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  • Daoist classics, attributed to the famous Chinese immortal Lü Dongbin (798 ... Golden Flower is attributed to the famous Chinese immortal Lü Dong bin (798 ...
    12 KB (1,770 words) - 17:27, 30 April 2023
  • the empire in 1211 C.E., traditional Chinese, Persian, and Arab sources ... Since the empire took on trappings of a Chinese state, Chinese historians ...
    11 KB (1,634 words) - 02:50, 5 October 2022
  • Zhang Binglin (December 25, 1868-June 14, 1936) was a Chinese philologist ... quot;), the first systematic work of Chinese etymology. He developed ...
    11 KB (1,492 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
  • ; Korean: Um-yang; Vietnamese: Âm-Dương) originates in ancient ... The earliest Chinese characters for yin and yang are found in inscriptions ...
    13 KB (2,041 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
  • Jingan (靜安) or Baiyu (伯隅), was a Chinese scholar, writer, philosopher ... ambiguity of meaning was a feature of Chinese language, and therefore Chinese ...
    12 KB (1,844 words) - 18:49, 17 April 2023
  • ) refers to incised (or, rarely, brush-written) ancient Chinese characters ... the development of present-day Chinese writing and remains an academic ...
    14 KB (2,153 words) - 00:58, 18 November 2022
  • Guan Yin (Pinyin: Guān Yīn; traditional Chinese: 觀音) is known ... and these traits are associated with the Chinese concept of Yin (the feminine ...
    10 KB (1,730 words) - 22:16, 2 December 2021
  • names, including the stage name Lan Ping (Chinese: 蓝苹), and commonly referred ... was one of the most powerful figures in Chinese politics during Mao’s ...
    14 KB (2,214 words) - 20:36, 3 April 2024
  • (Northeast China) in the tenth century. Chinese historians classified the ... and clothing and refused to use the Chinese language, devising a writing ...
    11 KB (1,625 words) - 03:37, 6 October 2022
  • Lin Yutang (Traditional Chinese:林語堂; Simplified Chinese:林语堂 ... a new method of romanizing the Chinese language, and created an indexing ...
    17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
  • ; 妙法蓮華經 Chinese: Miàofǎ Liánhuā Jīng; Japanese: Myōhō ... for everyone with great compassion. Such language has deep resonances in other ...
    10 KB (1,578 words) - 02:49, 4 November 2022
  • He allied with the Kuomintang against the Chinese Communists, but gradually ... (Chang Tso-lin, “Old Marshal”) a Chinese warlord who dominated Manchuria ...
    11 KB (1,688 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
  • 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 ...
    11 KB (1,701 words) - 00:42, 18 October 2022
  • known representatives of the Logicians, a Chinese philosophical school of ... Doe has three ears.” (In the Chinese language, plurals are unmarked ...
    14 KB (2,308 words) - 04:14, 24 May 2024
  • jakūn gūsa, In Chinese: 八旗 baqí) were administrative military ... niru, Chinese: 佐領 zuoling), some of which reflected pre-existing ...
    12 KB (1,892 words) - 00:04, 13 February 2024
  • China. It brought about an upsurge of Chinese nationalism, and a re-evaluation ... communism. The introduction of Vernacular Chinese (白话) made it possible ...
    15 KB (2,240 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
  • percent. The most impressive collection of Chinese art from those dynasties ... * Chinese Buddhism * Buddhist Art * Mogao Caves ==Notes== ...
    11 KB (1,501 words) - 02:38, 4 November 2022
  • The Rinzai school (臨済宗; Japanese: Rinzai-shū, Chinese: Linji ... end. Rinzai is the Japanese branch of the Chinese Linji school, which was ...
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  • dynasty. He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography because of ... and, less formal than most classical language, his history was therefore ...
    11 KB (1,813 words) - 22:09, 29 January 2023
  • these structures incorporated elements of Chinese pavilions and towers. ... encounter with the East. The original Chinese is ta, which is an abbreviated ...
    11 KB (1,700 words) - 23:42, 28 April 2024

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