Книга: Hazeltine Mayo Williamson «China»

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• China — • Includes history, government, education, and religion Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. China     China     † …   Catholic encyclopedia

• CHINA — CHINA, country of eastern Asia. Early Jewish Visitors and Settlers Individual Jews might have visited China before the eighth century, but the first authentic literary evidence of their presence dates only from that period. Two fragmentary… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• China [1] — China (richtiger Tschina, wenigstens so auszusprechen, Tsin, Tsina, Tai tsing, einheimische Namen; bei den Alt Griechen, die den südlichen Theil kannten, Sinä; bei den Neu Griechen Tsinitsa). A) China im weiteren Sinne, od. Chinesisches Reich… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

• China —    China was one of the most prominent targets of Protestant missionary activity in the 19th century, though progress was slow for many decades. The first missionary, Robert Morrison (1782 1834), was a British Presbyterian minister commissioned… …   Encyclopedia of Protestantism

• China [3] — China (hierzu 3 Karten: »China und Japan«, »Die Provinzen Tschili und Schantung«; ferner »Unterlauf des Pei ho etc.« bei S. 55), in eigentlichem Sinn das »Land der 18 Provinzen« (Schipa schöng), das alte Stammland der chinesischen Herrschaft, oft …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

• China — Chi na, n. 1. A country in Eastern Asia. [1913 Webster] 2. China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See {Porcelain}. [1913 Webster] {China aster} (Bot.), a well known garden flower and plant. See {Aster}. {China bean}. See… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English