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  • [[Image:chinese-phoenix-from-nanning.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Fenghuang ... Feng-Huang (Chinese: 鳳凰; Pinyin: Fènghuáng; Japanese: 鳳凰 ...
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  • of) Korean Peninsula. Most of the Chinese and Korean scholars consider ... == Chinese and Korean scholars' view of Gija Joseon == ...
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  • :For other uses, see Chinese nationality. t=中華民族|s=中华民族 ... Zhonghua minzu (Chinese: 中华民族; Pinyin: Zhōnghuá Mínzú ...
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  • to the paleo-tropic forests of the Tertiary Era. In 2006, UNESCO designated ... well-suited to support the Pandas, the Chinese government has established ...
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  • the bureaucratic political ladder of the Chinese government and served as ... of the reign of Emperor Tang Xuanzong (Chinese: 唐玄宗) (712–730) ...
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  • China. It brought about an upsurge of Chinese nationalism, and a re-evaluation ... communism. The introduction of Vernacular Chinese (白话) made it possible ...
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  • during the Hundred Schools of Thought era in Chinese philosophy. His ... the five elements were incorporated into Chinese medical doctrine. ...
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  • man and woman in wall paintings wearing Chinese-style dresses depict the ... epitaph contains the date 357, the personal name Dong Shou (冬壽), his title ...
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  • He allied with the Kuomintang against the Chinese Communists, but gradually ... (Chang Tso-lin, “Old Marshal”) a Chinese warlord who dominated Manchuria ...
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  • the empire in 1211 C.E., traditional Chinese, Persian, and Arab sources ... Since the empire took on trappings of a Chinese state, Chinese historians ...
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  • ; Korean: Um-yang; Vietnamese: Âm-Dương) originates in ancient ... The earliest Chinese characters for yin and yang are found in inscriptions ...
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  • gained immunity from prosecution under Chinese law. The treaty resulted ... political influence, resented by the Chinese. The Opium Wars rank among ...
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  • Wang Fu-zi or Wang Zi (1619 - 1692) was a Chinese philosopher of the late ... Like other great thinkers of the transition era between the Ming and ...
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  • The Mountain Resort in Chengde (Chinese: 避暑山庄; pinyin: Bìshǔ ... Halhūn be jailara gurung) or Ligong (Chinese: 离宫; pinyin: Lígōng ...
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  • women leaders who successfully repelled Chinese invasions for three years ... the fate of servitude to the people from the North (Chinese). ...
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  • the Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era of China. He was described ... one of the most respected physicians in Chinese history, Hua Tuo devised ...
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  • Chinese philosophy has a history of several thousand years; its origins ... The central focus of Chinese philosophy throughout the ages has been ...
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  • , 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 ...
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  • calligraphies, and antiques of previous Chinese eras, acquiring large collections ... calligraphies, and antiques of previous Chinese eras, acquiring large collections ...
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  • Jizi (chinese:箕 子) (Gija in Korean)The character "zi" ... In that way, the wisdom of the pre-Confucius era in China embodied in Gija ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • them benevolent rather than malevolent. In Chinese society, for example, the ... In the pre-Hispanic era, it was common to keep skulls as trophies ...
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  • in the Mongolian classical alphabet. In Chinese, the region is known as ... region, alternated in control between Han Chinese agriculturalists in the ...
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  • Region (also known by its controversial name East Turkistan or Uyghurstan ... Göktürks (Kokturks, known in medieval Chinese sources as Tujue (突厥 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The name “Rokumeikan” comes from a Chinese classic, the Shi Jing ... The name is often translated as "Deer Cry Pavilion," and ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • as a product of ancient Rome or Arabia (Chinese: Daqin). Although documentation ... of the German scientist Georg Bauer, pen-name Georgius Agricola (1494-1555 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • border, across the Taiwan Strait. The name Fujian was coined during the ... of government organization) with the same name. The two sides use different ...
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  • book was published just after the Meiji era in 1919. Intellectuals of ... and Naraka (hell). Ningen consists of two Chinese characters, nin and gen ...
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  • some inscriptions in Old Javanese, and in Chinese records. ... However, the basic outline corresponds with Chinese records that could ...
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  • " trumpeter Palmer Davis said, and the name stuck. ... by his employer, who branded it "Chinese music." He lost the ...
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  • Ancient Chinese and Indian texts talk of flying vehicles that are ... flight. These lights were later given the name Foo Fighters. David Ritchie ...
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  • Islamic societies, until the early modern era where care and healing would ... In early India India, Fa Xian, a Chinese Buddhist monk who traveled ...
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  • Pablo Neruda (July 12, 1904 – September 23, 1973) was the pen name ... Like many intellectuals of his era, Neruda was a committed leftist ...
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  • *Republic of China: Taiwan (originally sovereign Chinese territory ... against Communism in Asia after the Chinese Revolution and the Korean ...
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  • The Hoysala era emerged as an important period in the development ... in Hale Kannada (Old Kannada), hence the name "Hoy-sala." That ...
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  • Suharto was born in the era of Dutch colonial control of Indonesia ... Like many Javanese, Suharto had only one name. In religious contexts ...
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  • She began as a dancer in a chorus line under the name Lucille LeSueur ... chief Louis B. Mayer was unhappy with her name. A contest in the fan magazine ...
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  • The name "Pakistan" in the Urdu and Persian languages means ... to move official recognition for the Chinese U.N. seat from the Taiwan ...
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  • the town at the beginning of the Christian era, and by 106 C.E., this Roman ... numerous lime-kilns. (The "Pest" name, which has a Slav origin, ...
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  • *Chinese astrology *Kabbalistic astrology *Mesoamerican astrology ... relation to the constellations of the same name but stay aligned to the months ...
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  • the West by the start of the Christian era and were included in early ... *Ng, Mary W. 2006. Chinese Fables. Maple Ridge, BC: Aim Pub. ISBN ...
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  • Russian expatriate Raya Dunayevskaya, and Chinese-American Grace Lee Boggs ... The year 1954 was a pivotal year during the Nkrumah era. In that year ...
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  • Leone, is a country in West Africa. The name Sierra Leone was adapted from ... Portuguese explorer Pedro de Cintra, who visited in 1460, gave the ...
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  • particular calendars, since, apart from his name, nothing is known of Saint ... of racy verse in an otherwise prudishly Victorian era. Charles Panati ...
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  • of Hokkaido and residents of Korean and Chinese descent. ... Liberation was founded, changing its name to the Buraku Liberation League ...
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  • using the initial components in a phrase or name. These components may be individual ... characters"—Jean Praninskas, Trade Name Creation. (1968)."It ...
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  • coast to a part of the territory he would name Veragua meaning "to see ... served in Spanish colonial times as the name for the Isthmus of Panama ...
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  • , the common English name for the Tokyo Metropolis|東京都|Tōkyō-to ... Edo (the old name for Tokyo) rose to prominence when Tokugawa Ieyasu ...
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  • the majority of the total population. The name Fiji is the old Tongan word ... "general electors" (Europeans, Chinese, and other minorities). ...
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  • An obsolete spelling for the city's name is Kiouto; it was formerly ... a grid pattern, modeled after the ancient Chinese capital during the Tang ...
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  • * sun wheel, a name also used as a synonym for the sun cross ... but this may be a misappropriation of a name that properly belongs to a ...
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  • The Roman name Mediolanum includes the suffix -lanum meaning plain ... may have given the site its Latin-Celtic name—Mediolanum. ...
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  • archetypal model for the [industrial era] was the clock." He also ... and Greek thought. Conversely, Chinese society was founded on men ...
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  • and the South Sandwich Islands. Under the name of Argentine Antarctica, it ... Its name derives from the Latin argentum, meaning silver, and was ...
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  • " or "Kalmyki") is the name given to western Mongolian ... == Origin of the name "Kalmyk" == [[Image:Munster Kalmucks ...
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  • into French, German, Spanish, Hindustani, Chinese, and Sinhalese. Sherwood's tale blends the realistic with the sentimental and introduces ...
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  • The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty ... and the economy. This is the Post-Modernist era. Koray Velibeyoglu, [http://www ...
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  • during the Middle Bengali (Chaitanya era), and also during the Bengal ... As in many East Asian languages (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, Thai, etc.), ...
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  • ==Etymology of the name "Olmec"== The name "Olmec" means "rubber people" in Nahuatl ...
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  • they form a equilateral triangle, thus the name. If the centers of circles ... Nancy Steinhardt, Chinese Architecture (Princeton University Press ...
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  • Active South Korean-Chinese people-to-people contacts have long been ... Seoul-Moscow relations entered a new era in the 1980s. Roh's ...
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  • in some celestial coordinate systems. The name of the other equinox is used ... respectively. In this context, the Chinese character 分 means "division ...
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  • but based upon the reading of classical Chinese texts, which developed during ... of medieval period. Most schools during this era were founded upon religious ...
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  • The first recorded evidence of induced abortion is from a Chinese ... anesthesia, and sanitation, in the same era that doctors with the American ...
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  • bon ton, the most influential fashion magazine of its era.]] ... might favor things Turkish at one time, Chinese at another, and Japanese ...
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  • essays. However, at that time&mash;the era of Stalinism—it was difficult ... publication was made during the communist era in Poland in the COMECON countries ...
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  • it was also home to the pioneering brass era automobile company Biddle. ... populations of Vietnamese, Cambodians, Chinese, and Koreans in United States ...
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  • ==Reconstruction-era interpretation and the Plessy decision== ... During the Reconstruction era, the first truly landmark equal protection ...
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  • The following list of monarchs has been categorized by historical ... Buyeo, Bukbuyeo under a changed state name. Jolbon's ruler, Go Museo ...
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  • While the post-war Reconstruction era was initially a time of progress ... widespread hatred, and it was not until the era of Joe Louis, who held it ...
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  • and aesthetic development. His study of Chinese painters no doubt influenced ... Augustine, and it made Merton a household name among those interested in ...
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  • Greek religion, as well as Hinduism and Chinese folk religion. ... make use of the concept of Tao/Dao (in Chinese) or Do (in Japanese or Korean ...
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  • The name “Bombay” is an eponym, etymologically derived from Mumba ... The former name Bombay had its origins in the sixteenth century, when ...
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  • of human thought. At the dawn of the modern era, Francis Bacon and Empiricism ... #039;s Dream. Zhuangzi, the ancient Chinese philosopher, once had a ...
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  • quot; from the rest of society. In the Nazi era these ghettos served to confine ... living in similar “ghettos” (Koreans, Chinese, Pakistanis, Dominicans ...
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  • 1940s, the latter half of the Japanese colonial era. The Sakhalin Koreans ... The sole survivor, a Korean known only by his Japanese name Nakata ...
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  • era = 20th-century philosophy | color = #B0C4DE | ... It is said that Kojève knew Sanskrit, Chinese, and Tibetan dialects alongside ...
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  • By this time, Ruskin was writing in his own name, and had become the ... many trade union leaders of the Victorian era. He was also the inspiration ...
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  • adaptations originating from the kingdom era of Hawaiian history. The Governor ... of population that are identifiable by name but are not legally incorporated ...
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  • thus lies at the foundations of the 650-year era of the shogunate system, which ... The name "Genpei" (pronounced and sometimes written as Gempei ...
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  • In the latter, his mother—under the name of Lilo Pempeit—played the ... appearing in London had made him a familiar name among cinephiles and campus ...
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  • Incident (the Japanese annexation of three Chinese provinces), is often seen ... cars and a small number of Fiat 3000 World War I-era tanks. ...
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  • Pacific oceans, trade winds—another name for the westward-moving wind ... level and the ocean's surface. A new era in hurricane observation began ...
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  • , literally the city by the Moskva River). The name of the city is ... in American English. The origin of the name is unknown, although several ...
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  • Finally, in the era of globalized society, racism is now officially ... had no "souls." In Asia, the Chinese and Japanese Empires were ...
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  • The country's name is derived from "Nicarao," the name ... members of the widely condemned Somoza-era Nicaraguan National Guard; ...
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  • "Motor" from its corporate name and calls itself simply, ... 1937. Although the founding family's name is Toyoda, the company name ...
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  • are unsure if this is just another name for Amīna (Cortese 2006, 53). ... of Hakim, reading the Friday khutbah in his name (Daftary 2007, 185). ...
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  • As a French colony it was known as Île Royale, later taking the name ... Tourism in particular has grown throughout the post-Second World War ...
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  • The origin of the name Sikkim arose from combining the two words in ... Buddhism to Sikkim, and foretold the era of monarchy in the state that ...
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  • felt that "Lester" was too mild a name for an airman. Thereafter ... remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or ...
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  • Theories on the origin of the name Luanda include the notion that ... African population as Loanda, the earlier name, meaning "flat land." ...
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  • blacks were typical of Missourians of his era. Years later, another measure ... the Senate committee that came to bear his name turned him into a national ...
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  • The origin of the name is probably the Celtic word Turus, a corroborating ... The earliest record of the town's name is preserved on a second century ...
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  • Football is the name given to a number of different team sports. The ... a prehistoric activity. Later, the Ancient Chinese, Japanese, Ancient Greeks ...
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  • and currency. This entailed removing Soviet-era price controls in order to ... that the country is remaking both its Soviet-era political and economic institutions ...
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  • There are small minorities of English, Americans, East Indians, Chinese, Japanese, Syrians, Lebanese, and refugees and immigrants from other ...
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  • With the introduction of Chinese market reforms by Deng Xiao Ping ... a new Riksdag was instituted in 1866, the name of the bank was changed to ...
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  • Chinese people began to stain their fingernails with gum arabic, gelatin ... to their facial features. During the era of the Greek Empire, it was ...
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  • herbs. Probably the best preserved Chinese mummy is [http://www.pbs ... In 1975, an esoteric organization by the name of Summum introduced ...
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  • and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: ... post-exilic prophets Haggai and Zechariah name a specific messianic candidate ...
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