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Beijing

A Wisdom Archive on Beijing

Beijing

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Puyi

For the Chinese ethnic group, see Buyei. Puyi (Chinese:溥儀;) (February 7, 1906 - October 17, 1967) of the Manchu Aisin-Gioro ruling family was the Xuantong Emperor (宣統皇帝) of China between 1908 and 1924 (ruling emperor between 1908 and 1912, and non-ruling emperor between 1912 and 1924), the tenth and last emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to rule over China. He was married to the Empress Gobulo Wan Rong under the suggestion of the Imperial Dowager Concubine Duan-Kang （端康太妃）. Later be ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - China Baseball League

The China Baseball League (中国棒球联赛) or Chinese Baseball League or CBL is a fledgling professional baseball league in the People's Republic of China, founded in 2002. Very confusingly, there is another CBL, the Chinese Basketball League, which is a "division 2" basketball minor league for the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). The teams are: Beijing Tigers (北京猛虎) China Hope Stars (希望之星) (also based in Beijing) Shanghai Eagles (上海金鹰) Sichuan Dragons (四川蛟龙) Tianjin Lions (天 ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975) was a Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925. He commanded the Northern Expedition to unify China against the warlords and emerged victorious in 1928 as the overall leader of the Republic of China (ROC). Chiang led China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, during which Chiang's stature within China weakened but his international prominence grew. During the Chinese Civil War (1926–1949), Chiang at ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Chinese Basketball Association

The Chinese Basketball Association (中国篮球协会 or 中国篮协 or 中国男子篮球甲A联赛) is the premier professional basketball league in the People's Republic of China. It is commonly known as the CBA, and this name (spelled out in letters) is often used even in Chinese. There is also a WCBA for women. It should not be confused with another CBA, the Continental Basketball Association, a basketball minor league in the US or the Canadian Basketball Association. The CBA should also not be confused with the C ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Belgrade

Belgrade (listen ▶ (help·info)), is the capital of Serbia and Montenegro (2003–Present). It is one of the oldest cities in Europe settled in the 3rd century BC by the Celts before becoming the Roman settlement of Singidunum. The name Beograd (Belgrade) has been first mentioned back in year 878. It has been the capital of Serbia sinc ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Historical capital of China

The Chinese phrase Four Great Ancient Capitals of China (Traditional Chinese: 中國四大古都; Simplified Chinese: 中国四大古都; pinyin Zhōngguó Sì Dà Gǔdū) traditionally refers to Nanjing, Beijing, Luoyang, and Xi'an. After the 1920s as more discoveries were made, other historical capitals were added to the list. The phrase Seven Ancient Capitals of China introduced later on, also include Kaifeng (added in the 1920s as the fifth ancient capital), Hangzhou (became the sixth ancient capital in the 1930s), a ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Cao Xueqin

Cao Xueqin (Chinese: 曹雪芹; Hanyu Pinyin: Cáo Xuěqín) (? 1715 - c. 1763) is the author of famous Chinese work Dream of the Red Chamber. His given name was Cao Zhan (曹霑). A Han Chinese clan assimilated into Manchurian ethnicity, Cao’s family had become so rich as to be able to play host four times to the Emperor Kangxi in his itinerant trips down south in Nanjing. In 1727 they suffered the first of a series of reversals to their fortunes that saw the family properties confisca ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - CNN

The Cable News Network, usually referred to as CNN, is a cable television network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld [1] [2] (although the latter is not currently recognized in CNN's official history). It is a division of the Turner Broadcasting System, owned by Time Warner. CNN introduced the concept of 24-hour television news coverage, and celebrated its 25th anniversary on June 1, 2005. In terms of cumulative Nielsen ratings, CNN rates as America's #1 cable news network, however falls short to Fox News ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Bohai Sea

Bo Hai (Chinese: 渤海; Hanyu Pinyin: Bóhăi; Wade-Giles: Po-hai literally "Bo Sea"), also known as Bohai Sea or Bohai Bay, is the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea on the coast of northeastern China. It is approximately 823,000 km², its proximity to Beijing, the capital of China, make it one of the busiest seaways in the world. In recent decades, petroleum and natu ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Black powder

Black powder is a type of gunpowder invented in the 9th century and was practically the only known propellant and explosive until the middle of the 19th century. It has been superseded by more efficient explosives such as smokeless powders and TNT. It is still manufactured today but primarily for use in fireworks, model rocket engines, and reproductions of muzzleloading weapons. Black powder - Description. Black powder consists of the granular ingredients sulphur (S), charcoal (provides carbon to the reacti ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Beltway

A beltway (American English), ring road or orbital motorway (British English) is a circumferential highway found around or within many cities. Beltway, orbital motorway and similar terms refer to an expressway/motorway/freeway style standard road that often originally enclosed the built up area and was later encroached upon by developed areas. Ring road may sometimes refer to a beltway-style road, but more commonly indicates a road or series of roads within a city or town that have been ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Carl Rogers

Carl Ransom Rogers (January 8, 1902 – February 4, 1987) was an influential American psychologist, who, along with Abraham Maslow, was the founder of the humanist approach to psychology. He was also instrumental in the development of non-directive psychotherapy, which he initially termed Client-Centered Therapy. He later renamed it as the Person-Centered Approach (PCA) to reflect that his theories were meant to apply to all interactions between people, not just to those between therapist and client. Today PCA is also called pe ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Zhu Rongji

Zhū Róngjì (born October 1, 1928, Simplified Chinese: 朱镕基; Traditional Chinese: 朱鎔基; Wade-Giles: Chu Jung-chi) was the 9th Premier of the People's Republic of China State Council (March 1998-March 2003), and was a Standing Committee member of the Politburo of 15th CPC Central Committee (September 1997-November 2002). He was born in Changsha, Hunan province and graduated from Tsinghua University in 1951. Due to limitations of the original GB2312 character set, his name was and is often given as 朱熔基, although ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong ▶ (help·info) (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976; Mao Tse-tung in Wade-Giles) was the chairman of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China from 1943 and the chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China from 1945 until his death. Under his leadership, the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) became the ruling party of Mainland China as the result of its victory over Chinese Nationalists, the KMT, in the Chinese Civil War. On October 1, 1949, Mao declared the formation of th ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Zhoukoudian

Zhoukoudian or Choukoutien (周口店) is a cave system near Beijing in China. It has yielded many archaeological discoveries, including one of the first specimens of homo erectus, dubbed Peking Man. Fissures in the limestone containing middle Pleistocene deposits have yielded the remains of about 40 individuals as well as animal remains and stone flake and chopping tools. The oldest are some 500,000 years old, contemporary with the Mindel or Anglian glaciation. During the Upper Palaeolithic, the site was re-occupied and remains of homo sapiens and its stone and bone t ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Zhongnanhai

Zhongnanhai (Chinese: 中南海; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōngnánhăi) is a complex of buildings in Beijing, China which serves as the central headquarters for the Communist Party of China and the government of the People's Republic of China. Zhongnanhai, in an example of metonymy, is synonymous with the leadership and government administration of the People's Republic of China (as the White House, for instance, refers to the U.S. Pr ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Zheng He

Zheng He (Traditional: 鄭和; Simplified: 郑和; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhèng Hé; Wade-Giles: Cheng Ho; Birth name: 馬三寶 / 马三宝; pinyin: Mǎ Sānbǎo; Arabic name: Hajji Mahmud) (1371 – 1433), the most well-known Chinese mariner and explorer who made the voyages collectively referred to as the travels of "Eunuch Sanbao to the Western Ocean" (三保太監下西洋) or "Zheng He to the Western Ocean", from 1405 to 1433. ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta (born April 29, 1936) is an Indian-born conductor of European classical music. Zubin Mehta was born into an aristocratic Zoroastrian (Parsi) family in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. His father Mehli Mehta was a violinist and founding conductor of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra. Zubin initially intended to study medicine, but eventually became a music student in Vienna at the age of 18, under the eminent instructor Hans Swarowsky. (Also at the same academy along with Zubin were conductor Claudio Abbado and Daniel Barenbo ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Chen style Tai Chi Chuan

The Chen style (陳氏) is considered to be the senior branch of the five main Taijiquan family styles and the third in terms of popularity. The Chen style today is known for its low postures and vigorous martial art training. While there are many hundreds of schools teaching Taijiquan around the world, the Chen family styles are said to go the farthest in maintaining the martial art style of teaching (as opposed to health focus) that has been normative for Taijiquan instruction for most of its history. Beside from empty hand training ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Central Asia

Central Asia (Russian: Среднaя Азия/"Srednaya Azia" for "Middle Asia" or Центральная Азия/"Tsentral'naya Azia" for "Central Asia"; in Persian آسياى ميانه; Standard Mandarin Chinese: 中亚/ pinyin: "Zhōngyà"; Arabic: ﺔﻄﻮﺳﻠﺍ ﺎﺴﻴﺁ/"Asya al Wsta") is a vast landlocked region of Asia. Though various definitions of its exact composition exist, no one definition is universally accepted. Despite this uncertainty in defining borders, it does have some important overall characteristics. ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Beijing opera

Beijing opera or Peking opera (Simplified Chinese: 京剧; Traditional Chinese: 京劇; Pinyin: Jīngjù) is a kind of Chinese opera which arose in the mid-19th century and was extremely popular in the Qing Dynasty court. It is widely regarded as one of the cultural treasures of China. Beijing and Tianjin are respected as the base cities of Peking opera in the north while Shanghai is the base in the south. Beijing opera - History. Although it is called Beijing opera, its origins are not in Beijing bu ...

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Beijing: Encyclopedia - Bus rapid transit

Bus rapid transit (BRT) is a broad term given to a variety of different transportation systems which attempt to use buses to provide a quality service through a set of various improvements to the bus line. Each BRT system utilizes different improvements, although many improvements are shared by many BRT systems. The expression "BRT" is mainly used in North America, elsewhere one may speak of Quality Bus or simply bus service while raising the quality. Bus rapid transit - Etymology. "Bus ...

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