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P2 was released theatrically in the United States in November 2007, and was the first feature film distributed by Summit Entertainment. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, averaging less than $1,000 per cinema during its opening weekend. The film went on to gross $7.7 million internationally.
The Battle of Ngọc Hồi-Đống Đa or Qing invasion of Đại Việt (Vietnamese: Trận Ngọc Hồi - Đống Đa; Chinese: 清軍入越戰爭), also known as Victory of Kỷ Dậu (Vietnamese: Chiến thắng Kỷ Dậu), was fought between the forces of the Vietnamese Tây Sơn dynasty and the Qing dynasty in Ngọc Hồi [] (a place near Thanh Trì) and Đống Đa in northern Vietnam ...
King's War, also known as Legend of Chu and Han, is a Chinese television series based on the events of the late Qin dynasty and the Chu–Han Contention (206–202 BC) leading to the establishment of the Han dynasty in ancient China.
Chu Tʻien-wen (Chinese: 朱天文; born 24 August 1956) is a Taiwanese fiction writer. Chu is perhaps best known for writing the screenplays for most Hou Hsiao-hsien films. She is the recipient of the 2015 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. Her father Chu Hsi-ning and younger sister Chu Tʻien-hsin are also famous writers.
The repeating crossbow (Chinese: 連弩; pinyin: Lián Nǔ), also known as the repeater crossbow, and the Zhuge crossbow (Chinese: 諸葛弩; pinyin: Zhūgě nǔ, also romanized Chu-ko-nu) due to its association with the Three Kingdoms-era strategist Zhuge Liang (181–234 AD), is a crossbow invented during the Warring States period in China that combined the bow spanning, bolt placing, and ...
Zhou Chu (traditional Chinese: 周處; simplified Chinese: 周处; 236? [ 1 ] –12 February 297 [ 2 ] ), courtesy name Ziyin ( 子隱 ), was a Western Jin -era Chinese general. He was the son of Zhou Fang , a famous Eastern Wu general.
Phan Châu Trinh was born in Tây Lộc village, Hà Đông district, Thăng Bình fu (now is Tam Lộc commune, Phú Ninh district) of Quảng Nam province in 1872.He was the third son of a rich and famous scholar, who joined and became an official in the Cần Vương association of Quảng Nam in 1885.
Phan Huy Chú (1782–1840) was a Vietnamese mandarin administrator, scholar and historian. He was a son of the scholar and official Phan Huy Ích, who had been a noted official in the short-lived Tay Son regime. Chú was recruited to go on a mission to China in 1825, the 6th year of the reign of Minh Mệnh.