Chinese refers to anything pertaining to China, including both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan). It may refer to more than one article: the Chinese language, a Sino-Tibetan language the Chinese people, people of Chinese ethnicity Han Chinese, the dominant ethnic group in China Chinese Americ ...

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The chinese world is an expression about a group of East Asian countries/dependencies/territories and the well estabished overseas Chinese Communities across the world (Chinese diaspora) linked to mainland China because widely influenced by the chinese culture. The chinese world is considered to be made up of: Mainland China (population of 1.3 billion); Taiwan (population of 23 million); Hong Kong (population of 7 million); Singapore (population of 4 million); Macau (population of 451,000). Overseas Chinese (Across ...

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Vernacular Chinese (pinyin: báihuà; Wade-Giles: paihua) is a style or register of the written Chinese language essentially modeled after the spoken language and associated with Standard Mandarin. This term is not to be confused with the various present-day vernacular spoken varieties of Chinese. Since the early twentieth century, Vernacular Chinese has been the standard of writing for speakers of all varieties of spoken Chinese throughout China, succeeding Classical Chinese, the former written standard used in China since the time of Confucius. The term Standard Wr ...

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Chinese beer (Chinese: 啤酒; Pinyin: píjǐu), mostly made in imitation of Western pilsner varieties, has become increasingly popular, first in China in the last century, and then internationally in the last few decades. Tsingtao is one of the more famous brands of beer made in China, and the most exported to other countries. It is brewed in the city of Qingdao (formerly spelled Tsingtao). The major Chinese brewing groups include ...

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A Chinese Filipino is a person with Chinese blood born in the Philippines. Chinese Filipinos, make up one of the two most significant minority groups in the Philippines, the other being the Filipino Muslims. Chinese Filipino - General Information. The Chinese in the Philippines have always been one of the largest minority groups, making up about 2% (1.5 million) of the country's total population. In comparison to other countries in Southeast Asia, this percentage is relatively small. However, the rat ...

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• Chinese Filipino - List of Famous Chinese Filipinos or Chinese Mestizos
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Chinese cuisine Eight Great Traditions Anhui Cantonese Fujian Hunan Jiangsu Shandong Sichuan Zhejiang Others Chinese Buddhist Chiuchow Hakka Historical Chinese Hong Kong Huaiyang Chinese Islamic Macanese Mandarin Northeastern Sha ...

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The Chinese Exclusion Act may be: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 passed in the United States in 1882 banning Chinese from entering American soil. Another name for the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 in Canada, coined by the Chinese-Canadian community. Other related archivesCanada, Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese Immigration Act of 1923, Chinese-Canadian, United States

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The book Gan Shi Xing Jing (甘石星经) of the Warring States Period (403 BC to 221 BC) is the earliest catalog of stars in the world. See also: Chinese astrology Chinese astronomy - Timeline. See Timeline of Chinese astronomy Chinese astronomy - Famous Chinese Astronomers. ...

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Chinese mulberry can mean: Cudrania tricuspidata Morus australis Other related archivesCudrania tricuspidata, Morus

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Chinese historiography refers to the study of methods and assumptions made in studying Chinese history. Chinese historiography - Narratives and Interpretations of Chinese history. Chinese historiography - Dynastic Cycle. China's traditionalist view of history sees the rise and fall of dynasties as passing the mandate of heaven. In this view, a new dynasty is founded by a moral uprighteous founder. Over time, the dynasty becomes morally corrupt and dissolute. The immorality of th ...

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• Chinese historiography - Marxist Interpretations of Chinese history
• Chinese historiography - Ethnic Inclusiveness
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• Chinese historiography - Modernist Interpretations of Chinese history
• Chinese historiography - Hydraulic Theory
• Chinese historiography - Convergence Theory
• Chinese historiography - European conflict interpretations of Chinese history
• Chinese historiography - Post-modern interpretations of Chinese history
• Chinese historiography - Issues in the study of Chinese history
• Chinese historiography - Recent trends in Chinese historical scholarship
• Chinese historiography - Periodization

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Chinese dominoes are used in several tile-based games, namely, Tien Gow, Pai Gow, Gwat Pai, Che Deng, Tiu U, Kap Tai Shap. References to Chinese domino tiles can be traced to writings from the Song Dynasty (AD 1120). Chinese dominoes should not be confused with mahjong tiles, which use a different tileset. Each tile pattern in the Chinese domino set is made up of the outcome of a throw of two six-sided dice. There are therefore 21 unique patterns. A tile set consists of 32 tiles in two "suits" or groups called "military" and "civilian". There are no markings on the tiles to distinguish these suits; a player ...

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A Chinese clan (会馆, pinyin: Huìgǔan) is a patrilineal and patrilocal group of related Chinese people with a common surname and sharing a common ancestor and, in many cases, an ancestral village (see clan). Clan loyalties tend to be very strong in the south of China, and to a large extent are reinforced by ties to the ancestral village, common property, and often a common spoken Chinese dialect which can be unintelligible to people outside the village. Clan structures tend to be weaker in the north of China, clan members do not usually resid ...

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The Chinese {Scholar's} Garden is a place for solitary or social contemplation of nature. To be considered authentic, a garden must be built and planned around seven essential elements. Chinese gardens were created in the same way as a combination of landscape and paintings together with poems - this was the so-called "poetic garden." The design of Chinese gardens was to provide a spiritual utopia for one to connect with nature, to come back to one's inner heart, to come back to ancient idealism. Chinese gardens are a spiritual ...

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List of Chinese authors, List of Taiwanese authors, List of Hong Kong authors, Chinese classic texts, Chinese art, Chinese language, Chinese mythology, Chinese culture, Literature of Hong Kong, Literature of Taiwan, Tea Classics Chinese literature - Classical Poetry. Classical Chinese poetry List of Chinese language poets Chinese literature - Classical Prose. Eight Great Literary Masters of the Tang and Song (Tang Dyn ...

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Chinese folktales have a long history, going back several thousand years. Periodically they have been revised, with emperors ordering the burning of old books and the printing of new ones more in fitting with the culture they were trying to impose. The main influences on Chinese folktales have been Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism. Chinese folklore - External link. Chinese folktales of male love ...

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Wu Chinese word - Chinese word. none, non, no, without wu-wo REDIRECT Mu (negative) Other related archivesMu (negative), wu-wo

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Classical Chinese or Literary Chinese is a traditional style of written Chinese based on the grammar and vocabulary of very old forms of Chinese , making it very different from any modern spoken form of Chinese. Classical Chinese was once used for almost all formal correspondence before the 20th century, not only in China but also in Korea, Vietnam and Japan. Among Chinese speakers, classical Chinese has been largely replaced by Vernacular Chinese (baihua), a style of writing that is closer to modern spoken Chinese, while speakers of non-Chinese languages have largely ab ...

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Calligraphy is an art dating back to the earliest day of history, and widely practiced throughout China to this day. Although it uses Chinese words as its vehicle of expression, one does not have to know Chinese to appreciate its beauty. Calligraphy, in essence, is an abstract art. East Asian calligraphy typically uses ink brushes to write Chinese characters (called Hanzi in Chinese, Kanji in Japanese, and Hanja in Korean). Calligraphy (in Chinese, Shufa 書法, in Japanese Shodō 書道, in Korean, Seoyae 書藝, all meaning "the way of writing") is considered an important art in E ...

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