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Huang Ling-chih
Huang Ling-chih (Mandarin Chinese, Chinese: 黃靈芝) (1928–2016) was a Taiwanese people, Taiwanese writer and sculptor born in Tainan, Taiwan. Huang Ling-chih wrote in Japanese language, Japanese, and his works spanned a wide range of genres, including haiku, short poems, poetry, fiction, essays, and criticism. In 1951, he began submitting his works to the literary section of the Japanese-language newspaper ''Military and Civilian Reports'' (軍民導報), where he met other modern poets. He went on to join Taiwanese haiku societies. In 1970, Huang Ling-chih founded the Taipei Haiku Association and served as its president, publishing an annual anthology called ''Taipei Haiku Collection'' (臺北俳句集). From 1992 to 1993, he taught a Chinese haiku class, where he promoted his own haiku style, called "Taiwan Haiku" (灣俳). This style was an attempt to create a new form of poetry outside of modern poetry, influencing the development of free verse in Taiwan. In 2003, he publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin ( ; zh, s=, t=, p=Guānhuà, l=Mandarin (bureaucrat), officials' speech) is the largest branch of the Sinitic languages. Mandarin varieties are spoken by 70 percent of all Chinese speakers over a large geographical area that stretches from Yunnan in the southwest to Xinjiang in the northwest and Heilongjiang in the northeast. Its spread is generally attributed to the greater ease of travel and communication in the North China Plain compared to the more mountainous south, combined with the relatively recent spread of Mandarin to frontier areas. Many varieties of Mandarin, such as Southwestern Mandarin, those of the Southwest (including Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese) and the Lower Yangtze Mandarin, Lower Yangtze, are not mutually intelligible with the Beijing dialect (or are only partially intelligible). Nevertheless, Mandarin as a group is often placed first in lists of languages by number of native speakers (with nearly one billion). Because Mandarin originated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
