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    connections, Yuan travelled to Tengzhou, Shandong, and sought a post in the Qing Brigade. Yuan's first marriage was in 1876 to a woman of the Yu family who...
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    group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948. Yu was born in Acheng County in 1899. She attended Peking Union Medical College, Shanghai Medical...
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    Yu Kuizhi (Chinese: ; born 15 December 1961) is a Peking opera performer of Hui Chinese ethnicity. He plays the role of elderly men (laosheng) in Peking...
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    Peking University (PKU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The...
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    Cai Yuanpei (redirect from Tsai Yuan-pei)
    education reform with his own education ideology. He was the president of Peking University, and founder of the Academia Sinica. He was known for his critical...
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    Consort Yu (Chinese: 虞姬; pinyin: Jī; died 202 BC), also known as "Yu the Beauty" (虞美人; Měirén), was the wife of the warlord Xiang Yu, who competed...
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    Peking opera, or Beijing opera (Chinese: 京劇; pinyin: Jīngjù), is the most dominant form of Chinese opera, which combines instrumental music, vocal performance...
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    Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis) is a subspecies of H. erectus which inhabited the Zhoukoudian cave site in modern northern China during the Chibanian...
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    Beijing (redirect from Chinese Peking)
    Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's most populous national capital...
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  • his name Wen Yuan-ning. Wen became a professor of English language and literature in 1925, teaching at various institutions including Peking University...
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    Peking Union Medical College, also as Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, is a national public medical sciences research institution in Dongcheng, Beijing...
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    Yu Sheng or Yu Xing (Chinese: 余省, 1692–after 1767), courtesy name Zengsan (曾三) and art name Luting (魯亭), was a Chinese court painter in the Qing dynasty...
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    Thunderstorm by Cao Yu. In the Republican era, Cantonese opera entered a golden age, with numerous new plays being written. Peking Opera also became popular...
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    Agriculture respectively. Yuan was born at Peking Union Medical College Hospital in Beijing, China on September 7, 1930 to Yuan Xinglie and Hua Jing. He...
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    Imperial Gardens (traditional Chinese: 御園; simplified Chinese: 御园; pinyin: Yuán), and sometimes called the Winter Palace, was a complex of palaces and...
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    ISBN 9787112136841 Yu, Kongjian, Li DIhua, Li Hailong and Zhanglei (2012), The Grand Canal National Heritage and Ecological Corrido, Peking University Press...
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    1993, by Yu Minhong (aka Michael Yu), a graduate of Peking University with an English major. Prior to venturing into entrepreneurship, Yu Minhong served...
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    list of people associated with Peking University in China. Several notable individuals have been associated with Peking University. Chen Duxiu 陈独秀 – dean...
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    Yuan 猿 "ape; monkey" is used in Chinese terms such as yuanren 猿人 "ape-man; Hominidae" and Beijing yuanren 北京猿人 "Peking Man". The etymology of yuan <...
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    O. 2016a. Ewenke yu jiaocheng . Peking: Shehui kexue wenxian chubanshe. Chaoke D. O. 2016b. Suolun ewenke yu jiben cihui . Peking: Shehui kexue wenxian...
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    both girls "would quite fascinate the Empress Dowager if they go to Peking". The Yu sisters liked Prince Zaizhen too, "immensely", as Der Ling remembered...
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    Feng Youlan (redirect from Fung Yu-lan)
    Selected Philosophical Writings of Fung Yu-lan (Beijing: Foreign Language Press) ISBN 7-119-01063-8 Xin yuan ren (A New Treatise on the Nature of Man)...
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    joined Yuan Shao after his defeat, Zhang Fei took control of a small city, and Guan Yu temporarily served under Cao Cao and helped him slay two of Yuan Shao's...
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    National Peking Opera Company in Beijing, the Beijing Jingju Yuan (北京京剧院), the Shanghai Youth Jing-Kun Troupe (上海青年京崑劇團), Shenyang Jingju Yuan (沈阳京剧院)...
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    Yu Chongwen (Chinese: 於崇文; pinyin: Chóngwén; 15 February 1924 – 12 June 2022) was a Chinese scientist who was a professor at the China University of...
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    the Peking opera emerged in popularity and has come to known as the "national theatre" of China, but other genres like Yue opera, Cantonese opera, Yu opera...
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    restored in 1949 at the founding of the People's Republic of China. Look up Peking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Portugal was the first European country...
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  • Yuan Shuhong (Chinese: 袁曙宏; pinyin: Yuán Shǔhóng; born July 1958) is a Chinese politician who served as party branch secretary of the Ministry of Justice...
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    2010 His 1990 composition Dou E yuan [Snow in summer] (see Example 2) employed recitation in the singing style of Peking opera, accompanied by voices, suona...
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    Ruan Lingyu (redirect from Lily Yuan)
    group of leftist Chinese directors. In Little Toys (1933), a film by Sun Yu, Ruan played a long-suffering toy-maker. Her next film, The Goddess (1934;...
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