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The Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China is known as the Gujin Tushu Jicheng (traditional Chinese: 古今圖書集成; simplified Chinese: 古今图书集成; pinyin: Gǔjīn Túshū Jíchéng; Wade–Giles: Ku-chin t'u-shu chi-ch'eng; lit. 'complete collection of illustrations and books from the earliest period to the present') or Qinding Gujin Tushu Jicheng (Chinese ...
The nine linked-rings puzzle, an advanced puzzle device that requires mathematical calculation to solve, was invented in China during the Warring States period (475-221 BCE). [5] Jigsaw puzzles were invented around 1760, when John Spilsbury , a British engraver and cartographer , mounted a map on a sheet of wood, which he then sawed around the ...
The craze quickly spread to other European countries. This was mostly due to a pair of British tangram books, The Fashionable Chinese Puzzle, and the accompanying solution book, Key. [13] Soon, tangram sets were being exported in great number from China, made of various materials, from glass, to wood, to tortoise shell. [14]
A puzzle ball on display at the Overseas Museum, Bremen. A Chinese puzzle ball, sometimes known as a devil's work ball (Chinese: 鬼工球; pinyin: guǐ gōng qiú) or the Concentric Ball (Chinese: 同心球; pinyin: tóng xīn qiú), is a Chinese-made artifact that consists of a number of intricately carved concentric hollow spheres carved from a single solid block that fit within one another ...
The Cambridge History of China; The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature; China and Japan; China's Red Army Marches; China's Response to the West (book) China's War Reporters; China's Wings; Chinese Capitalists in Japan's New Order; Chinese History: A New Manual; Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China; The Crippled Tree
For example, the early Chinese name *kroŋ (江 jiāng) for the Yangtze was later extended to a general word for 'river' in south China. Norman and Mei suggest that the word is cognate with Vietnamese sông (from *krong) and Mon kruŋ 'river'. [141] [142] [143] Haudricourt and Strecker have proposed a number of borrowings from the Hmong–Mien ...
The sites were built and occupied by the Upano people from about 500 B.C. to between 300 A.D. and 600 A.D., with the size of the population yet to be determined.
The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons, a review book on ancient Chinese literature and writings by Liu Xie. The Commentary on the Water Classic, a book on hydrology of rivers in China attributed to the great geographer Li Daoyuan. The Dialogues between Li Jing and Tang Taizong, a military strategy book attributed to Li Jing