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, also known as Madame Sun Yat-sen, was one of the most prominent women in ... Communists founded the People’s Republic of China, Soong was elected the ...

) is the ruins of the last capital of China's Shang Dynasty ... oldest and largest archaeological sites in China. The site became famous as ...

years searching for early human fossils in China. He is best known for his ... with First Nations people, learning one of their languages. He also tried ...

term that refers to the modern notion of a Chinese nationality transcending ... The roots of the Zhonghua minzu lie in the multi-ethnic Qing Empire ...

- Sùtè) was the ancient civilization of an Iranian people and a ... a major role in facilitating trade between China and Central Asia. They were ...

1900) in Haicheng County, Fengtian province of China – October 14, 2001 ... In the X’ian Incident of December 1936, Zhang kidnapped Chiang Kai ...

Chinese playwright, often regarded as China's most important of ... (1940). It is largely through the efforts of Cao Yu that modern Chinese ...

founded the dynasty, leading the remnants of the Liao Dynasty to Central ... The Khitan people rose from among the northern nomadic tribes of China ...

is a government classification for a group of related minorities in China ... to the upland people living in the mountains of Hunan and northern Guangdong ...

) 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 ...

was important for reintroducing the study of Chinese philosophy, regarded ... Born in 1895, Feng lived through a period of turmoil and transition ...

Autonomous Region—a Hui autonomous region of the People's Republic ... contact with Muslim merchants. The presence of the Hui ethnic group, with ...

Herbert Giles' Chinese-English dictionary of 1892. Wade-Giles was the main system of transcription in the English-speaking ...

writer. A novelist and dramatist, he was one of the most significant figures ... in Gangwashi, Beijing in 1922. With the help of Reverend Robert Kenneth Evans ...

) were a Tungus people who inhabited the region of Manchuria (Northeast ... among the Jurchens, and began a process of sinicization which ultimately ...

and Szechuan) is a province in western China. It borders quite a few different ... Sichuan, the home of ancient civilizations and ethnic groups, sits ...

Sima Qian (c. 145 B.C.E. – 90 B.C.E.) was a prefect of the Grand ... Sima Qian’s style of writing was easy to read, full of humor and ...

and government official from Sichuan, China. Guo Moruo studied at Sixth Higher School and the Medical School of ...

and Sinologist, and is still considered one of the world's great Asian ... Japanese and achieved a remarkable degree of fluency and erudition. He never ...

Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of ... given during the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China. It is home to a number of ...

Some leading Korea scholars omit mention of the Three Gojoseon kingdoms ... The myth of Dangun with legend following presents Gojoseon (고조선 ...

linguistically and culturally related group of people recognized by the government ... * Languages of China ==Notes== ==Bibliography== ===Earlier publications=== ...

affairs, particularly in the areas of Russia and Eurasia, China, ... Andrew Carnegie, like other leading internationalists of his day, ...

and scholars for his broad understanding of both Chinese classics, and ... During China's Cultural Revolution, led by Mao Zedong, Qian experienced ...

; Postal map spelling: Kirin; Manchu: Girin ula), is a province of ... Jilin has played an integral part in both the history of China and ...

), were an essential part of the Chinese government administration ... == History of Imperial Examinations == [[Image:Palastexamen-SongDynastie ...

[[Image:Medieval writing desk.jpg|thumb|250px|Illustration of a scribe ... with some modification for various languages of China, Japanese, and Korean. ...

the greatest of China's Legalist philosophers. Along with Li ... work is collected in the 55 chapters of Han Feizi, which is also important ...

made important contributions to the studies of ancient history, epigraphy ... At the age of twenty-two, Wang went to Shanghai and became a protégé ...

The Takla Makan (also Taklamakan or Taklimakan) is China's largest ... The constantly shifting sands and extreme weather conditions of the ...

; literally "south of the clouds") is a province of the ... Yunnan has earned fame for the natural beauty of its setting from ...

; Postal map spelling: Kiangsi) is a southern province of the People ... Jiangxi had served as a main trade route in ancient and Medieval China ...

) 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 ...

Yak is the common name for a stocky, ox-like bovine, Bos grunniens ... are important to the society and economies of local people in the high elevation ...

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

The languages of India primarily belong to two major linguistic families ... While Hindi is the official language of the central government in ...

Southeast Asia, sometimes abbreviated to SEA, is a subregion of Asia ... The maritime region consists of Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia ...

The Secret of the Golden Flower ("Tai Yi Jin Hua Zong Zhi" ... “The Secret of the Golden Flower” is an esoteric guide to Daoist ...

orang utan, and orangutang) is any member of two species of great apes with ... Hominoidea (order Primates). Members of the Hominidae family, which ...

typically distinguished by their practice of Islam. The Hui form the third ... dietary laws and reject the consumption of pork, the most common meat ...

During the Goryeo and Joseon dynasties of Korea, the royal courts ... Based on the civil service examinations of imperial China, the gwageo ...

Solomon Islands is a nation in Melanesia, east of Papua New Guinea ... over the Solomon Islands in the 1890s. Some of the bitterest fighting of World ...

famed for his encyclopedic knowledge of Indian and Vedantic learning ... Kumarajiva is mostly remembered for the prolific translation of Buddhist ...

In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand formed by eolian ... Some coastal areas have one or more sets of dunes running parallel ...

; Postal map spelling: Shansi) is a province of the People's ... refers to the province's location west of the Taihang Mountains. Its ...

; also romanized as Nei Mongol) is a Mongol autonomous region of the ... The official languages of Inner Mongolia are Standard Mandarin and ...

quot;) is a province on the southern coast of the People's Republic ... cational/languages/asia.htm]Languages of China. oclc.org. Retrieved ...

The Culture of China (Chinese: 中國文化) is home to one of the ... was already rich and essential in the period of antiquity called the pre-Chin ...

MARC is an acronym, used in the field of library science, that stands ... The future of the MARC formats is a matter of some debate in the worldwide ...

It was in use centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu-Arabic numeral ... replacing it for practical reasons, the use of the abacus continues to be ...

A number written in decimal notation involves the use of one or more ... apparent when compared with the system of using Roman numerals. The decimal ...

Manichaeism is an extinct dualistic religion of Iranian origin, founded ... an ongoing struggle between the forces of good and evil in the universe ...

southern Manchuria (present-day northeast China), southern Russian Maritime ... the second century B.C.E., around the fall of Gojoseon, an earlier kingdom ...

poet. Along with the other nine lyric poets of ancient Greece, Sappho's ... What fragments do remain show glimpses of her genius, as well as giving ...

A printing press is a mechanical device to print many copies of text ... technologies had been developed in ancient China and Korea a few hundred years ...

The Sultanate of Sulu was a Muslim state that ruled over many of the ... network, and Spanish troops overran the city of Jolo and built a walled garrison ...

Models of the Indo-Aryan migration discusses scenarios of prehistoric ... In the case of the Indo-Aryan race, they indeed appear to have origin ...

until 1864, against the authority and forces of the Qing Empire in China, conducted ... Most accurate sources put the total deaths during the fifteen years ...

in both Chinese and English made him one of the most influential writers ... West. His witty, sharp analysis was a result of not only his literary talent ...

who virtually created the discipline of comparative religion. He was ... Müller's use of comparative linguistics in his research methodology ...

in all the ancient civilizations of the world, particularly in ... Stelae have provided invaluable evidence to archaeologists of the ...

Collation is the assembly of written information into a standard order ... Advantages of sorted lists include: *one can easily find the first ...

to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. ... space agencies. However, with the launch of the privately funded SpaceShipOne ...

"Samuel Robert Ramsey, The Languages of China (Princeton University ... *Ramsey, Samuel Robert. The Languages of China. Princeton University ...

generally based in present day Mongolia and China. From the third century B ... Huangdi (r. 221 - 206 B.C.E.), who unified China under the Qin, built the ...

Grammar is the set of rules that allow a speaker to form an intelligible ... (grammatikḕ téchnē), which means "art of letters," from ...

at the world primarily from the perspective of one's own ethnic culture ... they have adopted their values and standards of behavior. The problem is that ...

Oirat (Oirads, Oyirads, Oirots) is the common name of several pastoral ... approximately two million and were one of the most formidable tribes ...

210 B.C.E.), personal name Zheng, was king of the Chinese State of Qin from ... Having unified China, he and his prime minister Lǐ Sī passed a series ...

whether in seed or ground forms, is a staple of many cuisines, with particular ... are allowed by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature), this ...

Map showing the approximate distribution of Bantu (light brown) vs. other ... by a common language family (the Bantu languages) and in many cases common ...

An alphabet is a standard set of letters (basic written symbols or ... A true alphabet has letters for the vowels of a language as well as ...

Meiji Restoration, following the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868 ... Firmly believing in the importance of education and the acquisition ...

ancient kingdom established after the fall of Goguryeo. After Goguryeo's ... Balhae occupied southern parts of Manchuria (Northeast China) and ...

Orientalism is the study of Near and Far Eastern societies and cultures ... ==Meaning of the term== Orientalism derives from a Latin word oriens ...

Mayotte is an overseas department and region of France consisting ... Mayotte is located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in ...

A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa. There are more than ... Roses are members of the family Rosaceae, which is one of the largest ...

Overseas Chinese are people of Chinese birth or descent who live outside ... In each area, overseas Chinese have retained their languages and cultural ...

) is the smallest province of the People's Republic of China ... on the island. The People's Republic of China government claims Hainan ...

– Aisōpos) is the figure traditionally credited with the collection ... world circulated in vernacular European languages. The fables, which today ...

Chopsticks are a pair of small even-length tapered sticks used as ... The widespread use in Asian restaurants of disposable chopsticks made ...

) both refer to an Asian ethnic group in the mountainous regions of ... * Languages of China * Laos Memorial * List of ethnic groups in Vietnam ...

Suriname, officially the Republic of Suriname, is a country in northern ... the Dutch East Indies and India, as well as China and the Middle East. Although ...

; Postal map spelling: Tientsin) is one of four municipalities of ... The urban area of Tianjin is located along the Haihe River, and is ...

the type of school providing secondary education|gymnasium (school) ... Gym, a shortened form of gymnasium, refers to facilities intended ...

inspired novels and plays reveal his views of the universal truths in human ... worldwide. An thought provoking aspect of his literary legacy is that ...

This article focuses on the civilization of China and its history ... China ( t=中國|s=中国|hp=Zhōngguó|tp=Jhongguó ) is a cultural ...

The Republic of Palau is located in the Pacific Ocean some 300 miles ... The Republic of Palau consists of eight principal islands and more ...

volume Latin dictionary in the University Library of Graz.]] and other information; or a list of words in one language with ...

Gandhāra is the name of an ancient, extinct kingdom once located ... The Kingdom of Gandhara lasted from around the sixth century B.C.E ...

) was a massive military retreat undertaken by the Red Armies of the ... The Long March began the ascent to power of Mao Zedong, whose leadership ...

The Tatars are people of Turkic origin living mainly in Russia but ... in 1783. Some Crimean Tatars were accused of collaboration with Nazi Germany ...

) are a Turkic people of Central Asia. Today Uyghurs live primarily ... The earliest use of the term "Uyghur" (Weihu), during the ...

Panthera is a genus of large, wild cats in the mammalian family, Felidae ... The Panthera genus comprises about half of the seven extant species ...

is C10H16O. It is found in the bark and wood of the camphor laurel tree and ... called it kapur, "chalk" because of its white color. ...

and translator who traveled on foot from China to India in the early Tang ... Xuanzang’s detailed account of his travels, Journey to the West ...

The Law Library of the United States Congress was established in 1832 ... universal access to and the understanding of law serves an important role ...

The Aksumite Empire or Axumite Empire (sometimes called the Kingdom ... to climate change and to defeat at the hands of Judith, a legendary Jewish Queen. ...

) is a collection of Chinese historical books covering a period of ... and the editing, revising, and collating of them was organized under official ...

The Independent State of Papua New Guinea (informally, Papua New Guinea ... defined as Melanesia. With a land area of 452,860 square kilometers, ...

PNG|400px|right|thumb|Hypothesized map of human migration based on Mitochondrial ... prehistory and human history. The movement of populations in modern times ...

graphẽ "writing") is a form of ornamental handwriting ... may take precedence over the legibility of the letters. Well-crafted calligraphy ...

the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken ... Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the tenth ...

landscape shaped by the dissolution of a soluble layer or layers of ... Different terms for karst topography exist in other languages—for ...

a student leader. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature ... He is recognized as the leading architect of Burmese independence, and the ...

strong). Officially known as the Union of Myanmar, (also as Burma or ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...

Water Margin or Outlaws of the Marsh ( t=水滸傳|s=水浒传|p=Shuǐhǔ ... ) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature ...

in the late nineteenth century as part of the Hohenzollern dynasty's ... tradition of expansion within the European space, Germany's renewed ...

East Timor, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-L'este ... at 50 percent in 2001. About 42 percent of the East Timorese live below ...

yoga")Lindsay Jones (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Ed. (Macmillan ... The origins of the scholarly Indian Yogācāra tradition were rooted ...

Xīyóu-jì; Wade-Giles: Hsiyu-chi) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels ... The novel tells the entertaining story of the Buddhist monk Xuánzàng ...

and formerly Vietnamese. Four percent of Chinese characters are derived ... parts where one indicates a general category of meaning and the other the sound ...

graphein - write) is the study and practice of making representations of the ... both a science and an art. The aesthetics of any given map will always be ...

a gorge, valley, road, railroad track, body of water, or other physical obstacle ... The Oxford English Dictionary traces the origin of the word bridge ...

Vietnam officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a nation in ... to 1975 brought Vietnam to the attention of the world. That war has been ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (abbreviated UDHR) is a ... Eleanor Roosevelt, first chairperson of the Commission on Human Rights ...

Malaysia is a federation of 13 states in Southeast Asia. ... The name "Malaysia" was adopted in 1963 when the Federation ...

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is the most populous ... from the United Kingdom after decades of colonial rule. Nigeria re-achieved ...

usually using a printing press or other kind of printing apparatus. It is often ... In photography, the process of making a picture on photosensitive ...

(香|香 港|港), is one of the two special administrative regions ... Hong Kong was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from 1842 until ...

Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name ... mind, to produce a dream-like work of art that explored truth that ...

tool used in farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing ... countries, the first mechanical means of pulling a plow used steam-power ...

Okinawa Prefecture (沖縄県, Okinawa-ken;Okinawan: Uchinā) is one ... The three tribal federations of the Ryukyu Islands were united in ...

, earlier known as Saloth Sar, was leader of the Communist movement known ... 1970s, Pol Pot became the prime minister of "Democratic Kampuchea ...

A continent is one of several large landmasses on Earth. Seven areas ... The geological process and study of the movement, collision and division ...

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in China. The dynasty was founded ... civilization—equal to or surpassing that of the Han Dynasty—as well as ...

For the Republic of China see Taiwan. For the civilization of China ... com/show_country.asp?name=CN Languages of China] Ethnologue: Languages ...

to Western intellectuals. His analyses of Far Eastern tradition also ... Ishikawa Prefecture, the fourth son of physician Ryojun Suzuki (he ...

all are independent. Arabs form the majority of the populations of Algeria ... designation birthed during the days of the British Empire, and encompasses ...

— is the estuary formed by the combination of the Uruguay River and the Paraná ... widest estuary in the world. It forms part of the border between Argentina ...

The Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos) was a tower built in the third ... Great, it was home to a significant number of Greeks and Jews. It was renowned ...

In a matriarchy, power lies with the women of a community. Conclusive ... However, such societies generally occur in times of societal stress ...

The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern ... Mariana Islands. They are the southern part of a submerged mountain range ...

Korea has one of the longest continuous histories of any kingdom or ... North Korea and South Korea. The borders of Korea have fluctuated throughout ...

(c. 544 – 496 B.C.E.) was a Chinese author of The Art of War (Chinese: 兵 ... The Art of War is a systematic guide to strategy and tactics for rulers ...

Brunei, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace (Negara Brunei ... world not holding elections. A long period of political stability has been ...

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan, or Pakistan, is a country located ... in the world. Its territory was a part of the pre-partitioned British ...

South America is a continent of the Americas, situated entirely in ... South America has a land area of 17,840,000 square kilometers (6,890 ...

The Lotus Sutra or Sutra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma ... Kyō; Korean: Myobeomnyeonhwagyeong) is one of the most popular and influential ...

located in East Asia with a population of nearly three million. Mongolia ... Mongolia was the center of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century ...

for his contribution to the phenomenology of religious consciousness and ... Hildesheim and studied at the universities of Erlangen and Göttingen, Otto ...

Slang is a set of highly informal words and expressions that are not ... The origins of slang are usually found in the desire of those members ...

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Buddhist art refers to the rich and diverse representations of religious ... Early Buddhist art emerged in India and Sri Lanka following the death ...

The leopard (Panthera pardus) is an Old World mammal of the Felidae ... The leopard is the most widely distributed of the big cats, being ...

extant species within this group. It is one of the best known examples of ... long lived due to a beneficial combination of disease-resistant characteristics ...

28, 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.) is one of the world's foremost exemplary ... Confucius taught personal and public morality, correctness of social ...

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ... Philippine culture has many affinities with the West: It is one of ...

August 660 C.E.), a kingdom in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula originally ... Onjo of Baekje, the son of Goguryeo's founder Jumong, founded ...

2004) presided as the twelfth Prime Minister of the Republic of India. ... He led one of the most important administrations in India's modern ...

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radio and the Internet. The mission of the BBC is to inform, educate ... Its first transmission was on November 14th of that year. ...

constructed or modified for the purpose of making music. In principle ... musical expression. In the ancient cultures of China, Africa, Greece, the ...

The Hwarang denotes a military society of expert Buddhist warriors ... The allure of the Hwarang warrior derives from the sense of a righteous ...

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Niger, officially the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked sub-Saharan ... Niger was an important economic crossroad, and the empires of Songhai ...

) is the capital of Hubei province, and is the most populous city ... Wuhan is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads ...

Aceh (pronounced AH-chay) is one of the provinces of Indonesia and ... the Acehnese practice Islam, while the rest of the archipelago tends to blend ...

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The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands ... The country consists of twenty-nine atolls and five isolated islands ...

Orkhon Valley Cultural Landscape is seen along the banks of the Orkhon ... west from the capital Ulaanbaatar. The Orkhon Valley was the site ...

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580-643), courtesy name Xuancheng (玄成), formally Duke Wenzhen ... selflessness, courage, attitude, and life of attendance. Upon the death ...

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antiquary, and a successful organizer of scientific inquiry. Peiresc’s ... Peiresc’s interests covered every aspect of scholarship and science ...

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Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island nation ... The site of ancient port cities and a possession of several empires ...

also spelled "Djawa") is an island of Indonesia and the site of its ... Formed mostly as the result of volcanic events, Java is the 12th largest ...

Nepal in the west, Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north and east ... highest peak, sits in the northwestern part of the state on the boundary with ...

Zen (禅), Japanese for "meditation," is a form of Mahāyāna ... to his followers. It was later taken to China by the monk Bodhidharma, ...

The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of ... Web normally begins either by typing the URL of the page into a Web browser ...

who, during the 1930s, led a campaign of agricultural science, now known ... Lysenko was the son of Denis and Oksana Lysenko, a peasant family ...

Asia. Laos traces its history to the Kingdom of Lan Xang or Land of a Million ... in 1986 the government announced a range of reforms designed to create ...

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language did not have a writing system of its own. Chinese characters ... Kanji includes new characters created in Japan, and modifications ...

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The political integration of India established a united nation for ... India's leaders faced the prospect of inheriting a nation fragmented ...

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Asia in the North and West to Myanmar and China Proper in the East. Recent ... Tibet was forcibly incorporated into the People's Republic of ...

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country in Central Africa, roughly the size of France. It is bordered by Chad ... The Central African Republic that is one of the poorest countries ...

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The term enemy of the people or enemy of the nation, is a term used ... Totalitarian governments like the Soviet Union made extensive use ...

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, (pronounced Tsoo Shee) popularly known in China as the West Dowager Empress ... During the last decades of the Qing Dynasty, the government was split ...

curd (the literal translation), is a food of Chinese origin, made by coagulating ... Tofu originated in ancient China, but little else is known about the ...

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) is a range of traditional medical practices originating in China ... TCM theory asserts that processes of the human body are interrelated ...

Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country ... Yet the nation is on the verge of collapse. Under the leadership of ...

New Guinea, located just 100 miles north of Australia, is the world ... the strongest candidate for highest point of the Australia/Oceania continent. ...

The Sudan (officially Republic of Sudan) is a country in Northeast ... the United Kingdom in 1956. The remainder of the twentieth century saw two ...

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The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, commonly referred ... depth and has been subjected to a number of external influences and migrations ...

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