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4 days ago · Thai Chinese (also known as Chinese Thais, Sino-Thais ), Thais of Chinese origin ( Thai: ชาวไทยเชื้อสายจีน; exonym and also domestically) [a] are Chinese descendants in Thailand. Thai Chinese are the largest minority group in the country and the largest overseas Chinese community in the world with a population ...
1 day ago · An assortment of Chinese food. Clockwise from top left: Peking duck, misua, Kung Pao chicken, mooncakes, baijiu, wonton soup, spring rolls. Chinese cuisine comprises cuisines originating from China, as well as from Chinese people from other parts of the world. Because of the Chinese diaspora and historical power of the country, Chinese cuisine ...
1 day ago · kakyo. Manchu name. Manchu script. ᡤᡳᡡ ᡰ᠊ᡳᠨ. ᠰᡳᠮᠨᡝᡵᡝ. Möllendorff. giū žin simnere. The imperial examination ( Chinese: 科舉; pinyin: kējǔ; lit. "subject recommendation") was a civil service examination system in Imperial China administered for the purpose of selecting candidates for the state bureaucracy.
1 day ago · Definition. The Singapore Department of Statistics defines "Chinese" as a "race" or "ethnic group", in conjunction with "Malay, Indian and Others" under the CMIO model. They consist of "persons of Chinese origin" such as the Hokkiens, Teochews, Hainanese, Cantonese, Hakka, Henghuas, Hokchias and Foochows, Shanghainese, Northern Chinese, etc." Chinese Singaporeans are defined as the "Chinese ...
3 days ago · Han Chinese transfrontiersmen and other non-Jurchen origin people who joined the Later Jin very early were put into the Manchu Banners and were known as "Baisin" in Manchu, and not put into the Han Banners to which later Han Chinese were placed in.: 82 An example was the Tokoro Manchu clan in the Manchu banners which claimed to be descended ...
4 days ago · When a foreign place name, or toponym, occurs in Chinese text, the problem arises of spelling it in Chinese characters, given the limited phonetics and restrictive phonology of Mandarin Chinese (making it very difficult to transcribe loanwords), and the possible meaning of those characters when treated as Chinese words.
1 day ago · Wu. Shanghainese. Romanization. Wu6 gniu6. [ɦùȵỳ] The Shanghainese language, also known as the Shanghai dialect, or Hu language, is a variety of Wu Chinese spoken in the central districts of the City of Shanghai and its surrounding areas. It is classified as part of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Shanghainese, like the rest of the Wu ...