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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.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/c/h/i/China.html   (5334 words)

  
 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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taoism   (5332 words)

  
 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.
www.artzia.com /History/Civilizations/China   (1256 words)

  
 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.
An important imperial decree of 15 March, 1899, established on an official basis the relations between the Catholic clergy and the local authorities of China; the bishops were placed on an equal footing with the viceroys and the governors, the vicars-general ranked with the treasurers, provincial judges and Tao-t'ai, priests with prefects.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03669a.htm   (11433 words)

  
 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".
www.daoiststudies.org /bibliography.php   (3035 words)

  
 Search Tuna Report for shang dynasty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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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 Xuanzang [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Born of a family possessing erudition for generations in Yanshi prefecture of Henan province, Xuanzang, whose lay name was Chenhui, was the youngest of four children.
Having initially left China against the will of the Emperor, he was no longer an unknown fugitive fleeing in secret, but an accredited pilgrim with official standing.
This consciousness-oriented school of ideology was largely represented in China by the Faxiang School, called Popsang in Korea, and Hosso in Japan.
www.iep.utm.edu /x/xuanzang.htm   (4283 words)

  
 Strange Science: Timeline
The bone is inscribed with its discovery date and the motto of Emperor Frederick III, and chained to one of the cathedral doors.
The embryos all come from the Doushantuo phosphorites in southern China, and all are estimated to be approximately 570 million years old, making them the oldest fossil embryos so far discovered.
Because they can occur in meteorites, the fullerenes are cited as evidence of a meteorite impact at the end of the Permian.
www.strangescience.net /timeline.htm   (11851 words)

  
 Ten Year Index 1994 - 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
China to Chinatown: Chinese Food from the West by J.A.G. Roberts 10(1): 20-21
China Moon Cafe, The by Barbara Tropp 3(2): 10
Tong Yuan with Peanut Butter 2(4): 17, 21
www.flavorandfortune.com /f_F-10-year-index-1994-2003.htm   (4797 words)

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