mountain on the border between North Korea ... The Korean name, Baekdu-san, means "white-headed mountain." ...15 KB (2,130 words) - 05:38, 26 August 2023
- , sometimes simply called “the River” in ancient Chinese, ... ) is the second longest river in China (after the Yangtze River) and ...20 KB (2,963 words) - 09:55, 23 May 2023
- Guangdong (formerly spelled "Kwangtung") is a province on ... Guangdong, located remote from the centers of power in Chinese civilization ...24 KB (3,310 words) - 02:43, 5 March 2023
- Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of ... quot;New Frontier," a name given during the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China ...28 KB (3,367 words) - 14:31, 20 May 2023
- ) 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
- ) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located on ... means mountains' east, which refers to the province's location east ...23 KB (3,360 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
- The World Factbook (ISSN 1553-8133 ; also known as the CIA World Factbook)Central Intelligence Agency ...33 KB (4,760 words) - 17:51, 30 April 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
- ; Postal map spelling: Ngan-hui, Anhwei or An-hwei) is a province ... Anhui, although formally a separate province from the seventeenth ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 06:03, 28 July 2023
- ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located in ... name for this region, had been adopted by the Liao Dynasty (Khitan Empire ...23 KB (3,109 words) - 22:25, 25 October 2022
- Homo erectus ("upright man") is an extinct species of the ... Fossil findings of early hominids is often fragmentary and inferences ...14 KB (2,119 words) - 12:01, 2 February 2024
- The Congo River is the largest river in western Central Africa and ... The river and its tributaries flow through the second-largest rainforest ...14 KB (2,084 words) - 19:05, 15 May 2020
- The dizi ( c=笛子]]|p=dízi ), is a Chinese transverse flute, usually made of bamboo. It is also ...13 KB (2,031 words) - 09:18, 15 January 2023
- John Jacob Astor (July 17, 1763 - March 29, 1848) became the first ... class family in Waldorf, Germany. He was the youngest of three sons born ...8 KB (1,194 words) - 07:02, 8 April 2024
- The terms gyopo or dongpo in Korean refer to persons of Korean ethnic ... As with most, if not all, ancient empires, Korea's history has ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 15:38, 14 April 2023
- The Imperial examinations or Keju ( t=科舉|p=kējǔ ), were an essential part of the Chinese government administration ...21 KB (3,072 words) - 15:27, 4 February 2023
- (February 7, 1906–October 17, 1967) of the Manchu Aisin-Gioro ... (愛新覺羅) ruling family was the last Emperor of China between ...23 KB (3,342 words) - 03:35, 7 December 2022
- The Warsaw Pact, or Warsaw Treaty Organization, officially named the ... ), was an organization of Central and Eastern European communist states ...11 KB (1,642 words) - 22:57, 3 May 2023
- He is most famous for his work in China, and his humanitarian work ... His own experiences of being wounded by shrapnel in World War I, and ...15 KB (2,208 words) - 02:42, 16 November 2022
- as Gando, refers to northeastern parts of the People's Republic ... Today, most of the region resides in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture ...24 KB (3,531 words) - 08:52, 3 April 2024
- ; Postal map spelling: Shansi) is a province of the People's ... #039; west," which refers to the province's location west ...23 KB (3,285 words) - 13:15, 27 January 2023
- ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located along ... dramatic upsurge in its economy and standard of living during the twentieth ...22 KB (3,044 words) - 05:58, 13 June 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
- Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins ... The central focus of Chinese philosophy throughout the ages has been ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- ; ancient name: 吳) is a city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze ... Suzhou reached its golden age with the Ming Dynasty in 1368 C.E. During ...24 KB (3,013 words) - 00:31, 27 February 2023
