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Pa-li-ch'iao

(Encyclopedia)Pa-li-ch'iao: see Baliqiao, China. ...

Nen-chiang

(Encyclopedia)Nen-chiang: see Nenjiang, former prov. China. ...

Wei, Chinese dynasty

(Encyclopedia)Wei, dynasty of China: see Three Kingdoms. ...

Mongolian languages

(Encyclopedia)Mongolian languages, group of languages forming a subdivision of the Altaic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages (see Uralic and Altaic languages). The Mongolian languages are spoken by ab...

Grand Canal

(Encyclopedia)Grand Canal, Chinese Da Yunhe [large transit river], longest in the world, extending c.1,000 mi (1,600 km) from Beijing to Hangzhou, E China, and forming an important north-south waterway on the North...

Hoxha, Enver

(Encyclopedia)Hoxha, Enver ĕnˈvĕr hôˈjä [key], 1908–85, Albanian Communist leader and general. A founder (1941) of the Albanian Communist party (Albanian Labor party from 1948), Hoxha headed the radical res...

Hu Jintao

(Encyclopedia)Hu Jintao ho͞oˈ jĭnˈtouˈ [key], 1942–, Chinese political leader, b. Jixi, Anhui prov. A hydroelectric engineering graduate (1965) of Tsinghua Univ., he joined the Chinese Communist party in 196...

Kuldja

(Encyclopedia)Kuldja or Gulja: see Yining, China. ...

Koko Nor

(Encyclopedia)Koko Nor, salt lake, China: see Qinghai Hu. ...

Dongsha Island

(Encyclopedia)Dongsha Island, South China Sea: see Pratas Island. ...