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Chang Chi-yun
Chang Ch‘i-yun (29 September 1901 – 26 August 1985) was a Chinese historian, geographer, educator and politician. He was the founder of the Chinese Culture University and the Nanhai Academy and served as Minister of Education of the Republic of China. He was a lead editor on the ''Zhongwen Da Cidian''. Chang Ch‘i-yün graduated from the Division of History and Geography of National Nanjing Higher Normal School (later renamed National Central University and Nanjing University), where he studied from scholars such as Liu Yizheng, Zhu Kezhen and Liu Boming. His son is Chang Jen-Hu, an educator in Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no .... Works *《清史》 "Qing Shi" History of Qing, 1961. References 1901 births 1985 deaths Chinese geographers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atomic Energy Council
The Atomic Energy Council (AEC; ) is an independent government agency of the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China ( Taiwan) which is responsible for atomic safety, development and regulations. It also conducts research and development into atomic technologies. AEC is affiliated with IAEA by special agreements to safeguard the peaceful development of the nuclear energy by the Republic of China government. History The agency was created in 1955 by the Executive Yuan. Since then, it has assisted industry in developing nuclear power for commercial use and allowed universities to conduct research into atomic energy. The agency is still primarily responsible for the supervision of nuclear power plants, nuclear facilities, and radiation workplaces. It also strictly implement the laws for nuclear safety control, radiation protection, environmental detection, and proper administration of radioactive waste management to ensure the safety of nuclear applications, general public and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhongwen Da Cidian
__NOTOC__ The ''Zhongwen Da Cidian'', also known in English as the ''Encyclopaedic Dictionary of the Chinese Language'', is an unabridged Chinese dictionary, edited by Zhang Qiyun and others. The first edition had 40 volumes including its radical index in volume 39 and stroke index in volume 40. It was published from 1962 through 1968. This encyclopedic dictionary includes 49,905 Chinese characters arranged under the traditional 214 Kangxi radicals. Each character entry shows the evolution of graphic forms (such as small seal script), gives pronunciations, and chronological meanings with sources. Words, phrases, and four-character idioms are given under the head character entry, arranged according to the number of strokes in their components. "There are many phrases under some characters," for example, 3,417 under ''yi'' (一 "one") and 1,398 under ''huang'' (黄 "yellow"). Although the ''Zhongwen Da Cidian'' is based on the first edition 1960 '' Dai Kan-Wa Jiten'' ("Compr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senior Advisors To President Chiang Ching-kuo
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Nanjing University Alumni
Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and the second largest city in the East China region. The city has 11 districts, an administrative area of , and a total recorded population of 9,314,685 . Situated in the Yangtze River Delta region, Nanjing has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having served as the capital of various Chinese dynasties, kingdoms and republican governments dating from the 3rd century to 1949, and has thus long been a major center of culture, education, research, politics, economy, transport networks and tourism, being the home to one of the world's largest inland ports. The city is also one of the fifteen sub-provincial cities in the People's Republic of China's administrative structure, enjoying jurisdictional and economic autonomy only slightly less than that of a province. Nanjing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Central University Alumni
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Republic Of China Historians
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Chinese Geographers
China has great physical diversity. The eastern plains and southern coasts of the country consist of fertile lowlands and foothills. They are the location of most of China's agricultural output and human population. The southern areas of the country (South of the Yangtze River) consist of hilly and mountainous terrain. The west and north of the country are dominated by sunken basins (such as the Gobi and the Taklamakan), rolling plateaus, and towering massifs. It contains part of the highest tableland on earth, the Tibetan Plateau, and has much lower agricultural potential and population. Traditionally, the Chinese population centered on the Chinese central plain and oriented itself toward its own enormous inland market, developing as an imperial power whose center lay in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River on the northern plains. More recently, the coastline has been used extensively for export-oriented trade, causing the coastal provinces to become the lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 Deaths
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1901 Births
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Chang Jen-Hu
Chang Jen-hu (), or J. H. Chang (18 March 1927 – 25 November 2019) was a Taiwanese educator, geographer specialized in ancient climate change, and the agricultural development of mainland China and Taiwan. Chang was the chairman of the board of directors of Chinese Culture University. Biography Chang was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, on 18 March 1927. His father was Chang Chi-yun, who was a prominent politician and educator of the Republic of China. Chang graduated from the Department of Geography and History of the National Chekiang University in Hangzhou in 1948. In 1954, Chang obtained his Ph.D. in geography from Clark University in the United States. Chang was a research associate at Johns Hopkins University from 1954 to 1956, at Harvard University from 1956 to 1958, and at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1958 to 1959. From 1959 to 1964, Chang was an editor for the National Geographic Magazine of the National Geographic Society. From 1959 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liu Boming (philosopher)
Liu Boming (; 1887–1923) was a Chinese educator and philosopher born in the late Qing Dynasty. Liu Boming is the first Chinese who received a doctor's degree in philosophy. He finished his work ''The Theory of Chinese Mind Nature'' in 1913, and ''The Philosophy of Taoism'' in 1915 when he was a Doctoral candidate at Northwestern University in the United States. He introduced western philosophy to China when he was a professor of Nanjing University Nanjing University (NJU; ) is a national public research university in Nanjing, Jiangsu. It is a member of C9 League and a Class A Double First Class University designated by the Chinese central government. NJU has two main campuses: the Xian .... Under his influence, the scholars of Xueheng School translated a number of books of classic Greek philosophy into Chinese. 1923 deaths 1887 births Educators from Nanjing University of Nanking faculty Nanjing University faculty Writers from Nanjing Northwestern University alumn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhu Kezhen
Coching Chu (; March 7, 1890 – February 7, 1974) was a Chinese geologist and meteorologist. Born in Shangyu, Zhejiang, Chu went to United States for his college education in 1910. He graduated from the College of Agriculture, University of Illinois in 1913. In 1918, he received his Ph.D. in meteorology from Harvard University. From 1920 to 1929, he was chairperson of Department of Meteorology, Nanjing University (formerly known as the Nanking Higher Normal School, National Southeastern University, and National Central University). From 1929 to 1936 he served as director of the Chinese Institute of Meteorology of the Academia Sinica, which at the time was located in mainland China. Academia Sinica later became the predecessor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences of the People's Republic of China on mainland China and the Academia Sinica of the Republic of China on Taiwan. From 1936 to 1949, he served as the president of National Chekiang University (now known as Zhejiang U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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