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  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.
His short-lived Xin dynasty marks the dividing line between the Former or Western Han (202 BCE-9 CE) and the Later or Eastern Han (25-220 CE) and, due to widespread rebellion and a series of natural catastrophes, is widely considered one of the most calamitous periods in Chinese history.
www.iep.utm.edu /y/yangxion.htm   (4927 words)

  
 how ghostly were the 1920s in Japan?
A claim for universality prevailed in the twenties discourses and advocated both universalist abstractions and the universal oneness of Japan and the West, while for the writers of the preceding period the most urgent task was to cope with the concrete differences with the West.
Needless to say, the culture of Taisho¯[30] differs from that of the former era by the fact that Japan as a modern state came to confront unprecedented reality: internationally, gain of colonial territories[31] as one phase of its imperialist evolution, and domestically, the emergence of a new working class in the major cities.
The former knowledge system was interrupted, and then later rebuilt according to a different program, which in turn inserted the claims to universality into the discursive system.
www.stanford.edu /group/SHR/5-supp/text/ishii.html   (11467 words)

  
 Chinese language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Written colloquial Cantonese has become quite popular in online chat rooms and instant messaging, although for formal written communications Cantonese speakers still normally use standard written Chinese.
Also, in Hunan, some women wrote their local language in Nü Shu, a syllabary derived from Chinese characters.
The Dungan language, considered a dialect of Mandarin, is also nowadays written in Cyrillic, and was formerly written in the Arabic alphabet, although the Dungan people live outside China.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_language   (6740 words)

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