virtue guna or merit virtuous deeds punya in Chinese Buddhism . The word Chinesede is an ancient ... Based on the cognate relation between de and zhi to plant , Waley further noted the early Chinese regarded planting seeds as a de , hence it means a latent power, a virtue inherent in something. The linguist Peter A. Boodberg investigated the semantics and etymology of de , which he called perhaps the most significant word, next to tao , in ancient Chinese macro and microcosmology. blockquote ... being in the universe. File oracle.svg thumb Chinese Oracle script for de virtue File bronze.svg thumb Chinese Bronze script for de virtue File seal.svg thumb Chinese Seal script for de virtue File bw.png thumb Stroke order of the character Characters De power virtue is written with the Chinese ... meaning with zhi straight vertical and xin heart mind . De has rare Variant Chinese character ... sense of influencing others. He says the Chinese understood de as potent but not coercive, and as arrective ... dictionary of Old Chinese 2007 208 , de t k moral force, virtue, character quality, nature ... H. Balfour 1881 xxxvii succinctly glosses de with Greek and Chinese. blockquote . In ethics, Virtue ...Religious text primary date December 2010 Portal Taoism Taoism cleanup date November 2010 De zh c p d w te is a key concept in Chinese philosophy , usually translated inherent character inner power ... . Meanings The Hanyu Da Zidian , defines twenty meanings for de , translatable as 1. Rise, go .... . This dictionary provides early usage examples, and all of these de meanings occur in Han or pre Han Chinese classic texts , except for number 17 de abbreviating Deutschland . Translating de into English is problematic and controversial. Arthur Waley believed that de was better translated power ... we find that de can be bad as well as good. What is a bad virtue ? Clearly virtue is not a satisfactory ... in the mytho magical period of Chinese speculation when t was conceived as a kind of mana ... more details
The Chinese Immersion School at De Avila is the latest incarnation of the historic Dudley Stone School, founded in San Francisco, California, in 1896 and surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906. The kindergarten through fifth grade school provides instruction in the Cantonese language. History Dudley Stone School Namesake Dudley Stone School was named after Dudley C. Stone, a science teacher and deputy superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District San Francisco City Schools in the 1870s and early 1880s. He was called one of the pioneer educators of California. Stone was born in Marietta, Ohio, in 1829 and taught in New Orleans, where he was married in 1849 to Mary Ozier, before moving to Santa Cruz, California , in 1852. He opened a private school in Berkeley, California Berkeley in 1868 but then joined the public schools in San Francisco as deputy superintendent in 1876. ref name ChroniclingAmerica1895.12.02 http chroniclingamerica.loc.gov lccn sn82015104 1895 12 02 ed 1 seq 1 words stone Dudley Professor Dudley Stone Meets With Death at Oakland, Sacramento Record Union, December 2, 1895, page 1 ref In an 1879 report, he advocated the establishment of a kindergarten program in San Francisco and said he was blockquote averse to the present system of written and oral examinations being carried to excess and suggests that but two .... ref but seven years later an editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle, signed by publisher M.H. de .... ref De Avila School By 1980, Dudley Stone School had been renamed the William R. De Avila School, after the school s principal of that name. De Avila had been stricken by multiple sclerosis and used ..., August 4, 1987, page 2 ref In 2000 peeling lead paint was found inside the De Avila building. ref ... for years the students scores on standardized tests weren t good. ref name Garchick Chinese Immersion ... archive of the Chinese Immersion School coord missing California Category Elementary schools in California ... more details
Media of the People s Republic of China Chinese martial arts disambig cs an da Kinesisk de Chinesisch ...pp move indef Wiktionary Chinese refers to anything pertaining to the Chinese people. Chinese people , people of Chinese nationality, or one of several Chinese ethnicities Zhonghua minzu , the supra ethnic Chinese nationality Han Chinese , the dominant ethnic group in People s Republic of China mainland China , Republic of China Taiwan and Singapore Ethnic minorities in China , the non Han Chinese population in People s Republic of China mainland China and Republic of China Taiwan Overseas Chinese , people of Chinese ancestry who live outside People s Republic of China mainland China and Republic of China Taiwan Chinese language , a language or language family that forms part of the Sino Tibetan family of languages Standard Chinese , the standard form of the Chinese language and most commonly ... China and Republic of China Taiwan , and the predominantly Chinese Singapore . Cantonese , often officially referred to as Chinese in the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau in the People s Republic of China other varieties of Chinese Written Chinese , the writing system of China. See also Chinese character Hanzi Traditional Chinese characters , officially used in Taiwan , Hong Kong and Macau , and used by many Overseas Chinese communities. Simplified Chinese characters , officially used in Mainland China , Singapore and Malaysia , and used in some Overseas Chinese communities. Romanization of Chinese , with several systems Hanja Chinese characters used in writing Korean language Kanji Chinese characters used in writing Japanese language Chinese cuisine , styles of cooking originating from China See also Culture of China , including Chinese art Chinese folklore Chinese literature Chinese mythology Chinese poetry History of China Music of China , including C pop Chinese Dance Chinese name Chinese may also used as a modifier for Western activities and items that are most ... more details
Refimprove date August 2007 Image Barrio Chino de La Habana.jpg 255px thumbnail right Havana s Chinatown ... group group Chinese Cuban image poptime 114,240 ref CIA World Factbook. Cuba. 2008. May 15, 2008 ... , Mandarin Chinese Mandarin , Yue Chinese Cantonese rels Buddhism , Christianity , others related Chinese Nicaraguan , Chinese Brazilian , Overseas Chinese A Chinese Cuban zh t , zh s p G b h ar n Yue Chinese Cantonese Jyutping Gu2 Baa1 Waa4 jan4 lang es chino cubano is a Cubans Cuban of Han ChineseChinese ancestry who was born in or has immigrated to Cuba . They are part of the ethnic Chinese diaspora or Overseas Chinese . History Image Chinese Cuban lady in Havana s Chinatown.jpg thumb left 180px A Chinese Cuban woman in Havana s Chinatown district Chinese immigration to Cuba ... fields, bringing the religion of Buddhism with them. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers were brought ..., some Chinese immigrants settled permanently in Cuba, although most longed for repatriation to their homeland. Havana s Chinatown known as Barrio Chino de La Habana is one of the oldest and largest ... century to escape the discrimination present at the time. A small wave of Chinese immigrants also arrived during the early 20th century to escape the political chaos in China. The Chinese tended to concentrate ... as indentured laborers to open small grocery stores or restaurants. Generations of Chinese Cubans married into the larger Spanish, mulatto and Afro Cuban populations. Today almost all Chinese Cubans have African, Spanish, and Chinese ancestry. Many of them have Spanish surnames. Chinese opened businesses such as market gardens and shops. The first Chinese owned businesses were opened in 1858 in Havana in Cuba, a fruit store and cafe. Few Chinese married due to lack of Chinese women. According to the Cuba Commission, two Chinese married Chinese women, two married white women, and a half dozen married mulattoes and Negro women. There was no legal protection for Chinese in Cuba. ref cite ... more details
, De migratie van Chinezen naar Suriname , z.p. ca. 1972 . Ankum Houwink, J.C., Chinese kontraktarbeiders in Suriname in de 19e eeuw , OSO, 4 2 , 1985, 181 186. Groenfelt, E., Impressies van deChinese ... de Kom Kom, Anton de , Wij slaven van Suriname , 1934 Lamur, H.E., en J.A. Vriezen, Chinese kontraktanten ...Ethnic group group Chinese Surinamese image File Chinees uithangbord Paramaribo4.png 160px caption Chinese ... Hakka Chinese related Chinese Caribbean Chinese Surinamese are residents of Suriname with a China Chinese background. Chinese Surinamese are a small part of the Surinamese people . The majority of the Chinese Surinamese are Hakka and Dongguan or Meixian as ancestral homes . Relatively many Chinese Surinamese are active in retail and business community. Six percent of the Chinese in the Netherlands ... from abroad. The government of Java island Java recruited a group of 18 Chinese for contract labor ... instead. In 1858 five hundred Chinese laborers were recruited by the agency of the Dutch consul in Macau ... as nothing would work. This was concluded contract outside the Chinese to change by Governor Charles Pierre Schimpf in favor of the tenants. The Chinese were totally treated like slaves. When ... and sixties of the 19th century, about 2500 Chinese people went to Suriname. Most were .... In the year 2007 there were over 70,000 Chinese in Suriname. The immigration is still committed ... attractive to Chinese businesses. The new Chinese migrants from northern China, are also called in Suriname as salt Chinese . Since the sixties of the twentieth century are also thousands of Chinese emigrated to the Netherlands from Suriname. The Chinese names in medium sized long a prominent position and their mostly well educated offspring of mixed blood or Chinese blood in various social sectors. Also, the Surinamese people accepted various applications of Chinese origin. Notable Surinamese of Chinese origin Anton Jie Sam Foek , first broadcast on Hilversum correspondent in Latin America ... more details
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More footnotes date January 2010 one source date January 2010 Infobox Language name Classical Chinese Literary Chinese nativename familycolor Sino Tibetan speakers Not a spoken language region mainland China Taiwan Japan Korea and Vietnam fam2 Chinese language Chinese script iso1 zh iso2b chi iso2t zho iso3 lzh Chinese c p g w n j gu2 man4 gan gu3 mun4 wuu ku ven l ancient written language altname Literary Chinese c2 p2 w ny n j2 man4 jin4 poj2 b n gi n gan2 mun4 ngien4 wuu2 ven yie l2 literary language literary language Contains Chinese text Classical Chinese or Literary Chinese is a traditional style of written Chinese based on the grammar and vocabulary of ancient Chinese, Don t include specific dynasty reference here, because it blurs the distinction between ... Chinese spoken language modern spoken form of Chinese . Classical Chinese was once used for almost ..., during various different periods, in Korea , Japan , and Vietnam . Among Chinese speakers, Classical Chinese has been largely replaced by written vernacular Chinese lang zh Hant , a style of writing that is similar to modern spoken Mandarin Chinese, while speakers of non Chinese languages have largely abandoned Classical Chinese in favor of local vernaculars. Literary Chinese is known ... writing . Definitions While the terms Classical Chinese and Literary Chinese are often used interchangeably ... Chinese author Jerry Norman publisher Cambridge University Press year 1988 pages 83 84 isbn 0521296536 ref Classical Chinese lang zh Hant Ancient writing refers to the written language of China from ... AD 220 . Classical Chinese is therefore the language used in many of China s most influential ... texts, such as the Shijing Classic of Poetry , is sometimes called Old Chinese , or pre Classical. Literary Chinese lang zh Hant , Literary writing , or more colloquially just lang zh Hant w ny n is the form of written Chinese used from the end of the Han Dynasty to the early 20th century ... more details
Pet rodents fr Hamster de Chine hr Kineski hr ak id Hamster Tiongkok nl Chinese dwerghamster ja ...Taxobox name Chinese hamster image Chinesedsaffa.jpg image width 300px image caption A wild type Chinese ..., 1867 The Chinese hamster Cricetulus griseus , is a species of hamster originating from the desert ... and as adults can weigh 25 43 grams. They live two to three years on average. The Chinese hamster is often kept as a pet or in the past as a laboratory animal. A Chinese hamster s body proportions ... and males are used solely for breeding and research purposes. Chinese hamsters are not related ... hamster s. Besides the wild colour, a well known variation is the white spotted Chinese hamster, which ... paws, rather like a harvest mouse on a corn stalk. Chinese hamsters can be quite nervous as youngsters ..., Chinese hamsters were commonly used Experimental animal laboratory animals , until they were replaced ... are still being produced by putting the gene for the protein into Chinese hamster ovary cell s CHO cells , which then produce the protein. Of note, some US states such as California regard the Chinese .... ref Lianne McLeod, http exoticpets.about.com od hamsters p chinesehams.htm Chinese Hamsters , About.com ... a similar permit in order to sell them. You do need a permit to own a Chinese hamster in New Jersey. Colour mutations There are only three known colour mutations found in Chinese hamsters, Normal Wild ... Latin name There is quite some confusion over the Latin name of the Chinese hamster and the closely related Chinese striped hamster . Some people consider the Chinese hamster Cricetulus griseus and the Chinese ... network title SRS db query re Chinese hamster publisher Columbia University accessdate 2009 08 16 ref the Chinese striped hamster as a subspecies of the Chinese hamster in which case the Latin name of the Chinese striped hamster would be Cricetulus griseus barabensis ref Anne, http www.ratbehavior.org ... . ref or the other way round in which case the Latin name of the Chinese hamster would be Cricetulus ... more details
de Lima, became one of the Western Hemisphere s earliest Chinatowns. The Chinese coolies married Peruvian ...Refimprove date February 2008 infobox ethnic group group Chinese Peruvian image File Chinese Peruvian.jpg ... Spanish , Hakka Chinese Hakka , Yue Chinese Cantonese , Mandarin Chinese Mandarin , others rels Christianity , Buddhism , Chinese religions related Asian Latin American , Japanese Peruvian Chinese ... sh ng j2 tou2 saang1 l2 Local born Chinese Peruvians , also known as tus n a loanword from Chinese pinyin t sh ng, jyutping tou2 saang1 local born , are people of Overseas Chinese ancestry born in Peru , or who have made Peru their adopted homeland. Most Chinese Peruvians are multilingual. In addition to Spanish language Spanish or Quechua language Quechua , many of them speak one or more Chinese dialects that may include Yue Chinese Cantonese , Hakka Chinese Hakka , Standard Mandarin Mandarin , and Min Nan Minnan . Since the first Chinese immigrants came from Macau , some of them also speak .... ref name Peru History Early history Chinese Immigration immigrants in the 19th century, who took ... ers or coolie s . Other Chinese coolies from Guangdong followed. One hundred thousand Chinese contract ... to free labor. Another group of Chinese settlers came after the founding of Sun Yat sen s republic .... Modern day immigration Recent Chinese immigrants settled in Peru from Hong Kong and, again, Macau ... have come from other places in mainland China, Taiwan , and Southeast Asian Chinese communities, including Malaysia , Indonesia , Singapore , and the Philippines . Many Chinese Indonesian s and Chinese Malaysian s came to Peru after anti Chinese riot s and Wiktionary massacre massacres in those countries the 1960s, 1970s, and late 1990s. These recent Chinese immigrants make Peru the home of the largest ethnic Chinese community in Latin America . Emigration Many Chinese Peruvians left Peru in the 1960s and 1970s. Most of them headed to the United States , where they were called Chinese American ... more details
was used to refer to people of unmixed Chinese ancestry while the term Sangley Mestizo de Sangley ... Center at De La Salle University , and the Ricardo Leong Center of Chinese Studies at Ateneo de Manila. Coincidentally, both Ateneo and De La Salle University La Salle enroll a large number of Chinese ... Mestizos de Sangley or Chinese mestizos, while those between Spaniards and Chinese were called ... de Manila . ref Following People Power Revolution EDSA 1 , the Chinese Filipinos quickly gained ...Infobox Ethnic group group Chinese Filipino image Image Cardinal Jaime Sin in 1988.jpg 80px Cardinal ... , Vigan , Zamboanga City Zamboanga hr overseas Chinese elsewhere languages Hokkien language Hokkien , Standard Chinese Mandarin , Standard Cantonese Cantonese , Teochew dialect Teochew Chao Chow , Languages of the Philippines Filipino languages , English language English br Chinese languages other Chinese languages religions Predominantly Christianity . Buddhism Buddhist , Taoism Taoist and Chinese folk religion Shenist minorities. related Han Chinese A Chinese Filipino zh s t p Hu f i Minnan Hokkien Hu hui Yue Chinese Cantonese W hf i Tagalog language Tagalog Filipino language Filipino Tsinoy pronounced IPA tl t no derived from two words Tsino meaning Chinese and Pinoy the slang word for Filipino people Filipino is a Filipino people Filipino of Han ChineseChinese ethnicity but born raised in the Philippines . Many, if not all people in the Philippines , including Chinese Filipinos themselves, use and accept the term Filipino Chinese Filipino Chinese . ref Lim, Cherry T. 31 January 2003 . In the Philippines, Filipino Citizens of Chinese Descent are colloquially and officially called and referred to as Filipino Chinese . http www.sunstar.com.ph static ceb 2003 01 31 news filipino.chinese.or.chinese.filipino..html Filipino Chinese or Chinese Filipino? Sun Star Cebu . Cebu ... Chinese Filipino The term Chinese Filipino may or may not ref http www.librarylink.org.ph revdetails.asp ... more details
infobox ethnic group group Chinese Brazilian br small Sino Brasileiro small image File Deputado William Woo Plenario.jpg 200px William Boss Woo image caption William Boss Woo poptime br 151,649 Chinese Brazilians popplace S o Paulo City langs Portuguese language Portuguese , Chinese languages , others rels Buddhism , Christianity , Taoism , others related Asian Brazilian , Asian American , Chinese people Chinese Brazilians lang pt sino brasileiro or chin s brasileiro zh c or are people of China Chinese ancestry who were born in or have immigrated to Brazil . The Chinese Brazilian population was estimated to be approximately 151,649. ref name ocac.gov.tw http www.ocac.gov.tw english public public.asp?selno 1163&no 1163&level B ref S o Paulo has the largest Chinese Brazilian population, in particular on the district of Liberdade . Besides being an area famous for its strong Japanese presence, a significant number of Taiwan ese immigrants have settled in Liberdade, and many Chinese immigrants have came to Liberdade following the Chinese Civil War Communist revolution in 1949. Many ... of mixed Chinese and Portuguese descent, have also settled in Brazil. These Macau immigrants can usually ... , allowing them to adjust more easily to life in Brazil. Today, Chinese Brazilians are usually bilingual with Portuguese language Portuguese and Chinese languages Chinese . Notable persons Anderson ... da Silva Ken Chang, , A Brazilian actor of Chinese descent, popular TV series star in Taiwan and China ... with the International Institute of Macau present The Chinese Presence in Brazil A Bibliographic Research . http www.hottopos.com videtur2 david.htm Padr es de Linguagem nos Imigrantes Chineses Diglossia ... Patterns of Language of Chinese Immigrants in Brazil . Demographics of Brazil Brazil topics Overseas Chinese2 Category Chinese diaspora Brazilian Category Ethnic groups in Brazil Category Brazilian people of Chinese descent ms Orang Cina di Brazil pl Chi czycy w Brazylii pt Sino brasileiro ... more details
China Chinese constellations are the way the ancient China ancient Chinese grouped the star s. They are very ... the IAU was based on Greek astronomy Greco Roman astronomy instead of Chinese astronomy . Ancient Chinese skywatchers divided their night sky into 31 regions, namely the Three Enclosures ... Enclosure occupies the northernmost area of the night sky. From the viewpoint of the ancient Chinese ... below, class wikitable rowspan 2 align center Four Symbols Chinese constellation Four Symbols br ... Azure Dragon Chinese constellation The Azure Dragon of the East br br Spring Ji o Horn Chinese constellation Horn Spica Vir K ng Neck Chinese constellation Neck Virgo constellation Virgo D Root Chinese constellation Root Libra constellation Libra F ng Room Chinese constellation Room Libra constellation Libra X n Heart Chinese constellation Heart Antares W i Tail Chinese constellation Tail Scorpius J Winnowing Basket Chinese constellation Winnowing Basket Sagittarius constellation Sagittarius rowspan 7 Black Tortoise Chinese constellation The Black Tortoise of the North br br Winter D u Dipper Chinese constellation Dipper Sagittarius constellation Sagittarius Ni Ox Chinese constellation Ox Capricornus N Girl Chinese constellation Girl Aquarius constellation Aquarius X Emptiness Chinese constellation Emptiness Aquarius constellation Aquarius W i Danger, Rooftop Chinese constellation Rooftop Aquarius constellation Aquarius Pegasus constellation Pegasus Sh Room, Encampment Chinese constellation Encampment Pegasus constellation Pegasus B Wall Chinese constellation Wall Algenib Pegasus constellation Pegasus rowspan 7 White Tiger Chinese constellation The White Tiger of the West br br Fall Ku Legs Chinese constellation Legs Andromeda constellation Andromeda L u Bond Chinese constellation Bond Aries constellation Aries W i Stomach Chinese constellation Stomach Aries constellation Aries M o Hairy Head Chinese constellation Hairy ... more details
de Gruyter year 2002 isbn 311017281X ref Although Min Chinese is spoken natively by a third of the Chinese ... Chinese in Africa Overseas Chinese2 Category Chinese diaspora de Auslandschinesen es Tus n ...Contains Chinese text Overseas Chinese infobox Overseas Chinese are people of Chinese people Chinese birth or descent who live outside the Greater China Area . People of partial Chinese ancestry living outside the Greater China Area may also consider themselves Overseas Chinese. The term Overseas Chinese can refer narrowly to those of Han Chinese ethnicity, or more broadly, to all List of ethnic groups in China 56 recognized ethnic groups in China Chinese people in the sense of Zhonghua minzu . For example ... Chinese. ref Cite book title Authenticating Tibet Answers to China s 100 Questions author Blondeau ... the Peranakan as Chinese despite partial assimilation into Malays ethnic group Malay culture. Citation needed date August 2009 One study on overseas Chinese defines several criteria for identifying non Han overseas Chinese there is evidence of descent from groups living within or originating from China, they still retain their culture, self identify with Chinese culture or acknowledge Chinese origin, although they are not categorized as ethnic Han Chinese. Under this definition, ethnic minority overseas Chinese number about 7 million, or about 8.4 of the total overseas population. Citation needed date August 2009 Terminology The Chinese language has various terms equivalent to the English Overseas Chinese . Hu qi o zh s t refers to Chinese citizens residing in countries other than China. Hu y zh s t refers to ethnic Chinese residing outside of China. http www.hup.harvard.edu ... translation of Overseas Chinese it is often used by the Government of the People s Republic of China PRC government to refer to people of Chinese ethnicities who live outside the PRC, regardless of citizenship. Overseas Chinese who are ethnically Han Chinese, such as Cantonese people Cantonese ... more details
Chinese wax is a white to yellowish white, gelatinous, Crystal crystalline water insoluble substance obtained from the wax secreted by certain insects. It resembles spermaceti but is harder, more friable , and with a higher melting point. It is deposited on the branches of certain trees by the scale insect Ceroplastes ceriferus , common in China and India , or a related scale insect , Ericerus pela , of China and Japan . The insects and their secretions are harvested and boiled with water to extract the raw wax. The insect bodies, which settle to the bottom, are used as food for swine . Uses Chinese wax is used chiefly in the manufacture of polishes, sizes, and candle s. In China the wax has been employed medicinally. Taken internally, it has been used as a remedy for hoarseness , pain , worm s, nervousness , and to aid the mending of broken bone s. Externally, it has been used as an ointment for treatment of wound s. Other names Other names of Chinese wax include Chinese tree wax Chinese insect wax insect wax Unreferenced date January 2008 Category Waxes Category Traditional Chinese medicine cs nsk vosk de Chinawachs ... more details
Wiktionary Chinese boxes Chinese boxes are a set of box es of graduated size, each fitting inside the next larger box. A traditional style in Chinese design, nested boxes have proved a popular packaging option in the West for novelty or display reasons. The Russian matryoshka doll is a modern interpretation of this form. As with the above example, such Chinese nested boxes have inspired similar forms of packaging around the world, but also have found use as a figurative description, providing an illustrative example to demonstrate situations of conceptually nested or recursive arrangements. In literature a Chinese box structure refers to a novel or drama that is told in the form of a narrative inside a narrative and so on , giving views from different perspectives. Examples include Mary Shelley Mary Shelley s 1818 novel Frankenstein and Jostein Gaarder s The Solitaire Mystery . See also Recursion Mise en abyme References refs design stub Category Containers Category Traditional Chinese objects ca M tode de les caixes xineses it Scatole cinesi ... more details
File Chinese goose Staglands Wildlife Reserve, Wellington, New Zealand family 8.jpg right thumb A family at Staglands Wildlife Reserve, Wellington, New Zealand File Chinese goose Kyoto, Japan two 8.jpg thumb right White Chinese geese in Japan The Chinese Goose is a breed of domesticated goose descended from the wild Swan Goose . Chinese geese differ from the wild birds in much larger size up to 5 10 kg in males, 4 9 kg in females , and in having an often strongly developed basal knob on the upper side of the bill. The knob at the top of the beak is more prominent on males than females. By 6 8 weeks of age, the knob is already pronounced enough that it can be used for mating. Chinese geese are a close cousin of the African goose , a heavier breed also descended from the Swan Goose. Chinese geese appear in two varieties a brown similar to the wild Swan Goose, and white. While many domestic Chinese geese have a similar body type to other breeds, the breed standard s as defined in the American Poultry Association s Standard of Perfection and other sources call for a slimmer, taller fowl. ref Ekarius 2007 ref Chinese geese are among the better laying breeds of geese. A female Chinese goose can lay 50 60 Egg food egg s over the course of the breeding season February to June , although there are reports of Chinese Geese laying up to 100 eggs during that time. ref Buckland & Guy 2002 ref Footnotes reflist References cite book title Storey s Illustrated Guide to Poultry Breeds last Ekarius first Carol year 2007 publisher Storey Publishing location 210 MAS MoCA Way, North Adams MA 01247 isbn 978 1 58017 667 5 Buckland, Roger & Guy, G rard eds. 2002 Goose Production. FAO Animal Production and Health Papers 154 . small ISBN 92 5 104862 2 small ftp ftp.fao.org docrep fao 005 ... title Chinese Geese work feathersite.com accessdate 2008 07 02 See also List of goose breeds Category Geese Category Poultry Category Goose breeds poultry stub de H ckergans fr Oie de Chine ... more details
Chinese erepoort over de Groote Postweg in Bandoeng ter gelegenheid van het huwelijk van ... COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Chinese vrouwen met hun bagage op de kade TMnr 60052134.jpg thumb A Chinese ... in deChinese wijk Glodok Djakarta TMnr 60054773.jpg thumb left Chinese stores in Jakarta s Glodok ...ethnic group group Chinese Indonesians br small small br small small br small Y nd n x y ... news 2008 05 26 chinese indonesians can039t be put boxes.html , thejakartapost ref br regions ... ref region2 flag Taiwan pop2 91,000 ref http www.ocac.gov.tw stat chinese global us pop tw 2k.xls , Republic of China Overseas Chinese Department ref region3 flag Singapore pop3 As part of the Chinese ... , Australia Census Department ref As part of the Chinese Australian population region5 flag Canada pop5 ... as part of the Chinese Canadian population region6 flag United States pop6 The majority ref harvnb Cunningham 2009 p 95 ref of Indonesian Americans and also as part of the Chinese American population region7 flag Malaysia pop7 As part of the Malaysian Chinese and Peranakan population region8 flag Hong Kong pop8 As part of the Hong Kong Chinese population langs predominantly Indonesian language Indonesian . Mandarin Chinese , Hakka language Hakka , Min Nan Hokkien , Teochew dialect Teochew , Puxian Min Hsinghua , Yue Chinese Cantonese , and other Chinese languages are widely spoken. rels Predominantly ... religious related Han Chinese footnotes smallsup a Chinese Indonesian surname , smallsup b Chinese Indonesian culture , smallsup c List of Chinese Indonesians , smallsup d Overseas Chinese Indonesians Chinese t s p Y nd n x y Hu r n Contains Chinese text Chinese Indonesians zh first ... Indonesia are ethnically Chinese people living in Indonesia , as a result of centuries of overseas Chinese migration. Chinese Indonesian people are diverse in their origins, timing and circumstances ... school at jakarta indonesia.html , windosa.blogspot.com ref and Overseas Chinese elsewhere . Broadly ... more details
Singaporean Chinese may refer to Chinese Singaporean , the citizens or residents of Singapore who are of Chinese people Chinese ancestral home ancestry Singaporean Mandarin , the dialect of Mandarin Chinese spoken in Singapore see Malaysian Mandarin Disambig ... more details
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Chinese dictionaries date back over two millennia to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty , which is a significantly longer lexicographical history than any other language. There are hundreds of dictionaries for Chinese ... Chinese language Chinese dichotomizes dictionaries for written and spoken forms zidian character ... notes zidian is often used for both character dictionary and word dictionary . Traditional Chinese lexicography The precursors of Chinese dictionaries are primers designed for students of Chinese characters. The earliest of them only survive in fragments or quotations within Chinese classic texts ... Language his dictionary . But Johnson s definition cannot be applied to the Chinese dictionaries, as Chinese is written in Chinese character character s or logograph , not alphabets. To Johnson, not having an alphabet is not to the Chinese s credit, as in 1778, when James Boswell asked about the Chinese characters, he replied Boswell 1907 822 Sir, they have not an alphabet. They have not been able to form what all other nations have formed. Nevertheless, the Chinese made their dictionaries ... is the oldest extant Chinese dictionary, and scholarship reveals that it is a pre Qin compilation of glosses ... or Radical Chinese character radicals . The famous 100 121 CE Shuowen Jiezi Explaining Simple ... , compiled under the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty , became the standard dictionary for Chinese ... Chinese characters are semantic phonetic ones , the radical method is usually effective, thus it continues ... the Sui Dynasty it became the standard of pronunciation for Middle Chinese . During the Song Dynasty .... Functional classifications Besides categorizing ancient Chinese dictionaries by their methods of collation ... descendants. These exegetical dictionaries focus on explaining meanings of words as found in the Chinese ... both orthography dictionaries , such as the Ganlu Zishu of the Tang Dynasty, and Chinese ... center upon the graphic properties of Chinese characters, they do not necessarily collate characters ... more details
Chinese Pakistani or Pakistani Chinese may refer to China Pakistan relations c.f. a Chinese Pakistani treaty Chinese people in Pakistan Uyghurs in Pakistan Pakistanis in China Pakistanis in Hong Kong Pakistani Chinese cuisine , a style of Chinese cuisine developed by Chinese migrants to Pakistan dab ... more details
Infobox ethnic group group Chinese Fijian image poptime 6,000 0.5 of Fijian population popplace Suva langs Fijian language Fijian , Yue Chinese Cantonese , Shanghainese rels Buddhist , Chinese folk religion , Christianity ref cite book title The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas author Lynn Pan publisher Harvard University Press year 1998 url http www.amazon.com Encyclopedia Chinese Overseas Lynn Pan dp 0674252101 isbn 978 0674252103 page 295 ref related Chinese Australian , Chinese New Zealander , Chinese in Samoa , Chinese in Tonga Han ChineseChinese people and their descendants constitute ... of Fiji Fiji s population . Around 80 of Chinese in Fiji speak Yue Chinese Cantonese as their native language and around 16 speak Shanghainese as their native language. Chinese in Fiji also speak the local Fijian language . Chinese in Fiji have a strong Buddhist background and some retained Confucian traditions. There are also a considerable number of Fijians who are of partial Chinese extraction, being descended from marriages between Chinese and Fijian people indigenous Fijians . For Politics of Fiji electoral purposes, Chinese people are counted as General Electors Fiji General Electors ... . History The history of Chinese people in Fiji dates to the 1850s, when Moy Ba Ling ... with the gold rush. Later arrivals came looking for sandalwood and beche de mer . According to Dixon Seeto , the current President of the Chinese Association of Fiji , the first shops in rural areas of Fiji were opened by Chinese merchants. Chinese people were enfranchised for the first time in 1964 ..., though this figure has gradually been reduced since independence in 1970. Around a thousand Chinese ... Cabinet approved a plan to allow up to 7000 Hong Kong Chinese to immigrate to Fiji. Conditions included ... horticulture around Suva . A further wave of Chinese has arrived since the late 1990s, many of them ... Kakaivalu . The exact date of Moy Ba Ling s arrival is not known, but on 17 September 2005, the Chinese ... more details
Taiwan as a distinct nation from China and desires to achieve de jure independence. Overseas Chinese ... pages, ISBN 0 520 23297 6 Prasenjit Duara, De constructing the Chinese Nation, in The Australian ...About the political party Chinese Nationalist Party cleanup reorganize date August 2010 Refimprove date February 2009 Chinese nationalism zh t s p Zh nggu m nz zh y , sometimes synonymous with Chinese patriotism zh t s p igu zh y lit. Love country ideology refers to Chinese ... of a cohesive, unified Zhonghua Minzu Chinese people and Culture of China culture in a unified ... misleading to view Chinese nationalism as a single phenomenon The tale of Chinese nationalism, or rather Chinese nationalisms, decidedly in the plural, is one that needs to be told in a manner ... The Many Faces of Chinese Nationalism author Jeffery Wasserstrom year 2010 Harvard Asia Pacific Review location Cambridge page 6 accessdate 2011 01 10 ref Ideological basis Chinese nationalism has drawn from extremely diverse ideological sources including traditional Chinese thinking, American ... collaborationism under Wang Jingwei . Although Chinese nationalists have agreed on the desirability of a centralized Chinese state, almost every other question has been the subject of intense and sometimes bitter debate. Among the questions on which Chinese nationalists have disagreed is what ... the majority Han Chinese , List of Chinese ethnic groups minority groups , and overseas Chinese . The vast variation in how Chinese nationalism has been expressed has been noted by commentators Lucian Pye who argues that this reveals a lack of content in the Chinese identity. However, others have argued that the ability of Chinese nationalism to manifest itself in many forms is a positive trait .... Although the variations among conceptions of Chinese nationalism are great, Chinese nationalist groups maintain some similarities, most notably Ultra imperialism . Chinese nationalistic ideologies ... more details
Chinos de Nicaragua Club of Chinese Teens of Nicaragua . Notable persons Arlen Siu Martyr of the FSLN ...infobox ethnic group group Chinese Nicaraguan br small Chino Nicarag ense small image caption poptime ... popplace Bluefields , Puerto Cabezas , Managua langs Spanish language Spanish , Mandarin Chinese Mandarin , Yue Chinese Cantonese , others rels Buddhism , Christianity , others related Chinese Cuban s, Overseas ChineseChinese Nicaraguans Simplified Chinese Pinyin n ji l gu hu r n Spanish language Spanish Chino Nicarag ense are Nicaraguans of Han ChineseChinese ancestry who immigrated to or born in Nicaragua . They are part of the ethnic Chinese diaspora or Overseas Chinese . Chinese ... of them settled in cities such as Bluefields , El Bluff , Laguna de Perlas , and Puerto Cabezas . ref cite news first Orient last Bol var Ju rez coauthors title Bluefields, rostro de Nicaragua frente ... work La Prensa pages accessdate 2007 03 26 language Spanish ref The Chinese immigrants dominated the commerce ... V squez coauthors title Fundaci n Cultural Nicaragua China promueven en rasgos de la mileria Cultura ... ChineseChinese were thought to have arrived in Nicaragua in the late 19th century, the majority of which ... remained unsubstantiated until the second census in 1920 revealed that 400 citizens of Chinese ... by the Miskito people Miskito s, but by communities of Jamaica ns, Germans and also Chinese in 1925. ref name PC Also, the community of Chinese immigrants in Bluefields was thought to be the largest ... Chinese consul came to Nicaragua in 1930. ref cite news first Gerardo last Vargas coauthors title La Asociaci n China Nicarag ense celebra A o del Cerdo de Fuego date publisher url http www.grupoese.com.ni 2007 feb 20 china.htm work Bolsa de Noicias pages accessdate 2007 08 17 language Spanish ref Many Chinese in Nicaragua committed themselves to the commerce industry and opened business es ... about when the Chinese first arrived in Nicaragua is scarce, Fernando Centeno Chiong, a Nicaraguan ... more details
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