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  • 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 ...
    14 KB (2,152 words) - 22:31, 22 October 2022
  • the New Testament and the Psalms into Chinese and Uyghur. After working ... he familiarized himself with the native language, preached in it, and translated ...
    11 KB (1,769 words) - 14:25, 22 May 2024
  • ) 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 ...
    14 KB (2,127 words) - 19:50, 21 April 2023
  • ) is the leading Chinese search engine for websites, audio files, ... ; translation: Baidu Encyclopedia) is a Chinese language collaborative ...
    20 KB (2,596 words) - 05:48, 26 August 2023
  • , Ch’u Yuan) (ca. 340 B.C.E. - 278 B.C.E.) was a Chinese patriotic ... Qu Yuan is considered the first prominent Chinese poet. Twenty-five ...
    16 KB (2,703 words) - 07:48, 3 July 2022
  • → wūlóng) is a traditional Chinese tea somewhere between green ... The name oolong comes into the English language from the Chinese name ...
    14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:33, 11 March 2023
  • by the Arabs. Though the Sogdian language is extinct, there remains ... China were triggered by the embassy of the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian during ...
    15 KB (2,182 words) - 15:07, 27 April 2023
  • the original culture. For example, the Chinese written language Hanzi was ... languages. “Pidgin” is a mixed language that developed to help members ...
    12 KB (1,786 words) - 01:13, 10 April 2021
  • Documents] of the Yongle Era”) was a Chinese compilation commissioned ... Yongle is considered one of the greatest Chinese emperors. His economic, ...
    11 KB (1,666 words) - 16:59, 4 June 2023
  • altar, just as is performed in traditional Chinese and Vietnamese Buddhism ... Séances can be conducted in Vietnamese, Chinese, French, or English, depending ...
    12 KB (1,835 words) - 19:29, 25 November 2023
  • as Wan Jiabao (萬家寶), was a renowned Chinese playwright, often regarded ... through the efforts of Cao Yu that modern Chinese "spoken theater" ...
    15 KB (2,264 words) - 00:35, 13 January 2023
  • The Culture of China (Chinese: 中國文化) is home to one of the ... Chinese culture underwent several turning points and renewals throughout ...
    24 KB (3,727 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
  • women leaders who successfully repelled Chinese invasions for three years ... the fate of servitude to the people from the North (Chinese). ...
    14 KB (2,364 words) - 23:51, 5 November 2022
  • bone script, the earliest recorded form of Chinese writing. Wang Yirong, director ... History of China (Beijing: Foreign Language Press, 2002). King Wu Ding ...
    11 KB (1,657 words) - 11:14, 24 May 2023
  • “air” and “qi” (氣) in Chinese thought. Furthermore, one ... His concept of “air,” like “qi” in Chinese thought, seems not to be ...
    7 KB (1,024 words) - 19:08, 26 July 2023
  • The Lüshi Chunqiu is an encyclopedic Chinese classic text compiled ... The Lüshi chunqiu represents the Chinese intellectual world of the ...
    16 KB (2,593 words) - 04:44, 5 November 2022
  • In Chinese, Huang Taiji is also known as Hóng Tàijí (洪太極 ... in the Manchu language. Huang Taiji is also sometimes referred erroneously ...
    14 KB (2,103 words) - 17:48, 27 January 2022
  • He encouraged the participation of Han Chinese in government while pursuing ... age of five (six according to traditional Chinese age reckoning) in 1643, ...
    16 KB (2,379 words) - 20:04, 21 April 2023
  • *Metal (Chinese:金, pinyin: jīn, "gold") *Wood (Chinese: 木, pinyin: mù) *Water (Chinese: 水, pinyin: shuǐ) ...
    19 KB (2,730 words) - 14:06, 20 May 2023
  • of spices. Chai is ultimately from the Chinese word chá (茶) meaning ... The Chinese character for tea is 茶, but it is pronounced differently ...
    16 KB (2,494 words) - 16:17, 7 November 2022

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