Search results for "Chinese Writing" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
