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  • Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins are often traced back to the I Ching (the Book of Changes,) an ancient ...
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  • Overseas Chinese are people of Chinese birth or descent who live outside the Greater China region, which includes territories administered by ...
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  • Han Chinese ( s=汉族 or 汉人|t=漢族 or 漢人|p=hànzú or hànrén ) are an ethnic group indigenous to China and the largest single ethnic ...
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  • Chinese art (Chinese: 中國藝術/中国艺术) is art, both ancient and modern, that originated in or is practiced in China or by Chinese artists ...
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  • Chinese ceramics or Chinese porcelain is a form of fine art developed in China during the dynastic periods. China has always been richly endowed ...
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  • role in the governing itself of the ancient Chinese rulers: ... The early Chinese sages were fascinated to "look upward and contemplate ...
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  • Chinese architecture refers to a style of architecture that has taken shape in Asia over the centuries. The structural principles of Chinese ...
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  • A Chinese character ( t=漢字|s=汉字|汉字|p=Hànzì ) is a logogram used in writing Chinese, Japanese, sometimes Korean, and formerly Vietnamese ...
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  • The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, incorporating elements of a lunar calendar with those of a solar calendar. It has been in continual use in ...
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  • Chinese mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, and religious tradition that has been passed down for centuries in oral or ...
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  • Chinese herbology or Chinese materia medica ( s=中药学|t=中藥學|p=Zhōngyào xué ), the Chinese art of combining medicinal herbs, is an ...
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  • [[File:Chinese dragon asset heraldry.png|thumb|400px|Chinese dragon]] The Chinese dragon (spelled Long, Loong, or Lung in transliteration ...
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  • Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. The materials used in Chinese painting, brush and ink on paper ...
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  • A Chinese family name is one of the thousands of family names that ... Chinese surnames have served a number of sociological purposes throughout ...
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  • Simplified Chinese Characters ( s=简化字|t=簡化字|p=Jiǎnhuàzì or s=简体字|t=簡體字|p=Jiǎntǐzì ) are one of two standard sets ...
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  • Traditional Chinese medicine (also known as TCM, s=中医学|t=中醫學|p=zhōngyī xué ) is a range of traditional medical practices originating ...
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  • The Chinese Civil War ( t=國共內戰|s=国共内战|p=Guógòng Neìzhàn|l=Nationalist-Communist Civil War ) or ( t=解放战争|s=解放战争 ...
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  • File:Chinese syllable tree.png
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  • The Chinese Rites controversy (ca. 1630-1715 C.E.) was a dispute within the Roman Catholic Church about whether certain elements of Chinese folk ...
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  • title=Chinese character| image_name=Hanzi.svg| image_desc="Chinese character" in Traditional Chinese (left ...
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  • title=Chinese dragon| image_name=Chinese dragon asset heraldry.png| image_desc=Chinese dragon| ...
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  • image_desc= Female musicians performing Chinese classical music| text=The music of China dates back to the dawn of Chinese civilization ...
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  • to resolve what it sees as inconsistencies in Chinese Mahayana Buddhism, by developed a new holistic approach to Buddhism. This approach is characteristic ...
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  • From Mandarin Chinese 拼音 (pīnyīn, literally “spelled sounds”). ... of China. It helps with pronouncing Chinese characters. Consists of ...
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  • December 26, 1893 - September 9, 1976), was a Chinese communist revolutionary and a founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed ...
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  • quot;) is the English name for a cluster of Chinese religious and philosophical traditions that have developed over more than two thousand years in ...
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  • text=The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming Dynasty (1420 - 1912) to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911) ...
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  • much of history, it was written both in classical Chinese and in Korean, first using the transcription systems idu and gugyeol, and finally using the ...
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  • The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (roughly fifth century B.C.E.). The work ...
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  • text=The concept of yin and yang originates in ancient Chinese philosophy and metaphysics, and is used to describe two primal opposing but complementary ...
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  • [[Category:Chinese navigational boxes|PRC topics]] 174655080 ...
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  • of China (PRC) officially, often called China (Chinese: 中国; pinyin: Zhōngguó; literally "Central State"), is a country in East Asia. It ...
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  • * Chinese * French * German * Greek * Japanese (Polivanov system) * Komi * Korean * Kurdish * Moldovan Romanian * Mongolian * Polish ...
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  • 茶 or tê (Amoy dialect), from Old Chinese, ultimately from Proto-Sino ... From Chinese 茶 or chá (tea). ==Noun== tea (plural teas) ...
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  • members of the Eastern Lightning church by the Chinese government made me sad. persecution|76154354 ...
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  • * Chinese ** Mandarin ** Cantonese ** Old ** Historical * Chukchi * Cornish * Czech * Danish * Dutch ** Standard ** Orsmaal-Gussenhoven dialect ...
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  • |population = 1.3 billion(estimate includes overseas Chinese) ... |languages = Chinese languages |religions = Predominantly Taoism ...
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  • text=Beijing opera or Peking opera is a form of Chinese opera which arose in the late eighteenth century and became fully developed and recognized ...
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