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	Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		China is the world's oldest continuous civilization and culture, with a history characterized by repeated divisions and reunifications amid alternating periods of peace and war, and violent dynastic change.
		Chinese was the official language, though periods of Mongol and Manchu conquest saw the arrival of Mongol and Manchu as alternate official languages.
		China is also traditionally thought of as comprising North China (北方) and South China (南方), the geographic boundary between which north and south is largely generalized as Huai River (淮河) and Qinling Mountains (秦岭).
	www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/China (3575 words)

	Name of China in various languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Names used in Asia, especially East and Southeast Asia are usually derived directly from words in a language of China learned through the land-route.
		In English and in several other European languages, the name "Cathay" became widely used for all of China largely as a result of translations of the adventures of Marco Polo, which used this word for northern China.
		The division of North China and South China under the Jinn Dynasty and Song Dynasty weakened the dogma that China should be unified, and it was common for a time to call the politically disparate North and South by different names.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/China_in_world_languages (1760 words)

	Articles - China
		China was one of the earliest centers of human civilization.
		On January 1, 1912, the Republic of China (ROC) was established, signaling the end of the Manchu-dominated Qing Empire.
		In terms of numbers, however, the pre-eminent ethnic group in China is the Han, which is a group so diverse in its culture and language that some conceive of it as a larger overarching group bringing together many smaller, distinct ethnic groups sharing common traits in language and culture.
	www.free-biz.org /articles/China (4346 words)

	China: Information From Answers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		China is one of the world's oldest civilizations, with a history characterized by repeated divisions and reunifications amid alternating periods of peace and war and violent imperial dynastic change.
		Imperial monarchy in China ended with the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912 ; however the next four decades were marred by warlordism, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Chinese Civil War.
		In terms of numbers, however, the pre-eminent ethnic group in China is the Han, which is a group so diverse in its culture and language that some conceive of it as a larger group bringing together many smaller, distinct ethnic groups sharing common traits in language and culture.
	www.answerbar.com /topic/china-2 (4845 words)

	China in world languages
		In English and in several other European languages, the name "Cathay" became widely used largely as a result of English translations of the adventures of Marco Polo, which used this word for China.
		The mention of the Chinas in ancient Sanskrit literature, both in the Laws of Manu and in the Mahabhrata, has often been supposed to prove the application of the name before the predominance of the Qin Dynasty.
		But the coupling of that name with the Daradas, still surviving as the people of Dardistan, on the Indus, suggests it as more probable that those Chinas were a kindred race of mountaineers, whose name as Shinas in fact likewise remains applied to a branch of the Dard ethnicity.
	knowallabout.com /c/ch/china_in_world_languages.html (823 words)

	China Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		China is one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations, with a history characterized by repeated divisions and reunifications amid alternating periods of peace and war and violent Chinese dynastydynastic change.
		On the other hand, the Republic of China, while never formally rescinding its claims, has moved away from its former identity as the ruler of China, and increasingly characterizes itself as "Taiwan", which is also the usage commonly adopted in the West.
		Chinese languageChinese was the official language, though periods of Mongol and Manchu conquest saw the arrival of Mongolian languageMongol and Manchu languageManchu as alternate official language s.
	www.echostatic.com /index.php?title=China (4448 words)

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		The Great Wall of China, stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in the 3rd century BC to protect the north from raiders on horseback.
		For a long period of time, especially between the 7th and 14th centuries, China was one of the most advanced civilizations in the world in technology, literature, and art.
		China is also traditionally thought of as comprising North China (å—æ—¹) and South China (å—æ—¹), the geographic boundary between which north and south is largely generalized as Huai River ( æ·®æ²³) and Qinling Mountains ( ç§¦å²).
	grenada.paellaman.com /grenadabrowse.php?title=China (4893 words)

	China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Imperial monarchy in China ended with the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912; however the next four decades were marred by warlordism, the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the Chinese Civil War.
		The Chinese language was also one of the few languages to invent writing independently, the other languages being that of ancient Mesopotamia (Sumerians), the Mayans, and Egypt.
		Chinese characters have had many variants and styles throughout the Chinese history, and were "simplified" in the mid-20th century on mainland China.
	creekin.net /n40-china.html (4432 words)

	China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Depending on one's political views, China can be described as a single nation or multiple nation s; a single state or multiple state s; a single civilization or multiple civilization s.
		China is one of the world's oldest continuous civilizations, with a history characterized by repeated divisions and reunifications amid alternating periods of peace and war and violent dynastic change.
		Chinese was the official language, though periods of Mongol and Manchu conquest saw the arrival of Mongol and Manchu as alternate official language s.
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	China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		China is the world's oldest continuous civilization and culture, with a history characterized by repeated divisions and reunifications amid alternating periods of peace and war, and violent Chinese dynastydynastic change.
		Chinese languageChinese was the official language, though periods of Mongol and Manchu conquest saw the arrival of Mongolian languageMongol and Manchu languageManchu/ as alternate official languages.
		China launched a new foreign exchange dealing system on Wednesday that allows domestic trading in currencies other than the yuan, a milestone in the country's effort to reform its tightly controlled currency regime.
	www.infothis.com /find/China (3668 words)

	Natalie Maines Naturefriends Nakatomi Plaza Name Of China In (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Native American languages Native American languages are the indigenous languages of the Americas, spoken from Alaska and Greenland to the southern tip of South America.
		The name "Namib" is Nama for "enormous" and indeed the desert occupies an area of around 50,000km²).
		Names of Korea For complex historical reasons, there are three names of Korea in use today.
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		The Kreutz Sungrazers are a family of comets, characterized by orbits which take them extremely close to the Sun at perihelion.
		They are all believed to originate from the fragmentation of one very large comet several centuries ago, and are named for the astronomer Heinrich Kreutz, who first demonstrated that they were related.
		Several members of the Kreutz family have become Great Comets, occasionally visible near the Sun in the daytime sky.
	maks.ath.cx /wiki/China (664 words)

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		On the other hand, the various perturbations can be orchestrated by clever astrodynamicists to assist with orbit maintenance tasks, such as station-keeping, ground track maintenance or adjustment, or phasing of perigee to cover selected targets at low altitude
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