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  • ) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located on ... means mountains' east, which refers to the province's location east ...
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  • The World Factbook (ISSN 1553-8133 ; also known as the CIA World Factbook)Central Intelligence Agency ...
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  • ; Postal map spelling: Kiangsi) is a southern province of the People ... Jiangxi had served as a main trade route in ancient and Medieval China ...
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  • ; Postal map spelling: Ngan-hui, Anhwei or An-hwei) is a province ... Anhui, although formally a separate province from the seventeenth ...
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  • ) 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 ...
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  • Homo erectus ("upright man") is an extinct species of the ... Fossil findings of early hominids is often fragmentary and inferences ...
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  • The Congo River is the largest river in western Central Africa and ... The river and its tributaries flow through the second-largest rainforest ...
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  • The dizi ( c=笛子]]|p=dízi ), is a Chinese transverse flute, usually made of bamboo. It is also ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Imperial examinations or Keju ( t=科舉|p=kējǔ ), were an essential part of the Chinese government administration ...
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  • (February 7, 1906–October 17, 1967) of the Manchu Aisin-Gioro ... (愛新覺羅) ruling family was the last Emperor of China between ...
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  • The Warsaw Pact, or Warsaw Treaty Organization, officially named the ... ), was an organization of Central and Eastern European communist states ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • as Gando, refers to northeastern parts of the People's Republic ... Today, most of the region resides in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture ...
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  • ; Postal map spelling: Shansi) is a province of the People's ... #039; west," which refers to the province's location west ...
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  • ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located along ... dramatic upsurge in its economy and standard of living during the twentieth ...
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  • ) 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 ...
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  • Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins ... The central focus of Chinese philosophy throughout the ages has been ...
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  • ; 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 ...
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  • and government official from Sichuan, China. Guo Moruo studied at Sixth Higher School and the Medical School of ...
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  • and political leader often referred to as the "father of modern China ... Although Sun Yat-sen is considered one of the greatest leaders of ...
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  • ; lit. "Valley of Nine Villages;" Tibetan: Sicadêgu) designates ... The Giant Panda population in Jiuzhaigou Valley, which numbers around ...
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  • ; Postal map spelling: Kiangsu) is a province of the People's ... Jiangsu has a coastline that extends over a thousand kilometers along ...
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  • ) is the smallest province of the People's Republic of China ... Hainan island was called the Pearl Cliffs (珠崖 Zhūyá), Fine Jade ...
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  • The Great Leap Forward ( s=大跃进|t=大躍進|p=Dàyuèjìn ) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and ...
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  • *For the history of the Korea before its division, see History of Korea. The History of South Korea formally begins with the establishment ...
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  • relationship with North Korea, Russia, China, Japan, and the United States ... In the midst of that awful tension, shrugging off a humiliating experience ...
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  • The Hui people ( c=回族|p=Huízú typically distinguished by their practice of Islam. The Hui form the third ...
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  • independence activist. In 1909, during the period following the signing ... An Jung-Geun was born in 1879 as the eldest child among three sons ...
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  • ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located in ... Gansu has a unique role in China. Sitting on the terminus of the Silk ...
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  • ; Postal map spelling: Tientsin) is one of four municipalities of ... The urban area of Tianjin is located along the Haihe River, and is ...
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  • political ideology that regards China to be central or unique relative ... A hierarchical Sinocentric model of international relations, dominated ...
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  • Wade-Giles: Ch'ung-ch'ing) is the largest and most populous ... Located on the edge of the Yungui Plateau, Chongqing is intersected ...
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  • Oirat (Oirads, Oyirads, Oirots) is the common name of several pastoral ... From the thirteenth to eighteenth centuries the Kalmyk-Oirats numbered ...
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  • The Long March ( t=長征|s=长征|p=Chángzhēng ) was a massive military ... * History of the Republic of China * History of the People's Republic ...
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  • The Han Dynasty 206 B.C.E. – 220 C.E.) followed the Qin Dynasty ... The reign of the Han Dynasty, which lasted for 400 years, is commonly ...
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  • ; also romanized as Nei Mongol) is a Mongol autonomous region of the ... The official languages of Inner Mongolia are Standard Mandarin and ...
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  • military leader who was instrumental in the communist victory in the Chinese ... After the establishment of the People's Republic in October 1949 ...
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  • The panda or giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is a mammal native ... The term panda is also used for the red panda, Ailurus fulgens, another ...
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  • The Miao ( c=苗|p=Miáo linguistically and culturally related group of people recognized by the government ...
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  • Shenzhen is a sub-provincial city of Guangdong province in southern ... The one-time fishing village of Shenzhen was singled out by late Chinese ...
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  • Nan or Taiwanese Hok-kiàn) is a province of China located on the southeast ... as an education center and pristine nature. The ecology of the province has ...
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  • writer. A novelist and dramatist, he was one of the most significant figures ... Church in Gangwashi, Beijing in 1922. With the help of Reverend Robert Kenneth ...
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  • Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties hold the royal remains ... , patterned in an arc-shape at the foot of the Jundu Mountains south ...
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  • Factories are a hallmark of industrialized society. They have changed ... ==History of the factory== ===China=== Many have believed that ancient ...
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  • IAST: Nāthū Lā) a mountain pass in the Himalayas located on the Indo–China ... Nathu La constitutes one of the three trading border posts between ...
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  • | birthplace = Shanghai, China | deathdate = 1995|9|8|1920|9|30|mf=y ... 8, 1995) was a Chinese writer. She also used the pseudonym Liang Jing (梁京 ...
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  • The Historic Center of Macau ( O Centro Histórico de Macau ... ) is a collection of more than twenty monuments and sites in Macao ...
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  • Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975) was one of the ... During the Chinese Civil War (1926–1949), Chiang attempted to eradicate ...
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