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  China - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
China as it exists today has been variously described in different points of view as a single civilization or multiple civilizations, as a single state or multiple states, and as a single nation or multiple nations.
In 1912, after a prolonged period of decline, the institution of the Emperor of China disappeared and the Republic of China was established.
China is composed of a vast variety of highly different landscapes, with mostly plateaus and mountains in the west, and lower lands on the east.
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 Taoism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Emperor Xuanzong (685–762), who ruled at the height of the Tang, wrote commentaries on texts from all three of these traditions, which exemplifies the fact that in many people's lives they were not mutually exclusive.
For example, the Jade Emperor is at the head of the popular pantheon, while the Celestial Masters' altar recognizes the deified Laozi (Laojun, "Lord Lao") and the Three Pure Ones in that position.
Taoist temples in southern China and Taiwan may often be identified by their roofs, which feature Chinese dragons and phoenixes made from multi-colored ceramic tiles.
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 Ancient China [encyclopedia]
Whenever China was conquered by nomadic tribes, as it was by the Mongols in the 13th century, the conquerors sooner or later adopted the ways of the "higher" Chinese civilization and staffed the bureaucracy with Chinese.
China was inhabited more than a million years ago by Homo erectus: the excavations of Lantian and Yuanmou show early habitation.
China was ruled by two independent dynasties, one in the south and the other in the north, and hence coined the era of Southern and Northern Dynasties.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Church in China
According to Pauthier, the T'ang Emperor, Hiuan T'sung issued in 745 an edict wherein it was stated that the temples of the religion from Ta Ta'in being known popularly as Persian temples, it was ordered that, this being inaccurate, thenceforth the latter name should be changed to Ta Ts'in temples.
This is a proof of the influence of the Mongols of China.
China was Chin, or Mahachin, sometimes Tung-t'u, "Land of the East".
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 Bibliography of Daoism (Taoism) | Taoism | Daoism
Barrett, Timothy H. 'The Feng-tao k'o and Printing on Paper in Seventh-Century China.' Bulletin of the School of African and Oriental Studies 60.3: 538-40..
'Taoism as Ideology in the Reign of Emperor Hsüan-tsung.' Ph.D. Diss., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor..
"Topos and Entelechy in the Ethos of Reclusion in China".
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 Wang Yangming [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
To understand the shared theoretical challenge that Wang Yangming confronted, one should first note that quite a number of Neo-Confucians at that time had contempt for what they thought was a certain vulgarized form of Confucian learning.
Wing-tsit Chan (1970) provides a bird’s-eye view on the flow of thought from the early Ming through Wang’s era by scrutinizing the evolution of “the learning of mind” in early Ming thinkers.
In mainland China, Wang’s thought has been interpreted as subjective idealism and criticized by Marxist scholars despite the fact that the influence of Marxist ideology has become relatively weak since the end of Cultural Revolution (c.
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 Search Tuna Report for shang dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
China Atlas Shang Dynasty Map The Shang ruled in city-states which were, in turn, ruled over by a capital city....
The Shang dynasty was one of the three dynasties of ancient China, forming a period that extended from the 21st century BC to 221 BC....
China, 2000-1000 B.C. It may represent a center of the Xia dynasty ca....
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 Ten Year Index 1994 - 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Ching Ming and a Walk in the Mountains 10(2): 8, 18
China to Chinatown: Chinese Food from the West by J.A.G. Roberts 10(1): 20-21
Imperial China 900 - 1800 by F.W. Mote 7(4): 19
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