The Present Conditions of Religion in China China is a country with a great diversity of religions, with over 100 million followers of the various faiths. The main religions are Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, China's indigenous Taoism, along with Sh...
Equal Legal Status China attaches great importance to providing legal protection for females. Women enjoy equal legal status with men. Now, a comprehensive legal system has come into being to protect the rights and interests of women and promote sex...
Equality, unity, mutual help and common prosperity are the basic principles of the Chinese government in handling the relations between ethnic groups.The Constitution of the PRC specifies that all ethnic groups are equal.The state guarantees the law...
In China , the first question to start up a conversation between two strangers usually is: May I have your name, please? How Many Names in China ? The full name of a Han Chinese is composed of two parts: the surname and the given name, while the opp...
Tsinghua University, located in the northwestern suburbs of Beijing, was established in 1911 on the site of Qing Hua Yuan -- a former royal garden of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Funded with part of the Boxer Indemnity, it was at first a preparator...
Genghis Khan, or Yuan Taizu, was the first emperor of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). Born in today's Dadale County in Mongolia in 1162 and died in 1227, he was the son of the Kiyat-Borjigid chieftain Yisugei. He was named Tie Muzhen because, at the t...
The Zhuang is China's largest ethnic minority, with a population of 15.5 million (by 1990), approaching that of Australia. Most of the Zhuangs live in southwestern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, which is nearly the size of New Zealand. Th...
The Yugur ethnicminority has a population of about 10,569 (by 1990), with 90% of them living in the South Yugur Autonomous County, and the rest in the Huangnibao area of Jiuquan City in Gansu province. (In Chinese, "Yugur" means "wealth and stabilit...
With a population of 6,572,173 (as of1990), the Yi ethnicminority is mainly scattered in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou provinces and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, in which Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province holds the single larges...
The Yao ethnic minority, with a population of 2.13 million (by 1990), is mainly scattered in the mountain areas in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou and Jiangxi provinces. The ethnicminority has its own language whi...
