| Tujia The Tujia (土家族; pinyin:endonym:Bizika 毕兹卡), with a total population of over 8 million, is the 6th largest ethnic minority in People's Republic of China. They live in Wuling Range, straddling the common borders of Hunan, Hubei and Guizhou Provinces, and Chongqing Municipality.Their endonym Bizika means "native dwellers" in the Tujia language. Tujia
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| Ethnic minorities in China Talk:Ethnic_minorities_in_China
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| Ambassadors of the United States Ambassadors from the United States. There are also individual articles listing the holders of many of the ambassadorial offices, for which see .The incumbents change from time to time; sometimes a post starts or stops being temporarily headed by a lower ranking diplomat. Occasionally, a post is created or abolished. Ambassadors_of_the_United_States
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| Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China is conducted under a wide variety of laws and administrative regulations. In accordance with these laws, more than sixty Internet regulations have been made by the People's Republic of China (PRC) government, and censorship systems are vigorously implemented by provincial branches of state-owned ISPs, business companies, and organizations. Internet_censorship_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China
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| Ma Ying-jeou Ma Ying-jeou (Hong Kong July 13, 1950) is the incumbent President of the Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as "Taiwan". He formerly served as Justice Minister from 1993 to 1996, Mayor of Taipei from 1998 to 2006, and Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 2005 to 2007. Ma_Ying-jeou
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| Zhang Yimou Zhang Yimou (born November 14, 1951) is an internationally acclaimed Chinese filmmaker and former cinematographer, and one of the best known of the Fifth Generation of Chinese film directors. He made his directorial debut in 1987 with the film Red Sorghum. One of Zhang's recurrent themes is a celebration of the resilience, even the stubbornness, of Chinese people in the face of hardships and adversities, a theme which has occurred from To Live (1994) through to Not One Less (1999). Zhang_Yimou
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| List of transgender people The people on this list have been selected because their fame or notoriety is in some way due or connected to their transgender identity or behaviour. The individual listings note the subject's nationality and main occupation, especially if the person is known for reasons other than their transgenderism.It is often difficult to construe the gender and sexual identity of those people who lived before the 20th century, since most of the modern concepts of gender were not developed until the second half of the century. List_of_transgender_people
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| Songs for the Deaf Songs for the Deaf is the third studio album by American hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age. Released in 2002, the album features Foo Fighters and Nirvana member Dave Grohl as a guest drummer. Songs_for_the_Deaf
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| State Council Information Office State Council Information Office (SCIO, ) is an administrative office under the State Council, the chief administrative body of the People's Republic of China. It appears to be the chief information office of the Chinese government. State_Council_Information_Office
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| Hu Jintao Talk:Hu_Jintao
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| Art Carney Arthur William Matthew “Art” Carney (November 4, 1918 – November 9, 2003) was an American actor in film, stage, television and radio. Carney portrayed the upstairs neighbor and sewer worker Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden in the situation comedy The Honeymooners. Art_Carney
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| Three Links Three Links or Three Linkages (; Pinyin:National People's Congress in 1979. The three links include direct postal (通郵/通邮 Tōng yóu), transportation (especially airline) (通航 Tōng háng), and trade (通商 Tōng shāng) links between mainland China and Taiwan. Three_Links
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| Matt Damon Matthew Paige Damon (born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, writer and philanthropist whose career was launched following the success of the film Good Will Hunting, from a screenplay he co-wrote with friend Ben Affleck. The pair won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for the work and Damon garnered multiple nominations for Best Actor for his lead performance in the same film. Matt_Damon
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| Family tree Family trees can have many themes. One might encompass all descendants of a single figure, or all known ancestors of a living person. Another might include all members of a particular surname (e.g. m Family_tree
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| Bids for the 2012 Summer Olympics Nine cities submitting bids to host the 2012 Summer Olympics were recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The Committee shortlisted five of them—London, Madrid, Moscow, New York City, and Paris—from which London eventually prevailed; it will become the first city to host the Olympic Games for a third time. Bids_for_the_2012_Summer_Olympics
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| Chengdu Chengdu (), located in southwest People's Republic of China, is the capital of Sichuan province and a sub-provincial city. Chengdu is also one of the most important economic centers, transportation and communication hubs in Southwestern China. According to the 2007 Public Appraisal for Best Chinese Cities for Investment, Chengdu was chosen as one of the top ten cities to invest in, out of a total of 280 urban centers in China. Chengdu
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| Xanadu Xanadu, also spelled Shangdu or Shang-tu () and also known as Kaiping (), was the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty in China, after he decided to move the capital of the Yuan Dynasty to Dadu, present-day Beijing. The city was located in what is now called Inner Mongolia, north of Beijing, about Xanadu
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| Empire of Japan The Empire of Japan (Kyūjitai:Shinjitai:Dai Nippon Teikoku; literally Great Imperial Japan or Great Empire of Japan, officially Great Japan, Empire of Greater Japan or Greater Japanese Empire; more widely known as Imperial Japan or the Japanese Empire) was a Japanese political entity that existed during the period from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until its defeat in World War II in 1945. Empire_of_Japan
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| Dolphin/Archive 1 Talk:Dolphin/Archive_1
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| Water dispute Water dispute is a term describing a conflict between two parties over a source of water. These conflicts occur over both freshwater and saltwater, and between international boundaries. The United Nations recognizes that water disputes result from opposing interests of water users, public or private. Water_dispute
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| Japanese diaspora The Japanese diaspora, and its individual members known as , are Japanese emigrants from Japan and their descendants to other parts of the world. Emigration from Japan first happened and was recorded as early as the 12th century to the Philippines, but did not become a mass phenomenon until the Meiji Era, when Japanese began to go to North America, beginning in 1897 with 35 emigrants to Mexico; and later Latin America, beginning in 1899 with 790 emigrants to Peru. Japanese_diaspora
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| Kenya Kenya
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| Severe acute respiratory syndrome Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS; , ) is a respiratory disease in humans which is caused by the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV). There has been one near pandemic to date, between the months of November 2002 and July 2003, with 8,096 known infected cases and 774 deaths (a case-fatality rate of 9.6%) worldwide being listed in the World Health Organization's (WHO) 21 April 2004 concluding report. Severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome
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| Kunming Kunming (; , ; UN/LOCODE:CNKMG) is a prefecture-level city and capital of Yunnan province, in southwestern China. Because of its year-round temperate climate, Kunming is often called the "Spring City" or "City of Eternal Spring" (春城). Kunming is the political, economic, communications and cultural center of Yunnan, and is the seat of the provincial government. Kunming
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| Salween River The Salween River (; ; also spelled Salwine) rises in Tibet (), after which it flows through Yunnan, where it is known as the Nujiang river (), although either name can be used for the whole river. The river is 2,815 km long. It then leaves China and meanders through Burma (where it is known as the Thanlwin) and Thailand (where it is known as the Salawin, ThaiAndaman Sea by Mawlamyaing (Moulmien). Salween_River
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| Protests against the Iraq War 2003 invasion of Iraq, protests against the Iraq War were held in many cities worldwide, often coordinated to occur simultaneously around the world. After the biggest series of demonstrations, on February 15, 2003, New York Times writer Patrick Tyler claimed that they showed that there were two superpowers on the planet, the United States and worldwide public opinion.These demonstrations against the war were mainly organized by anti-war organizations, many of whom had been formed in opposition to the invasion of Afghanistan. Protests_against_the_Iraq_War
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| Leslie Cheung Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing (12 September 1956 – 1 April 2003), nicknamed elder brother (哥哥), Leslie_Cheung
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| Tony Leung Chiu-Wai Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (; born 27 June 1962) is a Cannes Film Festival and five-time Hong Kong Film Award-winning Chinese film and television actor. He has also won the Golden Horse Film Awards thrice (in 1994, 2003 and 2007). He has been a major film star since the 1990s.To distinguish himself from fellow actor Tony Leung Ka-Fai, he is known colloquially in Hong Kong as "Little Tony", while Ka-Fai is known as "Big Tony", nicknames which correspond to the actors' respective physical statures. Tony_Leung_Chiu-Wai
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| Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook lethal human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II. It was responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes carried out by Japanese personnel. Unit_731
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| Re-education through labor Re-education through labor (láodòng jiàoyǎng 劳动教养, abbreviated láojiào 劳教) is a system of administrative detentions in the People's Republic of China which is generally used to detain persons for minor crimes such as petty theft, prostitution, and trafficking illegal drugs, as well as crimes against the state such as leading unregistered Chinese house churches, for periods of up to four years. Re-education_through_labor
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| Human rights in the People's Republic of China Since the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the human rights issue of China has come to the forefront. Multiple sources, including the U.S. State Department's annual People's Republic of China human rights reports, as well as studies from other groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have documented the PRC's abuses of human rights in violation of internationally recognized norms. Human_rights_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China
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| Terje Rød-Larsen Terje Rød-Larsen (born November 22, 1947) is a Norwegian diplomat and sociologist.Rød-Larsen grew up in Bergen and studied social sciences, culminating in a Ph.D. in sociology. He taught at Norwegian universities until 1981, when he helped found FAFO, a research organization funded by the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions. Terje_Rød-Larsen
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| Buddhism in China Chinese Buddhism (; PinyinBuddhism that have flourished in China proper since ancient times. Many of these schools integrated the ideas of Confucianism, Taoism and other indigenous philosophical systems so that what was initially a foreign religion (the buddhadharma) came to be a natural part of Chinese civilization, albeit with a unique character. Buddhism has played an enormous role in shaping the mindset of the Chinese people, affecting their aesthetics, politics, literature, philosophy and medicine. Buddhism_in_China
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| Leon Lai Leon Lai is a Hong Kong-based actor and Cantopop singer. The media refer to Aaron Kwok, Jacky Cheung, Andy Lau and Leon Lai as the Cantopop Four Heavenly Kings. Leon_Lai
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| Sexual harassment Sexual harassment is unwelcome harassment of a sexual nature, or based upon the receiving party's sex or gender. In some contexts or circumstances, sexual harassment may be illegal. It includes a range of behavior from seemingly mild transgressions and annoyances to actual sexual abuse or sexual assault. Sexual_harassment
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| Yao Ming Yao Ming (; born September 12, 1980) is a professional basketball player who plays for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is currently the tallest player in the NBA, at Yao_Ming
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| Keira Knightley Keira Christina Knightley (; born 26 March 1985) is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child and came to international prominence in 2003 after co-starring in the films Bend It Like Beckham and Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy.Knightley has appeared in several Hollywood films and earned nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in Joe Wright's 2005 adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice. Keira_Knightley
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| Custody and repatriation Custody and repatriation (Chinese:Pinyin:administrative procedure, established in 1982 and ended in 2003, by which the police in the People's Republic of China (usually cities) could detain people if they did not have a residence permit (hukou) or temporary living permit (zanzhuzheng), and return them to the place where they could legally live or work (usually rural areas). At times the requirement included possession of a valid national identity card. Custody_and_repatriation
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| Qingdao ''postal map spelling Tsingtao, is a major city in eastern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. It borders Yantai to the northeast, Weifang to the west and Rizhao to the southwest. Lying across the Shandong Peninsula while looking out to the Yellow Sea, Qingdao today is a major seaport, naval base, and industrial center. Qingdao
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| Media of the People's Republic of China This article is about media in mainland China. See also Media of Hong Kong and Media of Macau. For the Republic of China (Taiwan), see Media of Taiwan.The People's Republic of China is home to about a fifth of the entire world's population. Media_of_the_People's_Republic_of_China
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| Internet in the People's Republic of China The first connection of the mainland of the People's Republic of China with the Internet was established on September 20, 1987 between ICA Beijing and Karlsruhe University in Germany, under the leadership of Prof. Werner Zorn and Prof. Wang Yunfeng. Since then the Internet in China has grown to host the largest base of net users in the world. In the past decade, the Internet has emerged as a new cultural phenomenon in mainland China, much like in the West. Internet_in_the_People's_Republic_of_China
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| Old Summer Palace The Old Summer Palace, known in China as the Gardens of Perfect Brightness (), and originally called the Imperial Gardens (), was a complex of palaces and gardens northwest of the walls of the Imperial City in Beijing, built in the 18th and early 19th century, where the emperors of the Qing Dynasty resided and handled government affairs (the Forbidden City was used only for formal ceremonies). Old_Summer_Palace
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