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White monkey ( Chinese: 白猴子; pinyin: Bái hóuzi) is a term for the phenomenon of white foreigners or immigrants in China being hired for modeling, advertising, English teaching, or promotional jobs on the basis of their race. [1] [2] The phenomenon is based on the perception that association with foreigners, specifically white foreigners ...
A painting of a gentry scholar with two courtesans, by Tang Yin, c. 1500. The four occupations (simplified Chinese: 士农工商; traditional Chinese: 士農工商; pinyin: Shì nóng gōng shāng), or "four categories of the people" (Chinese: 四民; pinyin: sì mín), was an occupation classification used in ancient China by either Confucian or Legalist scholars as far back as the late Zhou ...
China,[h]officially the People's Republic of China(PRC),[i]is a country in East Asia. With a populationexceeding 1.4 billion, it is the world's second-most populous countryafter India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land.
Chinese ( simplified Chinese : 汉语; traditional Chinese : 漢語; pinyin : Hànyǔ; lit. ' Han language' or 中文; Zhōngwén; 'Chinese writing') is a group of languages [c] spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. Approximately 1.35 billion people, or 17% of the global population, speak a ...
Chinese Internet slang ( Chinese: 中国网络用语; pinyin: zhōngguó wǎngluò yòngyǔ) refers to various kinds of Internet slang used by people on the Chinese Internet. It is often coined in response to events, the influence of the mass media and foreign culture, and the desires of users to simplify and update the Chinese language.
Nguyễn Văn Tường ( chữ Hán: 阮文祥, 1824–1886) was a mandarin of the Nguyễn dynasty in Vietnam. A mandarin ( Chinese: 官; pinyin: guān) was a bureaucrat scholar in the history of China, Korea and Vietnam . The term is generally applied to the officials appointed through the imperial examination system.
Chinese nobility. Qin Shi Huang, founder of the Qin dynasty, created the title of Huangdi, which is translated as "emperor" in English. The nobility of China represented the upper strata of aristocracy in premodern China, acting as the ruling class until c. 1000 CE, and remaining a significant feature of the traditional social structure until ...
There are several hundred languages in China. The predominant language is Standard Chinese, which is based on Beijingese, but there are hundreds of related Chinese languages, collectively known as Hanyu ( simplified Chinese : 汉语; traditional Chinese : 漢語; pinyin : Hànyǔ, 'Han language'), that are spoken by 92% of the population.