Another alternative name for Shanghai is Shēn (申) or Shēnchéng (申城, "Shen City"), from Lord Chunshen, a third-century BC nobleman and prime minister of the state of Chu, whose fief included mode ...
After the victory of the Chinese Communist armies in 1949 and suppression of religion, the members of all missionary societies departed or were expelled from China. Missionaries Arthur Matthews (an Am ...
The Boxer Rebellion in 1900 was the worst disaster in missionary history. One hundred and eighty-nine Protestant missionaries, including 53 children, (and many Roman Catholic priests and nuns) were ki ...
Missionary activity (1807–1842) Until 1842, foreign traders and missionaries in China were required to live in Macau or the Thirteen Factories area in Guangzhou. Travel outside those two areas was fo ...
The Chinese language has spread to neighbouring countries through a variety of means. Northern Vietnam was incorporated into the Han empire in 111 BCE, beginning a period of Chinese control that ran a ...
Matteo Ricci Pacific Studies Reading Room at The National Central Library of TaiwanRicci Hall, a dormitory at The University of Hong KongRicci Building, a building at Wah Yan College, Kowloon in Hong ...
Matteo Ricci was born in 1552 in Macerata, part of the Papal States, and today a city in the Italian region of Marche. Ricci started learning theology and law in a Roman Jesuit school. He entered the ...
The arrival of Jesuits Nicolas Trigault (1577–1629) in Chinese costume, by Peter Paul Rubens.Matteo Ricci (left) and Xu Guangqi (right) in the Chinese edition of Euclid's Elements published in 1607.C ...
Jiang Tingxi (simplified Chinese: 蒋廷锡; traditional Chinese: 蔣廷錫; pinyin: Jiǎng Tíngxí; Wade–Giles: Chiang T'ing-hsi, 1669–1732), courtesy name Yangsun (杨孙), was a Chinese painter, and an ...
Jiang Tingxi (simplified Chinese: 蒋廷锡; traditional Chinese: 蔣廷錫; pinyin: Jiǎng Tíngxí; Wade–Giles: Chiang T'ing-hsi, 1669–1732), courtesy name Yangsun (杨孙), was a Chinese painter, and an ...
The 32 subdivisions are as follows.Heavens/Time/Calendrics: Celestial objects, the seasons, calendar mathematics and astronomy, heavenly portentsEarth/Geography: Mineralogy, political geography, list ...
The entire premise of the scholarly meritocracy was based on mastery of the Confucian classics. This had important effects on Chinese society.Theoretically, this system would result in a highly merito ...
The four binary elements of each figure allow for 16 different combinations, each called a tableau. As each chart is generated from the four Mothers, there are a total number of 164, or 65,536, possib ...
History of geomancy The sixteen geomantic figures.Geomancy, from Ancient Greek geōmanteía translates literally to "foresight by earth"; it is a translation of the Arabic term ?ilm al-raml, or the ...
The pagoda is evolved from the stupa from the Indian subcontinent, a tomb-like structure where sacred relics could be kept safe and venerated. The architectural structure of the stupa has spread acros ...
