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The name Shih Tzu is the Wade-Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese word for "lion". A female Shih Tzu at around 18 months of age. A female Shih Tzu, with different colored eyes. In contemporary Mandarin, the Shih Tzu is generally known as the "Xi Shi dog"; Xi Shi was regarded as one of the most beautiful women of ancient China.
In The Dresden Files series of books by Jim Butcher, the protagonist, wizard investigator Harry Dresden, comes into possession of a tiny puppy whom he names “Mouse.” Mouse grows into an unusually large mastiff -like dog with human level intelligence, remarkable resilience and strength, and the ability to perceive and attack spirits and non ...
The Scholars is a satirical novel that describes the life activities of various Chinese Confucian scholars, prudently set mostly in the early 16th century during the Ming dynasty that preceded the Qing.
15th century Japanese hanging scroll depicting a scene from the Oxherding sequence. Ten Bulls or Ten Ox Herding Pictures (Chinese: shíniú 十牛 , Japanese: jūgyūzu 十牛図 , korean: sipwoo 십우) is a series of short poems and accompanying drawings used in the Zen tradition to describe the stages of a practitioner's progress toward awakening, [web 1] and their subsequent return to ...
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Teaching how to draw leaves. Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden (芥子園畫傳, Jieziyuan Huazhuan), sometimes known as Jieziyuan Huapu (芥子園畫譜), is a printed manual of Chinese painting compiled during the early-Qing Dynasty. Many renowned later Chinese painters, like Qi Baishi, began their drawing
The translator Samuel B. Griffith offers a chapter on "Sun Tzu and Mao Tse-Tung" where The Art of War is cited as influencing Mao's On Guerrilla Warfare, On the Protracted War and Strategic Problems of China's Revolutionary War, and includes Mao's quote: "We must not belittle the saying in the book of Sun Wu Tzu, the great military expert of ...
Notes 61: 伯夷列傳: Biography of Bo Yi: The brothers Bo Yi 伯夷 and Shu Qi 叔齊 62: 管晏列傳: Biographies of Guan and Yan: Guan Zhong and Yan Ying (晏嬰) 63: 老子韓非列傳: Biographies of Laozi and Han Fei: Includes the biographies of Zhuangzi and Shen Buhai: 64: 司馬穰苴列傳: Biography of Sima Rangju: 65 ...