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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Zhuang Zi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Duke Zhuang of Zheng (鄭莊公) (757 BC–701 BC) was the third ruler of the State of Zheng during the Spring and Autumn Period in ancient China.
Duke Zhuang's army humiliated the king, defeating the king's army and inflicting an arrow wound on King Huan's shoulder.
The Guangxi Zhuang national football team was the team of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Zhuang_Zi   (262 words)

  
 Vietnam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Their language is a member of the Tai languages, belonging to the Central Tai subgroup and closely related to the Zhuang language of southern China.
The Khơ-me Crôm live in the fertile delta of the Mekong River in southern Vietnam and are ethnically the same as the Khmer people who make up the majority of the population of Cambodia.
In the 13rd century, the Vietnamese developed their own set of characters called Chữ nôm.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vietnam   (2638 words)

  
 Yang Xiong [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
His biography in the Qian Han Shu (History of the Former Han) remarks that Yang Xiong was fond of learning, was unconcerned with wealth, office, and reputation, and suffered from a speech impediment and consequently spoke little.
As a youth he probably was a student of Zhuang Zun, a reclusive marketplace fortune teller who refused to take office, opting instead to use divination and fortune-telling as a means to encourage virtue among the common people.
Qu Yuan saw suicide as the only option left to persons of character living in a corrupt age.
www.iep.utm.edu /y/yangxion.htm   (4927 words)

  
 Taoism
A large chunk of the "outer" chapters use the character of Laozi as spokesman and often echo the style and attitudes of (though not quotations from) the Daode Jing.
The character dao is part of ‘doctrine’ ‘truth’ ‘principle’ ‘law’ and of course, ‘morality’ or ‘ethics’ ‘reason’, ‘religion’, ‘philosophy’ ‘orthodoxy’, ‘thank’ ‘apologize’ ‘tell’ ‘explain’ ‘inform’ and so on.
The fourth tone reading is usually translated as "for the sake of." In the second tone reading, the character would normally be translated as ‘to act’.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/taoism   (14226 words)

  
 Summary and Evaluation of China, Korea & Japan to 1875 by Sanderson Beck
Instead of judging people by birth or family, Confucius evaluated them by their character and actions.
The first described learning as manifesting clear character, loving the people, and living in the highest good.
The social status gained by passing the examinations is apparent, but several characters criticize the exam system and the limits of official positions.
www.san.beck.org /3-13-Summary.html   (16017 words)

  
 Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Tibet, & Mongolia
Han-gul writes syllabic characters that are regularly composed of elements indicating the phonology of the syllables.
That they both uses tones to differentiate syllables is a character that Chinese itself may have picked up from Vietnamese's own Austro-Asiatiac language group, or both of them may have gotten it from a neighboring group, the Thai-Lao, where every language is tonal, sometimes with up to 15 tones.
Several long term effects of the French dominion were a substantial Catholic population, a Francophile educated elite, and the abandonment of Chinese characters for a purely Latinized alphabetic system.
www.friesian.com /perigoku.htm   (7990 words)

  
 China News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It is produced on the mainland under the auspices of the State Education Commission.
Systex Legal Net has information about Chinese and Taiwanese laws as well as other related legal information (in Chinese character format).
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 downloads appropriate character format software automatically.
www.chinanews.bfn.org   (5273 words)

  
 Top20Vietnam.com - Your Top20 Guide to Vietnam!
The Tay people live primarily in the mountains and foothills of northern Vietnam.
Thái is a name used by Vietnamese authorities for a group of people also from the mountainous northern region of Vietnam and whom western linguists say actually speak separate languages: Tai Dam, Tai Dón, Tai Daeng, Tai Hang Tong, Tày Tac, and Tai Thanh.
In the 16th century, the Vietnamese developed their own set of characters called Chữ Nôm.
www.top20vietnam.com   (2637 words)

  
 Allusions to Classical Chinese Poetry in Pink Floyd
The Historical Man who Raved at the Wall and his Questions to Heaven (No Chinese)
The original Chinese version in Traditional characters (not Simplified - the GB Simplified character set on computers lacks some of the characters needed)
The Chinese pronunciation in modern standard Chinese, based on Beijing dialect.
www.cjvlang.com /Pfloyd   (1415 words)

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