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	Li (unit) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A modern li consists of 1,500 Chinese "feet" or chi and, in the past, was often translated as a "mile." Since the li has generally been only about a third as long as the mile, translating the character as "Chinese mile" or simply "li" is much less likely to produce confusion or error.
		In Chinese, li is sometimes prefaced by the character shi (市, shì) to distinguish it from the kilometer proper or gongli (公里, gōnglǐ).
		Although the Chinese units had been unofficially used since the Zhou Dynasty, it was the values of the Tang Dynasty that were adopted by the Japanese emperor in 701.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Li_(Chinese_unit) (1086 words)

	Units: C
		It was often used as a unit of mass or weight equal to 3 quintals or as a unit of volume equal to the volume holding 3 quintals of the commodity being shipped.
		The unit originated as the area of a square 100 pas (Haitian paces) on a side, with the pas being equal to 3.5 pieds (French feet).
		The unit was invented by commercial realtors to express the approximate portion of an acre of subdivided land that remains to be sold in the retail market after portions are set aside (dedicated) for necessary streets and other utilities.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/units/dictC.html (9195 words)

	Units: L
		The libra was the Roman unit from which the English pound is descended; the symbol "lb" for the pound comes from this unit.
		The unit was called the line because magnetic fields were traditionally represented by lines depicting the direction of the field; the idea was to quantify the strength of these lines.
		This unit, equal to about 384 401 kilometers or 238 855 miles, is used to measure the "miss distances" of asteroids passing near the Earth.
	www.unc.edu /~rowlett/units/dictL.html (4272 words)

	20th WCP: Li and Change
		The character of li suggests that li practices be evaluated in terms of their efficacy in realizing the Confucian objectives, for which participation in li is both necessary and sufficient.
		As I understand it, li functions primarily as a social regulator in the realisation of the Confucian objectives — namely, the perfection of the self, the establishment of order within one’s family (which the Confucian understood as the basic unit of a society), and the restoration and preservation of social order.
		Li is constitutive of the Confucian objectives in the sense that, within a particular community, general participation in li practices (with the appropriate attendant dispositions and attitudes) is both necessary and sufficient for the realisation of the Confucian objectives.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Asia/AsiaWong.htm (2866 words)

	Li - Wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Li is a common transliteration of a few Chinese family names.
		Li can be the transliteration of 李 (pinyin Li3), one of the most common Chinese family name, and other less common family names such as 黎 (Li2); 理 and 里 (Li3); 酈, 栗, 厲, 力, and 利 (Li4).
		Li is the symbol for the chemical element lithium.
	wikipedia.findthelinks.com /li/Li.html (87 words)

	Chinese Medical Psychiatry by Bob Flaws and James Lake, MD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Li and Zhu were the last two and arguably the two greatest of the four great masters of the Jin-Yuan dynasties.
		In terms of Chinese medical psychiatry, I believe that the most important clinical implication of Li and Zhu’s teachings on yin fire and the tai yang is the clear-cut, reciprocal relationship between psychological stress and somatic complaints.
		Li often talks about yin scenarios causing counterflow and chaos of the qi, and Dr. Hammer frequently quotes Dr. Shen’s use of the term “qi is wild,” a nonstandard rendition of qi luan, qi chaos.
	chinesemedicalpsychiatry.com /articles/article_tai_yang.html (4059 words)

	Chinese units of measurement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chinese units of measurement (Chinese: 市制; pinyin: Shìzhì; literally "market system") are the customary and traditional units of measure used in China.
		The units were standardized during the twentieth century to make them approximate SI units.
		However, in the Zhou Dynasty, the king conferred nobles with powers of the state, and the measurement units began to be inconsistent from state and state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_unit (526 words)

	Li
		A Chinese unit of distance, 里(Li3), about 500 meters, 1/3 mile: in ancient times a li was 360 paces, or about 576 meters (古代以三百六十步為一里).
		The family names are unrelated to the Li Chinese minority group.
		Li can be the transliteration of 李 (pinyin Li3), the most common Chinese family name and often spelt as Lee, and other less common family names such as 黎 (Li2); 理 and 里 (Li3); 酈, 栗, 厲, 力, and 利 (Li4).
	usapedia.com /l/li.html (147 words)

	Black Li and White Li
		When White Li learns that Black Li gave up the woman for his sake, he expresses his indifference to the narrator and goes on to say that men and women's relationships are purely animal desire, that the woman of the story enjoyed being kissed more than having him kowtow to her (3).
		White Li also seems to be a bit of a contradiction, in that he is concerned with modernization and social injustice, yet works to keep the latter in tact by destroying the former.
		As White Li is the alleged revolutionary of the brothers, Black Li is the more conservative and is portrayed as the hero of the story, which is different from what we have become accustomed to seeing from authors of the same time period as Lao She.
	www.wooster.edu /Chinese/chinese/reviews/BlackLiandWhiteLi.htm (9272 words)

	American Passages - Unit 10. Rhythms in Poetry: Context Activities
		Overall, American culture was primed for orientalism; between 1870 and 1882, the Chinese population in America rose dramatically, fueled by a fourfold increase in new immigrants, chiefly from Canton.
		Pound admired in Chinese poetry the impulse toward an economic, concrete verse, tendencies that became central to modernist poetry.
		The Chinese ideogram, and the related concept that a concise visual experience can suggest philosophical and psychological meaning, became a central idea in imagism and early modernism.
	www.learner.org /amerpass/unit10/context_activ-2.html (1244 words)

	Eng203 unit 04
		But T'ao Ch'ien is Chinese and in his cultural matrix this universal human feeling falls in the purview or category of Daoism, which emphasizes staying at "home" (i.e., not losing one's original nature by imitating fancy Confucian role models).
		Clearly Li Po does not have this in mind as he is lodged in "these emerald hills" amid the "peach blossoms" and "flowing water," which is always associated with the Dao that takes the path of least resistance, like water flowing downhill.
		Li Po's poem conjures the mystery of the void out of which things arise and ultimately into which they go.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~jgr6/203/unit04/explicit.htm (4163 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Clinton's pals in Chinese army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The report states that the Chinese Army was keenly interested in obtaining U.S. communications technology and the purchases were being financed by Far East billionaire, Li Ka-Shing.
		Li Ka-Shing met with Loral CEO Bernard Schwartz, millionaire-investor Sanford Robertson and Commerce Secretary Ron Brown in August of 1994, during the Hong Kong leg of the far east trade mission.
		Li Ka-Shing and COSCO co-own the ports at both ends of the Panama Canal (Atlantic and Pacific).
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=20489 (1380 words)

	Anxi - China-related Topics AM-AP - China-Related Topics
		Anxi was described by the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian who visited the neighbouring countries of Bactria and Sogdiana in 126 BC, making the first known Chinese report on Parthia.
		In Chinese the name "Anxi" (pronounced anshiak in Tang dynasty Chinese) is a transliteration of the name Arsaces I of ParthiaArsaces, founder of the Arsacid Dynasty of Parthia.
		To the west lies Tiaozi (Mesopotamia) and to the north Yancai and Lixuan (Hyrcania)." (Shiji, 123, Zhang Qian quote, trans.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Anxi (304 words)

	cars - Li
		Lee or Li is a transliteration of several Chinese and Korean family names, see Li (Chinese name) and Lee (Korean name).
		An ethnic group (黎族, lí zú): see Li Chinese.
		A Chinese unit of distance, approximately 500 metres in length.
	www.carluvers.com /cars/Li (110 words)

	Li - China-related Topics LI-LL - China-Related Topics
		An abbreviation of names of rivers in China, e.g., Lishui River (澧水, Lǐ shǔi) and Lijiang River (漓江, L? Jiāng) are sometimes abbreviated to Li.
		A traditional Korean unit of distance, approximately 400 metres in length.
		The Li is also a mythical, dragonlike beast, see Chinese mythology, or Li (hornless dragon).
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Li (184 words)

	Amazon.com: The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy: Books: John Defrancis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		And yes, the basic unit of Chinese language is evolving from a character to a phrase (i.e.
		The idea that Chinese is monosyllabic is shown as a myth, since the spoken language has and depends upon polysyllabic constructions to avoid redundacy and only in the thoroughly artificial written language could one see monosyllabism.
		DeFrancis was one of the great Western scholars of Chinese, and from a three-year sojourn in China in his youth he had a great love of the Chinese people and their culture.
	www.amazon.com /Chinese-Language-Fact-Fantasy/dp/0824810686 (1950 words)

	Chinese, Korean, and Hindi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Section 01:TTH6 Li Introduciton to the I-Ching or Book of Changes, Taoism, Confucianism, and CHinese Buddhism, with emphasis on their origins and interrelations, their influence on Chinese culture, and on values in the modern world.
		Investigation of the early evolution of Chinese writing within the context of the beginnings of Chinese civilization.
		It begins with a unit on the political context of the decision to drop the bomb and the human toll of the bombing.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~easian/old/chinese.htm (699 words)

	Chinese Proverbs : QuicklyFind Info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		These are a collection of Chinese proverbs (歇後語 in pinyin: xie4 hou4 yu3; 諺語 yan4 yu3) and idioms, given in (and sorted by) pinyin transcription.
		Many other expressions, however, develop around a rhyme or rhythm of intonation, and because the verbal distinction is tied to the regional dialect, such a proverb or idiom would not necessarily be understood or used outside of that region.
		But there are no clear geographical boundaries of dialect (particularly so today as the Chinese population becomes increasingly mobile), so it is difficult to sort the following proverbs by region.
	www.quicklyfind.com /quote-chinese_proverbs.html (1274 words)

	Chinese - Useful Websites \| The Library \| Victoria University of Wellington
		Chinese classics - read the classics online - from poetry to prose, complete with a chronology of Chinese history for quick reference
		Chinese text initiative - Chinese language texts online - comprises the sections 300 Tang poems - Gu yao yan - Shi jing - Hong lou meng - Yu xuan ji - Lienu zhuan - Chinese literature in translation - from the University of Virginia library
		Chinese text sampler - 50 short texts, taken from a variety of sources, aimed at students
	www.vuw.ac.nz /library/subjectguides/chinese/websites/literature.aspx (502 words)

	Chinese Curriculum Units for NEH Workshops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		At Community College of Philadelphia, the unit can be used for English 209, Introduction to Poetry; English 245, World Literature; English 101 and other writing courses; and Humanities 101.
		Students will be asked to try a translation of a Chinese poem, working from a transliteration of the original Chinese.
		Assignment: Working from a transliteration of a Chinese poem, write your own translation or “version” of the original. Try to immerse yourself in the rhythm, feeling, and meaning of the original, and give it a vehicle for understanding that goes beyond the mere translation of the words.
	web.jccc.net /neh/units_china/wolf.htm (1095 words)

	China throws journalist in jail \| InfoWorld \| News \| 2006-07-14 \| By Sumner Lemon, IDG News Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Chinese authorities have jailed a journalist for two years for posting articles that were critical of Chinese society and called for democratic reforms on the Internet, a media watchdog group said Thursday.
		Li Yuanlong, a journalist for a daily newspaper in Bijie in southwestern Guizhou province, was sentenced to two years in prison and loss of his civil rights for a further two years for posting "subversive" articles on the Internet, Reporters Without Borders said.
		To get a written confession from Li, Chinese authorities "kidnapped his wife and held her in a hotel room for 10 days and detained his 16-year-old son for a week," Reporters Without Borders said.
	www.infoworld.com /article/06/07/14/HNchinajailsjournalist_1.html (1039 words)

	Airline Insecurity: Red Skies in Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Victor Li, son of the famed Chinese billionaire Li Ka-shing, is poised to take control of Canada's flag airline, Air Canada, by plunking down more than a half billion dollars.
		The Li family was the subject of a massive Canadian intelligence and RCMP probe, Project Sidewinder.
		Li Ka-shing's official bio from the Clinton White House states that the billionaire was convicted of insider trading in 1984 but served no time in jail.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2004/1/6/174054.shtml (1611 words)

	Wikinfo \| List of Chinese proverbs
		These are the humble beginnings of a collection of Chinese proverbs (歇後語 in pinyin: xie4 hou4 yu3; 諺語 yan4 yu3) and idioms, given in (and sorted by) pinyin transcription.
		Explanation: This is in reference to the rules in Chinese Chess.
		Explanation: In the old Chinese social hierarchy, one can be disciplined by the brothers of one's mother.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=List_of_Chinese_proverbs (2872 words)

	li - OneLook Dictionary Search
		L.I, Li, li, li : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
		L.I, Li,.li, li : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Phrases that include li: li po, li chi, li bella, li bo, li ion, more...
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=li (383 words)

	3n2
		Students will also be presented with language tasks such as reading current newspaper articles and stories; listening to Chinese news on the radio, watching video clips or films, presenting reports, debating current issues and writing summaries and opinions.
		Chinese 1202 (Intermediate Chinese N) or permission of the director of the Chinese program.
		: There will be vocabulary quizzes in each lesson, four unit tests, a mid-term oral exam and a final oral and written exam.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/ealac/chinese/3n2.htm (284 words)

	ABC News: Group: Yahoo Aided Crackdown on Dissident (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		SAN FRANCISCO Feb 8, 2006 (AP)— A Yahoo Inc. unit provided information that led to an eight-year prison sentence for a Chinese dissident, an advocacy group for journalists said Wednesday, which would be at least the second time the company has aided Chinese authorities in their crackdown on protesters.
		Yahoo Hong Kong provided electronic records that led to the conviction of dissident Li Zhi, according to Reporters Without Borders, which advocates on behalf of journalists.
		Yahoo spokeswoman Mary Osako said Yahoo Hong Kong would not have had access to Li's Chinese account and that it never releases information to the Chinese government.
	abcnews.go.com /Technology/wireStory?id=1596776 (369 words)

	Imperial Chinese Unit Conversion Tool - Kongming's Archives
		You can use this tool to translate the various units found in the novel and associated historical records to familiar English forms (e.g.
		distance/length) then use the conversion tool form to enter the number of original units, the unit’s type (e.g.
		li) and the form you wish to convert it to (e.g.
	www.kongming.net /novel/chinese_units (213 words)

	Notes
		Modern Chinese literature's "moral burden;" an "obsession with China" (C.T. Hsia).
		Chinese national modernity: victimization, resistance, and teh struggle for wholeness
		What are some of the things, habits, and practices that give the Chinese characters in the film a sense of connection with one another?
	courses.washington.edu /asian204/A204Unit01.htm (662 words)

	Ancient Chinese Proverbs
		These are the humble beginnings of a collection of Chinese proverbs (歇後語 in pinyin: xie4 hou4 yu3; 諺語yan4 yu3) and idioms, given in (and sorted by) pinyin transcription.
		Note: 'stable' and 'li' rhyme in Mandarin 1 li: a Chinese unit of linear measure which corresponds to about a half kilometer
		Usage: Criticism of others' hard work should be considerate, constructive and limited, and not free-flowing, since by not physically doing it, one cannot appreciate the difficulty of a task.
	www.chineseculture.info /culture/proverbs.htm (2798 words)

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