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...orbidden City. From this playground of Ming and Qing dynasty emperors for almost 500 years, you will be able to get a grasp on the great city that is China’s capital. On Sunday’s choral groups gather in the park to perform amateur Peking Operas, play musical instruments or to sing songs once beloved by the masses....

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...ing & F. Smarandache…………18 Chapter 3. The City of Hengshui – by Li Zhanbing……………38 Chapter 4. Ningbo — A Culture‐flourishing Land on the Shore of East China Sea – by Lin Rongchen……………53 Chapter 5. Jingdezhen: Porcelain Capital of the World – by Li Xiaomin……………66 Chapter 6. Haimen : Charming City ‐ by Wang Ping & Jiang He……………71 Chapter 7. Changsha: Cultural Name ...

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...THE period covered by the inception, the publication, and the completion of the Sacred Books of the East exactly coincides with the thirty-four years that I have spent in Oxford. When I matriculated, Professor Max Muller, the editor of the series, was about to begin work on the first volume, which appeared while I was stil...

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...Muller first suggested to me that I should compile a General Index of the names and subject-matter for the complete series of the Sacred Books of the East. Such an Index, he thought, would be a great help to all students of the Sacred Books of tile East, and of the greatest value for the study of the history of religions....

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...S, in 2 vols.: Georg Biihler. 3, 16, 27, 2S, 39, 40. THE SACRED BOO;KS OF CHINA, in 6 vols. : J ames Legge. 4, 23,3 1 . THE ZEND-AVESTA, in 3 vols.... ...NERAL INDEX TO THE NAMES AND SUBJECT-MATTER OF THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST COMPILED BY M . WINTERNITZ PROFESSOR OF INDIAN PHILOLOGY AND OF ETH... ...inception, the publication, and the completion of the Sacred Books of the East exactly co­ incides with the thirty-four years that I have spent in Ox... ...ace the volume that brings the series to an end. The Sacred Books of the East include all the most important works of the seven non-Christian relig... .... Two volumes represent Islam, and six the two main indigenous systems of China, Confucian­ ism and Taoism. This great undertaking, planned and edite... ...dy of Oriental religions as far as represented by the Sacred Books of the East. By saving the student of these volumes an immense amount of time, it... ...e asked to select any one of the fifty volumes of the Sacred Books of the East as specially useful, I should certainly choose the last. The Delegat... ... must be for all students of the ancient civilizations of India, Persia, China, and Arabia. And if the Index should do nothing else but help to pro...

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...ng States Period（475 BC - 221 BC) the Analects is the representative work of Confucianism and continues to have a tremendous influence on Chinese and East Asian thoughts and values today. In neutrosophy, between two ends there are many, sometimes a continuous range of neutralities (degrees of middle, or degrees of synthesis). Each middle (called “neutrality” or “indetermin...

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...s Chapter 4 The International Effect-a preparatory reflection The seeming coincidences Chapter 5 The Nations France Germany Italy Japan China Russia Asian capitalistic countries Hong Kong The South American continent The Middle East United States of America Holland The Jews South Africa Britain Part II Chapter 1 Introducing India Chapter 2...

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... Towards the end of the 19th century, the Armenians formed guerrilla movements in eastern Van (the Armenakans, in 1885) and in Russia. Radical nat... ... pre-epidemic levels. Scholars believe that the plague emanated from the Middle East through southern Russia, between the Black and the Caspian ... ... one. Sweden adopted the Gregorian Calendar in 1753, Japan in 1873, Egypt in 1875, Eastern Europe between 1912 to 1919 and Turkey in 1927. In Russi... ...m Census The first complete world census was carried out in 1801. The results - China (295 million people), India (131 million), Russia (33 mill... ...llion), Ireland and the USA (c. 5 million each). Data for these countries today: China (1,302,505,000), India (1,047,074,000), Russia (142,881,00... ...od a navigator he was is debatable. He was actually looking for a path to India and China when he stumbled across America (named after a later disco... ...ms of World War II - and this includes the 240,000 who died in the 1976 Tang- Shan, China event. Earthquakes are composites of: I. Primary (or ... ...r 6 days Casualties: 60,000 dead Felt as far as: Algiers (1100 kilometers to the east) Side effects: tsunami 20 meters high (at Cadiz) to 6 me... ...ourt Oath". On July 14, 1789 crowds stormed the Bastille - a fortress prison in east Paris - in response to ominous movements of royal troops in...

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... When the owner of a surrogate, cocooned in his den, uses his contraption to visit China, or to have sex, or to stroll along a boulevard - who does... ...g a boulevard - who does the experiencing? Can one really say that one has been to China, or has had sex, or has strolled along a boulevard in autu... ... centers to produce these reactions. Once the experiences of having sex or touring China via such a machine become indistinguishable from the real ... ...he very concept of observer is disputable – as modern physics, on the one hand and Eastern philosophy, on the other hand, have shown. Imagine tha... ... A couple of wholesome American youths (one of them a Jew) are nabbed by a ring of east Europeans who cater to the depraved needs of sadists by pro... ... American Secretary of Defense's unforgettable coinage) - namely, the countries of eastern and central Europe - are obsequious vassals of the Unite... ...e not illusory manifestations of an underlying and more fundamental whole. Yet, as Eastern philosophy and modern physics tell us our separateness m... ...nija", "Dnevnik", "Makedonija Denes", "Izvestia", "Argumenti i Fakti", "The Middle East Times", "The New Presence", "Central Europe Review", and o...

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... mi-ar mai pl ăcea s ă tr ăiesc în a şez ări reduse! (te plictise şti)... Easton, Hazleton, Bloomsburg... Merg cu un van (“Surquehanna Trailways”),... ...de oaspe ţi. Pe urm ă – la spectacolul de balet al unei trupe venite din China, bazat pe o povestire de Lu Xun, muzica de Liu Tingyu, coregrafia de... ...eten de-al lor). Mihai şi-a f ăcut home-page, a învăţat la Pima College (East Campus, unde predasem eu) şi-a pus acolo fotbali şti români: portarul... ...ă colind meridianele. Mi-am planificat pentru viitorul apropiat: Japonia, China, India, Australia şi statul Alaska. Exotice. M-am bucurat pentru Gi... ...git la Motel Trade Winds, cu pre ţuri între 44,20 $ şi 55,50 $. 68 La China Inn, în San Diego. Restaurant ieftin. Delicat. Discret. Mânc ăm raci... ... Pearl Harbour. N-ai timp în 8-10 zile s ă le vezi pe toate. Am vizitat Chinatown. Magazine, pr ăv ălii mici cu produse marine. Se vorbea numai ch... ...la Kauai un muzeu cultural (cu galerii ale arti ştilor locali). În Chinatown. – Asta e brânz ă? întreb. – Nu, e tofu. În gândul meu: ce-i a...

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... a time into outer darkness: “But I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob... ...nd shall enter never more to go astray; but they shall not enter till after the east and the west (that is the whole universe) shall be full of the f... ...l us nothing else than that Israel shall remain blind, as she now is, until the east and the west, that is all the nations of the universe, shall be... ...ze in all these verses the coming of the Lord in glory and majesty, at which the east and the west shall be afraid? Not certainly with that religious... ...pelleth shall come, the Redeemer also shall come to Zion.] So that those of the east and of the west shall fear when the Lord cometh like an impetuo... ... all the inhabitants of those very vast countries of Asia, from the Euphrates to China, idolaters, and are they not so until this day? Those of the i...

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...arted exploring. For some years I studied psychology and also philosophy, Eastern and Western, mysticism, all the modern sciences, everything. The wh... ...oking feeling of what this horrible culture has done to you. It's neither East nor West. It's all the same. Human nature is exactly the same. There'... ...olitical systems have come out of that religious thinking, whether of the East or of the West. In light of these facts, how can you have any faith i... ...ll. Totally disillusioned with the whole religious traditions of both the East and the West, I plunged myself into modern psychology, science and wh... ...hat the rise of Islam, not only in the Moslem world but also in Russia and China, is going make it a formidable force. Once this cry of holy war, jih... ...by the church in the West and all the other religious thinking here in the East, was the order of the day. That's why there is fundamentalism. _____...

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...There is a rumor that it is very difficult to understand the Middle East. However this is not true. It is difficult to understand the Middle East only when the emphasis is not on oil and natural gas. If oil and natural gas are taken into account it is very easy to analyze the Middle East. ...

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...und Demand Analysis-The alphabet makes the pen mightier than the sword, generating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. -- 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings-For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ?the wasps’ secret? and then develop printing blocks—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which da...

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...ating the powers of knowledge needed to create and govern empires. 6. China‘s InfoTech Siblings For centuries, the Chinese keep to themselves ―... ...s—the precursor to Gutenberg’s wondrous invention. Paper and print nourish China’s awakening, which dazzles Marco Polo. 7. Islam‘s Great Gifts to ... ... leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The... ...e Way They open the gate blocking direct human contact between Europe and China just in time to let InfoTech wonders from the East nourish the Renai... ...ct between Europe and China just in time to let InfoTech wonders from the East nourish the Renaissance. 11. The Missing Keys to Science Chest An... ...esearch indicates that some early human ancestors lived on the seacoast of East Africa and ate easy-to-harvest shellfish—like today‘s scallops—in abu... ...tivity of his reasoning that our species—having lived in watery swamps in East Africa for millions of years— spawned a deep-seated penchant of vacati... ...hly from Scandinavia to Greece and almost touches the Black Sea. The eastward migration from the Black Sea left tongue-prints in Albanian, Armen... ... Egyptians, Assyrians, and Hebrews intermingled along the Mediterranean‘s eastern shores for the four centuries before 1500 BC. Bringing together th...

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...This long essay is the second part of a series, with the first part being “USA Russia & China in the Middle East: Alliances & Conflicts”. Over 80 maps are used to explain the energy war between Russia and Turkey, two countries that have been fighting for regional dominance for many centuries. Today, the main ...

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... South Korea a theater missile defense (TMD) family of systems (FoS) in Northeast Asia. First, the author summarizes the US security strategy for the East Asia-Pacific region with emphasis on the importance of regional missile defense. Second, he characterizes the ballistic missile capabilities of North Korea and China, which constitute the primary threat in the region and...

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...losopher -- Tears of sorrowing sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empire....

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... A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destruction of the Roman empire 33-44 CHAPTER... ...e -- Destruction of the Roman empire 33-44 CHAPTER II. Visions of the past. -- Eastward and westward of human life -- The greatness of ancient Carthag... ... -- Terrors of the Black Plague -- Terrible cataclysm that destroyed a part of China -- How the Greenlanders were destroyed 45-58 CHAPTER III. Discove... ...tagem -- Execution of two Barons -- Marco Polo's return voyage -- Visit to the East Indies -- The Unicorn of Borneo -- Killing and eating the sick -- ... ...isoner - - His arrest results to his advantage -- Surprising sights in the far east -- An exciting race after native swimmers -- Torture of prisoners ... ...esults in the discovery of Brazil -- Destruction of enterprises founded in the east 163- 173 CHAPTER XIV. Da Gama commands another expedition. -- A fl... ...ers 325- 334 CHAPTER XXXI. Voyage of Tasman. -- History of discovery among the East Indies -- Preparation for a voyage of discovery in search of a sou... ...e or less evidence in support of their pretensions. The people of India, or of China, set forth the claim that more than 2000 years before the time of... ...2000 years before the time of Christ they had sailed along the entire coast of China, discovering the Islands of Japan, the East Indies, and directly ...

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...On the Cultural Contrast: East-West, preface by F. Liu. 4 -- Abstract by the Translator to the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophics. 12 -- Preface by the Translator to the Chinese Translation of Neutrosophics. 13 -- Biography of the Translator. 18 -- ...

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... 3 CONTENTS On the Cultural Contrast: East-West, preface by F. Liu .………….…..………………….4 Abstract by the Translat... ...tface by Anthony Mansueto.…………………………….95 4 On the Cultural Contrast: East-West (preface) Liu Feng (surname, given name) Dept. of Economic I... ...f Finance and Economics 44 Cuihua Nan Road, Xi'an, Shaanxi, 710061, P. R. China 1. Introduction Thanks to Dr. Smarandache for his interest in... ...ture be distinctive from western ones? The difference between Western and Eastern cultures, on the whole, lies in the distinctive points of views: t... ...ason Western culture never solves the problem of health. Unfortunately our Eastern culture is being lost while fewer and fewer people are qualified t... ...ow can this kind of civilization bring happiness to society? Unfortunately Eastern people are turning to the West. more and more people prefer a mat... ...uddha, Laozi, Confucius, etc.).” It is the power of the culture that makes China survive for thousands of years, and the marrow of that culture lies ... ...ucation, so they benefited from the olds’ teachings. Since the Republic of China, unfortunately, Chinese people have lost their national pride, and h... ...a group of European countries, and then the world. Still more ironically, China is diligently following the dust of the West, ignoring and even blind...

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... Postscript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412 5 NORTH AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST, INDIA, CHINA 9 JANUARY–17 FEBRUARY 1943 . . . . . . . . 431 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .431 The Diary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457 Postscript . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

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...questioning has occupied the minds and hearts of a large share of the population. Religious questioningis now a concern of the entire world, West and East alike. One sign of this is the extraordinary proliferation of new religiouscreeds and organizations. It sometimes feels as if there are as many religious creeds as there are adherents. It is true that thevast majority of...

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...tion. Religious questioning is now a concern of the entire world, West and East alike. One sign of this is the extraordinary proliferation of new reli... ...something newly invented for the twentieth century. People in the West and East had always known that religious systems other than their own existed. ... ...organized, and much else. Small groups such as the Old Order Amish, in the eastern United States, are striking examples of Christian traditions which ... ...Kindred feelings are found among the Quakers in the West and in Zen in the East. All three regard discussion of the “supernatural” (however it may be ... ...emergence and development of Christianity. 17 Within a very few centuries, eastern Christianity—in both an ideological, and to some degree organizatio... .... 42 Zen has its home in Japan, although originally it came from India via China. Among the streams of Buddhism, Zen is per- haps the most radical, fo... ...or of the dust, nor of existence, nor of entity. I am not of India, nor of China, nor of Bulgaria, nor of Saqsin; I am not of the Kingdom of Iraquain,... ...egendary date of the founding of Rome, and the time of the Chou dynasty in China): I saw the Lord sitting on an elevated throne. His skirts filled the ...

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...ainly on the three power blocs that emerged from the remnants of the Han Dynasty, and would eventually form the three states of Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu. The novel deals with the plots, personal and army battles, intrigues, and struggles of these states to achieve dominance for almost 100 years. This novel also gives readers a sense of how the Chinese view their hi...

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...an Brothers: 119 Example of Double Write-Downs 119 Section 8 125 Articles 125 Section 8 126 Chapter 1: 126 Part 1: 126 America’s New Cold War: China 126 Section 8 133 Chapter 2: 133 Freedom: America’s Religion 133 Section 8 135 Chapter 3: 135 T 135 ‘Abortion has become the default option to all the cultural dysfunction of American family policies and convenie...

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...Most countries and peoples of Europe and Asia are grouped in the spheres of direct geopolitical influence of Russia, Germany, Serbia, Iraq and China. Repetition of relationship (defined by ethnic and religious proximity) between countries from these spheres are observed. Thus there are two Russian (German, Serbian, Chinese) speaking countries - Russia and Belarus (G...

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...German and in part on former Russian territory; after World War II it has acquired other such territories – part of Pomerania, Silesia and parts of Eastern Prussia (the rest of it being today incorporated into Russia as its enclave of Königsberg/Kaliningrad and in Lithuania); - Denmark, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and Switzerland have linguistic ties with Ge...