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  • 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 ...
    8 KB (1,186 words) - 01:40, 15 December 2022
  • 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
  • Jizi (chinese:箕 子) (Gija in Korean)The character "zi" ... had no basis in history. Dating classical Chinese text has been difficult ...
    11 KB (1,744 words) - 06:49, 11 December 2022
  • He translated more than 60 sutras into Chinese, including Saravanabhava ... of Buddhist practices in South Asia and of Chinese monks who traveled to India ...
    13 KB (2,067 words) - 13:24, 4 February 2023
  • gained immunity from prosecution under Chinese law. The treaty resulted ... political influence, resented by the Chinese. The Opium Wars rank among ...
    13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
  • in 1582, Ricci began learning the Chinese language and customs, and eventually ... in Macao to start learning the Chinese language and customs. These Jesuits ...
    19 KB (2,924 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
  • The Mountain Resort in Chengde (Chinese: 避暑山庄; pinyin: Bìshǔ ... Halhūn be jailara gurung) or Ligong (Chinese: 离宫; pinyin: Lígōng ...
    12 KB (1,789 words) - 14:51, 5 December 2023
  • Capital of Liao, then invaded the Han Chinese Northern Song Dynasty( 宋朝 ... tenth century, when the Balhae (Bohai in Chinese,振, then 渤海) kingdom ...
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  • The Panchen Lama (Tibetan: པན་ཆེན་བླ་མ་; Chinese: ... This tradition was been followed until the Chinese Communist takeover in the 1950s. ...
    11 KB (1,374 words) - 06:34, 18 November 2022
  • Han Chinese speak various forms of the Chinese language; one of the ... Wu dialects, which are part of the Chinese language family but are mutually ...
    26 KB (3,971 words) - 01:40, 9 August 2023
  • ) (September 25, 1881 – October 19, 1936) was one of the major Chinese ... young age to the poverty and suffering of Chinese peasants in the countryside ...
    17 KB (2,586 words) - 04:15, 4 November 2022
  • , courtesy name Zixian (子先), was a Chinese bureaucrat, agricultural ... de Rocha. He became the most influential Chinese Christian before the twentieth ...
    16 KB (2,411 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
  • kingdoms shared a similar culture and language. Their original religions ... fall. The first mention of Goguryeo in Chinese records dates from 75 B ...
    11 KB (1,608 words) - 23:03, 30 April 2023
  • Latin, Persian, Arabic, and the basics of Chinese at an early age. By the ... Greek and Latin. In The Sanscrit Language (1786) he suggested that ...
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  • Baekdu Mountain (Baekdusan), also known as Changbai Mountain in Chinese ... quot;white-headed mountain." Both the Chinese name, Changbai Shan and ...
    15 KB (2,130 words) - 05:38, 26 August 2023
  • 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

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