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Rat tribe (Chinese: 鼠族; pinyin: shǔzú) is a neologism used to describe low income migrant workers who live in underground accommodations within Chinese cities. [1] As 2015, official estimates are of 281,000 people living in Beijing 's underground, although estimates of up to one million have also been widely reported.
Kondiaronk (c. 1625 –1701) [1] (Gaspar Soiaga, Souojas, Sastaretsi), known as Le Rat (The Rat), was Chief of the Native American Wendat people at Michilimackinac in New France. As a result of an Iroquois attack and dispersal of the Hurons in 1649, the latter settled in Michilimackinac. [ 2 ]
Xu married Zhao Jun (照君) in 1959 in Beijing, they have a son, Xu Ming (许明), also a translator. His wife died in 2018, aged 85. His wife died in 2018, aged 85. He turned 100 on 18 April 2021 [ 29 ] and died just under two months later, on 17 June in Beijing .
The culture of the People's Republic of China (PRC) is a rich and varied blend of traditional Chinese culture with communist and other international modern and post-modern influences. During the Cultural Revolution , an enormous number of cultural treasures of inestimable value were seriously damaged or destroyed, and the practice of many arts ...
Iu Mien American Youth - Lunar New Year Celebration. The Iu Mien people (Iu Mienh 勉) are a subgroup of the Pan Yao branch of the Yao nationality, which is the largest of the three major Yao groups according to the Nationalities Affairs Commission of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in China.
Patois (/ ˈ p æ t w ɑː /, pl. same or / ˈ p æ t w ɑː z /) [1] is speech or language that is considered nonstandard, although the term is not formally defined in linguistics.As such, patois can refer to pidgins, creoles, dialects or vernaculars, but not commonly to jargon or slang, which are vocabulary-based forms of cant.
Miao folkdance – Guizhou, China. Miao is a word that the Chinese use to designate some ethnic minority groups living in southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia.Miao is thus officially recognized by the Chinese government as one of the largest ethnic minority groups that has more than 56 official ethnicities and dialects.
Han Chinese people and culture later spread southwards in the Chinese mainland, driven by large and sustained waves of migration during successive periods of Chinese history, e.g. the Qin (221–206 BC) and Han (202 BC – 220 AD) dynasties, leading to a demographic and economic tilt towards the south, and the absorption of various non-Han ...