(Encyclopedia) ShanghaiShanghaishăngˈhīˈ, shängˈhīˈ [key], city and municipality (2010 pop. 23,019,148), in, but independent of, Jiangsu prov., E China, on the Huangpu (Whangpoo) River where it flows…
by David Johnson Tibetan cooking has been influenced by its neighbors, China and India, but makes use of ingredients indigenous to the mountains. Tibetan cuisine is similar to that of Nepal…
Droughts are unusually long periods of insufficient rainfall. Since ancient times droughts have had far-reaching effects on humankind by causing the failure of…
Traders from Indonesia, India, China, and the Middle East have all influenced Malay cooking, which can be quite varied because of the ethnic mix of the country. Ethnic Malays are Muslim and do not…
(Encyclopedia) HanHanhän [key], dynasty of China that ruled from 202 b.c. to a.d. 220. Liu Pang, the first Han emperor, had been a farmer, minor village official, and guerrilla fighter under the Ch'…
(Encyclopedia) Sun Yat-senSun Yat-sens&oomacr;n yät-sĕn [key], Mandarin Sun Wen, 1866–1925, Chinese revolutionary. He was born near Guangzhou into a farm-owning family. He attended (1879–82) an…
(Encyclopedia) cowpea,&sp;black-eyed pea, or black-eyed bean, annual legume (Vigna sinensis) of the pulse family. Introduced in the early 18th cent. from the Old World to the S United States, it…
(Encyclopedia) ShantouShantoushän-tō [key] or SwatowShantouswäˈtouˈ [key], city (1994 est. pop. 718,800), SE Guangdong prov., China, a port on the South China Sea, in the Han River delta. When it was…
(Encyclopedia) PinyinPinyinpĭnˈyĭnˈ [key] [Chin. Hanyu pinyin = Chinese phonetic alphabet], system of romanization of Chinese written characters, approved in 1958 by the government of the People's…
