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- 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 ...11 KB (1,813 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
- ) refers to incised (or, rarely, brush-written) ancient Chinese characters ... The study of oracle bone script is an important source for understanding ...14 KB (2,153 words) - 00:58, 18 November 2022
- Zhang Binglin (December 25, 1868-June 14, 1936) was a Chinese philologist ... His philological works include Wen Shi (文始 "The Origin of ...11 KB (1,492 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- the period after the legendary arrival of Gija in northern (or in the ... Koreans point to Gija as a co-founder of Korean civilization along ...8 KB (1,218 words) - 06:55, 14 December 2022
- and Sinologist, and is still considered one of the world's great Asian ... Waley was self-taught in both Chinese and Japanese and achieved a ...12 KB (1,793 words) - 17:37, 16 August 2023
- , 936–978), also known as Houzhu of Southern Tang (南唐後主 ... Li Houzhu has been called the "first true master" of the Ci, ...10 KB (1,502 words) - 20:35, 11 March 2025
- ), are an ethnic group that dominated much of Manchuria (Northeast ... Dynasty in 907 but fell to the Jin Dynasty of the Jurchen in 1125. Following ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 02:16, 3 March 2025
- settled form with Herbert Giles' Chinese-English dictionary of 1892. Wade-Giles was the main system of transcription in the English-speaking ...13 KB (1,871 words) - 22:05, 3 May 2023
- In Chinese mythology, Fu Xi or Fu Hsi ( c=伏羲|p=fúxī ... )), mid-2800s B.C.E., was the first of the mythical Three Sovereigns ...11 KB (1,701 words) - 00:42, 18 October 2022
- [[Image:Medieval writing desk.jpg|thumb|250px|Illustration of a scribe ... Writing is a form of communication through the act of preserving text ...22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
- as Wan Jiabao (萬家寶), was a renowned Chinese playwright, often regarded ... (1940). It is largely through the efforts of Cao Yu that modern Chinese ...15 KB (2,264 words) - 00:35, 13 January 2023
- 敬仲), is conventionally regarded as the Chinese inventor of paper and the ... significant improvement and standardization of papermaking by adding essential ...11 KB (1,768 words) - 23:46, 12 January 2023
- in Nanyang, Henan, China, was a precursor of Neo-Confucianism as well as ... “do not work, they do not produce, worst of all, they teach people not ...16 KB (2,591 words) - 13:28, 24 January 2023
- The concept of yin and yang (Pinyin: yīnyáng; t=陰陽|s=阴阳|p ... ; Korean: Um-yang; Vietnamese: Âm-Dương) originates in ancient ...13 KB (2,041 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
- Protestant missionary in China. At the age of 16 he joined the Presbyterian ... Morrison produced a Chinese translation of the New Testament in 1813 ...15 KB (2,239 words) - 16:41, 16 September 2025
- JPG|thumb|right|280px|right|Statue of Guan Yin on Mount Putuo]] Guan Yin (Pinyin: Guān Yīn; traditional Chinese: 觀音) is known ...10 KB (1,730 words) - 19:26, 20 June 2024
- Shan shui (Traditional Chinese: 山水畫) refers to a style of Chinese ... When Chinese painters work on shan shui painting, they do not try ...15 KB (2,248 words) - 17:15, 3 December 2025
- Lin Yutang (Traditional Chinese:林語堂; Simplified Chinese:林语堂 ... Lin Yutang wrote extensively on Chinese social, cultural traditions ...17 KB (2,530 words) - 23:43, 11 March 2025
- Jingan (靜安) or Baiyu (伯隅), was a Chinese scholar, writer, philosopher ... At the age of twenty-two, Wang went to Shanghai and became a protégé ...12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2023
- province. T'ao Yüan-ming , was one of the most influential pre-Tang ... Qian is now regarded as the greatest poet of his era and was a major influence ...12 KB (1,896 words) - 00:46, 21 April 2023
