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  Shanghai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Originally a sleepy fishing town, Shanghai became China's most important city by the 20th century and was the centre of popular culture, vice, intellectual discourse and political intrigue during the Republic of China.
Its importance to China's fiscal well-being also denied it economic liberalizations that were started in the far southern provinces such as Guangdong during the mid-1980s.
Many of China's top government officials in Beijing are known to have risen in Shanghai in the 1980s on a platform that was critical of the extreme leftism of the Cultural Revolution, giving them the tag "Shanghai Clique" during the 1990s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shanghai   (6243 words)

  
 Ming Empire 1368-1644 by Sanderson Beck
Emperor Hongwu wrote a commentary on Lao-zi's Dao De Jing in 1375, and he thought maybe he should not put to death so many people; but the next year he had hundreds of officials executed for pre-stamping fiscal documents as a convenience.
Scholars criticized the Emperor for harsh methods; but in 1385 Hongwu had his vice-minister of revenue and hundreds of others executed for embezzling, and the minister of personnel was accused of slandering the head of the National University and was put to death.
China reopened trade relations in 1403 with Japan's Shogun Yoshimitsu; his successor Yoshimochi refused to have official trade relations with the Ming court, though private trade continued.
www.san.beck.org /3-7-MingEmpire.html   (23715 words)

  
 Yang Xiong [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Yang Xiong (53 B.C.E. Yang Xiong (Yang Hsiung) was a prolific yet reclusive court poet whose writings and tragic life spanned the collapse of the Former Han dynasty (202 BCE-9 CE) and the brief and catastrophic usurpation of the throne by the Imperial Regent Wang Mang (9-23 CE).
Yang Xiong was born in 53 BCE in the western city of Chengdu in the province of Shu.
The term xuan in the title is typically used in Chinese literature as a modifier to describe that which is dark, fl, mysterious, profound, abstruse or hidden.
www.iep.utm.edu /y/yangxion.htm   (4927 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | Epoch Times Commentaries on the Communist Party — Part 6
China is the only country in the world whose ancient civilization has been passed down continuously for over 5,000 years.
The CCP has highlighted the vile parts from China’s history, things that occurred whenever people diverged from traditional values, such as internal strife for power within the royal family, the use of tactics and conspiracy, and the exercise of dictatorship and despotism.
Never in history had any emperor eradicated from people’s minds what they considered to be the most beautiful and the most sacred, using slanderous and insulting propaganda in addition to violence, as the CCP has.
english.epochtimes.com /news/4-12-20/25087.html   (12494 words)

  
 Brooklyn College Core 9: Chinese Culture Page
With China we will find a tradition of civilization marked for over 3000 years by the use of writing, urbanization, a developed artistic culture, social stratification and a political structure which more or less successfully coordinated a huge population.
Section 7: China and the World II In general we shall do one "class" per class meeting.
Jesuits in China Tian/Shang di or Tian zhu.
acc4.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu /~phalsall   (2720 words)

  
 Coin Books: China Ancient: Bibliography, Reviews, Sale (SEMANS)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Amulette Chinas und seiner Nachbarländer Photo-illustrated catalog of a personal collection of 1500 charms from China, with some Japan, Vietnam, Korea, silver and stone items.
China Numismatics, Qianbi Bolan, Wuxi Numismatics, and other provincial numismatic journals contain articles on all facets of Chinese numismatics.
Geld aus China 12 essays by European authors on aspects of early Chinese numismatics, incl.
www.coincoin.com /bkXC.htm   (10275 words)

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