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the development of present-day Chinese writing and remains an academic ... the earliest significant corpus of Chinese writing, but may not be the ...

the highest achievement of classical Chinese writing; even Lu Xun regarded ... His writings were influential to Chinese writing, which become a role ...

Zhang Binglin (December 25, 1868-June 14, 1936) was a Chinese philologist ... Wen Shi (文始 "The Origin of Writing"), the first systematic ...

of) Korean Peninsula. Most of the Chinese and Korean scholars consider ... culture and Korea never used the Chinese writing system during that period ...

river. These contests were of three types: Chinese poetry, Tanka poetry, and ... a similar practice in collections of Chinese poems of the time. Unlike ...

his translations introduced the best of Chinese and Japanese literature ... Waley was self-taught in both Chinese and Japanese and achieved a ...

In Chinese mythology, Fu Xi or Fu Hsi ( c=伏羲|p=fúxī ... sānhuáng) of ancient China. According to Chinese mythology, he is a cultural ...

known as Prince of Wu (吳王), was a Chinese poet and the last ruler ... a form of irregular lyric Chinese poetry, in which the number of characters ...

settled form with Herbert Giles' Chinese-English dictionary of 1892. ... Wade, a British ambassador in China and Chinese scholar who was the first ...

(Northeast China) in the tenth century. Chinese historians classified the ... the effect that the adoption of Chinese writing and other tools of administration ...

==== Chinese writing ==== Chinese writing In China the early Chinese dynasties left behind many ...

and his attempts to reform the Chinese government often resulted ... also used it to promote his reform of Chinese writing. He rejected the peculiarly ...

敬仲), is conventionally regarded as the Chinese inventor of paper and the ... Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. In 751, some Chinese paper makers were captured ...

London Missionary Society. He found the Chinese government hostile, but ... Morrison produced a Chinese translation of the New Testament in 1813 ...

as Wan Jiabao (萬家寶), was a renowned Chinese playwright, often regarded ... through the efforts of Cao Yu that modern Chinese "spoken theater" ...

; Korean: Um-yang; Vietnamese: Âm-Dương) originates in ancient ... The earliest Chinese characters for yin and yang are found in inscriptions ...

Lin Yutang (Traditional Chinese:林語堂; Simplified Chinese:林语堂 ... Lin Yutang wrote extensively on Chinese social, cultural traditions ...

of the most influential pre-Tang Dynasty Chinese poets. Born into a noble ... Early Chinese poetry grew from a rich tradition of folk songs and ...

Traditional Chinese: 韓非 Simplified Chinese: 韩非 Pinyin: Hán Fēi Wade-Giles: Han Fei ...

Guan Yin (Pinyin: Guān Yīn; traditional Chinese: 觀音) is known ... and these traits are associated with the Chinese concept of Yin (the feminine ...

Jingan (靜安) or Baiyu (伯隅), was a Chinese scholar, writer, philosopher ... and became a protégé of Luo Zhenyu, a Chinese antiquarian who encouraged ...

culture") is an infrequent Chinese surname, and "Wenzi ... In 1973, Chinese archeologists excavated a Han Dynasty tomb near Dingzhou ...

, 531–591) was a Chinese scholar, calligrapher, painter, musician ... In his writing, despite his own strong emphasis on Confucian learning ...

) were a group of Chinese Taoist Qingtan scholars, writers, and musicians ... the countryside became a common theme in Chinese art and a model for later ...

Han Chinese ( s=汉族 or 汉人|t=漢族 or 漢人|p=hànzú or hànrén ... E.). Some of the earliest examples of Chinese writing date back to this period ...

(303 – 361) was the most celebrated Chinese calligrapher, traditionally ... most well-known and most-copied piece of Chinese calligraphy. It describes ...

[[File:Chinese dragon asset heraldry.png|thumb|400px|Chinese dragon]] ... for "dragon" in the earliest Chinese writing has a similar coiled ...

graphẽ "writing") is a form of ornamental handwriting ... Often they are improvised at the moment of writing. Calligraphy has ...

23, 1873 – January 19, 1929) was a Chinese scholar, journalist, philosopher ... role in educating the public, and used his writing to advocate democracy and ...

by illustration. Pictography is a form of writing in which ideas are transmitted ... denoting a process or form of drawing, writing, representing, recording ...

script, the earliest recorded form of Chinese writing. Wang Yirong, director ... Longgu (dragon bones) at a traditional Chinese pharmacy. He noticed strange ...

same day, see Mid-Autumn Festival (across Chinese diaspora and Vietnam) and ... honoring the autumn moon, a variant of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. The ...

) (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936) was one of the major Chinese ... young age to the poverty and suffering of Chinese peasants in the countryside ...

3, 1899 – August 24, 1966) was a notable Chinese writer. A novelist and dramatist ... also witnessed how Westerners viewed the Chinese people. He developed his ...

stroke sorting, used for non-alphabetic writing systems such as Chinese ... is used for collation. For example, the Chinese character for "mother ...

but later resigned to devote himself to writing. His first book, Wagahai ... school, Natsume became enamored with Chinese literature, and fancied ...

was also highly developed in Europe. Chinese cloisonné is probably the ... from there along the Silk Road to China. Chinese cloisonné is probably the ...

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

marked divisions of a continuous roll of writing material. The scroll is ... prepared specifically for the purpose of writing a Torah Scroll. ...

of the 'East Mountain Teachings' (Chinese: tung-shan fa ... One of the best known stories in Chan history is the verse writing ...

Capital of Liao, then invaded the Han Chinese Northern Song Dynasty( 宋朝 ... tenth century, when the Balhae (Bohai in Chinese,振, then 渤海) kingdom ...

is an unusual surname and the common Chinese word for "ink," ... He was well-educated and versed in the Chinese classics. He held public ...

Most Western, Chinese, and Yao scholars believe that the Yao became ... separated from the Miao. Most Western, Chinese, and Yao scholars believe ...

Some of them viewed the traditional Chinese writing system as an obstacle ... characters point out that the Chinese writing system has been undergoing ...

Block printing is well-suited to written Chinese because character alignment ... inventors with advantage over their Chinese counterparts: the screw ...

, also known as Jin Kui (金喟), was a Chinese literary theorist, writer ... Please note that to be "painfully happy" in Chinese does ...

altar, just as is performed in traditional Chinese and Vietnamese Buddhism ... performed is not limited; at times, spirit writing using a brush or other implement ...

| typedesc = (non-linear writing) | time = 1821 to the present ... | fam1 = Night writing | creator = Louis Braille ...

love. Murasaki is thought to have started writing the novel around 1003, and ... study with her brother, and to learn some Chinese and Buddhist classics, which ...

A Chinese family name is one of the thousands of family names that ... Chinese surnames have served a number of sociological purposes throughout ...

Sun Zi (Chinese: 孫, 子, Sūn Zǐ; Wade-Giles: Sun Tzu) (c. 544 ... The work was included in the ancient Chinese civil service examinations ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

name Ch'en Ch'ien-sheng, was a Chinese educator, philosopher, ... Chen was a founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1920) and was selected ...

1, 1864 - September 16, 1957) was a Chinese painter. His pseudonyms ... He is perhaps the most noted contemporary Chinese painter for the ...

Qian Zhongshu (November 21, 1910 – December 19, 1998) was a Chinese ... Because he was well versed in classic Chinese, his writings often reflects ...

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 ...

from the logographic characters of Chinese origin, known in Japan as ... Taiwanese to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters like furigana ...

calligraphies, and antiques of previous Chinese eras, acquiring large collections ... calligraphies, and antiques of previous Chinese eras, acquiring large collections ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Power of Prepositions,"] "On Writing," Criminal Brief (2007 ... of orthography, the conventions used for writing a language. It may also ...

because it uses concise language and few Chinese words. Sei Shōnagon's ... and for her familiarity with the Chinese classics, an unusual accomplishment ...

the New Testament and the Psalms into Chinese and Uyghur. After working ... preached in it, and translated into Chinese the New Testament and the ...

), were an essential part of the Chinese government administration ... The Chinese civil service system later served as a model for the civil ...

, is a fundamental concept of traditional Chinese culture. Qi is believed ... This active cosmology has influenced Chinese philosophy, as well as ...

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 ...

became perhaps the most famous in Chinese history. Yuan Zhen ( ... , 779–831), courtesy name Weizhi (微之), was an important Chinese ...

classes patterned themselves after the Chinese, adopting Chinese written ... brought about by the adoption of Chinese models of government, incorporating ...

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 ...

Legalism (Chinese: 法家; pinyin: Fǎjiā; Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally ... state. Borrowing from the reforms of other Chinese states, Shang Yang enacted ...

for much of Christian culture in Chinese society today. Members of ... Xavier, however, died the same year on the Chinese island of Shangchuan, without ...

A hieroglyph is a character used in a pictorial writing system. The ... Egyptian practice of using hieroglyphic writing predominantly for religious ...

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, ...

minority groups in China. Miao is a Chinese term and does not reflect ... Throughout Chinese history, the term “Miao” has been applied inconsistently ...

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 ...

role in the governing itself of the ancient Chinese rulers: ... The telescope was first mentioned in Chinese writing by Emanuel Diaz (Yang ...

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 ...

tests measured candidates knowledge of the Chinese classics, and sometimes ... a hold over most positions of state. When writing the examination, candidates ...

Kumārajīva (Simplified Chinese: 鸠摩罗什; Traditional Chinese: ... of Buddhist texts written in Sanskrit to Chinese, which he carried out during ...

, 709–785) was a leading Chinese calligrapher and a loyal governor ... Yan’s artistic accomplishment in Chinese calligraphy parallels the ...

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 ...

) 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 ...

China were triggered by the embassy of the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian during ... Following Zhang Qian's embassy and report, commercial Chinese ...

(November 16, 1892 - June 12, 1978) was a Chinese author, poet, historian ... with Chiang Kai-shek and joined the Chinese communist party. After World ...

he also remained politically active, writing countless missives to the ... was recognized as a watershed moment in Chinese philosophy. Likewise, in ...

where often fatal weapons and bare-knuckle Chinese martial arts tournaments ... According to some martial arts groups, the Chinese character for Lèi (擂 ...

1968. At odds with the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, particularly ... with the West, or represented traditional Chinese culture or religion. Hundreds ...

Chinese characters are also known as sinographs, and the Chinese writing ... 1080/00438243.1986.9979980 Early Chinese Writing] World Archaeology 17 ...

settlement in the southwest, appointed Han Chinese officials to important posts ... The Manchu Qing ( Ch'ing) came to power after defeating the Chinese ...

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 ...

interconnected as early as 5000 B.C.E. Chinese merchants colonized the ... Hainan Island and several other southern Chinese regions such as Yunnan, ...

of Mahayana Buddhism, originating from the Chinese Tiantai (T'ien-t'ai ... The Tiantai teaching was first brought to Japan by the Chinese monk ...

) 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 ...

Manichaean Uigur Kingdom near Turfan, in Chinese Turkestan (destroyed around ... of Manichaean writings ever, written in Chinese. They were translated into ...

he excelled in school and started writing stories and poems in elementary ... his popularity, Akutagawa interrupted his writing career to spend four months ...

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. ...

), also known as Zhichuan, was a prolific Chinese writer and political official ... Ge Hong’s writing reflects the complex intellectual landscape of ...

and those of controversial authorship. The Chinese literary scholar Wang Guowei ... be the Vietnamese pronunciation of the Chinese character 文. ...

with a collection of poems from the Chinese Tang Dynasty in the Daoist ... a sound mind and a very sound grasp of the Chinese Classics, but also an unblemished ...

Baekje in 18 B.C.E. According to the Chinese record San Guo Zhi, during ... cultural influences to Japan. Chinese writing system, Buddhism, advanced ...

1997) and has a large concentration of Hui Chinese as well as a variety of ... later became the founding state of the Chinese empire, grew from the southeastern ...

This is in contrast to other types of writing systems, such as syllabaries ... Beyond the logographic Chinese writing, many phonetic scripts are ...

of the most celebrated chancellors of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, and he and ... supplies and had them conduct research and writing. Fang was part of this establishment ...

them benevolent rather than malevolent. In Chinese society, for example, the ... Those with writing talent sometimes create short poems, mocking epitaphs ...

history, it was written both in classical Chinese and in Korean, first using ... creation of a complete new language and writing system by the great King ...

, and categorizes them as Yang and Yin (in Chinese). Although some consider ... (It is still written that way in modern Chinese and Japanese.) The Gupta ...

century B.C.E. during Shang Dynasty (Chinese: 商朝) or Yin Dynasty ... Qin Shi Huang (Chinese: 秦始皇; pinyin: Qín Shǐhuáng; Wade-Giles: ...

Moksadeva, or Yüan-tsang) was a famous Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, ... Central Asia and India. The classic Chinese novel Xiyou ji (Journey ...

Syllabic writing began several hundred years before the first letters ... === Chinese model === Fanqie [[Image:Chinese syllable tree.png|thumb ...

Balhae (698 - 926) (Bohai in Chinese) existed as an ancient kingdom ... (1222 B.C.E.). Controversy boils between Chinese, North Korean, and South ...

Among the Oirats' enemies were the Chinese Manchu dynasty and the neighboring ... Tayisi mobilized his cavalry along the Chinese border and invaded the Ming ...

on the 8th day of the 4th month of the Chinese calendar. ... * The Eight Immortals are Chinese deities. ==In music== ...

occurrences. Stream-of-consciousness writing is strongly associated with ... Modern stream of consciousness writing is closely related to, but ...

Daie Sōkō) was a twelfth century Chinese Chan (Zen) master best known ... easily, Dahui would give up and turn to writing scriptures or treatises. ...

sculptor Kuratsukuri Tori, grandson of Chinese immigrant Shiba Tatto, is ... of Gaozu of Han, introduced Chinese writing to the Yamato court ...

and developed, at least initially, with Chinese help. Korea developed a ... The adoption of the Chinese writing system ("hanja" in Korean ...

emperor of a unified Tibet, who married a Chinese Buddhist princess, Wencheng ... Vehicle, or 金剛乘 Jingangcheng in Chinese; however, these terms are ...

Yongle is considered one of the greatest Chinese emperors. His economic, ... Zhu Di (Chu Ti)'s father, the Hongwu (Hung-wu; Chinese: 洪武帝; ...

to live in Dharmasala, India following the Chinese invasion of Tibet. Today ... during the Tibetan uprising against the Chinese in 1959, when Chinese shells ...

of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. In addition, numerous stelae ... is written exclusively in Classical Chinese and has 1802 characters. ...

Dōgen spent the remainder of his life teaching and writing at Eihei ... Sōtō, but by the line of Dōgen's Chinese disciple Jakuen.William ...

Chinese furniture is traditionally better known for more ornate pieces ... example, a desk is a table intended for writing or working, and it often ...

spelled I Ching) is the oldest of the Chinese classic texts, and is notable ... when translated from the Classical Chinese), the text (and the active ...

was written not in Korean, but in Chinese, which meant that most of ... people neglected to use their well-crafted writing system, hangeul, since the ...

one of the most important figures in the Chinese Chán monastic tradition ... Ch’an grew to become the largest sect in Chinese Buddhism. The teachers claiming ...

==As lucky or unlucky number, Chinese culture== Nine (九 pinyin jiǔ) is considered a good number in Chinese culture ...

When writing systems were invented in ancient civilizations, nearly ... with a hammer-like tool, was used for writing in Ancient Egypt, perhaps ...

harvest festival celebrated notably by the Chinese and Vietnamese people. Similar ... on the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese calendar. ...

The Chinese pilgrim-monk Xuanzang Samuel Beal, Buddhism In China. ... gives several explanations of the name Nālandā in his writing. He ...

Writing speeds for DVD were 1x, that is 1350 kB/s (1318 KiB/s), ... On November 18, 2003, the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported the ...

living as a hermit in the mountains and writing poetry which expressed his ... differed from the detachment of typical Chinese and Japanese Buddhist poetry. ...

[[File:Figure 5 Literacy has rapidly spread Reading the past writing ... contexts, the word refers to reading and writing at a level adequate for ...

seized the throne (the first and only Chinese Empress to rule in her own ... regarded by historians as a high point in Chinese civilization—equal to ...

able to produce a massive output of hack writing for the publishers of London ... rose to fame after publishing a series of Chinese Letters, essays written ...

adopt Zhu Xi’s philosophy. Zhu Xi was a Chinese philosopher of the Southern ... members of the yangban class, in classical Chinese, provide details about the ...

Siberia, western Manchuria and the modern Chinese provinces of Inner Mongolia ... Relations between the Han Chinese and the Xiongnu were complicated ...

oration On the Practical Philosophy of the Chinese (Oratio de Sinarum philosophia ... everywhere discussed; over 280 pieces of writing appeared discussing the ...

may be learned as part of learning the writing system.Martin Haspelmath ... kanji (characters borrowed from Chinese writing) and the two kana syllabaries ...

== Writing fractions == The numerator and denominator of a fraction ... \tfrac{11}{4} is another way of writing 2\tfrac{3}{4}. A mixed number ...

Her defenders point out that she was writing at a time when white racism ... users that Murphy wrote about were "Chinese, [[Assyrian Empire|Assyrians ...

continuously used written language system: Chinese characters. It is also said ... relations with Japan, introducing the Chinese writing system there. In 580 ...

Saimdang's father taught her the Chinese classics and gave her ... Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History (Berkeley, CA: University ...

number represents worked well enough, but writing four lines proved tiresome ... specification, language code 4 is for the Chinese language. Codes for regional ...

and his followers initiated the influx of Chinese influence into Yunnan, which ... which marked the first use of the name in Chinese history. To expand the burgeoning ...

class of merchants and artisans who began writing stories and novels, and ... theater. Initially, themes were drawn from Chinese tales and works of art. ...

thumb|A pair of bronze cymbals from the Chinese Jin dynasty (1115–1234)]] ... one part for this pair of instruments, writing senza piatti or piatti soli ( ...

fashion to a medium producing automatic writing. A variety of outcomes have ... Fuluan, or Jiangbi), a well-known form of Chinese spirit writing, is simply ...

the Harvard Lampoon through his many years writing essays and articles for ... recommended that Benchley go into writing, and Benchley and future ...

He spent the remaining ten years of his life teaching and writing ... While it was customary for Buddhist works to be written in Chinese ...

Army Intelligence Corps where he learned Chinese (via Confucian texts) mainly ... In addition to teaching, research, and writing, Smart was something ...

Asia including Japan, China (Ch'an in Chinese), Vietnam (Thien) and Korea ... was then transmitted through a series of Chinese patriarchs, the most famous ...

Among Far Eastern traditions, while Chinese thought has generally had ... collection of written maxims, based on the Chinese model. Many of the moral ...

developed. During a thousand years of Chinese domination starting in the ... Excavations of Chinese tombs in the area indicate that during the ...

as a product of ancient Rome or Arabia (Chinese: Daqin). Although documentation ... 649. As will be noted below, the medieval Chinese previously had conceptions ...

of Hangul (han'gul), a native Korean writing system, in 1443–1444, ... the commentaries of the twelfth-century Chinese scholar Zhu Xi (Chu Hsi ...

was once written in Míkmaq hieroglyphic writing and is now written using ... Lnu’k linguists have standardized the writing of Lnui'simk for modern ...

SignLanguage.jpg|thumb|400 px|2007 Chinese Taipei Olympic Day Run in ... As a consequence, traditional phonemic writing systems are also sequential ...

Dream of the Red Chamber (Traditional Chinese: 紅樓夢; Simplified ... author was well versed in Classical Chinese, writing some tracts in erudite ...

) (CE 78–139) was a Chinese polymath, being a astronomer, mathematician ... Reconstruction Designs of Lost Ancient Chinese Machinery. (Dordrecht: Springer ...

history which Watsuji carried out while writing “Koji Junrei” eventually ... and Naraka (hell). Ningen consists of two Chinese characters, nin and gen ...

native poetry from the kanshi (Chinese poems) that all educated ... influence of other genres such as Kanshi, Chinese poetry, novels and stories ...

in exile from his homeland due to the Chinese takeover of the country ... to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the Chinese occupation of Tibet. He ...

The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, incorporating elements of a lunar ... is used for day-to-day activities, but the Chinese calendar is still used for ...

Writing in 1892, Kunz described the hiddenite being recovered as “always ... pegmatite of Western Australia, and some Chinese and Chilean sources. Yet ...

Revolution, better known simply as the (Chinese) Cultural Revolution(文革 ... many other officials were purged, the Chinese educational system was brought ...

folk and aristocratic art forms, including Chinese acrobatics, dengaku, and ... Shinto rituals; dengaku (harvest dances); Chinese-style dances; and traditional ...

Chinoiserie is the catch-all term for decorations involving Chinese ... Westerners appear in many works of Indian, Chinese, and Japanese artists. In ...

mark, figure" and γραφία graphia = writing. ... as old as civilization and the earliest writing systems—a series of key ...

Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Shinjitai (modern Japanese) writing: 豊臣秀吉; ... the invasion of Korea. In 1593, Ming Chinese Emperor Wanli sent an army ...

and popularized in China, and many Chinese speculate that origami originated ... by Robert Harbin and Samuel Randlett) for writing down origami instructions ...

played a crucial role in 1972 talks with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai that ... with Premier Zhou Enlai, then in charge of Chinese foreign policy. This paved ...

follows the conventions of formal academic writing. It differs from most traditional ... Early Chinese prose was deeply influenced by the great philosophical ...

– February 19, 1997) was a prominent Chinese politician and reformer ... in the world and vastly increased the Chinese standard of living. He was ...

of a political unity of the world in while writing his book Die Atombombe und ... Confucius and Lao Tse, all the trends in Chinese philosophy arose... In India ...

important than composition; she stopped writing, though she continued working ... After her husband's death in 1967, Clarke began writing a memoir ...

both the Scandinavian languages and the Chinese language uses the term ... be found in many different cultures. In Chinese culture, ancestor worship ...

The ancient Chinese astronomer Shi Shen (fl. fourth century B.C.E ... reflected from the Sun) was existent in Chinese thought from about the sixth ...

The first six books (of "first writing") are modeled on ... a current situation (Compare the ancient Chinese I Ching). The Old Testament ...

His articles dealt with the treatment of Chinese immigrants, ownership of ... to New York City, where he spent time writing and lecturing. He became ...

another. For example, after seeing English writing system in 1821, Sequoyah ... have been influenced by Chinese and Chinese writing. Thus, in East Asia ...

*The kanji and Chinese character for five are both 五, and its formal ... printed mixed calendars combining Western, Chinese-Buddhist and Japanese names ...

one of the largest sub-groups in the Miao (Chinese:苗族) minzu (nationality ... Usage of the term "Miao" in Chinese documents dates back ...

Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions ... There are three main subjects of Chinese painting: human figures, ...

drama about the conquests of a famous Chinese warlord, and the romantic ... or Chikamatsu did not want to continue writing for kabuki when Tōjūrō ...

Feng shui is the ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement ... Chinese often used the celestial pole, determined by the pole stars ...

their skills to become champions in Chinese wrestling and in Japanese ... won Naadam on the 750th anniversary of the writing of the Secret History of ...

diverged from the ancestors of the Han Chinese about 5,000–6,000 years ... China to constitute the Zhonghua Minzu or Chinese nation, although in anthropological ...

knowledge of saltpeter, calling it "Chinese snow." They knew of ... Some scholars have claimed that the Chinese only developed saltpeter ...

in the mouth is an ancient one, with writing references tracing back ... and during this period the Hindus and Chinese advanced various dental ...

Eric Hobsbawm, he was given the task of writing a Communist Party pamphlet ... (ISBN 978-0415314565) Translated into Chinese (Taiwan's complex characters ...

Science, Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Chinese Language, Classics, Computer ... and Culture; Comparative Literature; Chinese; Dance; Environmental Studies; ...

* A form of writing will have developed, so that communication between ... Turtle shells with markings reminiscent of ancient Chinese writing ...

(during which the destruction of the Chinese Imperial Old Summer Palace ... Wolseley enjoyed writing and often contributed to periodicals, he ...

Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Chinese philosophy were all men ... (June 6, 1997). Retrieved May 8, 2011. Writing in an article in the Jewish ...

exposition of Keynes' General Theory, writing especially on its employment ... Management in China. London: Anglo-Chinese Educational Institute. ISBN ...

be traced back to ancient cultures such as Chinese and Indian as well. ... fourteenth century did composers began writing polyphonic versions of the ...

He may have feared sanctions, since in writing about the period that followed ... where there is an echo of Herodotus in his writing. He referred to Rome and ...

as at Alexandria: export of prepared writing materials was a staple of ... Little is known about early Chinese libraries, save what is written ...

) is an internal (neijia, Wudangquan) Chinese martial art, in which ... quot; appears in both Daoist and Confucian Chinese philosophy where it represents ...

began investing all his time towards writing professionally. In the following ... his work at his own expense. During the writing of Principles of Psychology ...

Renan withdrew from public life and involved himself in his writing ... together and wishing to do more"). Writing in the midst of the dispute ...

American professor in Japan, whose work on Chinese characters was developed ... and in particular his notes on the Chinese ideogram: Pound gives a ...

the modern name for a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the ... (with movable bridges)"), another Chinese long zither also without ...

forms of the language; two styles of writing, involving somewhat different ... forms of the language. Two styles of writing, involving somewhat different ...

in 1925 to a moderately wealthy family of Chinese-Khmer descent. In 1935, ... its support, the government could see the writing on the wall. In September ...

Pakistan now turned to China for military aid and the Chinese tank ... asked him to pass on a message to the Chinese leader, Zhou En-lai, with ...

tightly regulating the supply of paper for writing and printing, an authoritarian ... According to a Chinese court chronicle, in 105 C.E., the court official ...

approved this. Maugham had been writing steadily since the age of ... with literary ideas, and continued writing nightly while at the same ...

orthodoxy than the Japanese and even the Chinese. Although Yulgok was a Neo ... combines Yulgok's knowledge of the Chinese classic and his profound ...

his sketches, Stukeley also had a gift for writing that gave the reader an ... miles in length is only exceeded by the Chinese wall, which makes a considerable ...

general and Strauss and the younger writing music with revolutionary ... * Chineser-Galopp op. 20 Chinese * Einzugs-galopp op. 35 Entrance Galopp ...

of whom have done important research and writing at the Library. Many people ... are in English, the staff can get by in Chinese, Spanish, German and some ...

4 for Japanese; 5 for Russian, and 7 for Chinese. An example 5 digit group ... handling an ISBN (for example, typing or writing it) are an altered digit ...

also unheeded, Nichiren—following an old Chinese adage to the effect that ... Kuonji (久遠寺) and he continued writing and training his disciples ...

as a child; when he was eight, he began writing skillful elegies in Latin ... Grotius had access to books and writing materials in prison, and ...

many innovations in Mesoamerica, including writing, the calendar using zero ... bloodletting and perhaps human sacrifice, writing and epigraphy, and the invention ...

and The Sublime (1764). However, it was by writing the Critique of Judgment ... The Chinese character for beauty (美) consists of the components ...

Chauhan, who was known in the school for writing poems. Anita Anantharam ... Varma's career encompassed writing and editing as well as teaching ...

the rival Cincinnati Commercial, where his writing included prose poems and ... lived in New Orleans for nearly a decade, writing first for the Daily City ...

culture. Korean dramas enjoy success in Chinese speaking nations of China ... of new European, Canadian, South American, Chinese and even Japanese films ...

and along with a group of experienced Chinese engineers, they were experts ... Later, though, when Kublai began to adopt many Chinese laws and customs ...

By then, he had gained fluency in French, Chinese, Sanskrit, Pali, Japanese ... The trip was not without controversy. Thich Vien Dinh writing on behalf ...

between the religions of the world. In his writing and speaking, he has drawn ... of Tibet, he did try to work with the Chinese government until 1959. During ...

is the English name for a cluster of Chinese religious and philosophical ... # a family of organized Chinese religious movements, such as the Zhengyi ...

Scriptures (from the Latin scriptura, meaning "a writing" ... quot; proper did not originally denote a writing of religious or spiritual ...

inscriptions. Early coins contained no writing but often depicted the silhouettes ... later in bronze and silver. Throughout the Chinese Zhou Dynasty, shells and ...

including Gestalt psychology and Chinese Medicine. == Holism as a ... in the Far Eastern traditions as well. Chinese yin-yang philosophy views ...

still conducting their written work in Chinese, the early Catholics used ... which was much easier to read than the Chinese script studied by the aristocracy ...

was the most common material used for writing in Europe until the invention ... year cycle of animals that appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese ...

Workers' Education Association, writing articles for the Deutsche ... Communism]." Laski argues that while writing the Manifesto, Marx drew ...

In 1974, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that 1800 Chinese students in ... language literacy classes improve students writing and higher-order language ...

great power for much of the era, defeating Chinese invasions several times ... the Korean alphabet, as an alternative to Chinese characters, previously the ...

because some historians consider it a Chinese occupation while others ... In 939 C.E., the Vietnamese defeated Chinese forces at the Battle ...

respectively. At 80 years old as of this writing, Sayadaw currently resides ... New Year Special Offering to the Sangha, Chinese New Year's Eve Chanting ...

the family shrines of his Nepalese and Chinese wives, who were both Buddhists ... Chinese painting had a profound influence on Tibetan painting. Starting ...

up medieval philosophy and literature, writing his thesis on Thomas Aquinas ... influential component in Eco's future writing career. This was especially ...

state he organized. He is cited in Chinese history as one of the greatest ... remained the dominant thought in Chinese government until the overthrow ...

as into Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Persian, and Chinese. ... English-language textbook. She also began writing stories and occasional poems ...

…Whether or not the figures of the Chinese pilgrims are exaggerated ... as in the case of seventh century Chinese pilgrims Xuanzang and Yi ...

is the earliest known European writing to mention the magnetic compass, and De naturis rerum contains the earliest European references to the ...

and began committing his ideas to writing. In 1224, he wrote his most ... he dedicated the rest of his years to writing. It was during this time ...

or patients he was said to always be writing or studying. He produced ... I prayed to God to direct and lead me to the truth in writing this ...

around the globe. Kexue, a simplified Chinese edition launched in 1979 ... quot; and "dishonest," writing, "The subhead of the ...

involved within the Church of England, writing on the social teachings ... China Selected Source Materials from Chinese Authors. University Publications ...

they faced, however, the acknowledgment in writing of basic rights and the ... Japan’s diplomatic relations with the Chinese Qing Dynasty. ...

*Chinese law is a mixture of civil law and socialist law. ... normally discuss prior cases and academic writing extensively. ...

He earned his doctorate in law in 1889, writing his dissertation on legal ... Weber focused on those aspects of Chinese society that were different ...

competition in 472 B.C.E., he had been writing plays for more than 25 years. ... Chinese theater has a long and complex history. Today it is often ...

implied that Garfield favored increased Chinese immigration. Chinese immigration ... State James G. Blaine had to contend with Chinese immigration, fishing disputes ...

and aesthetic development. His study of Chinese painters no doubt influenced ... Merton developed his writing while there, and was quite popular, joining ...

It is also interesting that in Mandarin Chinese, "World Wide ... *[http://www.tomandmaria.com/tom/Writing/ProtocolsForProfitDRAFT.pdf ...

Joseph Butler put this point elegantly, writing that conscience “magisterially ... Co., 1972, ISBN 978-0023884405). The Chinese concept of Ren, indicates ...

and Wilson Pickett, arranging, sometimes writing, and providing the instrumental ... and Jones remained very active, producing, writing, and playing with other ...

up in Stalin's purges. While on the Chinese leg of the trip, Du Bois ... claimed, in May of 1942, that "[h]is writing indicates him to be a socialist ...

with a degree in economics, he started writing for the local Ferrara newspaper ... but it was severely denounced by the Chinese authorities as "anti ...

of storytelling, sometimes recorded in writing much later than their time ... La Fontaine's model for fable writing was subsequently emulated ...

Others suggest that poetry did not necessarily predate writing. ... Some ancient societies, such as the Chinese through the Shi Jing, one ...

Immanuel Kant, writing in 1790, observed of a man that "If he ... form of art. A concern with the beauty of writing extended from the Qur'an ...

propaganda posters to promote the Chinese space program. ... artistic expression. Czeslaw Milosz, writing in the introduction to Sinyavsky ...

Words denoting abstract concepts are very important for the writing of literature, philosophy and poetry. The ancient Japanese language contained ...

Way, practice and refine it, express it in writing and teach it to mankind ... state examinations) are recorded in his writing and in the Donghak Bible ...

(PRC) officially, often called China (Chinese: 中国; pinyin: Zhōngguó; ... dating back more than six millennia. The Chinese Civil War resulted in a ...

The first Chinese mosque was established in the eighth century in ... *Bierman, Irene A. Writing Signs: Fatimid Public Text (Berkeley, CA: ...

property and the economy, to the unique Chinese variation known as "socialism ... Accordingly, Immanuel Wallerstein, writing in 1979, maintained that ...

which is the same as that of the hanja (Chinese character) for "death ... form of the faith, whereas the Indian and Chinese versions are its more introductory ...

=== Early writing career === In 1921, Borges returned with his family ... recovering from the accident, he began writing in the learned and complex ...

the term tengu was derived from the Chinese designation for a type of ... Though the term used to describe these beings is of Chinese origin ...

which he displayed a talent for music and writing, Bowles pursued his education ... Bowles could read by the time he was 3 and within the year was writing ...

Seodang, spending nine years studying Chinese classic literature and neo ... essay, On Peace in East Asia that he began writing but left unfinished before ...

), a Chinese immigrant entrepreneur who sailed to the Philippines ... quot; soon distinguished himself in poetry writing contests, impressing his ...

Chinese Sanqu poetry was a Chinese poetic genre from the Jin Dynasty ... in Britain, with William Wordsworth writing more sonnets than any other ...

of those languages. For languages whose writing systems employ the phonemic ... Phonemic tones are found in languages such as Mandarin Chinese in ...

British model was introduced. The local Chinese population had little contact ... arrived as refugees from the ongoing Chinese Civil War. With the proclamation ...

in which a group of poets would take turns writing linked stanzas; today, however ... references to Confucius, Saigyō, ancient Chinese poetry, and even The Tale ...

Mahler's harmonic writing was at times highly innovative, and ... of the ninth' and thus terrified of writing a ninth numbered symphony ...

thousands of years before the invention of writing. Nonetheless, archaeobotanists/pa ... === Chinese agriculture === The unique tradition of Chinese agriculture ...

in Korean society, an adoption of Chinese culture, and a golden age ... Korean dynasties, similar to Chinese dynasties, pass through a birth ...

was coined when the précieuses took up writing literary stories; Madame ... Roberts, "Introduction," xviii, Chinese Fairy Tales & Fantasies ...

dignity of formal or serious speech or writing"; in other words, it ... to English, such as Greek, Russian, and Chinese. Excessive use of leet is ...

#039;s name, and the giver's name. In Chinese culture, red wrapping connotes ... equitable interests must be performed in writing by the owner or their agent. ...

name "Taejo" is comprise of two Chinese characters, "Tae," ... Taejo promoted Buddhism as the national religion, writing Ten Injunctions ...

is the French for graphia, from the Greek for writing. The American ... sounds of one language in another. Chinese writing is transformed into ...

on CBS in 1945-1946. Despite its clever writing (by radio legend Goodman ... in his patio—and host. He specialized in Chinese cooking. The library at ...

variant known as "socialism with Chinese characteristics." ... in many post-colonial states. In 1949, the Chinese Revolution established communist ...

appealed to the masses in simple Kannada, writing "work is worship" ... to India including Arabs, Jews, Persians, Chinese and people from the Malay ...

the stamp of the letter, in very small writing, she let Corrie know that ... wartime experiences. From this point on writing became a significant part ...

as the means to indulge his passion for writing poetry. The doctor, who ... He then went back to Munich, continued with his writing and made two ...

Since the Han Dynasty, technically, Chinese men could have only one ... steps of learning for personal growth. The Chinese culture of Confucianism ...

had formed in more than a dozen countries, writing to defend victims of injustice ... and Barbed-Wire logo, based on an old Chinese phrase: “Better to light ...

Tibet, called “Bod” by Tibetans, or 西藏 (Xīzàng) by the Chinese ... By virtue of its claim over all mainland Chinese territory, Tibet also has ...

This sense of betrayal later appeared in his writing. Ōe attended ... music in the same room where his father was writing. == Career == ...

Go or Igo in Japanese (囲碁), Weiqi in Chinese (圍棋, 围棋) ... pronunciation "go" of the Chinese characters 棋/碁; in ...

literature and cinema for over 61 years, writing a wide variety of plays ... 1985 and Arthur Miller Award for Dramatic Writing in 1999, and lending his ...

It is said that Kojève knew Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan dialects alongside ... 'The Emperor Julian and his Art of Writing' published in Ancients ...

Mountain"), the name given to California in Chinese. ... were tens of thousands each of Mexicans, Chinese, Britons, Australians, ...

She also criticized Seward's persona of the female author, writing ... seventeen her father, who encouraged her writing, helped her publish her ...

art and in the decorative work of the Chinese and Japanese, and others ... time. Included in this category is picture-writing (hieroglyphs), which was ...

1937, when a dispute between Japanese and Chinese troops in Beijing escalated ... warfare units were founded in major Chinese cities and were referred ...

"false, scandalous, and malicious writing" against the government ... The Chinese government has developed some of the most sophisticated ...

Hiuen-Tsiang, a Chinese traveller had visited the court of Pulakesi ... cheerful disposition after his defeat. The Chinese traveller Hiuen Tsiang also ...

plotted to get Fukuzawa to return home by writing a letter saying that Fukuzawa ... "Kaei Tsūgo" (translated from “Chinese-English dictionary”); ...

centuries. They had no cities or system of writing, lived in felt tents, and ... Wu Hu (Chinese: 五胡; pinyin: Wǔ Hú; literally "Five Hu" ...

has come to be referred to as "the Chinese room argument," John ... a book that designates a combination of Chinese symbols to be output paired ...

in Western Europe to refer not only to a writing desk, but to an office, ... were devised to describe it in detail. The Chinese Song dynasty (960–1279 ...

The Chinese were the second group of immigrants to arrive after the ... followed by Japanese at 5 percent, and Chinese at 2.6 percent. Hawaiian ...

minimal information of the Chola country. Writing half a century later, the ... The Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang, who spent several months in Kanchipuram ...

knowledges across generations without a writing system; one set of criteria ... the technologies of literacy (especially writing and print) are unfamiliar ...

of Air, and was a prolific journalist, writing in several languages. ... community—not to mention many Malays, Chinese, and Tamils—were subject ...

of My Cottage by the Pond”), a work in Chinese prose dating from 981. ... legendary vignettes, made years after the writing of Hojoki, Kamo no Chomei ...

and China. The adoption of the Chinese writing system ("hanja ... the Soviet military, with tacit communist Chinese support, but was carried ...

The ancient Chinese are known to have made sacrifices of young men ... was widely practiced in the ancient Chinese state of Qin. According ...

but based upon the reading of classical Chinese texts, which developed during ... * Tactile learning based on drawing or writing notes and hands-on ...

insights from Taoism and other ancient Chinese traditions. Nevertheless ... the rich wisdom of ancient Indian and Chinese thought. It is, however ...

*Kenchoji Temple – Founded in 1253, Kenchoji highlights a Chinese ... thought to be Nitta Yoshisada’s writing. *Kuzuharagaokajinja Shrine ...

Indian, European, Middle Eastern and Chinese people, many who settled ... Trinidadian/European, Sino-Trinidadian/Chinese and Arab-Trinidadian/Syrian ...

His mother's paternal heritage was Chinese, while historical records ... Even in his teen years, Mingus was writing quite advanced pieces; ...

majority of human languages have developed writing systems that allow for the ... , while others such as traditional Chinese writing use the vertical dimension ...

|ethnic_groups = 90% Khmer 5.0% Vietnamese 1.0% Chinese ... official language. The remainder include Chinese one percent, Vietnamese ...

"Man" as expressed in the Chinese character (人). The open ... of the world with a focus on Korean grammar and writing. ...

religion is different. Rauschenbusch hated racism, writing: :The man who intelligently realizes the Chinese and the Zulu as his ...

create prints. Scholars believe that the Chinese produced a primitive form ... the image and every copy is actually the writing of code upon a disk or reproduction ...

diverse as art, science, invention, music, and writing. ... omnivorous polymath, studying everything, writing 265 treatises about everything— ...

meanings in different areas of industry, writing, and scholarship. This has ... acronym is an S, as in SOS's, or when writing the plural form of an abbreviation ...

nations present, as well as the Malay and Chinese inhabitants. Farquhar was ... regarding the consumption of human flesh, writing in detail about the transgressions ...

26, 1893 - September 9, 1976), was a Chinese communist revolutionary ... farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a Chinese nationalist and anti-imperialist ...

Bisexual behavior appears to have been common among Roman and Chinese ... on the other were generally not the ones writing or keeping the literary record. ...

first written records of Japan appear in Chinese history texts from the first ... ==== Chinese chronicles ==== The Japanese first appear in written history ...

control of Taiwan. The resumption of the Chinese Civil War led to the loss ... state actor, often under the name "Chinese Taipei." Domestically ...

The highest peaks are in the Kakshaal-Too range, forming the Chinese ... of a civilization in the area appear in Chinese chronicles beginning about ...

mother's middle name. His interest in writing and literature was opposed ... "What has estranged me from the Chinese revolutionary process has ...

he had seen a malfunctioning sign at a Chinese restaurant reading "DARIN ... #039;s mother; they eventually shared writing credits with her. This was ...

Park, home to flourishing Mexican and Chinese American communities. ... fashion design, design, creative writing, library science, and other ...

Philosophy has had a tremendous effect on Chinese civilization, and ... the same time that the Greek pre-Socratics were writing. ...

confederation under the patronage of the Chinese imperial dynasty until they ... khan of the Kerait and better known by the Chinese title Ong Khan (or "Wang ...

Korean tombs exhibit many styles borrowed by and from the Chinese ... Redondo Beach, California: 4000 Years of Writing History, 2004. ISBN 097487860X ...

The Chinese emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty oversaw the compilation ... Diderot's view of his own success in writing the "Encyclopédie ...

Northern Areas and Azad Kashmir, and the Chinese administered region of Aksai ... expansion pressing from the East and Chinese influence exerted from Central ...

The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script, or the Slavic script, is a writing ... Alphabets," in The World's Writing Systems, eds., Daniels and ...

division of powers that existed mostly in writing in the previous two Constitutions ... Amerindian (one percent), and Asian (Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese ...

slave” dialect of the tales. Pound, writing later of the series of letters ... *Chinese mythology – Nezha, Sun Wukong (the Monkey King) ...

Wenzhen of Zheng (鄭文貞公), was a Chinese politician and the lead ... Qi's history). Wei was in charge of writing commentaries on a number ...

or, in the eras of prehistory, before writing even existed. ... itself with societies that did not have writing systems. However, this division ...

There is, however, some allophony and the writing systems used for Sanskrit ... When Sanskrit was written, the choice of writing system was influenced by ...

Negative numbers are usually written by writing a negative sign (also called ... as early as 100 B.C.E. - 50 B.C.E. The Chinese ”Nine Chapters on the ...

Mao Zedong, a Chinese communist leader developed what is called Maoism ... In 1847, Engels and Marx began writing a pamphlet together, based ...

and Kashmir while the Aksai Chin is under Chinese administration]] ... Arunachal Pradesh — briefly occupied by Chinese forces in the Sino-Indian ...

international science fiction author, writing some 17 books in the next ... In the 1990s Lem forswore science fiction writing, returning to futurological ...

who had married in Washington, D.C., to prison, writing: ... light-skinned North East Asians such as Chinese, is often looked upon as ...

Reinforcing that particular assertion he states: "The writing ... Wolff, Cage began to use the I Ching (Chinese “Book of Changes”) in ...

In the eighteenth century, opium was highly sought after by the Chinese ... Despite the official Chinese ban on opium imports, which was reaffirmed ...

such as Émile Durkheim, and Max Weber writing extensively on the role ... China, Weber focused on those aspects of Chinese society that were different ...

6–2, reversed the lower court ruling. In writing the majority opinion, Chief ... (Pribumi) preference over the Indonesian Chinese in the country. ...

Writing in 2013, Thomas A. Wright observed that "[i]t is becoming ... Times poll revealed that over 85% of Chinese viewed Mao's achievements ...

the number represents. The Romans tired of writing 4 as IIII, but 3 continues ... Three (三, formal writing: 叁, pinyin san1, Cantonese: saam1) is ...

India. A Brahmin by birth, Tagore began writing poems at the age of eight; ... magazines) was among his most productive, writing more than half the stories ...

and gaining proficiency to read such Chinese classics as The Romance ... with the outside world, and became a monk, writing this poem: ...

for Russia was the construction of the Chinese Eastern Railway across northeast ... military, easily defeated the antiquated Chinese forces in the First Sino ...

in art. He then turned to architecture, writing The Seven Lamps of Architecture ... By this time, Ruskin was writing in his own name, and had become the ...

from Persia frequently traveled to China. Chinese documents report on thirteen ... Persian musicians and dancers to the Chinese imperial court at Luoyang ...

#039;s interest in Eastern religion and Chinese philosophy, following a ... interest in Buddhism was reignited. Since writing a letter in 1895, entitled ...

Another member of the Paris student group was Ieng Sary. He was a ... relations between Norodom Sihanouk and the Chinese, the latter kept Pol Pot ...

Lord's Day on Sunday. The primarily Chinese True Jesus Church also supports ... break from work or fulfill a goal such as writing a book or traveling extensively ...

society than ever before. When he was writing this book, the forces of ... Central America. Asian and specifically Chinese immigrants also have received ...

on Japanese culture, including the use of Chinese written language; historiography; ... cloister. The Kondo, in the style of Chinese worship halls, is a two ...

conflict with the Eastern Mongols, the Chinese and their successor, the ... == Writing System == In the seventeenth century, Zaya Pandita, a Lamaist ...

039;s leader, Suetsune. Teika was furious, writing in his diary or Meigetsuki: ... sojo; "Appeal in Japanese"). By writing in Japanese as opposed to ...

and devoted himself to reflection and writing about philosophy and theology ... should be noted, however, that Yang Hui, a Chinese mathematician of the Qin ...

The rise of sizable populations with a writing system dates back to ... in April 2007 killed 65 soldiers and nine Chinese workers at a Chinese-run ...

In 2002 it came to light that Scruton had been writing about these ... Twitter, of Scruton talking about Soros, Chinese people and Islam, among ...

Toyota). Toyota changed the Japanese writing of its brand name from Katakana ... it takes to write Toyota in katakana. In Chinese, the company and its vehicles ...

and Applied Science in honor of Chinese businessman Z. Y. Fu, who ... between 1954 and 1955. Wellington Koo, a Chinese diplomat who argued passionately ...

[[Image:Ancientchineseinstrumentalists.jpg|thumb|250px|An ancient ... century tradition. Historians point to the writing of Leopold Mozart (1719 ...

and Sri Lankans), East Asians (mostly Chinese and Filipinos), Central/South ... receive more support for teaching reading, writing, and math. Focused high ...

=== Writing and printing === [[Image:Large Koran.jpg|thumb|right|300px ... is a highly honored art, much like Chinese calligraphy. Muslims also ...

pieces are differentiated by size and by Chinese characters painted on their ... The fact that the shogi pieces are differentiated with Chinese characters ...

four hundred years they were committed to writing as the Tripitaka, the collection ... According to one Mahayana record in Chinese (十八部論 and 部執異論 ...

important posts in the new government and writing a number of articles and ... disapproving of Guevara's pro-Chinese Communist bent as the Sino ...

In traditional Chinese history, history begins with three semi-mystical ... and sea cucumber are used in traditional Chinese medicine. ...

The prophet Ezekiel, originally a citizen of Judah but writing from ... Writing in this same period, the post-exilic prophets Haggai and Zechariah ...

in East Asia in the modern day. The Chinese konghou harp is documented ... in that country. Though the ancient Chinese konghou has not been directly ...

cigarettes, shoelaces, sodas, tobacco, and writing paper to the soldiers. To ... the North Korean army nearly to the Chinese border after scoring a stunning ...

The use of Chinese labor, known as "Coolies," after the ... press, such as G. K. Chesterton's writing to 1905, with writers often ...

trade and military agreements with the Chinese regime, which agreed to ... April 21, and charged the legislators with writing a new constitution. ...

was used by later writers such as Strabo. Writing in the early first century ... astrological systems such as Western, Chinese or Vedic astrology.Peter ...

, in which Justice William J. Brennan, writing for a unanimous Court, rejected ... from moving in. Justice Lewis Powell, writing for the Court, stated, ...

and Taiwan), and the emerging Indian and Chinese powers. ... Writing before Said, Fanon had also identified how colonizers inevitably ...

over his areas from neighboring Bactria. Chinese chronicles (the Hou Hanshu ... Another Indian writing, the Stupavadana of Ksemendra, mentions in ...

striking and sobering piece of liturgical writing, as the following excerpts ... in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and The Anglo-Chinese Schools, Methodist Girls ...

to contribute to the generation of ideas, writing several books although some ... Russian expatriate Raya Dunayevskaya, and Chinese-American Grace Lee Boggs ...

physical education courses, and satisfy a writing requirement. Although students ... Stuart Little, co-wrote the influential writing guide The Elements of Style ...

quot; Abdallah ibn 'Umar al-Baidawi, writing in the thirteenth century ... board? (According to Athanasius Kircher, writing in 1675, they were.) And ...

He walked with a limp and had an injured writing-hand for the rest of his ... in French and German poetry and began writing himself. His first two poems ...

the Korean People's Army, and the Chinese People's Volunteers ... Korea. In South Korea, knowledge of Chinese writing is viewed as a measure ...

styled the "mosaic approach" to writing a book. Each essay begins ... how communication technology (alphabetic writing, the printing press, and ...

#039;s Republic of China was given the Chinese seat on the Security Council ... the island of Taiwan in 1949, during the Chinese Civil War. The Chinese Communist ...

sunspots, although there is evidence that Chinese astronomers had done so ... In 1623, he revived his project of writing a book on the subject, ...

the English lawyer Angelo John Lewis, writing under the pseudonym of Professor ... the Banana, a painting by the [[History of Chinese art|Chinese artist]] Su ...

include the Dharmic religions, and the Chinese religions of East Asia. ... * Goody, Jack. The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society ...

indicating the region (for example, Chinese opera). These independent ... German composer like Handel found himself writing for London audiences. Italian ...

directors said they had taken a risk by writing the role. At first, Williams ... [[File:Impronte di Robin Williams al TCL Chinese Theatre - Los Angeles ...

his own time. In this interpretation, his elusive writing style, which used highly metaphorical and cryptic language, could be seen as a means of avoiding ...

life, he was a poet and songwriter, writing stanzas during cabinet meetings ... Testament prophets, French literature, and Chinese philosophy with equal ease. ...

ng_history_with_microsofts_office Writing history with Microsoft& ... other companies) have cooperated with the Chinese government in implementing ...

history, literature, science, mathematics, writing, and critical reasoning ... in numerous high-level American and Chinese government officials including ...

and were brought on board to touch up the writing. They were asked to ensure ... The Hollywood premiere was on August 15, 1939, at Grauman's Chinese ...

supported himself at first with creative writing, his novel German Love being ... Bodhisattva; translated from Sanskrit into Chinese by Dharmaraksha, A. D. 420. ...

languages on the World Wide Web are Chinese (19 percent), Spanish (8 ... planning, political activism and creative writing. ===Streaming media=== ...

(Mozambique) and Mombasa, where he found Chinese traders, and Malindi (both ... McLynn is aware that writing of the European exploration of Africa ...

of his contribution to historical writing, in particular A History ... being premature. The 2010 prize awarded to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo was ...

Lázaro states that the motivation for his writing is to communicate ... The classic Chinese novel Journey to the West is considered to have ...

labor and trade unions. In August 1942, writing of labor unrest, Life concluded: ... focused on Western achievements. The Chinese, for example, had invented ...

His grandmother's household had Chinese servants. ... New York, relentlessly exploring it and writing poems about it. His formal ...

, provided an alternative explanation, writing "that the bow is not ... (Iris) between Earth and Heaven. In Chinese mythology, the rainbow was ...

the cemented forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre. ... her mother-in-law's home and stopped writing to Dougherty. She filed ...

local Malay people in Sulawesi with these Chinese immigrants. At first, the ... calling it Pa'ssura (or "the writing"). Wood carvings are ...

first time in carpentry and iron working; Chinese technology was used for ... inspired by Jayadeva's Sanskrit writing Geetha Govinda, it had an ...

200px|Playing Children, by Song Dynasty Chinese artist Su Hanchen.]] ... fine motor skills, such as drawing and writing. Differences in gender do ...

China led to the appearance of classical Chinese novels by the Ming dynasty ... works of fiction of whatever length. In Chinese, Japanese and Korean cultures ...

#039;d hand me a script and whisper, "Chinese mandarin, seventy-five years ... fired for creative differences. He started writing a political column for the ...

as a result, Sakhalin Koreans' writing, like that of Koryo-saram ... * Chinese people in Russia * Japanese people in Russia * Russians in Korea ...

countries. Father Merton, in addition to writing many books, continued these ... housed around 15,000 monks prior to the Chinese invasion in 1959. Today ...

Contract workers, Mexican-Indian and Chinese, joined the labor force ... In 1957 a U.S. journalist writing for the New York Times made his ...

Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park protects the largest concentration ... western Canada (after Manitoba). Both the Chinese Canadian and Indo-Canadian ...

frequent visits, some captained by the Chinese Admiral Cheng Ho, and brought ... Manucharitamu stood as the most famous writing in the Prabhanda style. ...

sports and educational activities as well as writing awards. Examples of these include the ASEAN University Network and the Singapore-sponsored ASEAN ...

used for Japanese (manga), Korean (manhwa), and Chinese (manhua) comics. Scanlations are generally distributed for free via the Internet, either by ...

versa. Thus, at a very early period, the Chinese developed an empathetic ... Jews strenuously avoid mentioning or even writing the divine name, preferring ...

is a political tactic, not unlike letter writing or protesting, that is used ... Cong, received training from Soviet and Chinese military "advisers." ...

an M.A. and a PhD, writing her master's thesis on the Soviet ... boycotted the swearing-in ceremony of the Chinese-appointed Hong Kong Legislative ...

# A system of writing. # Development of symbolic art. # Trade and import ... (later Istanbul), and successive Chinese, Indian, and Muslim capitals ...

and, though he struggled with reading and writing, performed exceptionally ... in Washington D.C. to serve on a committee writing a manual on tank operations ...

Wilshire Center and Historic Filipinotown. Chinese people, which make up 1 ... * Ulin, David L. Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology. New York: ...

Pablo Picasso's iconic image of the Chinese Conjuror for the audacious ... * Berggruen, Olivier. The Writing of Art. London, U.K.: Pushkin Press ...

In spite of the apparent immutability of the heavens, Chinese astronomers ... html The Value of Archives in Writing the History of Astronomy ...

influenced by the gradual discovery of Chinese characters and Egyptian ... pure form of language. Heidegger claims writing is only a supplement to ...

. From that start in exigency, Wobbly song writing became legendary. The IWW ... often repeated anecdote suggests that a Chinese restaurant owner in Vancouver ...

most of which are of former Soviet or Chinese origin. The last Albanian ... theology and philosophy helped in the writing and recognition of Albanian. ...

Furthest") bordering today's Chinese Turkestan. ... as drawing back from him in proskynesis. Writing after Alexander's death ...

writing: Speaking of the young C.C. members, I wish to say a few words ... later became highly influential in the Chinese socialist market economy ...

the Tashilhunpo Monastery. Alarmed, the Chinese emperor Qianlong dispatched ... efforts underway to develop systems for writing many in Devanagari or the ...

affairs, Chamberlain resolved to resign, writing to inform Gladstone of his ... the Russians in granting a loan to the Chinese government. Arguing that ...

term “intelligent design" in 1982, writing that unless a person is ... China, in 1999, American, European and Chinese scientists discussed the ...

Wallenberg, the Italian Giorgio Perlasca, Chinese diplomat Ho Feng Shan and ... German philosopher Theodor Adorno famously commented that "writing ...

Purism. Ozenfant and Le Corbusier began writing for a new journal, L'Esprit ... but they were rejected. He continued writing, completing Sur les Quatres ...

Britain to China. The Company discovered a Chinese demand for opium and started ... In 1839, the seizure by the Chinese authorities at Canton of 20,000 ...

English diet was transformed. Indian and Chinese cuisine in particular were ... mixed audiences were attracted by topical writing and by the introduction ...

of Asian-Spaniards, most of whom are from Chinese, Filipino, Middle Eastern ... gave support and recognition to the writing form. He, with the help ...

authorities, demonstrating for reform, and writing critical books – were ... author={{aut|Voren, Robert van|title=Comparing Soviet and Chinese ...