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This is a list of the Chinese era names used by the various dynasties and regimes in the history of China, sorted by monarch. The English renditions of the era names in this list are based on the Hanyu Pinyin system. However, some academic works utilize the Wade–Giles romanization.
The relevancy of these figures to the earliest Chinese people is unknown, since most accounts of them were written from the Warring States period (c. 475–221 BCE) onwards. [22] The sinologist Kwang-chih Chang has generalized the typical stages: "the first period was populated by gods , the second by demigods / culture hero , and the third by ...
The history of Chinese Americans or the history of ethnic Chinese in the United States includes three major waves of Chinese immigration to the United States, beginning in the 19th century. Chinese immigrants in the 19th century worked in the California Gold Rush of the 1850s and the Central Pacific Railroad in the 1860s. They also worked as ...
Kang-i Sun Chang (孫康宜) – writer and literary scholar. Lan Samantha Chang – writer; director of the Iowa Writer's Workshop. Victoria Chang – poet, children's writer, and essayist. Ted Chiang (姜峯楠) – speculative fiction writer. Frank Chin (趙健秀) – novelist, playwright, and essayist. Marilyn Chin (陈美玲) – poet ...
The Revolt of the Three Feudatories was led by three territories ( Chinese: 三藩; pinyin: Sānfàn) in southern China bestowed by the early Manchu rulers on three Han Chinese generals — Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong, and Shang Zhixin. In the second half of the 17th century, they revolted against the Qing government.
The name "Howqua" is a romanization, in his native Hokkien language, of the business name under which he traded, "浩官" ( Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hō-koaⁿ ). [8] He became rich on the trade between China and the British Empire in the middle of the 19th century during the First Opium War. Perhaps the wealthiest man in China during the nineteenth ...
In the 18th century, European soldiers styled their traditionally long hair into a queue called the "soldier's queue." The 18th century custom of tying periwigs (which normally reached down the back and chest) behind the neck began among soldiers and hunters, as seen as early as 1678 in a depiction of King Louis XIV hunting with his hair tied back.
Changshan ( Chinese: 長衫; pinyin: chángshān; lit. 'long shirt'; [ʈʂʰǎŋʂán] ⓘ ), also known as changpao ( Chinese: 長袍; pinyin: chángpáo; lit. 'Long robe'), and dagua ( Chinese: 大褂; pinyin: Dàguà; lit. 'Great jacket'), is a form of paofu, Chinese robe, which was derived from the Qing dynasty qizhuang, the traditional ...