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    Wolfram Eberhard (March 17, 1909 – August 15, 1989) was a professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley focused on Western, Central...
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  • axe would be broken or dulled after trying to chop down a forest. Wolfram Eberhard, A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols, pp238-9, Routledge and Kegan Paul...
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  • Eberhard Wolfram (24 July 1882 – 6 January 1947) was a Vizeadmiral with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the...
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    the Typen türkischer Volksmärchen ("Turkish Folktale Catalogue"), by Wolfram Eberhard and Pertev Naili Boratav, both scholars listed the variants with the...
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    mansions in the Azure Dragon, which is one of the celestial Four Symbols. Wolfram Eberhard notes, "When the dragon star appeared in the sky it was customary to...
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  • Luxembourgish architect and politician Wolfram Eberhard (1909–1989), a sociologist of rural China Eberhard's, supermarket chain in Michigan Everard,...
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  • The Water Mother is a Chinese fairy tale collected by Wolfram Eberhard in Folktales of China. It does not exist in early text, although the cult of the...
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    can also be colloquially shown as 屎巴巴 otherwise. Huang, Frank and Wolfram Eberhard (1968), "On Some Chinese Terms of Abuse Archived 2020-09-22 at the...
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    Civilizations. New Attempts at Understanding Traditions), vol. 2, 1983, eds. Wolfram Eberhard et al., pp. 121–36. ISBN 3-88676-041-3. http://www.ulrichneininger...
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    quadrupeds, in general the hairy beings, were born successively. … Wolfram Eberhard suggests this "otherwise unknown" maodu "hairy calf" alludes to the...
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    Elementargeister, 3. Auflage München 2003; Seite 31–32; Lemma „Baumgeist“ Wolfram Eberhard, The Local Cultures of South and East China, pg. 64 Olivier Dabène...
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  • minerals, and dries its humidity. 千古中医之张仲景. Lecture Room, CCTV-10. Wolfram Eberhard, A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols, pp238 -9, Routledge & Kegan Paul...
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  • Archaeology of Asia. Blackwell Publishing. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-4051-0213-1. Wolfram, Eberhard. A History of China. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California...
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    BCE) who was enfeoffed in the state of Yang. The German sociologist Wolfram Eberhard calls Yang the "Monkey Clan", citing the totemistic myth recorded in...
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    ISBN 978-1-57607-806-8. Wolfram Eberhard (1968), The Local Cultures of South and East China, E.J. Brill, 193-195. Wolfram Eberhard (1986), A Dictionary of...
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  • "self-renewing soil", and compares other translations of "breathing earth" (Wolfram Eberhard), "swelling mold" (Derk Bodde), "idle soil" (Roger Greatrex), and "living...
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     249.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Wolfram Eberhard (1982). China's minorities: yesterday and today. Wadsworth. p. 89....
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    Kurt Eberhard (12 September 1874 – 8 September 1947) was a German Nazi officer. He rose to the rank of Brigadeführer of the SS and in the German army....
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    needed] While Magu folktales are familiar in East Asia, the sociologist Wolfram Eberhard was the first Western scholar to analyze them. He categorized Magu...
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    especially used as mortar for mausoleum walls (Zuo Zhuan, Rites of Zhou). Wolfram Eberhard describes the shèn mussel as "a strange animal", and mentions the Rites...
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    of Shahmaran are considered a national treasure in Turkey. Scholars Wolfram Eberhard and Pertev Naili Boratav devised a classification system for Turkish...
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    Boy. In the first catalogue of Chinese folktales (devised in 1937), Wolfram Eberhard abstracted a Chinese folktype indexed as number 34, Schwanenjungfrau...
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    and associations with other legends. The sociologist and historian Wolfram Eberhard analyzed the range of various hundun myths. He treated it as a world...
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  • im Meer salzig geworden ("How seawater became salty"). Folklorist Wolfram Eberhard stated that the tale type is "found ... particularly in Scandinavia"...
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    horses). Wolfram Eberhard points out that compared to other cultures it is "striking " that Chinese literature rarely has given names for dogs. (Eberhard 2003:...
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  • Eberhard, Wolfram. Typen Chinesischer Volksmärchen. FF Communications 120. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica, 1937. p. 52. Eberhard, Wolfram. Typen...
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  • mǎjiāo "Chinese mackerel, Chinese seerfish" is also called 章鮌 zhānggǔn. Wolfram Eberhard (1968) suggests that Chinese texts' descriptions of 鯀 Gǔn as a "naked...
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    whom merchandise and barter were as the breath of their nostrils? Wolfram Eberhard (1966). A history of China. Plain Label Books. p. 449. ISBN 1-60303-420-X...
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    Tungsten (redirect from Wolfram (element))
    Tungsten (also called wolfram) is a chemical element; it has symbol W and atomic number 74. It is a rare metal found naturally on Earth almost exclusively...
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    tradicionales del mundo Andrew Lang's Color Fairy Books (1890–1913) Wolfram Eberhard (1909–1989) Howard Pyle's The Wonder Clock Ruth Manning-Sanders (Wales...
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