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- Mencius (Chinese 孟子, transliterated Meng Zi, most accepted dates: ... Mencius, also known by his birth name Meng Ke or Ko, was born in the ...22 KB (3,470 words) - 04:29, 9 November 2022
- ; "School of Mo") or Moism is a Chinese Philosophy founded ... great moral teachers of the Warring States era. It is most likely that he ...17 KB (2,759 words) - 19:44, 9 November 2022
- of ancient Central Asia. Known in medieval Chinese sources as Tujue (突厥 ... the first Turkic tribe known to use the name "Turk" as a political ...21 KB (3,069 words) - 16:18, 29 July 2023
- Kingdoms of Korea. His full posthumous name roughly means "Very Greatest ... who were given the title Great after their name. His legacy of greatly expanding ...14 KB (2,166 words) - 12:47, 24 January 2023
- of the Jesuits in China in the early modern era stands as one of the notable ... Xavier, however, died the same year on the Chinese island of Shangchuan, without ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
- including 'sumi-e', a style of Chinese and Japanese ink and wash ... East Asian calligraphy typically uses ink brushes to write Chinese ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- , Xiao'erjing: حُوِ ذَو ) are a Chinese ethnic group, ... Most Hui are similar in culture to Han Chinese except that they practice ...26 KB (3,824 words) - 15:11, 9 February 2024
- ) (1610?－ August 7, 1661), former name Jin Renrui (金人瑞), also ... Early in life, he took the style name "Shengtan," a phrase ...23 KB (3,604 words) - 02:01, 9 February 2023
- before it became a modern republic. The name 'Taejo' is comprise ... reforms in the Joseon government spawned an era of tremendous creativity in ...15 KB (2,284 words) - 19:06, 24 October 2022
- Di (Chu Ti; 朱棣; Pinyin Yonglo (reign name); temple name (Ming) Ch'eng ... Yongle is considered one of the greatest Chinese emperors. His economic, ...27 KB (4,177 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- was Batuo, (also, Fotuo or Bhadra (the Chinese transposition of Buddha ... because of its long association with Chinese martial arts and particularly ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 21:14, 16 June 2023
- to migrate while in the post-Korean War era many Koreans migrated to the ... the Soviet invasion typically go by the name Sakhalin Koreans.Anton Troianovski ...13 KB (1,907 words) - 15:38, 14 April 2023
- In Chinese, the term yǔhángyuán ( zh|宇航员 ) has long been used ... , literally "great emptiness"), Chinese for "space ...15 KB (2,112 words) - 18:25, 19 August 2023
- Chinese ceramics or Chinese porcelain is a form of fine art developed ... 11,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era. Porcelain is usually green ...32 KB (4,846 words) - 22:42, 13 January 2023
- 9, 1867 - December 9, 1916) was the pen name of Natsume Kinnosuke (夏目金之助 ... school, Natsume became enamored with Chinese literature, and fancied ...14 KB (2,244 words) - 15:18, 11 November 2022
- and those of controversial authorship. The Chinese literary scholar Wang Guowei ... Legend has the Wen family name existing during the western Zhou Dynasty ...16 KB (2,591 words) - 19:07, 21 November 2022
- capital is located at Chengdu. The name Sichuan literally means "four ... numerous ambitious soldiers and refuges of Chinese governments throughout history ...21 KB (2,859 words) - 14:31, 27 January 2023
- Baekje in 18 B.C.E. According to the Chinese record San Guo Zhi, during ... Through the early centuries of the Common Era, sometimes called the Proto ...27 KB (3,640 words) - 05:39, 26 August 2023
- from 1867 until 1912. The Edo period was an era of political of calm and provided ... theater. Initially, themes were drawn from Chinese tales and works of art. ...12 KB (1,823 words) - 01:28, 3 May 2023
- of enlightened peace"), or Shōwa era, is a period of Japanese history ... ==The name “Showa”== In the Japanese language, the name “Showa” ...23 KB (3,509 words) - 07:56, 7 October 2022
- in the Mongolian classical alphabet. In Chinese, the region is known as ... region, alternated in control between Han Chinese agriculturalists in the ...33 KB (4,665 words) - 19:29, 5 March 2024
- them benevolent rather than malevolent. In Chinese society, for example, the ... In the pre-Hispanic era, it was common to keep skulls as trophies ...19 KB (2,926 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- Region (also known by its controversial name East Turkistan or Uyghurstan ... Göktürks (Kokturks, known in medieval Chinese sources as Tujue (突厥 ...35 KB (5,059 words) - 20:30, 23 March 2024
- Dr. Sun Yat-sen (Traditional Chinese: 孫中山 or 孫逸仙; Pinyin: ... Macau). When Sun Yat-sen died in 1925, the name of Xiangshan was changed to ...36 KB (5,408 words) - 22:52, 26 February 2023
- The name “Rokumeikan” comes from a Chinese classic, the Shi Jing ... The name is often translated as "Deer Cry Pavilion," and ...14 KB (2,063 words) - 02:43, 16 December 2022
- goods from India and import of 15 from the Chinese side. The opening also shortens ... when the Tibetan government expelled the Chinese living there, most of the ...20 KB (2,900 words) - 23:53, 29 May 2023
- Xún Zǐ (Wade-Giles: Hsün Tzu) (Chinese: 荀子) (c.310– 237 B ... were collected into the book bearing his name. Emerging as it did in the ...24 KB (3,958 words) - 14:34, 20 May 2023
- as a product of ancient Rome or Arabia (Chinese: Daqin). Although documentation ... of the German scientist Georg Bauer, pen-name Georgius Agricola (1494-1555 ...27 KB (3,827 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- to bronze, then steel during the Roman Era, to modern fabrics such as ... soon. The armor dates from the Mycenaean Era around 1400 B.C.E., some 200 ...14 KB (2,227 words) - 03:50, 15 August 2023
- is also distinguished by the change in the name of the country from Wa (倭 ... sculptor Kuratsukuri Tori, grandson of Chinese immigrant Shiba Tatto, is ...34 KB (5,124 words) - 18:29, 19 August 2023
- border, across the Taiwan Strait. The name Fujian was coined during the ... of government organization) with the same name. The two sides use different ...31 KB (4,438 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
- book was published just after the Meiji era in 1919. Intellectuals of ... and Naraka (hell). Ningen consists of two Chinese characters, nin and gen ...13 KB (1,961 words) - 23:19, 3 May 2023
- some inscriptions in Old Javanese, and in Chinese records. ... However, the basic outline corresponds with Chinese records that could ...26 KB (3,833 words) - 05:33, 5 November 2022
- to the Qing Dynasty, and the demise of the Chinese classical tradition represented ... In 1884, a group of pro-Japanese reformers overthrew the pro-Chinese ...31 KB (4,561 words) - 17:25, 28 March 2024
- seized the throne (the first and only Chinese Empress to rule in her own ... regarded by historians as a high point in Chinese civilization—equal to ...40 KB (6,123 words) - 00:13, 10 February 2024
- – February 19, 1997) was a prominent Chinese politician and reformer ... other mass political movements of the Mao era, Deng was the core of the ...39 KB (5,846 words) - 13:32, 28 January 2024
- The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, incorporating elements of a lunar ... is used for day-to-day activities, but the Chinese calendar is still used for ...53 KB (8,207 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- the period of Nestorian influence, the era of the Central Asian khanates ... The name is thought to derive from a Kyrgyz word for a churn used ...16 KB (2,289 words) - 02:47, 8 March 2023
- The Ming Dynasty Tombs (Chinese: 明朝十三陵; pinyin: Míng cháo ... at the northern foot of Purple Mountain (Chinese: 紫金山; pinyin: Zĭjīn ...24 KB (3,553 words) - 16:44, 12 February 2024
- generally date back to the Tokugawa era. Chinese furniture is traditionally better known for more ornate pieces ...10 KB (1,622 words) - 07:22, 15 April 2024
- itself in government policy with the U.S. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which ... * Dick, William M. Labor and Socialism in America: The Gompers Era ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 01:17, 21 April 2023
- . Yi Hwang is often referred to by his pen name Toegye (退溪, 퇴계; "Retreating ... the reign of King Sejong, initiated a new era in Korean literary history ...18 KB (2,733 words) - 11:12, 24 May 2023
- of an embassy sent to the West by the Chinese Emperor Ming (58-75 C.E ... The eastern part of Central Asia (Chinese Turkestan (Tarim Basin ...37 KB (5,547 words) - 18:34, 22 November 2023
- ruler over humanity, ushering in an era of peace and prosperity. Existing ... The name Maitreya or Metteyya is derived from the word maitrī (Sanskrit ...24 KB (3,613 words) - 05:32, 5 November 2022
- ) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature ... and 3 women, representing all classes of Chinese society, who rose up, under ...17 KB (2,616 words) - 23:16, 3 May 2023
- Ryojun Suzuki (he later changed his given name on becoming a Zen monk). Although ... While he was young, Suzuki had set about acquiring knowledge of Chinese ...19 KB (2,874 words) - 07:35, 12 January 2024
- administrative area around it went by the name Oudh. Situated on the right ... In the first few centuries of the Common Era, Ayodhya had the name ...16 KB (2,296 words) - 07:27, 23 August 2023
- and developed, at least initially, with Chinese help. Korea developed a ... The adoption of the Chinese writing system ("hanja" in Korean ...31 KB (4,423 words) - 04:09, 4 March 2023
- throughout the empire used circular fans. Chinese sources link the fan with ... throughout society. The earliest known Chinese fans are a pair of woven ...28 KB (4,570 words) - 00:41, 25 March 2024
- Chinese architecture refers to a style of architecture that has taken ... grander scale. Since the Tang Dynasty, Chinese architecture has had a major ...41 KB (6,198 words) - 17:00, 10 December 2023
- of influence that occurred during the Brezhnev era. ==Early life== ... further alienated Mao Zedong. As the Chinese Cultural Revolution proceeded ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 20:28, 9 March 2022
- and Cholas had active dialog with the Chinese and sent diplomatic missions ... Conquest of Sri Lanka and Sri Vijaya. Madras: New Era, 1983. ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:10, 8 December 2022
- from the logographic characters of Chinese origin, known in Japan as ... Taiwanese to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters like furigana ...25 KB (3,410 words) - 02:35, 5 October 2022
- in the south were forced to recognize Chinese suzerainty. Commerce continued ... and came to power after defeating the Chinese Ming dynasty and taking ...28 KB (4,243 words) - 00:03, 15 April 2023
- the Japanese reading of the kanji for the Chinese word zhen yan, literally ... indicates the Dharma-character school (Chinese: 法相宗) or Consciousness ...22 KB (3,219 words) - 14:14, 27 January 2023
- the Republics period of Korean history. The name yangban, literally "both ... adopt Zhu Xi’s philosophy. Zhu Xi was a Chinese philosopher of the Southern ...18 KB (2,756 words) - 10:10, 22 May 2023
- major city, and in contrast to other major Chinese cities, has only a few ancient ... their capital, building large modern Chinese residential areas, with ...46 KB (6,727 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
- Feng shui is the ancient Chinese practice of placement and arrangement ... Chinese often used the celestial pole, determined by the pole stars ...33 KB (4,875 words) - 13:00, 21 January 2023
- ), also known as Zhichuan, was a prolific Chinese writer and political official ... seeking to understand early medieval Chinese religion, culture, and society ...30 KB (4,865 words) - 06:29, 18 April 2024
- means "Heaven Ford." This name refers to the fact that the ... under the prefecture of the same name in 1731 by the Qing. ...29 KB (3,826 words) - 23:22, 30 April 2023
- Chinese painting is one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions ... There are three main subjects of Chinese painting: human figures, ...47 KB (7,130 words) - 17:04, 10 December 2023
- during the occupation of Korea, opening the era of college education for all ... from Kyungsung University. In 1949, the name of the library changed to ...21 KB (2,854 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- spelled I Ching) is the oldest of the Chinese classic texts, and is notable ... when translated from the Classical Chinese), the text (and the active ...32 KB (4,741 words) - 11:13, 24 May 2023
- The Old Kingdom is the name commonly given to that period in the 3rd ... It was in this era that formerly independent ancient Egyptian states ...12 KB (1,852 words) - 00:04, 18 November 2022
- The "ji" in the name of Jirisan or Mt. Jiri is the chinese ... of King Jinheung (548), during a prosperous era in the history of Korean Buddhism ...12 KB (1,904 words) - 05:52, 5 April 2024
- used as a rallying cry up until the modern era. Towards the end of the dynasty ... Mongols' discrimination against Han Chinese during the Yuan dynasty ...35 KB (5,541 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- political leaders in twentieth century Chinese history, serving between ... During the Chinese Civil War (1926–1949), Chiang attempted to eradicate ...31 KB (4,795 words) - 20:57, 9 December 2023
- sixth and the twelfth centuries during an era that saw their kingdom extend ... Ereya, who assumed the name Pulakesi on his coronation, had been the ...12 KB (1,818 words) - 23:43, 2 December 2022
- Otis, Harry Chandler, took over, it saw an era of increasing circulation ... === Chandler era === On Otis' death in 1917, his son-in-law, Harry ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 02:47, 4 November 2022
- (some of which may have been adapted from Chinese poetry), and wrote about ... Despite Hitomaro’s prominence as a poet, his name does not appear ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 02:25, 5 October 2022
- interconnected as early as 5000 B.C.E. Chinese merchants colonized the ... Hainan Island and several other southern Chinese regions such as Yunnan, ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- role in some of the largest strikes of the era, but whose leadership had ... In 1901, the AFL lobbied Congress to reauthorize the 1882 Chinese ...21 KB (3,149 words) - 03:34, 24 July 2023
- calendar at the beginning of the Meiji era, the localities in Japan responded ... known as the Hungry Ghost Festival, the Chinese counterpart to Obon is celebrated ...17 KB (2,546 words) - 07:20, 17 November 2023
- are the Hmong from Laos and overseas Chinese. The main groups living ... === 1800s and the penal era === [[Image:Quartier - Disciplinaire, St ...20 KB (3,078 words) - 10:54, 11 April 2024
- Among Far Eastern traditions, while Chinese thought has generally had ... in the sixteenth century during the Tokugawa era, shaped Japanese ideas of ...28 KB (4,111 words) - 09:55, 1 April 2024
- quot;). This convention stems from Heian-era court manners; it would have ... quot;). Neither appellation is his actual name. Genji is simply another way ...22 KB (3,369 words) - 17:34, 30 April 2023
- and Baekje had great power for much of the era, Silla's power gradually ... In the early years of the Common Era, the Three Kingdoms (Goguryeo ...45 KB (6,490 words) - 11:38, 1 February 2024
- like the Western transverse flute. Its name means "1.8 foot (shaku ... The name shakuhachi (shaku-hachi) means "1.8 foot," referring ...13 KB (2,089 words) - 12:20, 27 January 2023
- as a result of the influence of the Chinese Army's five-year occupation ... diplomats were appointed and sent in the name of the deceased Kim Il-sung. ...20 KB (3,127 words) - 06:36, 28 February 2023
- ), written by Luo Guanzhong in the fourteenth century, is a Chinese ... With their focus on the history of Han Chinese, the stories grew in popularity ...29 KB (4,917 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- During the Cold War era, huge populations of refugees left various ... in the Persian Gulf; and Filipinos and Chinese throughout the world. And ...16 KB (2,452 words) - 11:56, 29 January 2024
- administrators, began calling himself the Chinese title of "wang" ... The Samguk Sagi and Samguk Yusa paint additional details and name ...29 KB (4,387 words) - 08:36, 19 December 2022
- continuously used written language system: Chinese characters. It is also said ... of modernization and full appreciation of Chinese culture in the modern world. ...48 KB (7,186 words) - 19:00, 23 March 2024
- influenced by the attitudes of the era of European imperialism in ... Chinoiserie is the catch-all term for decorations involving Chinese ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- Several countries can use the same name, each for their own currency ... trading system pointed to a flaw: in an era where there was no place that ...23 KB (3,579 words) - 06:47, 12 January 2024
- power to puncture the thin armor of the tanks of that era. ... In the post-war era, HEAT became the almost universal choice outside ...26 KB (4,166 words) - 06:22, 31 July 2023
- The SIS, also referred to by its historical name "MI6" (Military ... organizations to retain most of its Soviet-era organization and approach ...18 KB (2,595 words) - 10:58, 10 March 2023
- began under the pretext of eliminating Chinese soldiers disguised as civilians ... to the Chinese claim of a non-combatant death toll of 300,000. ...36 KB (5,482 words) - 01:19, 11 November 2022
- had occurred in the early 1960s. In 1965, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai visited ... the beginning of the "détente" era. The Paris Peace Accords of ...24 KB (3,435 words) - 15:34, 28 April 2023
- == Origin and history of the name == Burma is derived from the Burmese ... "Bama" or "Myamah." The name "Burma" has been ...33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- both the Scandinavian languages and the Chinese language uses the term ... be found in many different cultures. In Chinese culture, ancestor worship ...17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
- in China as the West Dowager Empress (Chinese: 西太后), was from the ... ranking Manchu official named Huizheng (Chinese: 惠征) of the Manchu Yehenara ...56 KB (8,700 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- history, it was written both in classical Chinese and in Korean, first using ... have access to culture but by that time Chinese characters were essential ...33 KB (5,273 words) - 00:25, 8 May 2021
- use during the early centuries of the Common Era were the snake charmer's ... Musical instruments such as zithers appear in Chinese literature written ...26 KB (3,752 words) - 21:15, 27 November 2021
- anticipates Niccolò Machiavelli. Ancient Chinese and Indian civilization ... period, it has continued to last even in the modern era. ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
- Hindu empire outside of India. The Khmer name has become infamously connected ... principalities collectively known to the Chinese by the names Funan (modern ...32 KB (4,644 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- full grammatical sentences (until the era of Modernism and Postmodernism ... became somewhat more distinct in the modern era, but post-modern trends have ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 18:29, 28 February 2023
- The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming ... same institution, but were split after the Chinese Civil War. ...44 KB (6,677 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- presume that few people could read in that era, as literacy was primarily ... is written exclusively in Classical Chinese and has 1802 characters. ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 22:31, 23 September 2022
- The Chinese Civil War ( t=國共內戰|s=国共内战|p=Guógòng Neìzhàn ... in China between the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) and the ...40 KB (5,930 words) - 16:44, 10 December 2023
