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Yan-Li school: (from the article "Yan Yuan") ...to history and the Confucian Classics. Yan's writings, together with those of his most eminent student, Li Gong (1659-1733), became the major works of a new philosophical movement known as ...
Yana: Hokan-speaking North American Indians formerly living along the eastern tributaries of the upper Sacramento River, from the Pit River to southwest of Lassen Peak, in what is now California. Traditional ...
yana: (from the article "pratyeka-buddha") In early Buddhism, the various yanas, or ways of enlightenment, included the way of the disciple (sravakayana) and the way of the self-enlightened buddha (pratyeka-buddhayana). The latter concept was retained ...
Yana language: (from the article "Hokan languages") ...the process has gone beyond agglutination and is called polysynthesis, a process characteristic of many American Indian languages. Some Hokan languages are extremely polysynthetic, among them the Yana language of ...
Yana-Indigirka: (from the article "Asia") ...the Asian mainland, particularly the vast West Siberian and Turan plains of the interior. The remaining lowlands are distributed either in the maritime regions-such as the North Siberian and Yana-Indigirka ...
Yanagi Soetsu: (from the article "arts, East Asian") In addition to the continuation of various traditional lineages, the most significant development in ceramics of the modern period was the return to folkcraft tastes. Yanagi Soetsu (1889-1961) espoused anonymity, ...
Yanagimachi, Ryuzo: An ingenious scientist dedicated to research in the field of reproductive biology, Ryuzo Yanagimachi happily spent more than 30 years quietly working in his laboratory at the University of Hawaii, ...
Yanam: (from the article "Yanam") Formerly part of the Cola empire, the area came under Muslim occupation in the 16th century. In the 17th and 18th centuries it was the scene of constant warfare between ...
Yanam: town, Pondicherry union territory, an enclave within northeastern Andhra Pradesh state, southern India, on the main mouth of the Godavari River. [1 Related Articles]
Yanbu': town, western Saudi Arabia, on the Red Sea north of Jidda. It serves as the country's second Red Sea port, after Jidda, and is the main port for Medina, 100 ... [1 Related Articles]
Yancey, Jimmy: American blues pianist who established the boogie-woogie style with slow, steady, simple left-hand bass patterns. These became more rapid in the work of his students Albert Ammons and Meade "Lux" ... [1 Related Articles]
Yancey, Mama: (from the article "Yancey, Jimmy") ...George V of England in 1913. Returning to Chicago, Yancey performed at small taverns and informal gatherings. He played baseball in the Negro leagues until 1919, the year he married ...
Yancey, William Lowndes: American southern political leader and "fire-eater" who, in his later years, consistently urged the South to secede in response to Northern antislavery agitation. [1 Related Articles]
Yancheng: city, north-central Jiangsu sheng (province), eastern China, in the province's eastern coastal district.
Yancheng National Nature Reserve: (from the article "Yancheng") Yancheng National Nature Reserve (established 1983) and the smaller Dafeng Milu National Nature Reserve (1986) encompass much of Jiangsu's Yellow Sea coastline north and south of Yancheng. They protect salt ...
Yandabo, Treaty of: (from the article "Anglo-Burmese Wars") ...capital failed as Burmese resistance stiffened. In 1825 the British Indian forces advanced northward. In a skirmish south of Ava, the Burmese general Bandula was killed and his armies routed. ...
Yanez, Agustin: Mexican novelist, short-story writer, and active political figure whose novels, explorations of their protagonists' social realities, established a major current in 20th-century Mexican fiction.
Yanez, Fernando: (from the article "painting, Western") During the first decade of the 16th century, Fernando Yanez, who may have assisted Leonardo da Vinci on the "Battle of Anghiari" in 1505, executed works showing a good knowledge ...
yang cai: (from the article "famille rose") ...porcelain wares characterized by decoration painted in opaque overglaze rose colours, chiefly shades of pink and carmine. These colours were known to the Chinese as yang cai ...
Yang Cheng: (from the article "Fu Shen") Yang Ch'eng (or Yang Hsi-chi), who served the Liang Wu Ti emperor (reigned AD 502-549) as a criminal judge in Hunan Province, was deeply disturbed that the ruler was destroying ...
Yang Chu: one of the early Taoist philosophers. Yang has been infamous in Chinese history for what was thought to be his extreme hedonism. This characterization of Yang was fostered by the ... [3 Related Articles]
Yang Chuan-kwang: (from the article "Johnson, Rafer") At the 1960 Games the decathlon competition became a duel between Johnson and Taiwan's Yang Chuan-kwang, who was Johnson's friend and teammate at UCLA. After the first day, Johnson led ...
Yang Dezhi: Chinese military official (b. 1911, Zhuzhou (Chu-chou), Hunan province, China--d. Oct. 25, 1994, Beijing (Peking), China), joined the communist People's Liberation Army (PLA) at its creation and went on to ...
Yang di-Pertuan Agong: (from the article "Malaysia") Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy with a ceremonial head of state-a monarch-who bears the title Yang di-Pertuan Agong ("paramount ruler") and who is elected from among ...
Yang Guifei: notorious beauty and concubine of the great Tang emperor Xuanzong (reigned 712-756). Because of her the emperor is said to have neglected his duties, and the Tang dynasty (618-907) was ... [4 Related Articles]
Yang Guozhong: (from the article "An Lushan") ...An Lushan had accumulated three frontier provinces under his command and was the most powerful general in the empire. After the dictator's demise an intense struggle developed between An Lushan ...
Yang Hsien-chih: (from the article "Chinese literature") Among prose masters of the 6th century, two northerners deserve special mention: Yang Hsien-chih, author of Lo-yang Chia-lan chi ("Record of Buddhist Temples in Lo-yang"), and Li Tao-yuan, author of ...
Yang Hucheng: (from the article "China") Chiang was determined, however, to press on with his extermination campaign. He ordered the Manchurian army under Zhang Xueliang, now based in Xi'an (Sian), and the Northwestern army under Yang ...
Yang Hui: mathematician active in the great flowering of Chinese mathematics during the Southern Song dynasty.
Yang Hui-chih: (from the article "arts, East Asian") ...painted clay. Examples of dry lacquer sculpture of the 8th century survive in the temples at Nara. Some Chinese sculptors, according to contemporary records, worked primarily in clay. One such ...
Yang Jiechi: (from the article "China") ...angered Beijing by appearing in public with the Dalai Lama as the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader received a Congressional Gold Medal at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang ...
Yang Lan: In 1996 one of China's top television journalists, Yang Lan returned to her country after a two-year absence, during which she pursued graduate studies at Columbia University, New York City. ...
Yang Meizi: (from the article "Ma Yuan") ...leave a body of his own writings and he did not earn a biography in the dynastic history. He seems, however, to have been in high favour at court, particularly ...
Yang Quyun: (from the article "China") ...where he founded an anti-Manchu fraternity called the Revive China Society (Xingzhonghui). Returning to Hong Kong, he and some friends set up a similar society under the leadership of his ...
Yang Shangkun: Chinese revolutionary figure and politician who was a veteran of Mao Zedong's Long March in 1934-35, in 1966 became a victim of Mao's Cultural Revolution and was sent to prison ...
Yang Shen: (from the article "China") One of the great all-around literati of Ming times, representative in many ways of the dynamic and wide-ranging activities of the Ming scholar-official at his best, was Yang Shen. Yang ...
Yang Tae Young: (from the article "Gymnastics") In the men's all-around competition, American Paul Hamm, the reigning world champion, came back from a fall on vault to win the gold medal. South Korea's Kim Dae Eun and ...
Yang Tseng-hsin: (from the article "Sinkiang, Uygur Autonomous Region of") After the revolution of 1911-12 Yang Tseng-hsin, a Han commander of native Turkic troops, seized control of Sinkiang and was later appointed governor by the Peking government. He maintained control ...
Yang Wei: (from the article "Gymnastics") On the men's side, the Chinese team-Xiao Qin, Liang Fuliang, Chen Yibing, Yang Wei, Zou Kai, and Huang Xu-dominated the team competition, winning China's eighth team title with 281.90 points, ...
Yang Xi: (from the article "China") ...that had arisen in the north and west during the Dong Han. In that context, new priestly cults arose in the south. Their teachings were connected with a series of ...
Yang Xiong: Chinese poet and philosopher best known for his poetry written in the form known as fu. [2 Related Articles]
Yang Xiuqing: organizer and commander in chief of the Taiping Rebellion, the political-religious uprising that occupied most of South China between 1850 and 1864. [2 Related Articles]
Yang Yan: minister to the Tang emperor Dezong (reigned 779-805).
Yang Yang: Chinese short-track speed skater Yang Yang-known as Yang Yang (A)-confirmed her dominance on the ice in 2001 by winning her fifth consecutive world championship overall title. During three days of ... [1 Related Articles]
Yang, Chen Ning: Chinese-born American theoretical physicist whose research with Tsung-Dao Lee showed that parity-the symmetry between physical phenomena occurring in right-handed and left-handed coordinate systems-is violated when certain elementary particles decay. Until ... [7 Related Articles]
Yang, Edward: Taiwanese film directorwas in the vanguard of the Taiwanese New Wave, a 1980s movement that brought international attention to the island state with films that probed political, economic, and social ...
Yang-cho-yung: (from the article "Tibet") ...lakes, the three largest are located in central Tibet, northwest of Lhasa: Lakes T'ang-ku-la-yu-mu (Tibetan Tangra Yum), Na-mu (Nam), and Ch'i-lin (Ziling). South of Lhasa lie two large lakes, Yang-cho-yung ...
Yang-ming: (from the article "Taipei") Taipei maintains an extensive system of parks, green spaces, and nature preserves. One of the most popular nearby recreation areas is Mount Yang-ming, which is only 6 miles (10 km) ...
Yang-shao culture: (from the article "Andersson, Johan Gunnar") ...went to China in 1914 as a technical adviser on oil and coal resources. He immediately became interested in fossil remains and eventually devoted himself to archaeological exploration. In 1921, ...
yang-tz'u: (from the article "enamelwork") ...Chinese ware but also, in some cases, were copied. Representations of European subjects, copies of engravings and armorial decorations, are also found. Painted enamels are termed by the Chinese yang-tz'u ...
Yangadin Formation: (from the article "Silurian Period") ...l65 metres (540 feet). A halite bed 2 metres (6.6 feet) thick occurs in the Interlake Formation formed during the Wenlock Epoch in North Dakota. Gypsiferous beds occur in parts ...
Yangambi: (from the article "Congo River") Typical of the climate in regions through which the Congo flows is that of Yangambi, a town situated on the river's right bank slightly north of the equator and a ...
yangban: (Korean: "two groups"), the highest social class of the Yi dynasty (1392-1910) of Korea. It consisted of both munban, or civilian officials, and muban, or military officials. The term yangban ... [4 Related Articles]
yangbanxi: form of Chinese entertainment that flourished during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). The works combined elements of traditional Chinese dramas, particularly jingxi (Beijing opera or Peking opera), with ...
Yangdi: posthumous name (shi) of the second and penultimate emperor (604-617/618) of the Sui dynasty (581-618). Under the Yangdi emperor canals were built and great palaces erected. [3 Related Articles]
Yangge: (from the article "Shensi") Citizens of Shensi take pride in their region as a historic centre of Chinese civilization and in their distinctive traditions in art, ceramics, and folksinging. The Yang-ko is a local ...
Yangiyer: (from the article "Uzbekistan") ...purposely laid out some newer towns, including Chirchiq, Angren, Bekobod, and Nawoiy (Navoi), close to rich mineral and energy resources. Soviet planners also sited Yangiyul, Guliston, and Yangiyer in areas ...
Yangiyul: ', city, Tashkent oblast (province), Uzbekistan. The city lies in the middle of the Tashkent oasis. Formerly a village on the site of the ancient settlement of Kaunchi-Tepe, it developed ... [1 Related Articles]
Yangon: city, capital of independent Myanmar (Burma) from 1948 to 2006, when the government officially proclaimed the new city of Naypyidaw the capital of the country. It is located in the ... [7 Related Articles]
Yangon River: marine estuary in southern Myanmar (Burma), formed at the city of Yangon (Rangoon) by the confluence of the Pegu and Myitmaka rivers. It empties into the Gulf of Martaban of ... [1 Related Articles]
yangqin: Chinese stringed instrument of the dulcimer, or struck zither, family. The yangqin is played with bamboo beaters having rubber or leather heads. Its trapezoidal wooden body is ... [5 Related Articles]
Yangquan: city, eastern Shanxi province (sheng), northeast-central China. It is a prefecture-level municipality (shi) located in the western portion of the Taihang Mountains at the ... [1 Related Articles]
Yangtze Delta: (from the article "Yangtze River") The Yangtze delta, which begins beyond Zhenjiang, consists of a large number of branches, tributaries, lakes, ancient riverbeds, and marshes that are connected with the main channel. During major floods ...
Yangtze Paraplatform: (from the article "Asia") ...by collisions until the end of the Archean Eon (2.5 billion years ago). Final consolidation of the North China paraplatform occurred approximately 1.7 billion years ago. The Yangtze paraplatform is ...
Yangtze Plain: series of alluvial plains of uneven width along the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) and its major tributaries, beginning east of Yichang (Hubei province), east-central China. The middle Yangtze Plain covers ... [5 Related Articles]
Yangtze River: longest river in both China and Asia and the third longest river in the world, with a length of 3,915 miles (6,300 kilometres). Its basin, extending for some 2,000 miles ... [16 Related Articles]
Yangtze Valley climate: (from the article "Kiangsu") Within the province, two subtypes of climate may be distinguished: the Yangtze Valley climate, in central and southern Kiangsu, and the North China climate, to the north of the old ...
Yangtze-Huai plain: (from the article "Kiangsu") Between the Yangtze and the ancient channel of the Huai is what Chinese geographers call the Yangtze-Huai plain, built by the alluvium of the two rivers. The centre of this ...
Yangzhou: city, southwest-central Jiangsu province (sheng), eastern China. It lies to the north of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) at the southern terminus of the section of the ... [2 Related Articles]
Yanito: (from the article "Gibraltar") ...is of Sephardic descent. English is the official language of government and education, though most Gibraltarians are bilingual in English and Spanish, and many speak an English dialect known as ...
Yanji: city, eastern Jilin sheng (province), far northeastern China. It is a county-level shi (municipality) and the administrative seat of Yanbian Chaoxianzu (Korean) Autonomous Prefecture, which covers a ...
Yankari National Park: park in Bauchi state, east-central Nigeria, southeast of Bauchi town. It was established as a game reserve in 1956 and became a national park in 1991. It covers 870 square ... [1 Related Articles]
Yankee: a native or citizen of the United States or, more narrowly, of the New England states of the United States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut). The ... [4 Related Articles]
Yankee: (from the article "submarine") ...class, which became operational in 1959. These 5,900-ton, 382-foot vessels carried 16 Polaris missiles, which had a range of 1,200 nautical miles. In 1967 the first of the Soviet Union's ...
Yankee Stadium: (from the article "stadium") ...of American stadium has evolved for baseball, in which the aim is to supply maximum roofed-seating capacity to protect spectators from the sunlight. A notable pioneer in this trend was ...
Yankovic, Frank John: American musician who was known as the "polka king" for half a century of performing and brought nationwide attention to the Slovenian-style polka; in 1986 he won polka's first Grammy ...
Yankton: (from the article "Yankton") a major division of the Sioux (q.v.), or Dakota, confederation of American Indians.difference between a tribe and a bandThe Difference ...
Yankton: city, seat (1862) of Yankton county, southeastern South Dakota, U.S. The city lies along the Missouri River near its confluence with the James River, on the Nebraska border, about 60 ...
Yannai: (from the article "piyyut") ...especially in Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. Rhyme was introduced in Spain, where piyyutim reached the height of their development. Among early masters of this poetry were Yose ben Yose, ...
Yanni: For the New Age composer/performer known only as Yanni, 1994 was a very good year. Although from the mid-1980s his nine previous albums had sold some 6 million copies, he ...
Yanoconodon allini: (from the article "Life Sciences") A newly described eutriconodont Mesozoic mammal, Yanoconodon allini, added to the understanding of the evolution of the mammalian inner ear. Detachment of the three middle-ear bones from the mandible occurred ...
Yanofsky, Charles: American geneticist who demonstrated the colinearity of gene and protein structures. [1 Related Articles]
Yanofsky, Daniel Abraham: Polish-born Canadian chess master (b. March 25, 1926, Brody, Pol.-d. March 5, 2000, Winnipeg, Man.), was Canada's first chess grandmaster and an eight-time national champion. He was a chess prodigy ...
Yanomami: South American Indians, speakers of a Xiriana language, who live in the remote forest of the Orinoco River basin in southern Venezuela and the northernmost reaches of the Amazon River ... [1 Related Articles]
Yanovsky, Zalman: Canadian musician (b. Dec. 19, 1944, Toronto, Ont.-d. Dec. 13, 2002, Kingston, Ont.), was the extroverted lead guitarist of the popular 1960s rock group the Lovin' Spoonful, whose hits included ... [1 Related Articles]
Yanshi: (from the article "China") ...bone working; burials; and two inscribed fragments of oracle bones. Another rammed-earth fortification, enclosing about 450 acres (180 hectares) and also dated to the Erligang period, was found at Yanshi, ...
Yantai: port city, northeastern Shandong sheng (province), northeast-central China. It is located on the northern coast of the Shandong Peninsula on the Yellow Sea, about 45 miles (70 ... [2 Related Articles]
yantra: in Tantric Hinduism and Vajrayana, or Tantric Buddhism, a linear diagram used as a support for ritual. In its more elaborate and pictorial form it is called a mandala. [4 Related Articles]
Yantra River: (from the article "Bulgaria") ...a complex drainage pattern characterized, with the notable exception of the Danube, by relatively short rivers. The major rivers are the Maritsa (Marica), Iskur, Struma, Arda, Tundzha, and Yantra. Overall, ...
Yanukovych, Viktor: (from the article "Ukraine") Area: 603,628 sq km (233,062 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 46,457,000 | Capital: Kiev | Chief of state: President Viktor Yushchenko | Head of government: Prime Ministers Viktor Yanukovych ...
yanzhu: (from the article "qin") ...the "dragon's gums" (longyin), and the two pegs for fastening the strings are called the "goose feet" (yanzhu). Each qin is ...
Yao: in Chinese mythology, a legendary emperor (c. 24th century BC) of the golden age of antiquity, exalted by Confucius as an inspiration and perennial model of virtue, righteousness, and unselfish ... [1 Related Articles]
Yao: city, Osaka fu (urban prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the Nagase River. The city is situated on mountain slopes and a plain in Kongo-Ikoma Quasi-national Park. The central part of the ...
Yao: various Bantu-speaking peoples inhabiting southernmost Tanzania, the region between the Rovuma and Lugenda rivers in Mozambique, and the southern part of Malawi. [5 Related Articles]
yao bian: (from the article "pottery") ...red" (ch'ui hung). It was certainly used as a monochrome in early Ming times and possibly even earlier, and is the direct ancestor of the showy flambe glazes (yao pien) ...
Yao language: (from the article "Mozambique") ...Chuabo are the most widespread languages, but the country has great linguistic and cultural variety because it shares languages with surrounding countries: Swahili with many East African countries, Yao with ...
Yao Ming: Chinese basketball player, who became an international star as a centre for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). [1 Related Articles]
Yao Wenyuan: Chinese propaganda official (b. 1931, Zhuji, Zhejiang province, China-d. Dec. 23, 2005, Shanghai, China?), was the last surviving member of the Gang of Four, a radical communist group that gained ... [2 Related Articles]
Yaounde: city and capital of the Republic of Cameroon. It is situated on a hilly, forested plateau between the Nyong and Sanaga rivers in the south-central part of the country. Founded ... [5 Related Articles]
Yaounde, University of: (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...schools. Manual labour is compulsory in secondary and technical schools as a means of encouraging graduates to take up farming instead of seeking white-collar jobs in the cities. The University ...
Yap Ah Loy: leader of the Chinese community of Kuala Lumpur, who was largely responsible for the development of that city as a commercial and mining centre.