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Although the name of the jacket in English and Chinese suggests an origin during (or at least reference to) the Tang period of Chinese history, [5] it was actually intended by its designers to mean a "Chinese" outfit. [6] [7] In fact, “Tangzhuang” is basically the Chinese style of dress in the late Qing Dynasty. The origin of the term ...
Yamato people and Ryukyuan people, primarily Japanese settlers that remained in China after the Second Sino-Japanese War, which mostly were women and orphaned children [14] During the Fifth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China held in 2000, 734,438 people on the mainland were recorded as belonging to "undistinguished ...
Taiwanese politician Mei Feng had criticised the official English name of the state, "Republic of China", for failing to translate the Chinese character "Min" (Chinese: 民; English: people) according to Sun Yat-sen's original interpretations, while the name should instead be translated as "the People's Republic of China", which confuses with ...
For the local variety of a county or city, use "xxx dialect" unless another name is more common. In the event that the name of a variety is also the name used to refer to the people (e.g. Shanghainese), the variety should take precedence as the primary article name with a disambiguation link for the people.
Baima people Jie: 羯 (Jié) Shanxi province Late 2nd century to mid-4th century No known equivalence N/A The majority died in the Ran Wei–Later Zhao war, the rest assimilated into Hans. Some Turkic people or Yeniseian people may be related to the Jie. Dian: 滇國 (diānguó) Dian Lake, Yunnan: 4th century BC to 1st century BC, assimilated ...
Tangzhong (Chinese: 湯種; pinyin: tāngzhǒng), also known as a water roux or yu-dane (Japanese: 湯種, romanized: yu-dane) [1] [2] is a paste of flour cooked in water or milk to over 65 °C (149 °F) which is used to improve the texture of bread and increase the amount of time it takes to stale.
Name (English) Name (Chinese) Tenure begins Tenure ends Note Feng Baiju: 冯白驹: July 1950: July 1952: Feng Baiju: 冯白驹: July 1952: May 1958: First Political Commissar Chen Renqi 陈仁麒: November 1952: December 1955: Second Political Commissar Xie Tangzhong 谢镗忠: November 1955: April 1963: Second Political Commissar Lin Liming ...
The name Tangut first appears in the Orkhon inscriptions of 735. In their own Tangut language, the Tanguts called themselves Mi-niah (Miñak). Until the 19th century, the term Minjak was still used to refer to the area inhabited by Qiang people in today's Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture.