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Yang-chou

(Encyclopedia)Yang-chou: see Yangzhou, China.

Yang-chuan

(Encyclopedia)Yang-chuan: see Yangquan, China. ...

Yenan

(Encyclopedia)Yenan: see Yan'an, China.

Yen-t'ai

(Encyclopedia)Yen-t'ai: see Yantai, China.

Wan-hsien

(Encyclopedia)Wan-hsien: see Wanxian, China.

West River

(Encyclopedia)West River, China: see Xi.

Whangpoo

(Encyclopedia)Whangpoo, river, China: see Huangpu. ...

Lin Yutang

(Encyclopedia)Lin Yutang lĭn yüˈtängˈ [key], 1895–1976, Chinese-American writer, translator, and editor, b. Lunqi, Fujian, educated in China and at Harvard, Ph.D. Univ. of Leipzig, 1923. Lin spent most of hi...

mah jongg

(Encyclopedia)mah jongg mä jông [key], four-handed game, probably of Chinese origin, popular in the United States. It is played in many variations throughout China. In 1920, Joseph P. Babcock, an American travele...

Tung Chee-hwa

(Encyclopedia)Tung Chee-hwa, 1937–, Hong Kong business and political leader, b. Shanghai. The son of C. Y. Tung, a businessman who left China as the Communists were coming to power, Tung entered the family shippi...

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