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The main Dai groups in China are Dai Lu, Dai Nua and Dai Mao. According to Travel China Guide, Dai is the name of the nationality, which means “freedom”.7 Tai or Shan is now used as a generic word to cover the whole race spelled by French as Thay.
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The Dai1 ethnic group in China and the Thai people in Southeast Asia2 can all be broadly divided into two cultural groups: a Buddhist cultural circle and another circle centered around indigenous religion. Within the Buddhist circle, the Dai people practice Theravada Buddhism, celebrating the Songkran3 Festival and using a writing system created by...
As mentioned earlier, a large number of the Dai people—mainly in Xishuangbanna and Dehong Prefectures—lie within a Buddhist cultural circle, having been influenced by Theravada Buddhism from Burma or Laos, and they therefore share similar characteristics such as their celebration of the Songkran Festival and the employment of writing systems to rec...
Ai Die, Chen Guipei, Liu Qi, and Wang Song, eds. Zhao Shutun (The Hero Zhao Shuthun). Kunming: Yunnan Renmin Chubanshe (The People’s Publishing House of Yunnan). In Chinese. Ai Feng, Wang Song, and Dao Baoyao. Daizu Wenxueshi (The History of Dai Literature). Kunming: Yunnan Minzu Chubanshe (The National Publishing House of Yunnan). In Chinese. Ai P...
Translator's Note. Being one of the two or three most popular primers with which youngsters were taught how to be gentlemen during the last two centuries of imperial China, Di Zi Gui is a treasure trove of traditional Chinese thought, norms and mores.
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Nov 7, 2023 · This study suggests that the accurate translation of key terms of Chinese culture, which is of great significance in promoting Chinese culture to go global, requires translators’ full and...
Instead of tracing individual ideas in Sun’s ideology of revolution to their original Chinese sources, I shall discuss his thought in relation to Chinese tradition holistically as well as in the context of Chinese intellectual history during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Apr 15, 2014 · This article focuses on Confucianism, Taoism, and Chinese Buddhism to start this epistemological exploration, as they represent Chinese culture and can provide valuable epistemological...
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Download Free PDF. Learning the Way and the Transmission of Chinese Culture. Timothy Huson. This paper was written as the introduction to the sixth volume of Chinese Literature and Culture.
