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Kingdom of Wei - Kingdom of Wei The Kingdom of Wei (ch. 魏, py. wèi, wg. wei) (220-265) was one of the Three Kingdoms competing for control of China after the fall of the Han Dynasty. During the decline of the Han Dynasty, the northern part of China was under the control of Cao Cao, the Imperial Secretariat to the last Han emperor. In 213, he was titled Wei Gong (duke of Wei) and given ten cities as his domain. This area was named the "State of Wei". At that time, the southern part of China was already divided into two areas controlled by two warlords (later the Kingdom of Shu and Kingdom of Wu). In 216, Cao Cao was promoted to Wei Wang (king of Wei). In 220, Cao Cao.
Kingdom of Wu - Quan succeeded his brother as Wu Wang (the king of Wu) and considered the area under his rule subject to the Han emperor. Unlike his competitors, he did not really have the ambition to be Emperor of China. However, after Cao Pi of the Kingdom of Wei and Liu Bei of the Kingdom of Shu each declared himself to be the Emperor, Sun Quan decided to follow suit in 222, claiming to have founded the Wu dynasty. Under the rule of Wu, the Southern China, regarded by the early dynasty "jungle" developed into one of the commercial, culture and political centers of China. However, it is not until half century later, during the Five Dynasties and Ten States that the development of the southern China surpassed that of the north. During.
International student - Accomplishments Much of the elite of the developing world are eductated at western universities. These include individuals as diverse as Ho Chi Minh and Abdullah II of Jordan. Numerous international students from China were sent to the US during the late 19th century and 20th century by the government in an attempt to understand the culture and technology of the West that may be incorporated into the Chinese culture. Some of those international students (who may have come unofficially) became well-known scientists, such as Chen Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee, and Chien-Shiung Wu. The destination for Chinese international students has varied over the decades. Before World War II, Japan and France were the preferred destinations. International students from Taiwan have preferred the United States as a destination since the 1950's. Students from.
History of the PRC (1976-present) - would not interfere with Hong Kong's capitalist system and would allow the locals a high degree of autonomy for at least 50 years. This "one country-two systems" approach has been touted by the PRC government as a potential framework within which Taiwan could be reunited with the Mainland. Deng, however, did not improve relations with the Soviet Union, continuing to adhere to the Maoist line of the Sino-Soviet Split era that the Soviet Union was a superpower equally as "hegemonist" as the United States, but even more threatening to the PRC because of its closer proximity. "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" The new, pragmatic leadership emphasized economic development and renounced mass political movements. At the pivotal December 1978 Third Plenum (of the 11th Party Congress Central Committee), the leadership adopted economic reform.
Farewell, My Concubine - Hong Kong movie directed by Kaige Chen written by Lillian Lee (II) and Wei Lu staring Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Li Gong, Ge You. Awards and nominations Won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival - 1993 Nominated to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - 1993 See also: Cinema of China External Link Ba wang bie ji (1993).
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period - too tedious; thus, not used when referring to this sovereign Chai Rong (柴榮 chai2 rong2 954-959 Xiande (顯德 xian3 de2) 954-959 did not exist Gong Di (恭帝 gong1 di4) Chai Zong Xun (柴宗訓 chai2 zong1 xun4) 959-960 Xiande (顯德 xian3 de2) 959-960 the Ten Kingdoms Convention: use born names, noticed otherwise Wu Yue Kingdom 904-978 Tai Zu (太祖 tai4 zu3) Wu Su Wang (武肅王 wu3 su4 wang2) Qian Liu (錢鏐 qian2 liu2 904-932 Tianbao (天寶 tian1 bao3) 908-923 Baoda (寶大 bao3 da4) 923-925 Baozheng (寶正 bao3 zheng4) 925-932 Shi Zong (世宗 shi4 zong1) Wen Mu Wang (文穆王 wen2 mu4 wang2) Qian Yuan Quan (錢元瓘 qian2 yuan2 guan4) 932-941 did not exist Cheng Zong (成宗 cheng2 zong1) Zhong Xian Wang (忠獻王 zhong1 xian4 wang2) Qian Zuo (錢佐 qian2 zuo3) 941-947 did not.
Emperor Wu of Han China - consort Zhao consort Li consort Wang Children at least 1 son, 4 daughters Duration of reign 141 BC-87 BC Tomb Temple name Courtesy name Posthumous name 孝武 (py. xiào wŭ), literary meaning: "filial and martial" Posthumous name in short 武 (py. wŭ), literary meaning: "martial" See also Legalism Confucianism Xiongnu Parthia Bactria Yuezhi Korea Silk Road Zhang Qian Wei Man Chinese era name Civil service examination Preceded by: Emperor Jing of Han China Western Han Dynasty Succeeded by: Emperor Zhao of Han China.
Table of Chinese monarchs - 606 B.C-586 B.C 簡王 jian3 wang2 Ji Yi姬夷 ji1 yi2 585 B.C-572 B.C 靈王 ling2 wang2 Ji Xie Xin姬泄心 ji1 xie4 xin1 571 B.C-545 B.C 景王 jing3 wang2 Ji Gui姬貴 ji1 gui4 544 B.C-521 B.C 悼王 dao4 wang2 Ji Meng姬猛 ji1 meng3 520 B.C 敬王 jing4 wang2 Ji Gai姬丐 ji1 gai4 519 B.C-476 B.C 元王 yuan2 wang2 Ji Ren姬仁 ji1 ren2 475 B.C-469 B.C 貞定王 zhen1 ding4 wang2 Ji Jie姬介 ji1 jie4 468 B.C-442 B.C 哀王 ai1 wang2 Ji Qu Ji姬去疾 ji1 qu4 ji2 441 B.C 思王 xi1 wang2 Ji Shu姬叔 ji1 shu2 441 B.C 考王 kao3 wang2 Ji Wei姬嵬 ji1 wei2 440 B.C-426 B.C 威烈王 wei1 lie4 wang2 Ji Wu姬午 ji1 wu3 425 B.C-402 B.C 戰國時代(zhan4 guo2 shi2 dai4) Period of the Warring states 403 B.C-221 B.C 安王 an1 wang2.
Taiping Rebellion - all efforts were concentrated on the army, and civil administration was very poor. Rule was established in the major cities but the land outside the urban areas was little regarded. In its first year, the Heavenly Kingdom made coins that are 23-mm to 26-mm and around 4.1-gram. On the front, it reads The Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping, (太平天国), where "Kingdom" is written in simplified Chinese; on the back, Holy Treasure (聖寶). Administration Ranked below the King of Heaven, Hong Xiuquan, the territory was divided among provincial rulers called kingss or princes, initially there were four -- the Kings of the Four Quarters. Of the original rulers, the West King and South King were killed in combat in 1852, the East King was murdered by the North King in 1856 and the.
Ad hoc protocol list - ICC'98, 5 pages. http:// www.ics.uci.edu/atm/adhoc/paper-collection/gerla-gsr-icc98.pdf Reactive: (On-demand) ARA (Ant-based Routing Algorithm for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks) - Mesut Günes et. al., ARA - the ant-colony based routing algorithm for manets, In Stephan Olariu, editor, Proceedings of the 2002 ICPP Workshop on Ad Hoc Networks (IWAHN 2002), pages 79-85, IEEE Computer Society Press, August 2002, http://www.adhoc-nets.de ABR (Associativity Based Routing protocol) - C.-K. TOH ASSOCIATIVITY-BASED LONG-LIVED ROUTING (ABR) PROTOCOL , Internet Draft, http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/index-wgm.html AODV (Ad hoc On Demand Distance Vector routing protocol) - C. PERKINS, E.ROYER AND S. DAS Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) Routing, Internet Draft, draft-ietf-manet-aodv-11.txt, work in progress, Aug 2002. BSR (Backup Source Routing protocol) - SONG GUO, OLIVER W. YANG Performance of Backup Source Routing (BSR) in mobile ad hoc networks p 440-444, Proc. 2002 IEEE Wireless Networking.
Battle of Yalu River (1894) - not the first engagement of pre-dreadnought technology on a wide scale (the Battle of Foochow in 1884 between the French and Chinese certainly predates this) there were significant lessons for naval observers to consider. At this time, the Japanese were confident in their own abilities. The Chinese, however, still had a number of foreign advisors and instructors. In particular, the German, Major von Hanneken, recently from Korea was appointed as the naval advisor to Admiral Ting Ju ch'ang. W. F. Tyler, a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Navy Reserve and an Imperial Maritime Customs officer was appointed as von Hanneken's assistant. Philo McGiffin, formerly an ensign in the US Navy and an instructor at the Wei-Hai-Wei naval academy was appointed to Chen Yuen as an advisor or co-commander. Prior to the battle.
Capital of China - 1644. the current capital of the People's Republic of China Chang'an (modern day Xi'an) was the capital of various Chinese governments including (sorted chronologically): Western Han Dynasty, from 206 BC to AD 9. Western Wei Dynasty and Northern Zhou Dynasty Sui Dynasty Tang Dynasty Changchun was the capital of the Manchukuo, a nominally independent puppet state set up by the Japanese in Manchuria from 1931 to 1945: called Xingjing or Tsinking (新京; xing1 jing1 "new capital") Chongqing City was the provisonal capital of the government of Chiang Kaishek during World War II (Second Chinese-Japanese War). Datong was the capital during Northern Wei Dynasty before moving to Luoyang in 493 AD. Hangzhou was the capital of: The Wu Yue Kingdom (904-978), during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period China during the.
Cao Zhi - continually showed off their smartness at the expense of Cao Cao and Cao Pi's subordinates and even Cao Cao himself. Yang Xiu and Kong Rong were later accused and executed by Cao Cao of misdemeanours. Cao Zhi spent enormous time on drinking, poetry, and literature critics; Cao Pi, on the other hand, had assembled a group of political experts including Sima Yi and Chen Qun. The former eventually dominated the politics of the Kingdom of Wei after Cao Pi's death and became the revered ancestor of the Jin Dynasty. The latter founded the Nine grade controller system, which ranked local families and individuals according to their ability to civil services and remained in use for centuries in the period of Southern and Northern Dynasties. Cao Zhi eventually lost the favour of.
Chinese Civil War - Academy outside Guangzhou, which was the seat of government under the KMT-CPC alliance. In 1924 Chiang became head of the academy and began the rise to prominence that would make him Sun's successor as head of the KMT and the unifier of all China under the right-wing nationalist government. Northern Expedition (1926 - 1928) and KMT split Just months after Sun's death in 1925, Chiang, as commander-in-chief of the National Revolutionary Army, set out on the long-delayed Northern Expedition (北伐战争) against the northern warlords to unite China under KMT control. By 1926, however, the KMT had divided into left- and right-wing factions, and the Communist bloc within it was also growing. In March 1926, after thwarting a kidnapping attempt against him, Chiang abruptly dismissed his Soviet advisers, imposed restrictions on CPC.
Chiang Ching-kuo - and his first wife Mao Fumei, Chiang Ching-kuo was born in Fenghua, Chekiang and had the nickname of Jinfeng (建豐). He had an adopted brother, Chiang Wei-kuo. In 1925 he went to Moscow to study communism, which he embraced avidly, and became classmates with Deng Xiaoping. After his father took anti-Communist approaches within the Nationalist party (Kuomintang), the Soviet government sent Chiang to virtual exile in return and later to work in a steel factory in Siberia where he met and in March 1935, married Fenna Epatcheva Vahaleva, a native Russian later became known as Chiang Fang-liang (蔣方良). December of that year, a son, Hsiao-wen (孝文) was born. A daughter, Xiao-chang (孝章), was born the next year. The Chiangs were finally allowed to return to China by Stalin in April 1937.
Chinese Canadian - whose most essential values is still quality education. These newcomers are a major part of the "Brain Gain" the inverse of the infamous "Brain Drain", i.e., Canadians leaving to the United States of America. There was a significant influx of wealthy Chinese from Hong Kong in the early and mid-1990s. These Chinese immigrants were worried about the pending handover of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China and Canada was a preferred location, in part because investment visas were significantly easier to obtain than visas to the United States. Vancouver, Richmond, and Toronto, Ontario were the major destinations of these Chinese. Prominent Chinese Canadians Within Canada Raymond Chan, former Secretary of State for the Pacific Rim Wei Chen, newscaster Denise Chong, writer Tommy Chong, comic and actor (born in Canada,.
Timeline of Chinese history - Period -260 Battle of Changping -256 -255 Qin Dynasty -246 Qin Shi Huang Di -221 Start of construction of the Great Wall -210 Burial of the Terracotta Army -207 -202 Han Dynasty (Western Han) Han Gao Zu -195 9 Xin Dynasty Wang Mang 24 25 Han Dynasty (Eastern Han) 105 Cai Lun, inventor of paper 106 Han Shangdi 184 Yellow Turban Rebellion 200 Battle of Guandu 208 Battle of Red Cliff 220 Three Kingdoms (Wei, Shu, Wu) 222 Sun Quan Battle of Yi Ling 234 Battle of Wuzhang Plain.
Twenty-Four Histories - of Three Kingdoms by Chen Shou 陳壽 《晉書》Book of Jin by Fang Xuanling 房玄齡 《宋書》Book of Song by Shen Yue 沈約 《南齊書》Book of Southern Qi by Xiao Zixian 蕭子顯 《梁書》Book of Liang by Yao Silian 姚思廉 《陳書》Book of Chen by Yao Silian 姚思廉 《魏書》Book of Wei by Wei Shou 魏收 《北齊書》Book of Northern Qi by Li Baiyao 李百藥 《周書》Book of Zhou by Ling Wudefen, etc 令狐德棻、等 《隋書》Book of Sui by Wei Zheng, etc 魏徵、等 《南史》Annals of Southern dynasties by Li Tingshou 李延壽 《北史》Annals of Northern dynasties by Li Tingshou 李延壽 《舊唐書》Old Book of Tang by Shen Xu, etc 沈昫、等 《新唐書》New Book of Tang by Ou Yangxiu and Song Qi 歐陽修、宋祁 《舊五代史》Old Annals of Five dynasties by Xue Juzheng, etc 薛居正、等 《新五代史》New Annals of Five dynasties by Ou Yangxiu 歐陽修 《宋史》Annals of.
Shaoxing - Cai Yuanpei, educator Chen Yi, politician of Dongpu Town (東浦鎮), Shaoxing County Lu Xun, writer Qiu Jin, female revolutionary Xishi, beauty (Zhuji City) Xu Wei, painter East Lake, Shaoxing's traditional scenic area. Tourism Lu Xun's residence is preserved near the middle of the city, and has become a tourist destination. East Lake (东湖) is a traditional scenic area just out of town. Shaoxing has the Cemetery of Yu the Great (大禹陵). Miscellaneous Rice wine (黃酒) is also known as Shaoxing Wine (紹興酒) or Southern Wine (南酒)..
