PEKINGESE

pēˌkĭnēzˈ, breed of small toy dog developed over many centuries in China. It stands from 6 to 9 in. (15.3–22.9 cm) high at the shoulder and weighs from 6 to 14 lb (2.7–6.4 kg). The long, straight, soft coat forms a ruff around the neck and fringes of feathery hair on the ears, legs, and tail. It may be any color. The Pekingese is believed to have existed in its present form as early as the 8th cent., when it was kept as a palace dog by the Chinese emperors. For centuries its breeding was closely guarded by the court; the punishment for stealing a Pekingese was death. When the imperial palace at Beijing was invaded by the British in 1860, several of these royal dogs were taken and subsequently introduced into the West. Today the Pekingese is a very popular companion and house pet. See dog.

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books on: Pekingese  - 147 results

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Language Development: Syntax and Semantics - Vol. 1
Book by Stan A. Kuczaj; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1982
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative And General--Syntax, Language Acquisition, Semantics
...but correct instances Newfoundlands, Pekingese and to exclude noninstances sheep that...How does the child learn to include Pekingese and Newfoundlands as instances of the...more similarity to Newfoundlands than do Pekingese and/or Collies ? There are two important...
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Middle Chinese: A Study in Historical Phonology
Book by E. G. Pulleyblank; University of British Columbia Press, 1984
Subjects: Chinese Language--Ancient Chinese, 600-1200--Phonology, Chinese Language--Middle Chinese, 1200-1919--Phonology
Tone 4 in Pekingese, which corresponds to the Middle Chinese...it can be said with confidence that Pekingese retains traces of final glottalization...correlations between tone and vowel quality in Pekingese. In all such cases tones 3 and 4 form...
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Little Havana Blues: A Cuban-American Literature Anthology
Book by Delia Poey, Virgil Suárez; Arte Publico Press, 1996
Subjects: American Literature--Cuban American Authors, Cuba--Literary Collections, Cuban Americans--Literary Collections
...to have such an erudite zoo mate, the Pekingese. She would sit up motionless or lie...hate after having to eat so many. "Pekingese, the visitors that were just here were...irony, I should know what that meant. Pekingese wouldnt embarrass me, but on the other...
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The Biology of the Race Problem
Book by Wesley George; National Putnam Letters Committee, 1962
Subjects: African Americans, Heredity, Human, United States--Race Relations
...bassethound- English bulldog, dachshund-Pekingese, dachshund-Boston terrier, dachshund...bulldog, dachshund-Brussels griffon, Pekingese, Saluki, English bulldog-German shepherd, Pekingese- poodle. We can here review briefly...
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Aesthetics and Language
Book by W. B. Gallie, Gilbert Ryle, Beryl Lake, Arnold Isenberg, Stuart Hampshire, J. A. Passmore, O. K. Bouwsma, Margaret MacDonald, Helen Knight, Paul Ziff, William Elton; Basil Blackwell, 1954
Subjects: Aesthetics
...good tennis player, good knitter, good Pekingese, good piece of steak, etc. We use good...picture , is a good knitter , is a good Pekingese etc.; and the words picture, knitter, and Pekingese contribute to the meaning of the sentence...
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journal articles on: Pekingese  - 16 results

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A Brief History of Mandarin
Journal article by W. South Coblin; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 120, 2000
Subjects: Beijing, China--History, Chinese language--History
...standard Mandarin is that it has been Pekingese-based for at least six hundred years...standard language had little to do with Pekingese. The present paper introduces these...standard Mandarin had little to do with Pekingese. In order to understand the history...
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The Linguistic Ideas of Edward Harper Parker
Journal article by David Pragger Branner; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 119, 1999
Subjects: China--Languages, Dialectology--Analysis, Historical linguistics--Analysis, Parker, Edward Harper--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Sino-Japanese (kanon and goon), Pekingese, Hankow, and Yangchow. With each new...them. If the student has chosen the Pekingese dialect, he will be puzzled at finding...of the entering tone class, which in Pekingese are distributed amongst the even, rising...
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Linkage Disequilibrium and Demographic History of Wild and Domestic Canids
Journal article by Melissa M. Gray, Julie M. Granka, Carlos D. Bustamante, Nathan B. Sutter, Adam R. Boyko, Lan Zhu, Elaine A. Ostrander, Robert K. Wayne; Genetics, Vol. 181, 2009
Subjects: Animal populations, Dogs, Genomics, Studies, Wolves
...with any other domestic dog breed while Pekingese exhibited slight separation along the...time model, Bernese mountain dog and Pekingese were observed to have the largest bottleneck...breed contractions. Under this model, Pekingese was observed to have a severe reduction...
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Dogs and People: The History and Psychology of a Relationship
Journal article; Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis, Vol. 24-26, 1996
Subjects: Authors--Addresses, essays, lectures, Coren, Stanley--Addresses, essays, lectures, Dog breeds--Social aspects, Dog owners--Psychology and mental health, Dogs--Social aspects, Psychologists--Addresses, essays, lectures
...short hair, and then you looked at a Pekingese who stands about 8 inches at the shoulder...you need to create a Great Dane and a Pekingese, youd begin to understand the complexity...offspring, just like the Great Dane and the Pekingese, which is usually the sign that we are...
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God, Ants and Thomas Bayes
Journal article by Harry M. Markowitz; American Economist, Vol. 55, 2010
...think that natural selection cannot adapt a population to a new situation that fast recall how, starting with a wolf, the Pekingese and the Great Dane were produced by human selection. The only difference is that the selection process in one case depended...
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magazine articles on: Pekingese  - 17 results

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Zebras and the Anna Karenina Principle
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 103, September 1994
Subjects: Animal training, Geography, History, Mammals, Wildlife
...control the animals breeding and food supply. To appreciate the resultant modifications, just compare such dog breeds as Pekingese, dachshund, or Great Dane with an ancestral wolf. All other domestic animals as well have been bred to differ from their...
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Csi: My Cat
Magazine article by Gordy Slack; The Scientist, Vol. 21, September 2007
Subjects: Deoxyribonucleic acid--DNA, Dogs, Forensic sciences, Laboratories, Murders & murder attempts, Ovens & stoves
...lot of evidence and cost as much as $5,000, still a bargain for a victim or defendant. In one case, a burglar put two Pekingese dogs in an oven and turned it on to keep them quiet while he ransacked the home for valuables. When the police traced the...
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The Green Baize Door: Social Identity in Wodehouse Part One
Magazine article by Allan Ramsay; Contemporary Review, Vol. 285, December 2004
...Wodehouse once claimed that all he required for happiness was a table, a typewriter, his pipe and tobacco pouch and one of his pekingese dogs snoring in its basket beside him while the sun shone outside. He wrote for money and made a fortune. His output was...
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Beijing: A City without Walls
Magazine article by Jianying Zha; The Antioch Review, Vol. 52, Summer 1994
Subjects: Beijing, China--Description and travel, City walls--China
...stories the "beauty of the sunset," or the pathos of the old culture. Chen has lots of friends he describes as "true Pekingese." He hangs out with them and is proud he isnt one of those writers whose only friends are other writers or their own critics...
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The Truth about Dogs
Magazine article by Stephen Budiansky; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 284, July 1999
Subjects: Biologists--Research, Dogs--Behavior
...easily do so. A dog might be bred deliberately to pass the Vizsla genetic- purity test while looking like a cross between a Pekingese and a coyote. A more sensible strategy would be to breed dogs for chosen characteristics and for the maintenance of genetic...
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Some Dogs Can Herd Trout, Others Know How to Retrieve Them
Newspaper article by Gene Mueller; The Washington Times, January 10, 2001
...a puppy as a gift. It appeared to be a Pekingese, flat face and all. "But it wasnt a Pekingese," Howard said, hand over his heart...been rearranged so much they looked like a Pekingese, but they were trout retrievers." Howard...
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Opposition Licked by Peke That Was Left for Dead; THREE CHAMPIONS FROM WALES IN LATEST GUINNESS RECORDS
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), September 16, 2010
...DESPITE being left for dead because of his odd appearance, a Pekingese dog - or rather his enormous tongue - has made it into the...Its doing these things that proves youre alive." Puggy the Pekingese, whose 11.43cm tongue is the longest of any dog. It has...
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Barking Dictator Who Is the Real Top Dog in Your House; A PACK OF DOGS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 12, 2010
...tbin in the neighbourhood) to P.G. Wodehouses pop-eyed Pekingese (of hard-boiled aspect) who chews golf balls and nips...letter to her husband, katherine Mansfield describes a baby Pekingese about the size of a fur glove, covered in pale-gold down...
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Older, and Perhaps, Better Rescue Group Finds Homes for Older Pets
Newspaper article by Deborah Vence; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 6, 2007
Subjects: Nonprofit organizations, Pets
...group. And there was Herbie. I just fell in love with this Pekingese. Hes at least 6 to 8 years old. (The pet rescue) found...nose was burned," she said. Vosmik was so touched by the Pekingese that she immediately filled out an application at the show...
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A Dog's Dinner for All Those Inclined towards the Canine; TV WATCH
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 4, 2006
Subjects: Copyright infringement, Genetic research, Television programs--Television program reviews
...between a sheepdog and a tulip (called a collie-flower), a Pekingese and a Lhasa Apso (its called a Peekasso, and paints cubist...status. By the end, I was thinking about crossing a pug and a Pekingese to produce lots of little shitzus (or of crossing a St Bernard...
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encyclopedia articles on: Pekingese  - 4 results

 
 
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Pekingese
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PEKINGESE pe kinez , breed of small toy dog developed...and tail. It may be any color. The Pekingese is believed to have existed in its present...court; the punishment for stealing a Pekingese was death. When the imperial palace...
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Toy Dog
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...griffon , Chihuahua , English toy spaniel , Italian greyhound , Japanese spaniel , Maltese , miniature pinscher , papillon , Pekingese , Pomeranian , pug , Shih Tzu , silky terrier , toy poodle , toy Manchester terrier , and Yorkshire terrier . See dog...
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Dog
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...guards, guides, and herders, are the collie , the German shepherd , and the St. Bernard . Such diminutive pet dogs as the Pekingese , the Pomeranian , and the pug belong to the toy dog class. The nonsporting dog group is a class of dogs bred principally...
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Shih Tzu
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...sent as a gift by the Tibetan Dali Lamas to the Chinese emperors as early as the 16th cent. In China it was crossed with the Pekingese, both breeds being referred to there as "lion dogs." In its relatively short history in the United States, the Shih Tzu...


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