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  Wa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wa (nationality) (佤), an ethnic group in China
Wa (Japanese) (和), an important linguistic concept in Japanese.
Wa is a country in Kara-Tur, Eastern Asia equivalent in the fictional world of the Forgotten Realms.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wa   (145 words)

  
 Wikipedia: Wa
The Wa nationality (佤族), or the Va in the Wa language, lives mainly in compact communities in the Ximeng, Cangyuan, Menglian, Gengma, Lancang, Shuangjiang, Zhenkang and Yongde counties in southwestern Yunnan Province of China.
The Wa people's spoken language belongs to Mon-Khmer of the Austroasiatic family.
The Wa form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/w/wa/wa.html   (108 words)

  
 Wa (nationality) at opensource encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Wa or wa can mean: This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
The Wa nationality (), or the Va in the Wa language, lives mainly in compact communities in the...
The Wa nationality (), or the Va in the Wa language, lives mainly in compact...
www.springknow.com /Wa.html   (344 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The task of building socialist political civilization put forward at the 16th CCP National Congress is of extreme importance to consolidating our party's position as the ruling party and consolidating the socialist system of our country, and to fully bringing into play the positive factors of various quarters in jointly building socialism with Chinese characteristics.
The session, a major event after the convocation of the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, is to witness a change in the leadership of the state and government, and has thus become the focus of public attention.
According to the report, during the past five years, the national economy maintained good growth momentum, and important advances were made in the strategic restructuring of the economy as follows: The economy maintained a high growth rate.
www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de /oasien/china/service/bbc/030306.txt   (10732 words)

  
 Wa (nationality) - Freepedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ba rāog in official orthography) lives mainly in compact communities in the Ximeng, Cangyuan, Menglian, Gengma, Lancang, Shuangjiang, Zhenkang and Yongde counties in southwestern Yunnan Province of China.
The Wa form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China, they also live in Myanmar.
Wa (倭) was also an early name in China for Japan.
en.freepedia.org /Wa.html   (114 words)

  
 Va people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Va nationality (also spelled Wa; Chinese: 佤族 Wǎzú; own names: Va, Ava, Parauk, i.e.
The Va form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China.
A Dictionary of the Wa Language with Burmese (Myanmar), Chinese, and English Glosses
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wa_(nationality)   (158 words)

  
 Wa Ethnic Minority - China tourist & travel guide for ethnic minorities of China
The Wa Nationality mainly lives in compact communities in Yunnan Province.
The Wa Nationality calls itself "A Wa", "Lei Wa", "Wa", "Ba Rao", "Bu Rao" etc. The ancestors of Wa Nationality were "Pu People" in the Han Dynasty.
The Wa Nationality mainly goes in for agriculture.
www.orientaltravel.com /people/E_Wa.htm   (83 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Siao Wa in Lanchang believed themselves to C:\SOAS\thai-yunnan-newsletter\thai-yunnan-nwsltr-03.txt(360): be the civilized Wa and usually called the Ta Wa "Lua", who, in their C:\SOAS\thai-yunnan-newsletter\thai-yunnan-nwsltr-03.txt(361): eyes, were uncivilized, i.e., the Wa of Xi-meng in the central area of C:\SOAS\thai-yunnan-newsletter\thai-yunnan-nwsltr-03.txt(362): A-Wa San.
Wa C:\SOAS\thai-yunnan-newsletter\thai-yunnan-nwsltr-07.txt(1666): is taught in all primary schools located in predominantly Wa C:\SOAS\thai-yunnan-newsletter\thai-yunnan-nwsltr-07.txt(1667): settlements and these classes have been welcomed by the Wa...
C:\SOAS\thai-yunnan-newsletter\thai-yunnan-nwsltr-08.txt(273): On his second trip to the Wa country, Scott frequently met, in his C:\SOAS\thai-yunnan-newsletter\thai-yunnan-nwsltr-08.txt(275): massing and arming of Wa chiefs, the swearing of blood-brotherhood, C:\SOAS\thai-yunnan-newsletter\thai-yunnan-nwsltr-08.txt(278): The Wa country was then between the paws of both China and Britain.
wadict.soas.ac.uk /download/thai-yunnan-nwsltr/search_for_Wa_results_log.txt   (3176 words)

  
 Wa Minority - Chinese Nationalities (Va)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Wa people call themselves "Wa", "Lei Wa", "Ba Rao", "Bu Rao", etc. According to historical records, the Wa people are the descendants of the "Baipu" people who lived before the Qin period (221 BC- 26 BC).
During the Qing Dynasty they were called "Ha Wa", "Ka Wa", etc and with the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC), they were formally named the "Wa" by the government after unanimous approval from the people.
The Wa people live in bamboo houses that are similar in shape to those of the Dai people.
www.paulnoll.com /China/Minorities/min-Wa.html   (244 words)

  
 Ethnologue: Myanmar
Kokant Shan is in the Kokant area in northern Wa State in the Shan States.
(WA, K'AWA, KAWA, VA, WA PWI, WAKUT) [WBM] 558,000 in Myanmar (1993 Johnstone); 60,000 in China (1990); 618,000 in all countries.
Kentung Wa are in or around Kentung City in southern Wa area.
www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Myan.html   (3125 words)

  
 Wa
Wa The Wa nationality (佤族), or the Va in the Wa language, lives mainly in compact communities in the Ximeng[?], Cangyuan[?], Menglian[?], Gengma[?], Lancang[?], Shuangjiang[?], Zhenkang[?] and Yongde[?] counties in southwestern Yunnan Province of China.
Pulitzer had transferred his attentions was a the nearest possible approach to a walking encyclopedia.
All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
www.wordlookup.net /wa/wa.html   (147 words)

  
 Ethnologue: China
The White Gelo are on the China-Viet Nam border at Tiechang and Yangwan townships, Wenshan Zhuang-Miao Autonomous District, Malipo County, Yunnan Province.
(WA, WA PROPER, LAVA, LUWA, LUA, L'WA, LAVUA, LAVÜA, MOUNTAIN LAWA) [LCP] 75,000 in China; 30,000 belong to the Blang nationality, 45,000 to the Va nationality (1990 J-O Svantesson); 7,000 in Thailand (1987 D. Schlatter); 82,000 in all countries.
(WA, PRAOK, BARAOG, BARAOKE) [PRK] 180,000 speakers (1990) out of 351,974 in the official Wa nationality in China (1990 census); 348,400 in Myanmar (1983 estimate); 528,400 in all countries.
www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Chin.html   (11262 words)

  
 Topic Discussions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Immigration and Nationality Act, often referred to as the INA, was created in 1952.
Asylum may be granted to people who are already in the U.S. and are unable or unwilling to return to their home country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group.
Under U.S. law, a refugee is a person who has fled his or her country of origin because of past persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution based upon race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or a membership in a particular social group.
www.capaa.wa.gov /immigration.html   (1048 words)

  
 Goodies Wa: An ingenious way of getting them   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the high mountains where the Wa inhabit, one cannot reject any opportunity to incorporate to the diet different sources of animal proteins.
It is for it that between their gathering activities, the Wa include the capture of different kinds of insects and crustaceans.
The base of its feeding is the rice, that they supplement with some vegetables that grow in their gardens and others that gather in the wild, fishing, hunting and the occasional sacrifice of a domestic animal, mainly hens, goats, pigs and cows.
www.chinaviva.com /eng/Wa/wainsect.htm   (392 words)

  
 EarthRights International - Ka Hsaw Wa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ka Hsaw Wa is a member of the Karen ethnic nationality in Burma.
As ERI’s co-director, Ka Hsaw Wa has been instrumental in the creation of new strategies for corporate and government accountability as well as innovative training programs aimed at building the capacity of indigenous peoples to protect their rights, restore control over natural resources and conserve the environment.
Ka Hsaw Wa has been honored for his work with the Goldman Environmental Prize, Reebok Human Rights Award, the Sting and Trudie Styler Award for Human Rights and the Environment, and the Conde Nast Environmental Award.
www.earthrights.org /about/kahsawwa.shtml   (418 words)

  
 Yunnan Tourism -Tourist Guide of wa festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Wa nationality, with a population of some 300,000 people, lives mainly in Canyuan and Ximong Counties in southwestern Yunnan.
The "Cerui" month of the Wa calendar, roughly corresponding to December, is the time for pulling the wooden drum.
On the eve of the festival, the leader and the "moba" (priest) of the village go to a tall tree where they make offerings and chant incantations to expel evils spirits.
www.yunnantourism.com /festival/festival_wa.html   (326 words)

  
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The Australian population is multicultural and includes people from a diverse range of ethnic and national backgrounds, and every Australian is entitled to be treated fairly regardless of their colour or descent.
This means no one can harass someone else because of their colour, descent, ethnic, national origin or nationality.
If a person is threatened, abused, insulted or taunted about their race, colour, descent, ethnic or national origin or nationality, and if they reasonably believe by objecting to that behaviour they will be disadvantaged in terms of their employment, education or accommodation, then they have been racially harassed under the Act.
www.equalopportunity.wa.gov.au /pdf/racialharassment.doc   (693 words)

  
 USCPFA Center for Teaching About China (CTAC) Costumes Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Tibetan nationality is one of the largest minority groups living within China, most of whom reside in the western provinces.
The Jing Nationality is one of the smallest in China.
Most of the Wa people are farmers and respectful of their natural resources.
www.uscpfa.org /ctaccostume.html   (3788 words)

  
 Ethnologue: China
On the Shanxin, Wanwei, and Wutou peninsulas in the Jiangping region of the Fangcheng Pan-Nationality Autonomous County on the south coast of Guangxi Province.
Spoken by members of the Achang nationality, and some consider it to be a dialect of Achang.
240,000 (1991 EDCL); 6,572,173 in the Yi nationality (1990 census).
nacrp.cic.sfu.ca /nacrp/articles/minority.html   (13187 words)

  
 Wa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
(Click link for more info and facts about Wa (nationality)) Wa (nationality) (佤), an ethnic group in (A communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world) China
(Click link for more info and facts about Wa, Ghana) Wa, Ghana, a city in (An area of western African between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea) West Africa.
abbreviation for (A state containing the western third of Australia) Western Australia in (A nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony) Australia
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wa/wa.htm   (235 words)

  
 Barbara A. Marcouiller, P.S., attorneys in Seattle, WA, Washington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The law firm of Barbara A. Marcouiller, P.S. is a corporation dedicated exclusively to representing clients throughout the world in questions of U.S. immigration and nationality law.
Marcouiller is an attorney in private practice dedicated exclusively to representing clients throughout the world in questions of U.S. immigration and nationality law.
She began working for the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center in Chicago, and then was an associate an the immigration law firm of Kenneth Y. Geman and Assocciates in Chicago until returning home to Seattle.
www.lawyers.com /marcouillerlaw/firmoverview.jsp   (406 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Magnus Fiskesjo on An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China
Appendix A, which lists the 56 officially recognized "nationalities" in China, is also an unexplained mix of names in different languages and spellings.
When such context is ignored, we miss more than half the story: the result is an illusory separation from those historical processes of ethnogenesis and social transformations at work on China's ethnic frontiers which are from time to time tentatively mentioned in the book.
Using this logic, the "Wild Wa" (the 19th- and early 20th-century English-language name for the so-called "Da Ka Va") might also have been included as yet another separate "subgroup," complete with mechanically tagged-on data on its lifeways.
www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=27729919354776   (1046 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
One of the early criticisms of Darwin's theory of evolution was that the sun could not possibly burn long enough to allow evolution to occur; at that time it was assumed the sun burned via combustion.
etc.) Is that good psychology 7) I know thousands of people (as entire nations) in the capitalistic world that, in spite of have work all their lifes and have great incomes, are unhappy.
Perhaps like "game" or "good", a "normal person" is not an entity whose examples have a particular defining quality (though they may all share certain non-group-exclusive characteristics) but each example possesses some of the qualities drawn from the pool which provides the "family resemblances" between "normal people".
freespace.virgin.net /v.petts/NCm.txt   (9601 words)

  
 What Was The Compromise Of 1850   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Tsuki wa Higashi ni, Hi wa Nishi ni -Operation Sanctuary- (月は東に日は西に -Operation Sanctuary-) is a Japanese bishojo game by August released in 2003.
Wa, (和 meaning "harmony") a Japanese value to respect consensus over competition, see Japanese culture, Japanese language
Wa State - a ''de facto'' independent state in Burma Wa
www.wwwtln.com /finance/205/what-was-the-compromise-of-1850.html   (637 words)

  
 Epics in China: Translators' Note
Ashima (Sa'nizu xushishi) [A narrative poem of the Sa'ni nationality].
Hulu de chuanshuo (Wazu minjian shenhua shishi) [The calabash legend (Mythic epic of the Wa nationality)].
Yizu xushi shiji [Anthology of the Yi nationality narrative poems].
people.cohums.ohio-state.edu /bender4/bibli.htm   (2633 words)

  
 Review of James S. Olson, An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In most cases, what we find is not a historical guide to ethnonym use but a facile and misleading enumeration of groups and subgroups, paired with a brief rehearsal of the Chinese evolutionist history of the corresponding official post-1949 Chinese
Wa), but without having quite reached this goal yet (this mantra-like interpretation is repeated almost literally throughout the body of the dictionary, for all kinds of real or imagined peoples in quite different contexts).
But the uninitiated reader consulting this book is left to believe that all the subgroup terms must have separate living groups of people as their referents.
www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/55/477.html   (1232 words)

  
 Derek Robinson - The Player   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In fact, at 9 years old, he won his first Junior Regional and won a free trip to Memphis, TN to play the Junior Nationals, winning a bronze medal.
He was hooked, big time, after playing the National event.
He won the gold medal at the 1994 Olympic Festival and was on the U.S. Team that took the gold at the 1995 World Championships and Pan American Games.
www.bigdracquetball.com /the_player.htm   (340 words)

  
 Learn Chinese   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
PUMI, NORTHERN [PMI] 35,000 speakers (1999): 24,000 in the Pumi nationality, 30,000 in the Tibetan nationality (1994).
PUMI, SOUTHERN [PUS] 19,000 speakers (1999): 24,000 in the Pumi nationality, 30,000 in the Tibetan nationality (1994).
198,252 ethnic population in the Qiang nationality (1990 census).
www.beijing-china.net /_wsn/page16.html   (6218 words)

  
 Yunnan Tourism - Destination Guide of lincang   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
With Lancang (Mekong) River to the east, Lincang region is located in the Southwest of Yunnan.
It borders Myanmar and includes eight counties, including the only two Wa Autonomous Counties in Yunnan --- Cangyuan and Ximeng, occupying 50% of the total population of Wa nationality in Yunnan.
The major scenic areas are the Primeval Forest, the Azalea area, the Sleeping Buddha, the ancient cliff paintings, the ancient stone relief, the Hot Spring Karst Cave, and the Wa People Village.
www.yunnantourism.com /other/lincang.html   (378 words)

  
 Department of Women's Studies, Washington State University
Women's Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research and teaching that places gender and women at the center of inquiry.
Central to our consideration of gender are the ways class, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, age and ability shape the female and male experience.
Required qualifications for both positions: Ph.D. in relevant field in hand by August 16, 2006; demonstrated ability to teach core courses in Women’s Studies (or relevant teaching experience in closely related fields) with an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and research on gender, race, class, and sexuality; and evidence of a strong research program.
libarts.wsu.edu /women   (295 words)

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