From existing literary evidence, commoner rankings in China were employed for the first time during the Warring States period (403–221 BCE). Despite this, Eastern-Han (25–220 CE) historian Ban Gu (3 ...
Early life and education Timothy Brook was born on January 6, 1951 in Toronto, Ontario in Canada, grew up in that city and currently lives in Vancouver.After graduating from the University of Toronto ...
Daughters # Title Born Died Married Spouse Issue Mother1 unnamed 23 December 1668 November 1671 Ordinary Consort Zhang2 unnamed 17 April 1671 8 January 1674 Ordinary Consort Dong3 State Princess ...
In the early decades of Kangxi's reign, Jesuits played a large role in the imperial court. With their knowledge of astronomy, they ran the imperial observatory. Jean-Fran?ois Gerbillon and Thomas Per ...
Born on 4 May 1654 to the Shunzhi Emperor and Empress Xiaokangzhang, Kangxi was originally given the personal name Xuanye (Chinese: 玄燁 ; Manchu language: ?????? ??? ; M?llendorff translite ...
The technique is found through East and Central Asia, and in the Byzantine world for cloth, and by AD 1000 examples of woodblock printing on paper appear in Islamic Egypt. Printing onto cloth had spre ...
Seals and stamps Prior to the invention of woodblock printing, seals and stamps were used for making impressions. The oldest of these seals come from Mesopotamia and Egypt. The use of round "cylinder ...
In 2011 the DNA of the Miao were sampled with the White Hmong having 7.84% D-M15. Chinese text stated the San Miao went South to the Yangtze River area then were later exiled to Gansu. The Miao seem t ...
The term "Miao" gained official status in 1949 as a minzu (ethnic group) encompassing a group of linguistically related ethnic minorities in southwest China. This was part of a larger effort to identi ...
Guizhou's rail network consists primarily of a cross formed by the Sichuan-Guizhou, Guangxi-Guizhou and Shanghai-Kunming Railways, which intersect at the provincial capital, Guiyang, near the center o ...
The vast majority of Han Chinese – over 1.2 billion – live in areas under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China (PRC), where they constitute about 92% of its population. Within the Peop ...
The Chinese-language term for ethnic minority is shaoshu minzu (simplified Chinese: 少数民族; traditional Chinese: 少數民族; pinyin: shǎoshù mínzú; literally: "minority people groups"). In early P ...
Sociology is another field which prominently features ethnographies. Urban sociology and the Chicago School in particular are associated with ethnographic research, with some well-known early examples ...
Gerhard Friedrich Müller developed the concept of ethnography as a separate discipline whilst participating in the Second Kamchatka Expedition (1733–43) as a professor of history and geography. Whil ...
One issue facing Western embassies to China was the act of prostration known as the kowtow. Western diplomats understood that kowtowing meant accepting the superiority of the Emperor of China over the ...
