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Quanzhou

(Encyclopedia) QuanzhouQuanzhouchwänˈjōˈ [key], formerly TsinkiangTsinkiangchĭnˈjyängˈ, tsĭnˈkyängˈ [key], town (1994 est. pop. 207,800), SE Fujian prov., China, on an inlet of Taiwan Strait. Local…

Shaw, Run Run

(Encyclopedia) Shaw, Run Run, 1907–2014, Chinese film mogul, best known of the six Shaw brothers who founded an Asian movie empire. In Shanghai, he and his elder brother Runme Shaw made their first…

Triad Society

(Encyclopedia) Triad Society, name given to a number of Chinese antidynastic secret societies by 19th-century Western observers. Most of these groups claimed descent from the Heaven and Earth Society…

Fujian

(Encyclopedia) Fujian Fujian f&oomacr;ˈjēĕnˈ [key] or Fukien Fujian…

Sun Yat-sen

(Encyclopedia) Sun Yat-senSun Yat-sens&oomacr;n yät-sĕn [key], Mandarin Sun Wen, 1866–1925, Chinese revolutionary. He was born near Guangzhou into a farm-owning family. He attended (1879–82) an…

Guangdong

(Encyclopedia) Guangdong or Kwangtung Guangdong both: gwängˈd&oobreve;ngˈ [key],…

Ethnicity and Race by Countries

Find the ethnic and racial composition of every country in the world, listed alphabetically. Afghanistan Pashtun 42%, Tajik 27%, Hazara 9%, Uzbek 9%, Aimaks 4%, Turkmen 3%, Baloch 2%, others 4…