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	Shu Han - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shu Han (Traditional Chinese: 蜀漢, pinyin: shǔ hàn), sometimes known (inaccurately) as the Kingdom of Shu (蜀 shǔ) (221 – 263) was one of the Three Kingdoms competing for control of China after the fall of the Han Dynasty.
		The other two kingdoms were Cao Wei in central/northern China and the Eastern Wu in southern and southeastern China.
		Liu Bei initiated an attack of 750,000 men upon the Kingdom of Wu in the Battle of Yiling, in order to avenge his general Guan Yu, whom he treated as a brother, who was killed by Wu forces.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingdom_of_Shu (699 words)

	Chinese nobility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The King or Wang (Chinese: 王 wáng) was the title of the Chinese head of state until the Qin dynasty.
		The Emperor or Huangdi (皇帝, pinyin: huáng dì) was the title of the Chinese head of state of China from the Qin dynasty in 221 BC until the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911.
		The Imperial Clansmen consisted of those who trace their descent direct from the founder of the Qing dynasty, and were distinguished by the privilege of wearing a yellow girdle; collateral relatives of the imperial house wore a red girdle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinese_nobility (1355 words)

	Chinese language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Although Chinese is often regarded for cultural reasons as a single (A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) language, its range of regional variation is comparable to that of the (The group of languages derived from Latin) Romance languages.
		There is even a saying in Chinese, nán chuán běi mǎ (南船北馬), meaning "boats in the south, horses in the north": the flat plains of northern China allow one to cross with relative ease using a horse, but the dense vegetation and numerous mountains and rivers of the south prevented this.
		Chinese characters are understood as (Minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units) morphemes that are independent of phonetic change.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chinese_language.htm (5262 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		For more than 2000 years the Chinese economy operated under a type of feudal system; land was concentrated in the hands of a relatively small group of landowners whose livelihood depended on rents from their peasant tenants.
		The Chinese Communist party emerged in the 1920s in the midst of a mounting economic crisis caused by foreign intervention and increased landlord influence in the countryside.
		The Shu dynasty (221–63) was established in southwestern China, and the Wu dynasty (222–80) in the southeast.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/nations/china2.html (13490 words)

	Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine: Chinese yam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It serves to tonify and augment the spleen and stomach; augment the lung yin and tonify the lung qi; and stabilize, tonify, and bind the kidneys.
		Chinese yam is used to treat weak digestion with fatigue and diarrhea, general weakness, frequent urination, decreased appetite, leukorrhagia (excessive vaginal discharge), premature ejaculation, the symptoms associated with diabetes, and chronic wheezing (whistling sound caused by breathing difficulty) and coughing.
		Chinese yam may be found in the dried or fresh form or as a powder.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2603/is_0002/ai_2603000277 (1056 words)

	Offers a resource for Shu Uemura and more related Shu Uemura sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kingdom of Shu The Kingdom of Shu (蜀 shu3) (221-263) was one of the Three Kingdoms competing for control of China after the fall of the Han Dynasty.
		Shu (Egyptian deity) In Egyptian mythol 1000 ogy, Shu is one of the primordial sky gods and one of the Ennead.
		Originally a general of Kingdom of Wei, he joined Kingdom of Shu after his mother was invited by Zhuge Liang (the minister of Shu), and he himself had felt into a trap by Zhuge.
	discoveryweb.net /acne/Shu-Uemura.html (1275 words)

	In a Calabash, Introduction
		Chinese mythology is surely one of the least familiar of the major world traditions.
		The emperor of the Southern Sea was Shu, the emperor of the Northern Sea was Hu, and the emperor of the center was Hundun.
		The calabash, or bottlegourd (hulu in Chinese), is an ancient and pervasive symbol in the Chinese tradition.
	www.fengshuigate.com /calabash/introduction.html (2682 words)

	Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Art of China
		The Chinese art studies in the West began as early as the mid-19th century, with the focus mainly on ceramics, other decorative arts, and some paintings then known to the West.
		Among the early efforts in the field of Chinese painting was the historical survey entitled an Introduction to the History of Chinese Pictorial Art, published in 1905 by Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) and based on Chinese sources.
		Chinese calligraphy and Chinese books, the two important embodiments of Chinese civilization, and their evolving relationship through Chinese history are discussed together, thus useful for understanding of Chinese books.
	www.si.edu /resource/faq/freersac/chinaart.htm (4440 words)

	The Kingdom of Shu (蜀國) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He became the second emperor of Shu at the age of 17.
		He never accomplish due to the weakness of Shu such as the population and food, but the main reason was the idiotic emperor Liu Chan (劉禪).
		The Kingdom of Shu was getting weaker and weaker after his death and eventually taken over by Wei 30 years later.
	www.chinapage.com /calligraphy/sushi/shu.html (2137 words)

	Sichuan - China Tour - Travel to China
		Shu's existence was unknown until a 1986 archaeological discovery at a small village named Sanxingdui (三星堆 Sān Xīng Duī) in Guanghan (廣漢 Guǎng H?n) County.
		Although the Qin Kingdom destroyed the civilizations of Shu and Ba, the government accelerated the technological and agricultural advancements comparable to that of the Huang He (Yellow River) Valley.
		The plan is hailed by some as a Chinese effort to shift towards alternate energy sources and to further develop its industrial and commercial bases but others have criticised it for its potential harmful effects, such as massive resettlement of refugees, loss of archeological sites, and ecological damage.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Sichuan (963 words)

	Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) (from Chinese literature) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The Ming extended the Chinese empire into Korea, Mongolia, and Turkistan on the north and into Vietnam and Myanmar (Burma) on the south, exercising more far-reaching influence in East Asia than any other native rulers of China.
		Chinese poet and playwright whose sole surviving opera, Pipaji (The Lute), became the model for drama of the Ming dynasty.
		Essay discussing the causes of the Ming dynasty's demise and the rise of the Ch'ing dynasty in China.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-198578?ct= (735 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sichuan, China (Chinese Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Silk, grown on both mulberry and oak trees, is still produced; Sichuan was once famous for its Shu brocades and Ba satins.
		In the western areas (formerly Xikang prov.), there is much grazing land, and the province's cattle and pig populations are the largest in the country.
		The Chinese Communists controlled much of N Sichuan in the early 1930s, and the province served as a refuge during the long march.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Sichuan.html (545 words)

	Liu Bei
		Liu Bei was the founder of the Shu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period of China.
		They call his "empire" the Shu-Han Dynasty, commonly known as the Kingdom of Shu, and call Liu Bei the founder of the new kingdom.
		After Guan Yu was killed in a battle against the State of Wu (later the Kingdom of Wu) in 219, Liu Bei tried to revenge by leading an invasion in 221 of Wu.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/li/liu_bei.html (366 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The chapters on Chinese and Indian alchemy are suggestive despite the inadequacy of their secondary sources.
		The fullest of the older monographs on Chinese materia medica.
		Chinese Medicine and the Anthropology of Menstruation in Contemporary Taiwan.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~nsivin/nakbib.html (8047 words)

	Ancient China
		The Ancient Chinese are known for their many inventions and technological advancements including the development of writing, a calendar, gunpowder, printing, silk, paper, and the compass.
		Explore the map of the Han Dynasty and the C'hang-An in the Sui and T'ang Dynasty.
		A common stereotype is that the Chinese traditionally lack scientific and technological ability, although, somehow, they stumbled upon papermaking, printing, gunpowder, and the mariner's compass.
	www.42explore2.com /china.htm (2121 words)

	Kingdom Of Fu-Sang
		Chinese records (in the Liang Shu and in Volume 231 of the Great Chinese Encyclopedia compiled by Ma Tuan-Lin relate that Hui-Shen, one of five Buddhist priests, arrived in a country they called Fu-Sang in 459 CE (common era or AD), which seems to have been the West Coast of America from British Columbia southward.
		Regardless of the validity of Hui-Shen's story, and the fact that some scholars dispute this account of the early arrival of Chinese on the North American continent, a number of scholars are convinced that contacts between the Far West and Western hemisphere did in fact occur in the first millennium.
		While some have interpreted Hui-Shen's Kingdom of Women with its hairy ladies and precocious children as a reference to Central America's monkeys, Mertz saw a reference to a matrilineal people such as the Pueblo of the Southwest.
	users.wi.net /~maracon/index.html (1668 words)

	Chronology of Asian maritime history
		Chinese scholars studied and extended Arab and Hindu knowledge of geography and navigation.
		She was estimated to be 70m long, and the wood and granite used in her 7m anchor both come from Fujian.
		Chinese fabrics were traded for essential oils, ivory, salt and minerals.
	www.maritimeasia.ws /topic/chronology.html (14220 words)

	Kung Fu Magazine Glossary of Kung Fu Terms
		Note that the Chinese language has different tones that are not reflected in the spelling of the words.
		In the Chinese Classics, the Dantian is referred to as the place where one produces the elixir of immortality.
		Literally, "young forest." Considered by many to be the birthplace of the unique Chinese Martial Arts, the Shaolin Temple in Henan, China was founded by the Indian Buddhist monk, Batuo, in 495 CE under the imperial patronage of Emperor Xiao Wen Di of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
	ezine.kungfumagazine.com /info/glossary.php (3314 words)

	the shu kingdom - China History Forum, online chinese history forum
		China History Forum is an online chinese history forum, discussion board or community for all who are interested in learning and discussing chinese history from prehistoric till modern times, including chinese art of war, chinese culture topics.
		The shu kingdom collasped after Zhuge Liang died which Wei attacked and Liu Chan was foolish enough to surrender without fighting.
		Actually by that time even the Shu courts were corrupt by Huang Hao and his gang of losers and traitors.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=3059&hl= (1174 words)

	Amazon.com: Beyond the Chinese Face: Insights from Psychology: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		What `Beyond the Chinese Face' managed to do for me was to assist me in building a framework in which to understand what I observed on a daily basis.
		All those people are Chinese, but the all have different backgrounds: capitalistic system or planned economy (though even the mainland is shifting very quickly towards capitalism, stronger than outsiders usually see), freedom of speech or getting killed for speaking out the truth, diversity or open hate from other societal groups (e.g.
		Nevertheless it's a fact that most Chinese are not like that but instead having less sexual experience than their western counterparts (I'm not judging this, just stating the fact as the book says it and also as my own experience supports it).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195851161?v=glance (2011 words)

	The Kingdom of Shu
		Zhuge Liang, the Minister of Shu, argueably the most famed of all men in the Three Kingdoms period.
		The most brilliant man of his time, it was he that assisted Liu Bei in building Shu Kingdom after Cao Cao's son, Cao Pi, forced the rightful Emperor to abdicate so he could become Emperor himself.
		Guan Yu Guan Yu was the sworn brother to Zhang Fei and Liu Bei.
	www.angelfire.com /art/rcxshizuka/shu.html (1274 words)

	Essential Readings on Chinese Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Chinese Language, Thought and Culture: Nivison and His Critics (La Salle, Il.: Open Court Press, 1996), 359 pp.
		An overview of the state of the field in Chinese philosophy with a discussion of its relevance to Western philosophy.
		Chinese philosophical texts are available on the web from several sites, including the CND Chinese Classics Archive and the
	departments.vassar.edu /~brvannor/bibliography.html (5912 words)

	FZ Ying Bi Xing Shu S16 font family : MyFonts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The GB 2312-80 encoding contains simplified Chinese characters and is designed for normal use in mainland China.
		The GB/T 12345-90 encoding is the traditional Chinese counterpart of GB 2312-80.
		If a document is created using GB 2312, changing the font to GB 12345 effectively changes the simplified Chinese characters to their corresponding traditional forms.
	www.myfonts.com /fonts/founder/fz-ying-bi-xing-shu-s16 (241 words)

	Kingdom Of Fu-Sang
		Like everyone else who reads about them, Chinese historian Jack Chen was fascinated by the stories of the first Chinese who had come to North America.
		If the story contained any truth, she said, then the places he mentioned could be located geographically, just as she had done for the earlier Chinese classic, the San Hai Ching.
		A child was born into his mother's clan and was named by his mother's sister.
	users.wi.net /~maracon (1668 words)

	Amazon.com: Ten Lectures on the Use of Medicinals from the Personal Experience of Jiao Shu-De (Jiao Clinical Chinese ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Navigating the Channels of Traditional Chinese Medicine by Yitian Ni
		Pao Zhi: An Introduction to the Use of Processed Chinese Medicinals by Philippe Sionneau
		He discusses approximately 300 Chinese medicinal herb substances, giving basic information (taste, temperature, entering channels) and details of specific practical applications (representative formulas, preparations and dosages, and comparisons with other medicinals with similar or related actions).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0912111623?v=glance (552 words)

	Encyclopedia: Shu (Chinese kingdom) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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		Liu Bei initiated an attack of 750,000 men upon the Kingdom of Wu in the Battle of Yiling, in order to avenge his two brothers Lord Guan and Zhang Fei, who were killed by subordinates of Wu.
		Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Shu-(Chinese-kingdom) (684 words)

	The Hundred Families Surnames
		For historical reasons the Chinese surnames are placed in the following order [The numbers ending the surnames indicate the 4 tones in the standard dialect]:
		The Chinese surnames are traditionally placed in a certain order.
		They were arranged in the form of a poem that schoolchildren would memorize.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/3919/hundred.html (563 words)

	199 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Geodeung succeeds Suro as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya.
		Sun Ce and Zhou Yu of the state of Wu wed the Qiao sisters.
		Gongsun Zan, Chinese warlord, killed by Yuan Shao
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/1/199.htm (120 words)

	China History (to Qing Dynasty): China: East Asian Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		- Chinese University of Hong Kong (Requires Big5)
		Dating of the Chu graves of Changsha--1987 article [Donald B. Wagner]
		Mudan ting (Peony Pavilion), Ming play by Tang Xianzu (1550-1616) : English summary, full Chinese text (Big5)
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/arc/libraries/eastasian/china/toqing.html (531 words)

	Kingdom of Shu 2
		Welcome to the Kingdom of Shu 2, the No Vote Exchange side of Emperor's Gate.
		Your Team Leader for Kindom of Shu 2:
		Madam Mi Would you like to support EG?
	www.emperorsgate.net /shu2 (52 words)

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