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	Teach and Study in Shaanxi,Teach English Jobs Shaanxi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Shaanxi is a landlocked province in the middle reaches of the Yellow River.
		Shaanxi Province is thus known in the world as a colossal natural and historical museum.
		Situated in the Shaanxi Museum, the Stele Forest of Xi'an is the largest and oldest of its kind in China with a collection of 2,300 stone tablets and epitaphs from the Han, Wei, Jin, Sui Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing, forming comprehensive library of books-on-stones measurable historical and artistic value.
	www.tefl.cc /ShaanXi (1295 words)

	ICKL Conference - Beijing
		History: Although the area south-west of the city was inhabited by cave dwellers some 500,000 years ago, the earliest records of settlements in Beijing date from around 1000 BC.
		History: The earliest evidence of human habitation in the Xi’an area dates back 6000 years to Neolithic times, when the then lush plains proved a perfect area for primitive Chinese tribes to establish villages.
		The museum is underground and basically consists of brick-lined vaults with painted murals, carvings and burial items that were discovered when the tombs were excavated.
	www.ickl.org /conf04_beijing/tour_detail.html (4421 words)

	Shaanxi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Shaanxi (; Postal System Pinyin: Shensi, pronounced like "Shahn-shee") is a northwestern province of the People's Republic of China, and includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River as well as the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of the province.
		By regular Hanyu Pinyin rules, both Shaanxi and the neighbouring province of Shanxi should be spelled as "Shanxi", and the difference is in tone: Shānxī and Shǎnxī.
		Nearly all the people in Shaanxi are comprised of ethnic Chinese Han, with pockets of Hui population in the north western region (adjacent to Ningxia).
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Shaanxi.htm (572 words)

	Shaanxi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shaanxi (Simplified Chinese: 陕西, Traditional: 陝西, Pinyin: Shǎnxī, Wade-Giles: Shan-hsi, pronounced like "Shon-shee") is a northwestern province of the People's Republic of China, and includes portions of the Loess Plateau on the middle reaches of the Yellow River as well as the Qinling Mountains across the southern part of the province.
		The double a in Shaan (陕) is used to distinguish it from Shanxi.
		The most devastating earthquake in history occurred in northern Shaanxi Province on January 24, 1556, killing an estimated 850,000 people.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Shaanxi (245 words)

	Shanghai WebSite - Travel in China
		Shaanxi Province stands out as one of the cradles of the Chinese nation and its long civilization.
		Shaanxi Province has abundant cultural and historical relics.
		natural Chinese history museum, which houses a complete array of historical sites representative of different historical periods.
	www.shanghai.ws /TIClook10578.html (210 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		In the interests of authenticity, the museum has allowed some of the warriors to remain scattered in pieces, exactly as they were found some 30 years ago.
		The Tang Dynasty Art Museum, which is far larger and more ambitious in scope, features mannequins of Chinese imperial figures, reproductions of Tang tomb paintings and Silk Road figurines influenced by Persian art.
		The Shaanxi History Museum, which opened in 1992, is an unimaginably rich repository of priceless artifacts.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=2140 (913 words)

	Xian History Museum
		Photographs are allowed in the museum and Jörg with his digital camera took ample advantage of that.
		One of the farest reaching achievements of his rule remains the standardization of writing, which has greatly contributed to the intellectual continuity of Chinese culture to the present day.
		The evolution and standardization of writing is well documented in the museum.
	eos.photonik.tuwien.ac.at /china/xinjiang/node9.html (175 words)

	About China: China Travel Information
		The Shaanxi History Museum is located 4 kilometers south of Xi'an, with the Big Wild Goose Pagoda to the east.
		The Museum is an architectural complex in the Tang Dynasty style, covering an area of 65,000 square meters and with a construction area of about 60,000 square meters.
		At the time when the museum was opened to public, more than 2,200 pieces of rare historical relics were requizited from other places throughout Shaanxi Province, which made the museum even more splendid and well-know.
	www.china-travel-agent.com /city_guides/view.php?city=xi'an&id=1000796568 (714 words)

	Xian
		The tower has a square-shaped brick platform, each side of which is 35.5 meters (116 feet) long and 8.6 meters (28 feet) high and on the top is a triple-eaved, two-storey wooden structure with carved beams and color-painted rafters, a further 27.4 meters (90feet) high.
		The Museum is divided into three main partsone hall for overall display, one for temporary and another hall for display on special topics, all togehter more than 4000 pieces to see.
		It was built in 7th century by the order of Emperor Xuan Zun to store the scriptures and the statues that Xuan Zhang, a Buddhist and the most prestigious scholar and translator of all times, had brought from a pilgrimage to India in 629.
	lobota.tripod.com /xian/sights.html (1288 words)

	Cloudband : Magazine : Reviews : THE GILDED DRAGONS EXTRAVAGANZA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Situated in the middle to lower reaches of the Yellow River, this region is one of the most significant cradles of China's ancient civilisation and was home to the imperial capital of eleven dynasties, including the Han (206 BCE-220 CE) and Tang (618-906 CE).
		Traditionally, the Chinese were skilled at working both jade and bronze, and given that these techniques are unrelated to those needed for the more malleable gold and silver, neither metal was deemed important in the country's early history.
		Most of the items exhibited were discovered in the late 1980s from the Qingshan and Famen temples in Shaanxi province.
	www.cloudband.com /magazine/articles/rev_daines_gilded_1199.html (679 words)

	Banpo Village Museum in Xian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		The Banpo Museum is located in the eastern outskirt of Xian City, Shaanxi Province.
		As the first museum at the prehistoric site, it was built at the base of the excavations of the Banpo site.
		The entire village enriches the cultural connotation of the museum and carries forward the long and splendid history of China at the same time.
	www.warriortours.com /cityguides/xian/banpo_village.htm (386 words)

	Mark & Susan's China Web Journal : Xian for Thanksgiving - Day 1
		Xian, the capital of Shaanxi province, is located ~700 miles southwest of Beijing.
		Then, we hopped in a cab and headed off to the Shaanxi Provincial History Museum, which is outside in the city wall in the southern part of the city.
		You can’t help but be impressed with how long and rich China’s history is. We just made it through the last exhibit as the museum was closing, and as we came out the sun was just going down.
	www.assonetriver.com /sites/msdag/journal_detail.asp?JournalID=7 (1543 words)

	Xian China, Xian travel guide, xi'an
		An episode in the history of Sino-Western exchanges runs as follows: One day when Julius Caesar went to attend a theatre performance, he found himself the object of the surprised stares of the whole audience.
		Xian is the capital of Shaanxi Province and also the political, economic and cultural center of the Northwest China.
		The history apparent in Xian is so ancient and continuous that the city has no parallel anywhere as a cultural site.
	www.cnhomestay.com /city/xian/xian.htm (832 words)

	China Information-Culture and Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		The first museum established by the Chinese themselves was the Nantong Museum, which was set up by industrialist Zhang Jian in 1905.
		In 1912, preparations were made for the construction of the History Museum, the first national museum after the founding of the Republic of China, in the former Imperial College (the highest educational administration in the previous feudal China) in Beijing.
		Attention is now being paid to the design and construction of new museums to promote the coordinated development of quantity, quality, type and distribution of museums.
	www.asia-planet.net /china/culture-art.htm (6162 words)

	ChinaTravel.com -- Destination Guides :: Asia :: China :: Yellow River :: Shaanxi and Henan :: Xi'an (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		XI'AN Modern XI'AN is a manufacturing town of five million inhabitants and the capital of Shaanxi Province, holding a key position in the fertile plain between the high loess plateau of the north and the Qingling Mountains to the south.
		The city is also a primer in Chinese history, as between 1000 BC and 1000 AD it served as the imperial capital for eleven dynasties.
		Despite the drawbacks of pollution (many of the locals walk around with white face masks on) and congestion, common to all rapidly industrializing Chinese cities, Xi'an is very popular with foreign residents, and many come here to study, as the colleges are regarded as some of the best places to learn Chinese.
	www.chinatravel.com /china-travel-guides/china-destination/index.php?cid=101768&action=viewLocation&locationId=22895 (336 words)

	Imperial China: Exhibition Artifact Descriptions Part 4
		Read about and discuss the importance of the horse in Chinese history, especially during the Tang Dynasty.
		Throughout history, spotted horses have been valued by all peoples.
		Chinese ceramics have a long history of more than 8,000 years.
	www.ket.org /artofthehorse/ed/artifact04.htm (1123 words)

	Shaanxi Provincial History Museum: Xian Tourist Attractions
		Situated one kilometre north-west of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Xian's southern suburb, the Shaanxi Provincial History Museum - a striking Tang-Dynasty style pavilion, houses a large collection of 113,000 historic and cultural artefacts unearthed in Shaanxi.
		This hall focuses on the pre-history times of Shaanxi and cultural relics and remains from the dynasties of the Zhou, the Qin, the Han and the Tang.
		The exhibition is divided into seven parts of the stone age, the dynasties of the Zhou, the Qin, the Han, the Wei, the Jin, the South and North Dynasty, the Sui, the Tang, the Song, the Yuan, the Ming and the Qing.
	www.travelchinaguide.com /attraction/shaanxi/xian/provincial_museum (473 words)

	China 1999 - Shaanxi Museum
		If you came to this webpage first, it's better if you start from the beginning of the story.
		This museum is quite close to the hotel.
		We were given only 1.5 hours in the museum and only saw a small fraction of what was on display.
	www.eskimo.com /~webguy/china99/720shaan.htm (622 words)

	Study Abroad in China and Learn Chinese Language in Beijing - Courses and programs at Universities and Language Schools ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Built like a magnificent Tang palace, the museum which opened in 1992, houses more than 110,000 pieces of historical and cultural relics dating from Chinese prehistoric and early dynastic periods to the Sui, Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties.
		Approximately 3,000 objects on display at the museum are priceless artifacts unearthed from the Shaanxi province.
		The contents of this museum can be divided into four categories: literature and philosophy, historical records, calligraphy and pictorial stones.
	www.study-in-china.com /newsletter2002-06_print.html (3239 words)

	Pilot Guides.com:Central China Locations
		The museum is a great place to experience the differing contributions of the various ages throughout Chinese history with over 120,000 cultural relics ranging from calligraphy and painting to bronzes and ceramics.
		No evidence of Arabic influence will be found in the architecture but instead, this mosque was built in 742 AD in the traditional Chinese style with platform floors, great halls and grand pavilions.
		The Shaanxi Provincial History Museum situated a mile from the Big Wild Goose Pagoda is a must see for all visitors to Xi'an.
	www.pilotguides.com /destination_guide/asia/china/central_china_locations.php (2143 words)

	Encyclopedia: Shaanxi History Museum
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		A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Shaanxi-History-Museum (434 words)

	China xian Guilin Tour, China Tours,China Travel Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		The Temple is also said to have been built to house and protect Buddhist scriptures collected in India by the Chinese monk, Xuan Zang.
		Full day trip to The Terracotta Warriors, the Forest of Stone Steles Museum, City walls, then have the Dumpling banquet.
		-Shaanxi History Museum: It is the largest comprehensive museum in the province.-The Great mosque: The mosque is built east-west with the prayer hall at thefar west end in accordance to the Islamic regulation of facing Mecca for prayer.
	www.bookchinaflights.com /china_tour/china_tours/Xian/Xian_Guilin_Tour.htm (429 words)

	Xixing Li - writer profile from the WritersNet published writers and authors directory
		He gained an MA degree of Chinese Ancient History at Sichuan University in 1981.
		He was the Director of the Displaying and Research Department, Shaanxi Province Museum (1982-1991) and the Director of the Editorial Staff and Research Department, Shaanxi History Museum (1991-1995)
		The Shaanxi Bronzes was published in 1994, which contains 323 plates of bronzes, dating from Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han dynasties.
	www.writers.net /writers/8545 (320 words)

	Hopkins Nov02
		I ate an omelet with toast and bacon.
		Then at 8:15, we departed for the Shaanxi History Museum.
		In the museum, we saw many old artifacts, with some dating back to 700 BC.
	www.kidlink.org /KIDPROJ/vchina99b/hop02.htm (1027 words)

	Xian Accomodation - Lowest Rates Guaranteed!
		The Aurum International Hotel Xi'an is situated at the golden zone of Xij, opposite the Shaanxi Provincial Government across a street.
		The Tang Cheng Hotel is located near Xian's landmark, the Da Yan Tower and the Shaanxi History Museum.
		The Grand Mercure on Renmin Square Xi'an is a heritage hotel located on the grounds of Renmin Square, reflecting the Sino Russian style of architecture, which is steeped in revolutionary history.
	www.tourism-office.net /China/Xian (2589 words)

	Shaanxi History Museum -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		Shaanxi History Museum -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The Deer Pattern Eaves Tile from the (additional info and facts about Qin Dynasty) Qin Dynasty,
		Playing Polo, a (The imperial dynasty of China from 618 to 907) Tang Dynasty mural of people playing (A game similar to field hockey but played on horseback using long-handled mallets and a wooden ball) polo in China,
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/shaanxi_history_museum.htm (131 words)

	Dragons in Ancient China
		It shows up in arts, literature, poetry, architecture, songs, and many aspects of the Chinese conscience.
		The origin of Chinese dragons is unknown, but centainly pre-dates the written history.
		Tales from the Land of Dragons-Boston Museum of Arts
	www.chinapage.com /dragon1.html (337 words)

	List of museums
		The list of museums is a link page for any museum anywhere.
		National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo
		Great Museums in the World (Louvre, Metropolitan Museum, MoMA, Picasso...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_museums.html (130 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions - China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200—750 AD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-09)
		The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions - China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200—750 AD China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200–750 AD
		Excavated from the tomb (dated 706) of Prince Yide, Qianxian, Shaanxi Province, 1972
		Copyright © 2000–2005 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
	www.metmuseum.org /special/China/s5_obj_7.L.asp?printFlag=1 (46 words)

	Orient Hotel in Xian China
		It locates right at the auspicious place where in the Tang Dynasty; Emperor Taizong ceremoniously welcomed the return of Xuan zang, the great monk who went to the Western Land for Buddhism scriptures.
		Nearby, there are scenic spots such as the Big and Small Wide Goose Pagoda, Shaanxi History Museum, Big Xingshan Temple, etc.
		Decorated in traditional Western as well as Oriental styles, the magnificent lobby is elegant, luxurious and splendid, manifesting the lofty manner of the hotel.
	www.chinahotels.net /xian/orient-hotel.html (347 words)

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