|
Hong Kong
Hong Kong , Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov., SE China, on the estuary of the Pearl River, 40 mi (64 km) E of Macao and 90 mi (145 km) SE of Guangzh...
Read more
|
|
Hua-yen Buddhism
Hua-yen Buddhism [Chin.,=flower garland], school of Chinese Buddhism centering on the Avatamsaka Sutra [flower garland sutra]. This school has no Indian counterpart. Hua-yen classifies Buddhist scriptures and doctrines on five levels, with its own teaching as the highest and most complete. Accord...
Read more
|
|
tung oil
tung oil oil obtained from the seeds of a tropical tree, the tung tree ( Aleurites fordii ) of the spurge family, and from seeds of some related species, all from Indomalesia or W Pacifica. It is known also as China wood oil and nut oil. The poisonous seeds found in the heart of the tung fruit (w...
Read more
|
|
Chang Chih-tung
Chang Chih-tung , 1837-1909, Chinese Ch'ing dynasty statesman and educational reformer. He occupied the high post of governor-general for over two decades, first of Guangdong and Guangxi provs. (1884-89), and later of Hunan and Hubei provs. (1889-1907). In that position he vigorously pressed the lat...
Read more
|
|
|
drying oil
drying oil any of several natural oils which, when exposed to the air, oxidize to form a tough, elastic film. The common drying oils are cottonseed oil (see cotton ), corn oil, soybean oil, tung oil , and linseed oil ; the first three oils mentioned are more properly called semidrying oils. Lins...
Read more
|
|
|
Changde
Changde or Changteh , city (1994 est. pop. 336,800), N Hunan prov., China, on the Yuan River. Formerly a treaty port, it is now an administrative center and a storage and shipping point for tung oil, grain, cotton, medicinal herbs, and wood. Manufactures include ceramics, machine tools, textiles...
Read more
|
|
|
Yuan
Yuan , river, 540 mi (869 km) long, rising in S Guizhou prov. and flowing generally NE to Donting lake, Hunan prov., SE China. Navigation above Changde is limited by rapids to small craft. The Yuan valley, a major north-south trade route, yields tungsten, iron ore, and tung yu (wood oil).
...
Read more
|
|
|
Zomba
Zomba , town (1994 est. pop. 62,700), S Malawi, in the Shire Highlands. Until 1973 it was the national capital. European planters founded the town c.1880. It is the commercial center for a region growing cotton, coffee, and tobacco; tung oil is produced, and there is a hydroelectric power plant near...
Read more
|
|
|
Ssu-ma Kuang
Ssu-ma Kuang , 1018-86, Chinese statesman and historian of the Northern Sung dynasty. He edited the monumental Tzu-chih t'ung-chien [the comprehensive mirror for aid in government], a chronicle of Chinese history from 403 BC to AD 959. The title indicates the belief that history can serve the pres...
Read more
|
|
spurge
spurge , common name for members of the Euphorbiaceae, a family of herbs, shrubs, and trees of greatly varied structure and almost cosmopolitan distribution, although most species are tropical. In the United States the family is most common in the Southeast.
Euphorbias
Many plants of the s...
Read more
|
