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Li (area)
Li ( zh, t=釐, s=厘 , p=lí) is a traditional unit of measurement for land area in China mainland. One ''li'' is 1/10th of a ''fen'' or 1/100 of a '' mu'', equals 6+2⁄3 square meters or 7.973 square yards. Conversions In 1929, the Nationalist government of China promulgated the ''Weights and Measures Act'' to adopt the metric system as the official standard and to limit the newer Chinese units of measurement to private sales and trade. These newer "market" units are based on rounded metric numbers, and has been effective on China mainland since 1 January 1930. For more details, please see article Mu (land). See also *Chinese units of measurement Chinese units of measurement, known in Chinese as the ''shìzhì'' ("market system"), are the traditional units of measurement of the Han Chinese. Although Chinese numerals have been decimal (base-10) since the Shang dynasty, Shang, several Chine ... References {{reflist Units of area Customary units of measurement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fen (land)
The fen () in Mandarin, fan in Cantonese or hun in Taiwanese, is a traditional Chinese unit of measurement for land area. One ''fen'' equals 1/10th of a '' mu'' in China mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Conversions In China mainland, *1915 ~ 1929: 1 ''fen'' = 1⁄10 ''mu'' = 61.44 square meters = 73.48 square yards. *1930 ~ present: 1 ''fen'' = 1⁄10 ''mu'' = 66+2⁄3 square meters = 79.73 square yards. In Hong Kong and Macau, 1 ''fen'' = 1⁄10 ''mu'' = 76.14 square meters = 91.06 square yards.''Law No. 14/92/M'' ( ;Lei n.o 14/92/M In Taiwan and Japan, 1 ''fen'' = 1⁄10 ''jia'' = 969.92 square meters = 10,440 square feet. Taiwan used to be ruled by Holand and then by Japan. Its measurement system was influenced by these two countries. And 1 ''fen'' has been set to be 1/10 of a ''Jia'' instead of a ''mu''. For details, please see article Mu (land). Idioms * ''One mu and three fen of land,'' or ''1.3 mu of land'' () is a Chinese idiom that figuratively refers to someone's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mu (land)
The mu () in Mandarin, mau or mou in Cantonese, or bo in Taiwanese Hokkien, also called Chinese acre, is a traditional Chinese unit of measurement for land area. One ''mu'' equals 666.67 square meters in mainland China, 761.4 square meters in Hong Kong and Macau, and 99.17 square meters in Taiwan and Japan. ''Mu'' is the only Chinese area unit legally retained by the People's Republic of China. Origin The ''mu'' was defined in terms of the ''bu'', or more precisely the square ''bu''. Deng Zhan of the Three Kingdoms era wrote that "in the old times 100 ''bu'' makes a ''mu'', but now 240 ''bu'' makes a ''mu''. Han dynasty fields use Qin dynasty units." Combined with known values of the Han dynasty ''chi'' and ''bu'', the "new" ''mu'' of the Han Dynasty is therefore 240 ''bu''2 = 240 ( × )2 = 461 m2. Mainland On 7 January 1915, the Beiyang government promulgated a measurement law to use not only the metric system as the standard but also a set of Chinese mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xinhua Dictionary
The ''Xinhua Zidian'' (), also as ''Xinhua Dictionary'', is a Chinese-language dictionary published by the Commercial Press. The first edition of ''Xinhua Zidian'' was published in 1957. The latest version is the 12th edition, which was published in August 2020. It is the best-selling Chinese dictionary and the world's most popular reference work. In 2016, Guinness World Records officially confirmed that the dictionary, published by The Commercial Press, is the "Most popular dictionary" and the "Best-selling book (regularly updated)". It is considered a symbol of Chinese culture. This pocket-sized dictionary of Chinese characters uses simplified Chinese characters and pinyin romanization. The most recent ''Xinhua Zidian'' edition (the 12th) contains 3,300 compounds and includes over 13,000 logograms, including traditional Chinese characters and variant Chinese characters. Bopomofo is used as a supplement alongside Pinyin. ''Xinhua Zidian'' is divided into 189 " radicals" or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Commercial Press
The Commercial Press () is the first modern publishing organization in China. The Commercial Press is known for its academic publishing and translation work in humanities and social sciences, as well as the '' Xinhua Dictionary''. History In 1897, 26-year-old Xia Ruifang and three of his friends (including the Bao brothers Bao Xian'en and Bao Xianchang) founded The Commercial Press in Shanghai. All four were Protestant Christians who received their training at the American Presbyterian Mission Press. The group soon received financial backing and began publishing books such as Bibles. From 1903 to 1914, The Commercial Press operated as a joint venture with Kinkōdō, one of the largest Japanese textbook publishers. Through the joint venture, The Commercial Press obtained the latest printing technology as well as lantern slides and cinema. From 1903, Zhang Yuanji (张元济, 1867–1959), reacting to China's moves towards a new curriculum, created several textbook and tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legislative Yuan
The Legislative Yuan () is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China (Taiwan) located in Taipei. The Legislative Yuan is composed of 113 members, who are directly elected for four-year terms by people of the Taiwan Area through a parallel voting system. Originally located in Nanjing, the Legislative Yuan, along with the National Assembly (electoral college) and the Control Yuan (upper house), formed the tricameral parliament under the original 1947 Constitution. The Legislative Yuan previously had 760 members representing constituencies in all of China (includes provinces, municipalities, Tibet Area, and various professions in Mainland China). Until democratization, the Republic of China was an authoritarian state under the '' Dang Guo'' system. At the time, the Legislative Yuan functioned as a rubber stamp for the ruling regime of the Kuomintang. Like parliaments or congresses of other countries, the Legislative Yuan is responsible for the passage of leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationalist Government
The Nationalist government, officially the National Government of the Republic of China, refers to the government of the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China from 1 July 1925 to 20 May 1948, led by the nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) party. Following the outbreak of the 1911 Revolution, Xinhai Revolution, revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen was elected to be China's List of Presidents of the Republic of China, provisional president and founded the Provisional Government of the Republic of China (1912), Provisional Government of the Republic of China. To preserve national unity, Sun ceded the presidency to military strongman Yuan Shikai, who established the Beiyang government. After Empire of China (1915-1916), a failed attempt to install himself as Emperor of China, Yuan died in 1916, leaving a power vacuum which resulted in China being divided into several Warlord Era, warlord fiefs and rival governments. They were nominally Chinese reunification (1928), reunified in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Justice (Republic Of China)
The Ministry of Justice (MOJ; ) is a ministerial level body of the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan), responsible for carrying out various regulatory and prosecutorial functions. History Taiwan's first justice ministry was created as part of the Government-General of Taiwan when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. The Republic of China's Ministry of Justice was established in 1912 in mainland China. After several name changes, the Ministry of Judicial Administration began its administration in Taiwan in 1945, before the central government was shifted to Taipei in 1949 after the Republic of China retreated to Taiwan. On 1 July 1980, the ministry was renamed again to the Ministry of Justice. Organizational structure The Ministry of Justice has the following branches: Departments * Department of Legal System * Department of Legal Affairs * Department of Prosecutorial Affairs * Department of International and Cross-Strait Legal Affairs * Department of Prevention, Reh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metric System
The metric system is a system of measurement that standardization, standardizes a set of base units and a nomenclature for describing relatively large and small quantities via decimal-based multiplicative unit prefixes. Though the rules governing the metric system have changed over time, the modern definition, the International System of Units (SI), defines the metric prefixes and seven base units: metre (m), kilogram (kg), second (s), ampere (A), kelvin (K), Mole (unit), mole (mol), and candela (cd). An SI derived unit is a named combination of base units such as hertz (cycles per second), Newton (unit), newton (kg⋅m/s2), and tesla (unit), tesla (1 kg⋅s−2⋅A−1) and in the case of Celsius a shifted scale from Kelvin. Certain units have been Non-SI units mentioned in the SI#Units officially accepted for use with the SI, officially accepted for use with the SI. Some of these are decimalised, like the litre and electronvolt, and are considered "metric". Others, like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mu (land)
The mu () in Mandarin, mau or mou in Cantonese, or bo in Taiwanese Hokkien, also called Chinese acre, is a traditional Chinese unit of measurement for land area. One ''mu'' equals 666.67 square meters in mainland China, 761.4 square meters in Hong Kong and Macau, and 99.17 square meters in Taiwan and Japan. ''Mu'' is the only Chinese area unit legally retained by the People's Republic of China. Origin The ''mu'' was defined in terms of the ''bu'', or more precisely the square ''bu''. Deng Zhan of the Three Kingdoms era wrote that "in the old times 100 ''bu'' makes a ''mu'', but now 240 ''bu'' makes a ''mu''. Han dynasty fields use Qin dynasty units." Combined with known values of the Han dynasty ''chi'' and ''bu'', the "new" ''mu'' of the Han Dynasty is therefore 240 ''bu''2 = 240 ( × )2 = 461 m2. Mainland On 7 January 1915, the Beiyang government promulgated a measurement law to use not only the metric system as the standard but also a set of Chinese mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chi (length)
The chi (Tongyong Pinyin chih) is a traditional Chinese unit of length. Although it is often translated as the "", its length was originally derived from the distance measured by a human hand, from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the forefinger, and is similar to the ancient span. It first appeared during China's Shang dynasty approximately 3,000 years ago and has since been adopted by other East Asian cultures such as Japan ('' shaku''), Korea (''ja/cheok''), and Vietnam (''thước''). Its present value is standardized at around , although the exact standards vary among the mainland of the People's Republic of China, its special administrative region of Hong Kong, and Taiwan. In its ancient and modern forms, the chi is divided into 10 smaller units known as cun (the "Chinese inch"). 10 chi are equal to 1 zhàng. Modern values In mainland China, the ''chi'' is been defined as exactly 1/3 of a meter, i.e., . However, in Hong Kong the corresponding unit, pronounced ''ts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhang (unit)
Zhang may refer to: Chinese culture, etc. * Zhang (surname) (張/张), common Chinese surname ** Zhang (surname 章), a rarer Chinese surname * Zhang County (漳县), of Dingxi, Gansu * Zhang River (漳河), a river flowing mainly in Henan Henan; alternatively Honan is a province in Central China. Henan is home to many heritage sites, including Yinxu, the ruins of the final capital of the Shang dynasty () and the Shaolin Temple. Four of the historical capitals of China, Lu ... * ''Zhang'' (unit) (丈), a traditional Chinese unit of length equal to 10 ''chi'' (3–3.7 m) * 璋, a type of shaped stone or jade object in ancient Chinese culture thought to hold great value and protective properties; see also Bi (jade) and Cong (jade) Other * Zhang, the proper name of the star Upsilon¹ Hydrae See also * Zang (other) {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qing (land)
Qing () is a traditional unit of measurement for land area in China mainland. One ''qing'' is 100 '' mu'', equals 6+2⁄3 ha or 16.47 acre. Conversions In 1929, the Nationalist government of China promulgated the ''Weights and Measures Act'' to adopt the metric system as the official standard and to limit the newer Chinese units of measurement to private sales and trade. These newer "market" units are based on rounded metric numbers, and has been effective on China mainland since 1 January 1930. For more details, please see article Mu (land). See also *Chinese units of measurement Chinese units of measurement, known in Chinese as the ''shìzhì'' ("market system"), are the traditional units of measurement of the Han Chinese. Although Chinese numerals have been decimal (base-10) since the Shang dynasty, Shang, several Chine ... References {{reflist Units of area Customary units of measurement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
