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The Han Chinese (alternatively Han people, [ a ] or simply Tang Chinese[ 18 ]) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. With a global population of over 1.4 billion, the Han Chinese are the world's largest ethnic group, making up about 17.5% of the global population. The Han Chinese represent 92% of the population in mainland ...
Wei (/ weɪ /), known in historiography as the Northern Wei (Chinese: 北魏; pinyin: Běi Wèi), Tuoba Wei (Chinese: 拓跋魏; pinyin: Tuòbá Wèi), Yuan Wei (Chinese: 元魏; pinyin: Yuán Wèi) and Later Wei (Chinese: 後魏; pinyin: Hòu Wèi), was an imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Tuoba (Tabgach) clan of the Xianbei. The first of ...
Wei was originally a vassal kingdom that was annexed by the neighbouring state of Jin in 661 bce. The latter kingdom was formally divided in 403 bce into three smaller kingdoms, those of Wei, Han, and Zhao. Wei thus became one of the seven powers during the Warring States (Zhanguo) period (475–221 bce) of Chinese history.
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Three new kingdoms emerged from the wreckage, one of which was Shu Han. It was opposed in one of China's bloodiest civil wars in its entire history by Cao Wei and the Eastern Wu. Shu Han was established in AD 221, the following the proclamation by Cao Pi of the Cao Wei kingdom in 220. Shu Han territory covered Chongqing and Sichuan provinces in ...
The Tuoba (Chinese) or Tabgatch (Old Turkic: 𐱃𐰉𐰍𐰲, Tabγač), also known by other names, was an influential Xianbei clan in early imperial China. During the Sixteen Kingdoms after the fall of Han and the Three Kingdoms, the Tuoba established and ruled the Dai state in northern China.
Wei Han is an associate professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. In the past few years, he has published two Monograph on competition law (Study of Merger Remedies, China Law Press, 2013; The Evolution of Anti-monopoly Law towards the Intelligence Era, China Law Press, 2019), five books as Editor in Chief (Competition Policy of OECD, New Antitrust Rules of ...
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In 1993, upon learning that his father was ill, he returned to China. One of Ai’s most famous pieces, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn (1995), incorporates what Ai has called a “cultural readymade.”. The work captures Ai as he drops a 2,000-year-old ceremonial urn, allowing it to smash to the floor at his feet.
