Encyclopedia - Chinese: Encyclopedia - Chinese
Chinese refers to anything pertaining to China, including both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China (Taiwan). It may ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese People: Encyclopedia - Chinese People
The term Chinese people may refer to any of the following: Han Chinese, sometimes referred to as "ethnic Chinese" ethnic groups of China...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Proverb: Encyclopedia - Chinese Proverb
Chinese proverb. Other related archives    » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese World: Encyclopedia - Chinese World
The chinese world is an expression about a group of East Asian countries/dependencies/territories and the well estabished overseas Chines...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vernacular Chinese: Encyclopedia - Vernacular Chinese
Vernacular Chinese (pinyin: báihuà; Wade-Giles: paihua) is a style or register of the written Chinese language essentially modeled afte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Beer: Encyclopedia - Chinese Beer
Chinese beer (Chinese: 啤酒; Pinyin: píjǐu), mostly made in imitation of Western pilsner varieties, has become increasingly popular, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Filipino: Encyclopedia - Chinese Filipino
A Chinese Filipino is a person with Chinese blood born in the Philippines. Chinese Filipinos, make up one of the two most significant min...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Cuisine: Encyclopedia - Chinese Cuisine
Chinese cuisine Eight Great Traditions Anhui Cantonese Fujian Hunan Jiangsu Shandong Sichuan Zhejiang Others Chinese Buddhist Chiu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Exclusion Act: Encyclopedia - Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act may be: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 passed in the United States in 1882 banning Chinese from entering Am...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Astronomy: Encyclopedia - Chinese Astronomy
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. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Mulberry: Encyclopedia - Chinese Mulberry
Chinese mulberry can mean: Cudrania tricuspidata Morus australis Other related archivesCudrania tricuspidata, Morus    » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Historiography: Encyclopedia - Chinese Historiography
Chinese historiography refers to the study of methods and assumptions made in studying Chinese history. Chinese historiography - Narrativ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Dominoes: Encyclopedia - Chinese Dominoes
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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Clan: Encyclopedia - Chinese Clan
A Chinese clan (会馆, pinyin: Huìgǔan) is a patrilineal and patrilocal group of related Chinese people with a common surname and shar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Garden: Encyclopedia - Chinese Garden
The Chinese {Scholar's} Garden is a place for solitary or social contemplation of nature. To be considered authentic, a garden must be bu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Literature: Encyclopedia - Chinese Literature
List of Chinese authors, List of Taiwanese authors, List of Hong Kong authors, Chinese classic texts, Chinese art, Chinese language, Chi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Folklore: Encyclopedia - Chinese Folklore
Chinese folktales have a long history, going back several thousand years. Periodically they have been revised, with emperors ordering the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wu Chinese Word: Encyclopedia - Wu Chinese Word
Wu Chinese word - Chinese word. none, non, no, without wu-wo REDIRECT Mu (negative) Other related archivesMu (negative), wu-wo    » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Classical Chinese: Encyclopedia - Classical Chinese
Classical Chinese or Literary Chinese is a traditional style of written Chinese based on the grammar and vocabulary of very old forms of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Calligraphy: Encyclopedia - Chinese Calligraphy
Calligraphy is an art dating back to the earliest day of history, and widely practiced throughout China to this day. Although it uses Chi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Alligator: Encyclopedia - Chinese Alligator
Conservation status: Endangered The Chinese Alligator (Alligator sinesis) is a small relative of the well-known American Alligator. Unlik...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese In Hawaii: Encyclopedia - Chinese In Hawaii
The Chinese in Hawaii constitute about 4.7% of the state's population, most of whom (75%) have ancestors from Zhongshan in Guangdong. Thi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Pagodas: Encyclopedia - Chinese Pagodas
Chinese Pagodas (Chinese 塔, pinyin tǎ) are a traditional part of Chinese architecture, introduced from India along with Buddhism as pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character Tattoos: Encyclopedia - Chinese Character Tattoos
Chinese character tattoos are tattoos consisting of Chinese characters (hanzi or kanji) otherwise known as kanji tattoos. Despite alleged...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Herbology: Encyclopedia - Chinese Herbology
Herbology is the art of combining medicinal herbs. Herbology is traditionally one of the more important modalities utilized in Traditiona...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese In Singapore: Encyclopedia - Chinese In Singapore
The Chinese in Singapore are people of Chinese descent who are born in or immigrated to Singapore and has attained citizenship or permane...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Astrology: Encyclopedia - Chinese Astrology
Chinese astrology is related to the Chinese calendar, particularly its 12-year cycle of animals (aka Chinese Zodiac), and the fortune-tel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Surname: Encyclopedia - Chinese Surname
A Chinese surname, family name (Chinese: 姓; Hanyu Pinyin: xìng or clan name 氏; shì), is one of the hundreds or thousands of family ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia - Chinese Character
Chinese characters or Han characters (Traditional: 漢字; Simplified: 汉字; Hanyu Pinyin: Hànzì) are logograms used in the written f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Language: Encyclopedia - Chinese Language
The Chinese language (汉语/漢語, Pinyin: Hànyǔ, 华语/華語, Huáyǔ or 中文, Zhōngwén) forms part of the Sino-Tibetan family...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Art: Encyclopedia - Chinese Art
Life in the People's Republic of China Chinese art is art, whether modern or ancient, that originated in or is practiced in China or by C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Wedding Album: Encyclopedia - Chinese Wedding Album
A Chinese wedding album is an elaborate book of pictures that became a part of Chinese weddings in the late 20th century. The album usual...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Sausage: Encyclopedia - Chinese Sausage
Chinese sausage (literally “preserved sausage”) is a dried, hard sausage usually made from pork meat and a high content of fat. It is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Folk Religion: Encyclopedia - Chinese Folk Religion
Chinese folk religion comprises the religion practiced in much of China for thousands of years which included ancestor worship and drew h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese State Circus: Encyclopedia - Chinese State Circus
The Chinese State Circus is a touring circus. The show is based on distinctively chinese acts and acrobatics. All the performers come fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Nationalism: Encyclopedia - Chinese Nationalism
Chinese nationalism refers to cultural, historiographical, and political theories, movements and beliefs that assert the idea of a cohesi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Abacus: Encyclopedia - Chinese Abacus
The suanpan (Simplified: 算盘; Traditional: 算盤; Hanyu Pinyin: suànpán) of the Chinese dates from the Han Dynasty (202 BCE - 184 C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Filipino: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Filipino - Chinese Mestizos
See also: Mestizos in the Philippines. Chinese mestizos are those in the Philippines of mixed Chinese and either Filipino or Spanish (or ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Filipino: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Filipino - Religion
The Chinese Filipinos are unique in Southeast Asia in being overwhelmingly Christian. Almost all Chinese Filipinos, including the Chinese...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Filipino: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Filipino - Terminology
A person born in the Philippines- with mixed Chinese and native Filipino blood are called Sangleys. with mixed Chinese and Spanish blood...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Language - Spoken Chinese
The map on the right depicts the subdivisions ("languages" or "dialect groups") within Chinese. The traditionally recognized seven main g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Language - Spoken Chinese
The map on the right depicts the subdivisions ("languages" or "dialect groups") within Chinese. The traditionally recognized seven main g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Filipino: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Filipino - Lifestyle
The Chinese in the Philippines are mostly business owners and their life centers mostly in the family business. These mostly small and me...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Language - Spoken Chinese
The map on the right depicts the subdivisions ("languages" or "dialect groups") within Chinese. The traditionally recognized seven main g...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Overseas Chinese: Encyclopedia Ii - Overseas Chinese - Statistics
Note that the percentages do not add up due to varying census and estimate dates. Various sub-ethnic groups include: Chinese American, A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Character - Number Of Chinese Characters
The question of how many characters there are is still the subject of debate. In the 18th century, European scholars claimed the total ta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Filipino: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Filipino - Future
Most of the Chinese Filipinos are descendants of Chinese who migrated three or four generations ago. In the cases of some Chinese mestizo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Language - Written Chinese
The relationship among the Chinese spoken and written languages is complex. It is compounded by the fact that spoken variations evolved f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Filipino: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Filipino - Language
As many as 90% of the Chinese in the Philippines trace their ancestry to the southern part of Fujian province. The Lan-nang variant of Mi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Filipino: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Filipino - History
Chinese presence in the Philippines have been evident since during the ice-age, when a land bridge enabled many people from South China t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Seal Chinese: Encyclopedia Ii - Seal Chinese - Chinese Usage
Today seals are mainly used on Chinese calligraphy works and Chinese paintings, usually in the order (up-down) of name seal, leisure seal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Art: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Art - Modern Chinese Art
Chinese art - Painting. Beginning with the New Culture Movement, Chinese artists started to adopt Western techniques. It also was durin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Canadian: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Canadian - Chinese-born
Many first-generation children who spend their entire childhood and adolescence in Chinese regions may find, without proper guidance, tha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Nationalism: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Nationalism - Chinese Nationalism And Overseas Chinese
Chinese nationalism has had mutable relationships with Chinese living outside of Mainland China and Taiwan. Overseas Chinese were strong ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burmese Chinese: Encyclopedia Ii - Burmese Chinese - History
The earliest records of Chinese migration to Myanmar were in the 1700s, when Ming Dynasty princes settled in Kokang (the northern part of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thai Chinese: Encyclopedia Ii - Thai Chinese - Language
The Thai language has now largely supplanted Chinese, although Teochew is sometimes used as a commercial lingua franca among the Chinese ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Nationalism: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Nationalism - Chinese Nationalism And Ethnicity
Defining the relationship between ethnicity and the Chinese identity has been a very complex issue throughout Chinese history. In the 17t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Language - Romanization
Romanization is the process of transcribing a language in the Latin alphabet. There are many systems of romanization for the Chinese lang...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Language - Morphology
Chinese morphology is strictly bound to a set number of syllables with a fairly rigid construction which are the morphemes, the smallest ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Chinese: Encyclopedia Ii - British Chinese - History
Trade between China and Britain existed as far back as Roman times, although the first permanent settlement of Chinese people dates from ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Character - Dictionaries
The design and use of a dictionary of Chinese characters presents interesting problems. Dozens of indexing schemes have been created for ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Canadian: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Canadian - Prominent Chinese Canadians
Chinese Canadian - Ethnic Chinese in Canada. Raymond Chan, former Secretary of State for the Pacific Rim and currently the Minister of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Classical Chinese: Encyclopedia Ii - Classical Chinese - Pronunciation
Chinese characters are not alphabetic and do not reflect sound changes, and the actual pronunciation of Old Chinese can only be tentative...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Anarchism: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Anarchism - Anarchism And Chinese Nationalism
In the first phase of the movement, Anarchists of both schools were generally participants in the Nationalist movement, even though in th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Character - Classification
See also: Chinese character classification Chinese character - By etymology. Chinese scholars have traditionally classified Han charact...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Garden: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Garden - Plants
Many garden plants have essential symbology. Pine trees represent wisdom and bamboo represents strength and upright morality. Plum trees ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Character - Origin
According to legend, the inventor of Chinese characters was named Cangjie (c. 2650 BC), but this may be only a myth. Another tradition as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Chinese: Encyclopedia Ii - British Chinese - Demographics
At the last UK census in 2001, there were 247,403 Chinese people living in the UK - 0.4% of the total population, or 5.3% of the minority...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Nationalism: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Nationalism - Chinese Populist Nationalism
During the 1990s, Chinese intellectuals have vigorously debated the political meaning and significance of the rising nationalism in China...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Calendar - The Chinese Zodiac
The Twelve animals (十二生肖 shí'èr shēngxiào, or colloquially 十二屬相 shí'èr shǔxiāng) representing the twelve Earthly ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Nationalism: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Nationalism - Chinese Nationalism And Taiwan
One common goal of current Chinese nationalists is "reunification" of Mainland China and Taiwan. While this was the common stated goal of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Calendar - The Chinese Zodiac
The Twelve animals (十二生肖 shí'èr shēngxiào, or colloquially 十二屬相 shí'èr shǔxiāng) representing the twelve Earthly ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Overseas Chinese: Encyclopedia Ii - Overseas Chinese - Terminology
Strictly speaking, there are two words in Chinese for overseas Chinese: huáqiáo (华侨 / 華僑) refers to overseas Chinese who were b...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Character - Orthography
Usually Chinese characters each take up the same amount of space, due to their block, square nature. One of the easiest ways for beginner...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Character - Styles
The earliest Chinese characters are the so called Oracle Script of the late Shang Dynasty, followed by the Bronzeware Script (金文 jīn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Wall: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Wall - Journalism
The term is also used in journalism to describe the separation between the editorial and advertising arms of a media firm. The Chinese wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Language - Sounds
The phonological structure of each syllable consists of a nucleus consisting of a vowel (which can be a monophthong, diphthong, or even a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indonesian Chinese: Encyclopedia Ii - Indonesian Chinese - History
Indonesian Chinese - Pre-independence History. Race relations between Indonesian Chinese and native Indonesians have always been proble...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Character - Reforms
Although most often associated with the PRC, character simplification predates the 1949 communist victory. Caoshu, cursive written text, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Character: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Character - Radicals
Main article: radical Each character has at least one fundamental component, or radical (部首 bù shǒu, lit. "part and initial"), and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thai Chinese: Encyclopedia Ii - Thai Chinese - History
The history of Chinese immigration to Thailand dates back several centuries. Chinese traders in Thailand date back at least to the thirte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Calligraphy: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Calligraphy - Example Of Calligraphy Creation
folding (optional) beginning writing writing calligraphy seal sealing finished ... See also:Chinese calligraphy, Chinese calligraphy - ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Cuisine: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Cuisine - Varieties
Due to the large and varied characteristics of China itself, a multitude of different regional and other (e.g. religious) styles can be i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Language - Grammar
In general, all spoken varieties of Chinese are isolating languages, in that they depend on syntax (word order and sentence structure) ra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Cuisine: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Cuisine - Varieties
Due to the large and varied characteristics of China itself, a multitude of different regional and other (e.g. religious) styles can be i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese In Singapore: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese In Singapore - History
There are records of the Chinese presence in Singapore as early as the 14th-century. Imperial Chinese sources state that there was a sign...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Astrology: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Astrology - Background
The ancient Chinese astronomers called the five major planets by the names of the element they were associated with: Venus corresponds to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Room: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Room - Criticism
There are many criticisms of Searle’s argument. Most can be categorized as either systems replies or robot replies. Chinese room - The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Democracy: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Democracy - Music
New songs peformed by the Guns N' Roses touring band from 2001-2002 include "Chinese Democracy", "Madagascar", "Oh My God" (End of Days s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Democracy: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Democracy - Music
New songs peformed by the Guns N' Roses touring band from 2001-2002 include "Chinese Democracy," "Madagascar," "Oh My God" (appeared on t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indonesian Chinese: Encyclopedia Ii - Indonesian Chinese - Demographics
The economic activities and wealth of the Chinese community in Indonesia is hugely diverse; many are farmers and small-scale merchants, a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Classical Chinese: Encyclopedia Ii - Classical Chinese - Pronunciation
Chinese characters are not alphabetic and do not reflect sound changes, and the tentative reconstruction of Old Chinese is an endeavour o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Language - History
Most linguists classify all of the variations of Chinese as part of the Sino-Tibetan language family and believe that there was an origin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Historiography: Encyclopedia Ii - 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 mand...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Abacus: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Abacus - Origins
The earliest mention of an abacus in Chinese literature was in a 190 CE book of the Eastern Han Dynasty, namely Supplementary Notes on th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Room: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Room - Criticism
There are many criticisms of Searle’s argument. Most can be categorized as either systems replies or robot replies. Chinese room - The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese In Singapore: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese In Singapore - Religion
According the 2000 census, 42.5% of Singapore's population declare themselves to be Buddhist, 8.5% Taoist, 14.6% Christian and 14.8% non-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese American: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese American - Immigration
Main article: Chinese immigration to the United States Chinese immigration to the United States has come in many waves. Like all the Amer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Democracy: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Democracy - Lineup
Guns N' Roses' Frontman, Axl Rose, began production of the album in 1997 with longtime members Matt Sorum and Dizzy Reed, as well as Paul...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Democracy: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Democracy - Lineup
Guns N' Roses' frontman Axl Rose, began production of the album in 1997 with longtime members Matt Sorum and Dizzy Reed, as well as Paul ...   » Read the article