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(Encyclopedia)Po Hai: see Bohai, China.Qiantang
(Encyclopedia)Qiantang, river, China: see Fuchun. ...P'ing-hsiang
(Encyclopedia)P'ing-hsiang: see Pingxiang, China. ...Pei
(Encyclopedia)Pei, river, China: see Bei.Pei-hai
(Encyclopedia)Pei-hai: see Beihai, China.Pei-p'iao
(Encyclopedia)Pei-p'iao: see Beipiao, China.Pen-ch'i
(Encyclopedia)Pen-ch'i: see Benxi, China.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...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...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...Browse by Subject
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