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Qi Baishi
Michaela Pejčochová
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2018-08-28
Qi BaishiIntroductionQi Baishi (齐白石) (b. 1864–d. 1957) is one of the most famous and widely recognized Chinese ink painters of the 20th century. Born ...
Qing Dynasty up to 1840
Leif Littrup
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Qing Dynasty Up to 1840 Introduction The territory of the Qing dynasty was in 1840 still at its maximum, roughly 25 percent larger than the pr...
Regional and Global Security, China and
Mingjiang Li, Kheng Swe Lim
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
China and Regional and Global SecurityIntroductionMany policymakers, scholars, and pundits throughout the world are concerned about the implications o...
Religion, Ancient Chinese
Mu-chou Poo
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Ancient Chinese Religion Introduction Religion is a form of activity and mental attitude that helps humans deal with real or imagined extrahum...
Renminbi, The
Menzie D. Chinn, Yin-Wong Cheung
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2017-08-23
The RenminbiIntroductionThe official currency of the People’s Republic of China is the renminbi (RMB), and its basic unit is the yuan. The literal mea...
Republican China, 1911-1949
Tim Wright
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Republican China, 1911–1949IntroductionThere have been major changes since the mid-20th century in the way in which the history of republican China (1...
Revolutionary Literature under Mao
Richard King
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2014-01-30
Revolutionary Literature Under MaoIntroductionThis article includes literature (principally fiction, but also poetry, spoken drama, opera, and popular...
Rural Society in Contemporary China
Sally Sargeson
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2014-05-29
Rural Society in Contemporary China Introduction Efforts to define “rural society in contemporary China” engage both with broader sociological...
School of Names
Donald Sturgeon
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
School of Names Introduction The School of Names (mingjia 名家) is one term traditionally used to refer to a group of thinkers from the Warring ...
Shanghai
Niv Horesh, Jonathan Sullivan
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2015-01-15
Shanghai Introduction Not long after its establishment as a treaty port in 1842, and roughly until the Japanese invasion of China proper in 19...
Sino-Hellenic Studies, Comparative Studies of Early China and Greece
Lisa Raphals
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2018-11-29
Sino-Hellenic Studies, Comparative Studies of Early China and GreeceIntroductionThe past few decades have seen the emergence of a new field that has c...
Sino-Japanese Relations Since 1945
Caroline Rose, Ed Griffith
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2013-04-22
Sino-Japanese Relations Since 1945IntroductionThe study of Sino-Japanese relations since 1945 can be divided into three main periods in which dominant...
Social Welfare in China
Daniel Hammond
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2017-08-23
Social Welfare in ChinaIntroductionThe study of social welfare in China has expanded enormously in the three decades since “reform and opening” starte...
Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Chinese Language
Benjamin Tsou
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2019-01-15
Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Chinese LanguageIntroductionLike many dynamic systems, language undergoes change over time. For Chinese, the changes ha...
Su Shi (Su Dongpo)
Benjamin Ridgway, Kathleen Tomlonovic
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Su Shi (Su Dongpo)IntroductionA bibliographic review of Su Shi, Su Shih 苏轼 (1037–1101), known also as Su Dongpo 苏东坡 or by his given name Su Zizhan 苏子瞻
Sun Yat-sen and the 1911 Revolution
Michael G. Murdock
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2016-08-30
Sun Yat-sen and the 1911 RevolutionIntroductionSun Yat-sen (generally known as Sun Zhongshan孫中山or Sun Wen孫文 in Chinese) plays a central role in the na...
Taiping Civil War
Rudolf Wagner
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2016-10-27
Taiping Civil WarIntroductionThe Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (Taiping tianguo, 1851–1864) presented a religious, ethnic and military challenge to the rul...
Taiwanese Democracy
Jonathan Sullivan
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2015-10-26
Taiwanese Democracy Introduction In the second half of the 20th century, Taiwan evolved from a colonial backwater under one-party rule to beco...
Technology Transfer in China
Douglas B. Fuller
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2019-04-24
Technology Transfer in ChinaIntroductionThe issues surrounding China’s technology transfer as a social phenomenon have changed just as radically as Ch...
Television, Chinese
Xiaoling Zhang
Subject: Chinese Studies »
Date Added: 2014-03-27
Chinese Television Introduction Chinese TV broadcasting started in 1958, with three stations established during that year: Beijing Television,...
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