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  • :This article refers to the food. Sukiyaki is also another name for ... a jelly-like noodle), negi (green onions), Chinese cabbage, and enokitake mushrooms ...
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  • Koma with indirect Manchu influence; and a Chinese form from the Tang Dynasty ... for about one hundred years. In the Edo era, the Tokugawa government reorganized ...
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  • ) or Lu Hsün (Wade-Giles), pen name of Zhou Shuren ( t=周樹人|s ... ) (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936) was one of the major Chinese ...
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  • the members of the ethnic majority of Chinese people to this day still ... were established. The Han gave the Chinese a sense of unity and bequeathed ...
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  • Lin Yutang (Traditional Chinese:林語堂; Simplified Chinese:林语堂 ... Lin Yutang wrote extensively on Chinese social, cultural traditions ...
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  • ; literally “The Great Canon [or Vast Documents] of the Yongle Era ... Founding" of the Ming dynasty. His era name means "Perpetually ...
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  • was also highly developed in Europe. Chinese cloisonné is probably the ... from there along the Silk Road to China. Chinese cloisonné is probably the ...
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  • for the Northern Expedition against the Chinese warlords. In 1927, when ... District), Shanghai, to a wealthy Hakka Chinese family that had come from ...
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  • Han Chinese ( s=汉族 or 汉人|t=漢族 or 漢人|p=hànzú or hànrén single ethnic group in the world. Han Chinese constitute about 92 percent ...
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  • as Wan Jiabao (萬家寶), was a renowned Chinese playwright, often regarded ... through the efforts of Cao Yu that modern Chinese "spoken theater" ...
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  • (Northeast China) in the tenth century. Chinese historians classified the ... established the state of Kara Khitai. Their name survived in the Russian word ...
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  • ::See herbalism for the non-Chinese tradition of herbology. Chinese herbology or Chinese materia medica ( s=中药学|t=中藥學 ...
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  • Capital of Liao, then invaded the Han Chinese Northern Song Dynasty( 宋朝 ... The name “Nuzhen” or “Jurchen” dates back to at least the ...
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  • same day, see Mid-Autumn Festival (across Chinese diaspora and Vietnam) and ... honoring the autumn moon, a variant of the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. The ...
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  • Wang Chong, 王充) (27 – 97 C.E.) was a Chinese philosopher during the Han ... memory, he gained a broad knowledge of Chinese literature. Eventually he ...
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  • Pǔyí (Traditional Chinese: 溥儀; Simplified Chinese: 溥仪) ... Gardens, before becoming a member of the Chinese People's Political ...
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  • doors. The Parokhet usually includes the name of the congregation and that ... uncovered. In a later Early Christian era, scrolls became quite valuable ...
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  • became the preferred stone of post-1800 Chinese imperial scholars and rulers ... During the Neolithic era, the key known sources of nephrite jade in ...
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  • is included among the Four Great Novels of Chinese literature. ... poet Zhang Hua (張華, 232-300, courtesy name Maoxian, 茂先). Chen Shou ...
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  • Falun Gong (Chinese: 法轮功: meaning "Practice of the Wheel ... in the institutional field of alternative Chinese science, not religion, as ...
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  • the shuyuan became a permanent feature of Chinese education, taking up major ... academies were built during the Chia-ching era (1522-1566 C.E.). ...
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  • of the most influential pre-Tang Dynasty Chinese poets. Born into a noble ... is now regarded as the greatest poet of his era and was a major influence ...
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  • The Culture of China (Chinese: 中國文化) is home to one of the ... Chinese culture underwent several turning points and renewals throughout ...
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  • Traditional Chinese: 韓非 Simplified Chinese: 韩非 Pinyin: Hán Fēi Wade-Giles: Han Fei ...
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  • The Yayoi period (弥生時代, Yayoi-jidai) is an era in the history ... and coins which resemble those of the Chinese Han dynasty. By the first ...
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  • Wu Zetian (625 – December 16, 705), personal name Wu Zhao, was the ... fifth rank. Emperor Taizong gave her the name Mei, meaning "charming ...
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  • Jiao Yu (Traditional and Simplified Chinese: 焦玉, Wade-Giles: Chiao ... military treatise that outlined the use of Chinese military technology during ...
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  • Du Fu (712–770 C.E.) was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty ... Fu as one of the most humane and moral of Chinese poets; and indeed, Du Fu ...
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  • ), formally Emperor Wen of (Cao) Wei (曹魏文帝), courtesy name ... Pi, like his father, was a poet. The first Chinese poem using seven syllables ...
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  • and the turning away from communism by the Chinese government that followed ... red dominates the mountain, as the famous Chinese sweet gums come into season ...
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  • late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era of China. He was also a twentieth ... (建安风骨; jian'an is the Chinese era name for the period between ...
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  • Mozi or Mo-tzu (墨子, Lat. as Micius, Pinyin Mozu,, original name ... great moral teachers of the Warring States era. According to this evidence ...
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  • and secured the town, giving it the name Vigan after a native plant ... River, and the Govantes River. During that era, Vigan had been a peninsula ...
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  • century, Sinocentrism was replaced with Chinese nationalism (zhonghua minzu ... of China, and relations between the Chinese Empire and these peoples ...
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  • the modern period called the New Order era.Jaques Bertrand, Nationalism ... During the Dutch East Indies era, the number of Roman Catholicism ...
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  • the fifth century C.E. The seventh-century Chinese pilgrim Xuanzang reportedly ... Sanskrit Buddhism, such as the Tibetan, Chinese and Japanese, the two main ...
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  • The term Cao Đài is an abbreviation of the Vietnamese name for God ... a new religion that would commence the Third Era of Religious Amnesty. ...
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  • to the nobility of a Turkish clan. The name “An Lushan” is the Sinicized ... foreign generals because he feared that Chinese generals might usurp his ...
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  • The Daoguang (Tao-kuang) Emperor (Daoguang (reign name, or nien-hao ... 1782 in the Forbidden City, Beijing. His name was changed to Minning (旻寧 ...
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  • Sun Zi (Chinese: 孫, 子, Sūn Zǐ; Wade-Giles: Sun Tzu) (c. 544 ... The work was included in the ancient Chinese civil service examinations ...
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  • Guizhou sat on the fringe of the Chinese empire until the Ming dynasty ... Guizhou was well known by the Chinese for thousands of years, but ...
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  • hands of warrior clans. It was during this era when the old order was crumbling ... by entering into marriage. Until the Meiji era, apart from variances in Buddhist ...
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  • as such he appointed both Caucasian and Chinese scientists to work for him ... In 1929 Chinese paleontologist W. C. Pei, found a nearly complete ...
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  • (303 – 361) was the most celebrated Chinese calligrapher, traditionally ... most well-known and most-copied piece of Chinese calligraphy. It describes ...
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  • Chinese Neo-Confucianism had become a powerful influence in Vietnam ... the Communist forces, also marked a tragic era of the city's history ...
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  • wǔshī) is a form of traditional dance in Chinese culture, in which performers ... The lion dance continues to be an important part of Chinese culture ...
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  • is the ruler of Heaven (Tian) in Chinese mythology and is among the ... In addition to the myriad Chinese myths and popular tales that reference ...
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  • Guangdong, located remote from the centers of power in Chinese civilization ... "Dual-expanses." Sometimes, the name "Canton province" ...
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  • growing out of its forehead (hence its name—cornus being Latin for “horn” ... word "Alicorn" can also be the name for a winged unicorn/horned ...
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  • Chūnqiū Shídài) was a period in Chinese history, which roughly corresponds ... developments took place, and great Chinese thinkers including Confucius(孔子 ...
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  • ), were an essential part of the Chinese government administration ... The Chinese civil service system later served as a model for the civil ...
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  • Gojoseon, and that Wanggeom is the proper name of the founder. ... Regent or the "Lord of Heaven," a name which also appears in Indian ...
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  • settlement in the southwest, appointed Han Chinese officials to important posts ... The Manchu Qing ( Ch'ing) came to power after defeating the Chinese ...
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  • The name “Warring States period” was derived from the Record of ... Chinese polity developed a bias towards centralization and unity, ...
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  • the border between North Korea and the Chinese provinces of Jilin and Liaoning ... "Liáo," an ancient name for this region, had been adopted ...
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  • Kanji (漢字) are the Chinese characters that are used in the modern ... in Japan, and modifications of original Chinese characters. After World ...
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  • classes patterned themselves after the Chinese, adopting Chinese written ... brought about by the adoption of Chinese models of government, incorporating ...
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  • is also known by an older English-language name, Canton. It is a port on the ... The Chinese abbreviation of Guangzhou is Sui (穗; pinyin: sùi; Jyutping: ...
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  • The music of China dates back to the dawn of Chinese civilization ... Western classical music and popular music. Chinese popular music originated ...
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  • Chinese art (Chinese: 中國藝術/中国艺术) is art, both ancient ... Chinese art (Chinese: 中國藝術/中国艺术) has taken various ...
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  • Chinese Chan master in Tang-era China. He founded one of the five ... (but later as a monk he would take the name Wenyan; to avoid confusion ...
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  • the fifth and sixth centuries of the Common Era. Of the ten fully golden crowns ... a uniquely Korean product and show little Chinese influence. The Silla crown ...
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  • minority groups in China. Miao is a Chinese term and does not reflect ... Throughout Chinese history, the term “Miao” has been applied inconsistently ...
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  • Chinese mythology is a collection of cultural history, folktales, ... Chinese myths are thought to have originated around the twelfth century ...
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  • 1530 and 1630, the bureaucratic elite and Chinese gentry rose up in an unprecedented ... had made himself a eunuch and changed his name to Li Chin-chung in order ...
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  • Balhae (698 - 926) (Bohai in Chinese) existed as an ancient kingdom ... (1222 B.C.E.). Controversy boils between Chinese, North Korean, and South ...
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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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  • E. – September 10, 210 B.C.E.), personal name Zheng, was king of the Chinese ... by many today as the founding father in Chinese history whose unification ...
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  • Korean art was strongly influenced by Chinese art and the exchange of ... the primary influence on Korean art was Chinese painting, though the subject ...
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  • KMT), also often translated as the Chinese Nationalist Party, is a ... Together with the People First Party ( 親民黨) and Chinese New ...
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  • of thirty five academies erected from the era of the Northern Song to the ... The area enjoys a relatively pollution-free atmosphere, the Chinese ...
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  • ) is a collection of Chinese historical books covering a period of ... B.C.E. to 91 B.C.E., Sima Qian recounted Chinese history from the time of ...
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  • October 1934. The First Front Army of the Chinese Soviet Republic, led by ... Although the literal translation of the Chinese Cháng Zhēng is “Long ...
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  • From founding until becoming a full-fledged kingdom, Silla's ... The direct descendant of the word "Seora-beol," the name ...
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  • the west, and Hubei to the northwest. The name of the province does not mean ... Jiangxi was outside the sphere of influence of early Chinese civilization ...
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  • romanization Ch'en Tu-hsiu, original name Ch'en Ch'ien-sheng ... Chen was a founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1920) and was selected ...
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  • Marxism-Leninism soon became the official name for the ideology of the Comintern ... heir to Marxism-Leninism and the Chinese were especially critical ...
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  • ; ancient name: 吳) is a city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze ... II, many of the gardens lay in ruins. The Chinese government launched a project ...
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  • – June 6, 1916) was a Chinese military official and politician during ... Yuan is criticized in Chinese culture for taking advantage of both ...
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  • the eleventh century. Sulu is mentioned in Chinese sources as early as the ... activity in China resulted in a rising Chinese demand for products from ...
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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 ...
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  • ; "School of Mo") or Moism is a Chinese Philosophy founded ... great moral teachers of the Warring States era. It is most likely that he ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • including 'sumi-e', a style of Chinese and Japanese ink and wash ... East Asian calligraphy typically uses ink brushes to write Chinese ...
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  • , Xiao'erjing: حُوِ ذَو ) are a Chinese ethnic group, ... Most Hui are similar in culture to Han Chinese except that they practice ...
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  • ) (1610?- August 7, 1661), former name Jin Renrui (金人瑞), also ... Early in life, he took the style name "Shengtan," a phrase ...
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  • before it became a modern republic. The name 'Taejo' is comprise ... reforms in the Joseon government spawned an era of tremendous creativity in ...
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  • 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, ...
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  • was Batuo, (also, Fotuo or Bhadra (the Chinese transposition of Buddha ... because of its long association with Chinese martial arts and particularly ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • In Chinese, the term yǔhángyuán ( zh|宇航员 ) has long been used ... , literally "great emptiness"), Chinese for "space ...
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  • Chinese ceramics or Chinese porcelain is a form of fine art developed ... 11,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era. Porcelain is usually green ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • and those of controversial authorship. The Chinese literary scholar Wang Guowei ... Legend has the Wen family name existing during the western Zhou Dynasty ...
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  • capital is located at Chengdu. The name Sichuan literally means "four ... numerous ambitious soldiers and refuges of Chinese governments throughout history ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • of enlightened peace"), or Shōwa era, is a period of Japanese history ... ==The name “Showa”== In the Japanese language, the name “Showa” ...
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