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HISTORY-CHINA: ANCIENT SCRIPT SHEDS LIGHT ON OBSCURE DYNASTY
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 7/24/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...what is generally known in English as the Tangut Empire, left behind a group of unique...palace was built by the founder of the Tangut Kingdom, Emperor Li Yuanhao. The Tanguts...two other elder scholars who understood Tangut, both of whom were in labor camps...
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Hok-Lam Chan. China and the Mongols: History and Legend under the Yuan and Ming.(Review)
Magazine article from: China Review International; 9/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...removed from the Chinese orbit. Also, Tangut-language source material was probably...that the Mongols' own low opinion of Tangut duplicity, as evidenced in the 1227 Secret...decreed the annihilation of the entire Tangut population, may have entered into the...
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Beijing to hold Xixia Calligraphy Exhibition
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 7/23/2001; 399 words
; ...ancient Silk Road, was a feudal kingdom established by the Tangut ethnic group. Its territory largely overlapped today's Ningxia...became a dead language with the downfall of the kingdom and Tangut. But its civilization came to light again when discovered by...
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Scholars delve deeper
Newspaper article from: China Daily; 12/21/2004; 596 words
; ...result in some 1,700 listings, while 11,000 listings turn out in a similar search for "Tangut." Archaeologists have found the ethnic Dangxiang, or Tangut people, who founded and ruled Xixia Kingdom, left behind a distinctive history and culture...
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The Fall of Babel.('Language in Danger')
Magazine article from: Newsweek International; 8/12/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...But in 1227, when his son avenged his death by ordering the slaying of the Central Asian Tangut people, he destroyed a whole culture, as the local Tangut language was never again spoken. The world now loses a language every two weeks, a rate...
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Xixia Calligraphy Exhibition Opens in Beijing
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 7/24/2001; 461 words
; ...or Western Xia, was a feudal kingdom established by the Tangut ethnic group at the eastern end of the ancient Silk Road. Its...became a dead language with the downfall of the kingdom and Tangut. But its civilization came to light again when discovered by...
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Hero Of The Steppes.(Periscope; SUMMER BOX OFFICE)('Mongol')(Movie review)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Newsweek International; 6/30/2008; ; 591 words
; ...a trading bazaar in the Gobi Desert. A ruler from the local Tangut dynasty is buying slaves, and he's drawn to a captive named...cell and hangs a sign: THE MONGOL WHO WANTED TO DESTROY THE TANGUT KINGDOM. People mock and stare. But the joke's on the Tanguts...
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China to publish first book on general history of ancient kingdom
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 9/25/2004; 510 words
; ...a branch of nomadic Qiang people, related to the Tibetans. Tangut tribes built up a powerful state in today's Gansu Province...Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) elsewhere in China. The Tangut language was recorded in intricate Chinese-style characters...
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China to publish historical documents of Xixia
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 1/3/2006; 434 words
; ...or Western Xia, was a feudal kingdom established by the Tangut ethnic group at the eastern end of the ancient Silk Road. Its...became a dead language with the downfall of the kingdom and Tangut. But its civilization came to light again when discovered by...
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A crossroads with two signposts: Diversity and uniformity
Magazine article from: The Spectator; 5/25/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...as ordered, and one of its results was that the language of Tangut, all the speakers of which were inside the city, was never...call it -- rarely happens as violently or as suddenly as with Tangut, it does occur frequently. And at present the mortality rate...
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