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Chinese Earth-Sheltered Dwellings: Indigenous Lessons for Modern Urban Design

Book by Gideon S. Golany; University of Hawaii Press, 1992

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Earth Sheltered Houses--China

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...accordance with the basic Chinese requirement of saving land...Disadvantages The pragmatism of the Chinese people has been the basic...Some of the advantages of the Chinese cave dwellings may be summarized as follows...construction is not essential; cave dwelling construction follows a self...
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Chinese Family and Marriage in Singapore

Book by Maurice Freedman; Her Majestys Stationery Office, 1957

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Chinese--Singapore, Family--Singapore, Marriage--Singapore

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...rooms were occupied by non-Chinese. In the use of the artisans...that arise in overcrowded Chinese houses is the provision of...contrived. In one of the artisans dwellings there were living a very old...solved in a fearsome slum dwelling in which a mother and her...which is against normal Chinese practice. My friend said...
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A White Man's Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1858-1914

Book by Patricia E. Roy; University of British Columbia Press, 1989

Subjects:

British Columbia--Emigration And Immigration--History, British Columbia--Politics And Government, British Columbia--Race Relations, China--Emigration And Immigration--History, Chinese--British Columbia--History, Immigrants--British Columbia--History, Japan--Emigration And Immigration--History, Japanese--British Columbia--History

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...annual medical examinations of all Chinese and Japanese and registration and inspection of their dwellings, which would have to be brought up...Fagan urged the quarantining of all Chinese and Chinese goods entering from the United States...
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Cowboys and Cultivators: The Chinese of Inner Mongolia

Book by Burton Pasternak, Janet W. Salaff; Westview Press, 1993

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Chinese--China--Inner Mongolia

Collections: History, Entire Library

...time to time" as additional funds are needed. 6. Shepherds often build semi-subterranean winter dwellings, structures more like the Chinese earthen home than the Mongol yurt.They dig a hole around five feet deep, and build a shallow wooden...
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Double Identity: The Chinese in Modern Thailand

Book by Richard J. Coughlin; Greenwood Press, 1976

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Chinese--Thailand, Thailand--Social Life And Customs

Collections: History, Entire Library

...open spaces of any kind in Chinese areas. Crowding is intense...Bangkok in 1952 in a typical Chinese neighbourhood burned out...about 2,000 individual dwellings and almost 20,000 persons. Interiors of these Chinese houses vary, depending...

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Asia's Old Dwellings: Tradition, Resilience, and Change

Journal article by Dennis P. Tobin; Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 22, 2004

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Asia's Old Dwellings: Tradition, Resilience, and Change (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

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Asias Old Dwellings: Tradition, Resilience...Dennis P. Tobin Asias Old Dwellings: Tradition, Resilience...upon regional vernacular dwellings: South Asia, South...in this section examine Chinese and Korean dwellings...
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China's Old Dwellings

Journal article by Robert Mccoll; The Geographical Review, Vol. 91, 2001

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China's Old Dwellings (Book)

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Chinas Old Dwellings by Robert McColl CHINAS...entire regional spectrum of Chinese vernacular housing. As...interest in structural and Chinese cultural details, in many...of the broad spectrum of Chinese architecture, from structural...
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Ronald G. Knapp and Kai-Yin Lo, Editors. House Home Family: Living and Being Chinese

Journal article by Sunamita Lim; China Review International, Vol. 13, 2006

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Books--Book reviews, House Home Family: Living and Being Chinese (Book)--Book reviews

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...Home Family: Living and Being Chinese is aptly titled, and the title...logically organized by how the Chinese dwelling (notably the extended familys...written in English on vernacular Chinese dwellings. Thus, it is no surprise that...
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No as Sociopolitical Commentary: Staging Chinese Literati in Medieval No Theatre

Journal article by Leo Shingchi Yip; Asian Theatre Journal, Vol. 24, 2007

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Bai Letian (Play)--Evaluation, Chinese foreign relations--Analysis, Drama--Usage, Japanese foreign relations--Analysis, No--Political aspects, No--Social aspects, Noh drama--Political aspects, Noh drama--Social aspects, Plays--Usage, The Three Laughers (Play)--Evaluation

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...Confucianism represented by the three Chinese figures. (7) Jiunin did...he alluded to well-known Chinese poems that describe waterfalls and dwellings of recluse to reconstruct...in the style of classical Chinese poetry, describes the joy...
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Nineteenth-Century Oakland Chinese Businesses

Journal article by Kelly Fong; Chinese America: History and Perspectives, 2008

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Chinese American culture--History, Emigration and immigration--History, Immigrants--History, Oakland, California--Economic aspects

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...Laundry Laundry
Chinese Shanties Dwelling
Chinese (S/D) Store/Dwelling
Chinese D Dwelling

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Asia's Old Dwellings: Tradition, Resilience and Change: Resistance in Losing Battle

Magazine article by Robert Powell; The Architectural Review, Vol. 215, February 2004

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Asia's old dwellings: tradition, resilience and change: resistance in losing battle (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews

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Asias Old Dwellings: Tradition, Resilience and Change...collection of 18 essays on the old dwellings of Asia edited by Ronald Knapp...example there are essays on Indian, Chinese and Indonesian dwellings that attempt to cover the whole...
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Can the Chinese Dragon Match Pearls with the Dragon God of the Sea? A Response to Zongli Tang

Magazine article by William Hinton; Monthly Review, Vol. 45, July 1993

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China--International trade, Deng Xiaoping--Economic policy, Foreign investments--China

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...Tribune, March 12, 1993) where Chinese bicycles have been selling...Other government units and Chinese corporations-- pseudo...drive to construct peasant dwellings continues unabated. These...Oxford English Dictionary) The Chinese word is maiban, or purveyor...
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Chinese Rights, U.s. Wrongs: Interviews with Wei Jingsheng and Alice Kwan

Magazine article; Multinational Monitor, Vol. 21, May 2000

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China, International trade, Kwan, Alice, Manufacturing, United States, Wei Jingsheng, Working conditions

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...invested in very luxurious dwellings. But they cannot sell it to...China joins the WTO, many Chinese businesses will not survive...Theres no labor union to protect Chinese workers, and the police can...people inside. Many overseas Chinese wanted to donate money to help...
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The Diffusionists Have Landed : You've Probably Heard of Those Crackpot Theories about Ancient Phoenicians or Chinese in the New World. Maybe It's Time to Start Paying Attention

Magazine article by Marc K. Stengel; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, January 2000

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Emigration and immigration--History, United States--History

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...University, raised the possibility of direct Chinese influence on Mesoamericas Olmec culture...approximately 1100 B.C. , are distinctly Chinese in pattern. Moreover, they bear ideographic...pottery shards, pointed flints, traces of dwellings, monuments, rock drawings -- in short...
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Diffusionists Have Landed: You've Probably Heard of Those Crackpot Theories about Ancient Phoenicians or Chinese in the New World. Maybe It's Time to Start Paying Attention

Magazine article by Mark K. Stengel; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 285, January 2000

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America, Archaeology--Methods, Native American history--History, Native North Americans--History, Native South Americans--History

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...University, raised the possibility of direct Chinese influence on Mesoamericas Olmec culture...approximately 1100 B.C., are distinctly Chinese in pattern. Moreover, they bear ideographic...pottery shards, pointed flints, traces of dwellings, monuments, rock drawings--in short...

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Chinese Investment on Way to UK Auto Firms High despite Housing Downturn; in Association with Lloydstsb.com/corporatemarkets Last Week Wang Zhong Wei, of Chinese Motorbike Firm Chongqing Lifan, Visited Birmingham in the Search for Global Business Partners. Here, in Full, Is What He Told Industry Leaders about What International Industrialists Are Looking for in a UK Investment Opportunity

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 17, 2009

Subjects:

Automobiles--Methods, Dwellings--Methods, Housing--Methods, Motorcycle industry--Methods

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Chinese Investment on Way to UK Auto Firms High...corporatemarkets Last Week Wang Zhong Wei, of Chinese Motorbike Firm Chongqing Lifan, Visited...lot of work and solid research, and our Chinese companies are not really giving enough...
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Dwelling on the Minutiae

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 8, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Dwelling on the Minutiae. Byline: VICTOR LEWIS...perhaps in the claustrophobic one-person dwellings featured in last nights Guerrilla Homes...to the sort of small and impermanent dwellings that can be placed in fields and gardens...precisely what they want, "just like a Chinese menu". KALKINS work was surely worthy...
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Chinese Farmers Plant Their Hopes on Return of Rain

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 1, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Chinese Farmers Plant Their Hopes on Return of...garlic, boxes of tomatoes, huge sacks of Chinese radishes and dozens of other items, its...valuable that families in Nanzhou lived in dwellings carved into the sides of plateaus below...
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MOVING EXPENSES; Droves of Upwardly Mobile Face a Housing Squeeze

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), November 8, 2011

Subjects:

Dwellings, Housing

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...end of the real estate boom prompted the Chinese government in the past year to institute...English - which she said is essential for Chinese children to succeed in the professional...Sohn said. Under the stimulus program, Chinese banks lent about $3 trillion mostly to...
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FIlm-Maker Showcases A Better Tomorrow as Liverpool; Biennial

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), November 3, 2006

Subjects:

Dwellings, Filmmakers, Housing, Movie directors, Real estate industry

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...in others lives and circumstances, and Chinese film maker Jun Yang has brought those...also a parallel between Liverpool and Chinese cities like Shanghai where the rate of...communities - those so much like the traditional Chinese communities his parents remember - and...

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Chinese Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...b.c. The background of Chinese architecture has been somewhat...Two kinds of mud-walled dwellings were found of round and rectangular...period, a basic principle of Chinese architecture was already established...screens. Although the typical Chinese roof was probably developed...
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Wood Carving

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...figures (see Oceanic art ). In Japan and China wooden carvings have long been used to decorate temples and private dwellings (see Chinese architecture ; Japanese architecture ). The Muslim countries of North Africa abound in intricate architectural...
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Yan'An

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...capital (1936 47, 1948 9) of the Chinese Communists, who established arsenals...revolution. Many people still live in cave dwellings. Oil is produced at nearby Yanchang. See J. Myrdal, Report from a Chinese Village (tr. by M. Michael, 1965...
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Tower

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...towers. The many-storied pagoda in wood was a part of early Chinese and Japanese temple architecture. The minaret belongs to Islamic...fortified towers that Italian nobles built even for their city dwellings numerous examples remain, notably at San Gimignano. The earliest...
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Bamian

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...By the 7th cent. the town was a center of Buddhism; the Chinese pilgrims Fa Hsien and Hsuan-tsang traveled through the town...its former prominence. The Bamian valley is lined with cave dwellings cut out of the cliffs by Buddhist monks. Particularly interesting...

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