Kangxi Emperor of China - Kangxi Emperor of China Emperor Kangxi (Wade-Giles: K'ang Hsi) (1654 - 1722) was the third emperor of the Qing Dynasty from 1662 to 1722. He was the fourth ruler of the Qing Empire, and the second emperor who ruled the whole mainland China (hence the second emperor of Qing), and the first emperor who really controlled the whole China (including Taiwan and the three feudatories). He is known as one of the greatest emperors in history. Beginning of the Reign Technically, the Kangxi Emperor inherited his father Fulin's throne at the age of seven. Since Kangxi certainly would not have been able to rule as the emperor, the Shunzhi Emperor left Sonin, Suksaha, Ebilun, and Oboi as assistant ministers. As a result of a fierce power struggle, Oboi.
King of Changyi of Han China - King of Changyi of Han China Format of naming convention in English is under discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese). Prince He of Changyi, ch 昌邑王賀, py. chāng yí wáng hè, wg. Ch'ang-I Wang Ho, (d. after(?) 74 BC) was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty for 27 days in 74 BC. He was installed and deposed by the prominent stateman of his time, Huo Guang . Personal information Family name Liu (劉 liú) in Chinese Given name He (賀 py. hè) in Chinese Era name Yuanping (元平 py. yúan píng) 74 BC Father Mother Wife Children Duration of reign 74 BC Tomb Temple name Courtesy name Posthumous name See also Confucianism Huo Guang Preceded by: Emperor Zhao of Han China Western Han Dynasty Succeeded by: Emperor Xuan.
King of Hongnong of Han China - King of Hongnong of Han China Format of naming convention in English is under discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese). zh-tw:漢弘農王 zh-cn:漢弘农王 King or Prince of Hongnong of Han China, trad. ch 漢弘農王, sim. ch 漢弘农王, py. hàn hóng nóng wáng, wg. Han Hung-nung-wang, (d. 189) was an emperor of the Chinese Han Dynasty. Dong Zhuo had him desposed and later poisoned. Personal information Family name Liu (劉 liú) in Chinese Given name Bian (辯 py. bìan) Era name Guangxi (光熹 py. gūang xī) 189 Zhaoning (昭寧 py. zhāo níng) 189 Father Emperor Ling of Han China Mother Empress Dowager He Wife Major concubines Children Duration of reign 189 Tomb Temple name Courtesy name Posthumous name Posthumous name in short Preceded by: Emperor Ling of Han China Eastern Han.
Jiaqing Emperor of China - Jiaqing Emperor of China Jiaqing (Wade-Giles: Chia-ch'ing)of the Qing Dynasty was emperor of China from 1796 to 1820. He was born Yong Yan meaning half-Manchu-half-Han. His mother was a Han Chinese concubine who became a favourite of Emperor Qian Long. He was the fifteenth son of the emperor. He was more famously known for prosecuting the Grand Secretary, He Shen for his corruptions. During the reign of Emperor Qian Long, the emperor became infatuated by He Shen whom reminded the emperor of the palace maid executed by his mother for hurting the future emperor. He Shen became a victim of his own power. Prince Yong Yan hated He Shen for his abuse of power and vowed to punish the minister once he became an emperor. Before Emperor Qian.
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Jiajing Emperor of China - Jiajing Emperor of China Emperor Jiajing (1507-1566) was emperor of China (Ming dynasty) between 1522-1566. Born Zhu Houzong, he was emperor Zhengde's cousin. See also: Table of Chinese monarchs This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Karimata Strait - Karimata Strait is the wide strait that connects the South China Sea to the Java Sea, between the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia. The strait is about 150 km wide, as measured to the island of Belitung, which is the end of a chain of islands starting with Pulau Bangka off Sumatra's east shore. There is also an eponymous small group of islands in the middle of the strait..
Kara-Khanid Khanate - called Kara-Khanids by historians. After the rise of the Seljuks in Iran, the Kara-Khanids became nominal vassals of the Seljuks. Later they would serve the dual suzerainty of both the Kara-Khitans to the north and the Seljuks to the south. Influential Kara-Khanid rulers include Mahmoud Tamgach of Kashgar. After the defeat of the Khitan dynasty by the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) in Northern China, the great Khitan mandarin Yelu Dashi escaped from China with a small band of Khitan soldiers, recruited warriors from Tangut, Tibetan, Qarluk, Karakhoja, Naiman areas and marched westward in search of asylum. Yelu Dashi was accommodated by the hospitable Tangut Western Xia Kingdom and the Buddhist Karakhojas. However, he was shut out by the Muslim Kara-Khanids near Gulja and Kashgar. Enraged, he subjugated Karakhanid states one by one.
Kansai International Airport - 7 External Links International Carriers International arrivals go to immigration and baggage claim on the first floor. International departures are ticketed on the fourth floor and board from the third floor. Aeroflot Air Caledonie Airlines Air Canada Air China Air France Air India Air New Zealand Air Tahiti Nui Alitalia All Nippon Airways Asiana Airlines Australian Airlines Austrian Airlines Cathay Pacific China Eastern China Northern China Southern Continental Micronesia Emirates EVA Air Finnair Garuda Indonesia Japan Airlines Japan Asia Airlines Japan Transocean Air KLM Korean Air Lufthansa Malaysia Airlines MIAT Mongolian Northwest Airlines Philippine Airlines Qantas Royal Nepal Airlines Singapore Airlines Thai Airways International Turkish Airlines United Airlines Uzbekistan Airways Vietnam Airlines Vladivostok Air Domestic Carriers Arrivals, departures, ticketing, and baggage claim are all on the second floor. Air Nippon All.
Kazakh - Turkish, Azeri, Turkmen can easily be picked up - due to the close similarity - for example: "al" means "take" in Kazakh, but it means the same thing in almost any Turkic language. The same goes for "at" - "horse", "otir(otur)" - "sit" etc. The Kazhaks form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China..
Katrina Leung - paid $1.7 million for her services over the years. Eventually Leung and Smith, both married, began a 20 year sexual affair. Leung had access to classified FBI documents Smith would bring to their trysts, and in early 2003 was arrested and charged with working as a double agent for the People's Republic of China government. FBI officials say they will have to re-evualate a decade's worth of counter-intelligence work as a result of the charges against her. Smith has been arrested and charged with gross negligence. Leung also had an affair with William Cleveland Jr., a former FBI agent and chief of counter-intelligence at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Since her arrest, Leung's family has maintained her innocence, and in a press statement compared her plight to nuclear physicist Wen Ho.
Karakoram - Himalayas, with many of the Himalayas' highest and most daunting peaks. It is located on the border of Pakistan and India with China, about 500 km (300 mi) in length, and is the most heavily glaciated part of the world outside of the polar regions. Due to its altitude and ruggedness, the Karakoram is much less inhabited than parts of the Himilayas further east. European explorers first visited early in the 19th century, followed by British surveyors starting in 1856. The Muztagh pass was crossed in 1887 by the expedition of Colonel Francis Younghusband and the valleys above the Hunza River were explored by George Cockerill in 1892. Explorations in the 1910s and 1920s established most of the geography of the region. Highest peaks The Karakoram's highest peaks include, among others:.
Karakol - military outpost, Karakol grew in the 19th century after explorers came to map the peaks and valleys separating Karakol from China (Karakol is 150km away from the Kyrgyz-Chinese border). In the 1880s Karakol's population surged with an influx of Dungans, Chinese Muslims fleeing persecution in China. In 1888, when the Russian explorer Przhevalsky died in Karakol of typhoid, whilst preparing for an expedition to Tibet, the city was renamed Przhevalsk in his honor. After local protests, the town was given its original name back in 1921 - a decision reversed in 1939. Karakol then remained Przhevalsk until the fall of the Soviet Union..
Kaifeng - a city in the Henan province of the People's Republic of China, located along the Huang He, 70 km from Zhengzhou, the provincial capital. Population: 4.3 million. Kaifeng was a capital of the state of Wei during the Warring States Period when it was called Daliang. During the Northern Song, Kaifang was the Song capital having a population of over million living both inside and outside walls. Typhus was an acute problem of the city. In the earlier Sui dynasty, the Grand Canal was built from Kaifeng to Hangzhou, linking the Yellow River and the Yangzi. Extensions to the system effected an even greater navigable length. Kaifeng is also known for having one of the last Jewish communities in China. See also: Capital of China.
Kaohsiung Incident - in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China to commemorate Human Rights Day on December 10, 1979. It erupted following the police raid of Formosa Magazine, an illegal publication designed to support the end of Kuomintang monopolization of power in Taiwan. The ROC Government Information Office under the leadership of James Soong hoped to chill opposition voices through heavyhanded methods. The protest disintegrated into a brawl as protesters, police and undercover agents collided. The event would be a major turning point for democracy in Taiwan. Soong addressed the public in a speech condemning the protesters, labelling one of the leaders, Shih Ming-teh, "King of Bandits." The incident publicized the oppressive tactics of the KMT regime in ruling Taiwan and the trial of eight leaders of the protest allowed a team of lawyers to.
Katherine Paterson - of books for children. Katherine Paterson She was born in China in 1932 to missionary parents. She graduated with a degree in English from Kings College, Bristol, Tennessee. She taught for a year at a rural school in Virginia before going to graduate school in Virginia. She received a Master's degree and worked as a missionary in Japan. She married her husband, John, in 1962. They have four children. Her first novel was written while taking an adult education course in creative writing. Her awards include the National Book Award (Master Puppeteer, 1977 and The Great Gilly Hopkins, 1979), the Newbery Medal (Bridge to Terabithia 1978 and Jacob Have I Loved, 1981), the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction (Jip, His Story), and the Hans Christian Anderson Medal (body of work,.
Kalaripayattu - form in the world. It is said that Bodhi Dharma took this art form to China, which it is claimed to have evolved into Kung Fu and other forms of Chinese martial arts. Kalaripayattu is practised inside a Kalari, which is an arena. This was originally practised by the fighters or warriors of Kerala. Nowadays, it is just a sacred art form and the popularity is dying. Kalaripayattu also shows a strong influence of Ayurveda and major classical danceforms of Kerala..
Kaiyuan - district that now belongs to Siming District. It is in Fujian Province, the People's Republic of China. Area: 54 km² Population: 527,000 (330,400 permanent) Kaiyuan is in central Xiamen Island, north of the original Siming District and south of Huli District. It is named after a street meaning "Initiating the First (Year)". Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Administration 3.
Katherine Young - of the Internet. She was born in a small Hakka village in the Fujian province of China, and attended college at Yenching University in Beijing (then Peking). She married Paul T.J. Young, and raised four daughters in China while staying one step ahead of the Japanese invasion of 1937. After the war ended, the family lived in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and eventually immigrated to California in 1958, finally settling in Palo Alto where she resides today. She served as president of the Lytton Garden Rose Club until 1998, when she decided she needed a break. Needing something else to do, she made the fateful decision to take a 12-week-long computer class offered at her retirement home. By the end of these sessions, she was logging on, and the centenarian decided.
Vetulicolia - are primitive deuterostomes from the very early Cambrian of China. The have a body with gills (or at least slits in the vicinity of the pharynx) and a segmented tail. The Vetulicolia are believed to be very similar to the ancestors of all deuterostomes..
