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	Yuan (surname) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By the Qing Dynasty, Yuan had penetrated to the frontier lands of Yunnan in the southwest, Guangxi in the south, Liaoning in the northeast and Taiwan in the southeast.
		Yuan Zhijun (袁志君), founder of the Yuan clan of Dongguan and ancestor of the Ming dynasty general Yuan Chonghuan (袁崇煥), for example, claimed to be a 38th generation descendent of Yuan An.
		Yuan Shikai (1859-1916): military commander of the late Qing Dynasty, President of the Republic of China, later self-proclaimed emperor of China.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yuan_(surname) (4005 words)

	Yuan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yuan (Traditional Chinese: 元 or 圓; Simplified Chinese: 元; Hanyu Pinyin: yuán; Wade-Giles: yüan) is, in the Chinese language, the base unit of a currency; for example, the US dollar is Mei yuan (美元).
		Yuan in Chinese literally means a round object or round coin.
		In Qing dynasty, Yuan was a silver coin in round shape.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yuan (332 words)

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		Yuan Shikai (Yuan Shih-kai) was one to the most significant Chinese political figures in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		The latter were increasing in ferocity and Yuan succeeded, despite the lack of Court support (prominent officials supported the Boxers), in moving the Boxers from Shandong.
		Yuan has not been well treated by either foreign or Chinese historians, although foreign historians were not as vituperative as the Chinese.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/bio/xyz/yuansh.html (1710 words)

	AllRefer.com - YUan (Chinese And Taiwanese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Kublai Khan, who adopted the Chinese dynastic name YUan in 1271, swept down from N China, which the Mongols had ruled since the 1230s, and finally defeated the Sung dynasty in 1279.
		In its early period the YUan dynasty developed a fine postal system and an extensive network of roads and canals reaching to the distant Mongol domains of Turkistan, Persia, and S Russia.
		As a result the YUan dynasty was a period of great accomplishments in the theater, arts, fiction, and painting.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/Y/Yuan.html (401 words)

	Yuan Dynasty Zaju
		Yuan, meaning "broad new horizon," comes from the Chinese philosophical work, The Book of Changes,and was chosen by a Han official named Liu Bingzhong by order of the Mongol emperor Kublai.
		Liu Bingzhong was one of the few Han officials of the early Yuan Dynasty accorded trust by the new governance, and this was solely by virtue of his family background.
		The nomadic Yuan rulers despised the old traditions of the Central Plains area, and made staggeringly drastic changes, one of which was institution of a complex social hierarchy in which racial discrimination dominated.
	www.chinavoc.com /magicn/yzaj.asp (1711 words)

	Qu Yuan the Poet - China the Beautiful (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Failing to heed Chu Yuan's advice, the king of Chu foolishly went to a conference with the king of Chin (in Shensi), the most powerful military state in that period; he was held there by the Chin army and died in captivity.
		This, however, did not deter Chin's aggressive designs against Chu, and Chu Yuan, who had started his exile as a result of his political failure, lived long enough to see the capital of his state plundered and ruined by the conquering army of Chin in 278 b.c.
		At that time, Chu Yuan was already an old man of over sixty, and the fall of the Chu capital was the last blow to his patriotic hope.
	www.chinapage.com /quyuan2.html (369 words)

	Yuan Dynasty
		Throughout the short history of the Yuan Dynasty the Mongolian rulers sought to emulate much of the Chinese style of rule but were regarded by the Chinese as unwelcome invaders.
		After the death of Kublai Khan the Yuan Emperor’s court was beset by conflict and intrigue which undermined the centralized administration of the Mongolians.
		Yuan Mongolian jades are extremely rare because there is a break from the Chinese traditions of the past with an adoption of Mongolian motifs and themes.
	www.thejadetrade.com /ian/p8d.html (1146 words)

	Ancient China: The Mongolian Empire: The Yuan Dynasty, 1279-1368
		The single most striking aspect of the Yuan is not only the survival of Chinese culture under a vastly foreign rule, but its singular vitality and growth.
		The Yuan period, in fact, is one of vital cultural transmission between China and the rest of the world.
		The Yuan and the Chinese had no cultural direction, no syncretic goal that they were aiming at, so the cultural interaction never really got beyond the formal practice of simple disagreement and argument.
	www.wsu.edu /~dee/CHEMPIRE/YUAN.HTM (1668 words)

	Yuan Shao (Benchu) - Sanguozhi (Records of the Three States) Biography - English Translation
		The first individual of the Yuan clan to be mentioned by the standard histories is a certain Yuan Liang 袁良, grandfather of Yuan An, who held the minor post of Prefect 令 around CE 25 and risen to office for his learning in the Yi jing.
		At the offset, the enthroning of the Son of Heaven 天子 [Emperor Xian 獻帝] was not the intention of Yuan Shao.
		It is possible that at the time the Yuan clan held genealogies of their noble ancestry, since detailed pedigrees of the family have survived in a number of sources.
	www.kongming.net /novel/sgz/yuanshao.php (8991 words)

	Empire Divided - San Guo Zhi Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When the food for the army ran low, [Xiahou] Yuan passes on food one after the other and the army was inspired.
		Thereupon [Xiahou] Yuan was given Jie (T) Earlier, Song Jian of the Fuhan used the disorder in LiangZHou to name himself King of the Sources of the River Who Will Pacify Han.
		At first, although [Xiahou] Yuan frequently prevailed, the Grand Ancestor warned him saying, “The commander of an army should sometimes be timid and weak; you cannot rely merely upon your courage.
	empiredividedtk.com /rtk/sgz/xiahouyuan.htm (1577 words)

	Yuan
		The Yuan Dynasty, which lasted from 1279-1368 A.D., was the first of only two times that the entire area of China was ruled by foreigners, in this case, the Mongols.
		At the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols were one of the strongest military forces in the world.
		Another factor that led to the downfall of the Yuan Dynasty was the exclusive use of non-Chinese in governmental positions.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/china/later_imperial_china/yuan.html (673 words)

	All you wanted to know about yuan revaluation
		The band of 0.3% within which the Yuan is allowed to float against the dollar is too narrow and a 2.1% revaluation is just a drop in the ocean given that Yuan is said to be undervalued by as much as 40%.
		The move to revalue Yuan by China was seen as a way to ease the growing tension between the US and China, before the impending visit of the Chinese President Hu Jintao to Washington in September 2005.
		On the other hand, even if China goes for more revaluations of Yuan in the future, being a developing economy with a large and growing manufacturing sector, China's import demand is going to be continuously high in the coming years and the importers are going to benefit from a stronger Yuan.
	inhome.rediff.com /money/2005/sep/28yuan.htm (1239 words)

	Bloomberg.com: Asia
		The central bank on July 21 reset the yuan's value at 8.11 to the dollar, a 2.1 percent appreciation from the pegged level where it had been held since 1995, and started managing its value against a basket of currencies including the euro and yen.
		Yuan forwards traded in Hong Kong fell after the central bank offered the swap at a lower rate than signaled by the market.
		The yuan would climb to 7.7895 against the dollar in a year if freely traded, according to forward contracts as of 5:38 p.m.
	www.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aDqfBrkYkxAw&refer=asia (1017 words)

	Envisioning Yuan Ming Yuan (Garden of Perfect Brightness) Xing Xing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Yuan Ming Yuan was the culmination of a two thousand year tradition of Chinese high art gardening and culture.
		Yuan Ming Yuan (1709-1860), as it was, was completely burned down and disappeared one hundred and thirty five years ago, in wild flames and barbarous plundering.
		Yuan Ming Yuan was in parallel with the Forbidden City itself, became in reality center of a new city of palaces, and thus carried this political name of Yuan Ming Yuan until now.
	www.cs.ubc.ca /spider/wang/ymy/whole-map.html (5443 words)

	Chinese History
		Whilein many ways, the Yuan was a disaster, the reluctance of the Mongols tohire educated Chinese for governmental posts resulted in a remarkable culturalflowering; for example, Beijing Opera was invented during the Yuan.
		As in other periods of alien dynastic ruleof China, a rich cultural diversity developed during the Yuan dynasty.The major cultural achievements were the development of drama and the noveland the increased use of the written vernacular.
		During the Yuan period, Beijingbecame the terminus of the Grand Canal, which was completely renovated.These commercially oriented improvements encouraged overland as well asmaritime commerce throughout Asia and facilitated the first direct Chinesecontacts with Europe.
	www.china-inc.com /education/history/yuan.html (823 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| China gives way on 'undervalued' yuan
		The yuan is currently pegged at 8.3 to the US dollar, a rate that most outside observers feel gives China an unfair advantage in the export market.
		Some economists have also pointed out that making the yuan fully convertible could bring in too many potentially destabilising flows of capital, of the sort that triggered a financial crisis in other parts of Asia in 1997-98.
		According to some calculations, the yuan should be revalued 40% higher, in order to restore balance to international markets.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/3076732.stm (402 words)

	Imperial Era: III
		The major cultural achievements were the development of drama and the novel and the increased use of the written vernacular.
		During the Yuan period, Beijing became the terminus of the Grand Canal, which was completely renovated.
		Rivalry among the Mongol imperial heirs, natural disasters, and numerous peasant uprisings led to the collapse of the Yuan dynasty.
	www-chaos.umd.edu /history/imperial3.html (1318 words)

	Forex Blog: Chinese Yuan (RMB)
		Economists estimate the Yuan is undervalued by 40%.
		Pegging the yuan's value to a basket of currencies, and not just the dollar, would make it a little more flexible and less prone to the swoops and swoons of the dollar in recent years.
		Judging by the shadow yuan, financial markets reflect a sort of average of the divergent views, and are betting on a 6% appreciation within a year.
	www.forexblog.org /chinese_yuan_rmb (11497 words)

	Yuan, Forrest, Yuan! \| The Agonist
		Last week the central bank revalued the yuan by 2.1 percent, setting its value at 8.11 against the US dollar and saying the exchange rate would be set with reference to a currency basket.
		Although most economists are confident the yuan will edge higher, they said divisions within Beijing and the deliberately ambiguous nature of the new forex regime made it treacherous to predict the pace of change.
		China revalued the yuan by 2.1 percent against the US dollar and abandoned its more than decade-old peg of 8.28 to the dollar in favor of a managed float against a basket of currencies that could clear the way for a further appreciation in the months ahead.
	www.agonist.org /story/2005/7/21/8204/21294 (2784 words)

	Will China Float the Yuan? - Graziadio Business Report
		The value of the yuan is unofficially pegged to the dollar, and despite the general loss in the value of the dollar, the exchange rate has stayed constant at 8.277 yuan to the dollar—until the notorious 20 minutes on April 29, 2005.
		Some experts suggest that if the yuan were allowed to float against the dollar, the yuan would increase in value by as much as 30 percent.
		It is allowing companies and individuals to exchange their yuan for foreign currency, a move that may help offset the effects of speculative inflows of funds.
	gbr.pepperdine.edu /052/hottopic.html (2698 words)

	USATODAY.com - Newly liberated yuan could cool China tech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		That peg had kept the yuan artificially low vs. the dollar —; as much as 40% undervalued, some experts say.
		But within a decade, the yuan could go from about 8 to $1 now to about 5 to $1, according to one estimate.
		In the bigger picture, the move to unlink the yuan "will have little impact on the trade gap (between China and the U.S.) and won't solve the structural problem we have between the two economies," Garnett notes.
	www.usatoday.com /money/world/2005-07-24-yuan-usat_x.htm?csp=34 (653 words)

	Overclockers New Zealand Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		"Yuan (GTSM: 5474), as an innovative supplier in design, manufacture, and distribution of graphics accelerators, TV, and Video board for PC, was established in the year of 1990.
		Yuan R9800Pro comes in a very standard package, with all the essential cables and CDs.
		I am happy to report that Yuan R9800Pro has a default clock of 378C and 675M, which adheres to ATi's specification.
	www.overclockers.co.nz /ocnz/review.php?id=03vga00r9800proyuan0000r9800pro0105 (380 words)

	China Braces for a More Valuable Yuan - New York Times
		He forecasts that Beijing will instead link the yuan to a basket of other currencies and then let the yuan rise gradually, by perhaps 1 to 4 percent over the course of the next year.
		Anderson says there is a 14 percent chance that the yuan, also known as the renminbi, will be revalued by 5 to 7 percent, and just a 1 percent probability of a big revaluation of 15 to 25 percent.
		For China, a small move of a few percentage points now runs the risk of a further surge in the flood of speculative investment already pouring into the country, as foreigners buy up apartments and other property in the hope that it will be worth more in their home currencies after further revaluation.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/05/07/business/worldbusiness/07yuan.html?ex=1273118400&en=3e854e356f1cf2a8&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (781 words)

	Yuan on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		YUAN [Yuan], river, 540 mi (869 km) long, rising in S Guizhou prov.
		The Yuan valley, a major north-south trade route, yields tungsten, iron ore, and tung yu (wood oil).
		Hua Yuan and Give2Asia Establish Charitable Fund to Fight SARS; New Fund Allows U.S. and Canadian Donors to Effectively and Accountably Support SARS Relief, Prevention and Rehabilitation in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/Y/YuanR1iv.asp (732 words)

	Beware what you wish: stronger Chinese yuan brings costs - May. 5, 2005
		The critics say a free-floating yuan would rise at least 20 percent in value, making Chinese exports to the United States more costly, ending what some claim is unfair competition by the Chinese.
		China is believed to be on the verge of a modest revaluation of the yuan, with experts looking for it to rise as much as 5 percent, perhaps soon.
		Meanwhile, a rising yuan would let China, already a big oil importer, buy even more oil for the same number of yuan, since oil is priced in dollars worldwide -- a move that would put upward pressure on oil prices.
	money.cnn.com /2005/05/05/news/economy/yuan_revaluation (1245 words)

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