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• Longmen Caves
  *Valerie Hansen, ''The Open Empire'', New York: W.W. Norton & Company (2000), 200-201.
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• Emperor Ruizong of Tang
  *Valerie Hansen, ''The Open Empire'', New York: W.W. Norton & Company (2000), 202.
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• Edward Seidensticker
  ...d to translation, and began translating Kawabata Yasunari's novels for New York-based publisher Alfred Knopf in the 1950s. In 1957, he visited the Echigo Y
  2 KB (224 words) - 09:48, 18 July 2017
• Emperor Shunzong of Tang
  *Valerie Hansen, ''The Open Empire'', New York: W.W. Norton & Company (2000), 232.
  1 KB (232 words) - 22:46, 23 January 2015
• Japan Society (New York)
  *''Location: Manhattan, New York'' Japan Society is a not-for-profit organization based in New York City, and dedicated, according to its original [[1907]] rules of organizati
  11 KB (1,606 words) - 06:13, 2 September 2014
• Kano Sansetsu
  ...anô Sansetsu, c. 1647, on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York]]
  2 KB (227 words) - 16:00, 20 February 2017
• Bashford Dean
  A precocious young man, Dean entered New York's City College at age 14, completing a PhD in zoology and paleontology at C
  3 KB (468 words) - 13:38, 9 November 2015
• William Griffis
  ...took a course in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Dutch Church at New Brunswick. ...ances with these young men. He wrote an article about that time in the New York "Independent," which attracted considerable attention. In [[1870]] there ca
  5 KB (824 words) - 18:01, 15 April 2014
• George Ladd
  ...nt Americans interested in Japan and prominent Japanese in America]'', New York, 1903 ''(Public Domain source)''
  2 KB (251 words) - 21:04, 9 April 2017
• Emperor Yang of Sui
  ...and Chinese descent, eventually seized control of the capital, declaring a new dynasty, the [[Tang Dynasty]], and naming himself [[Emperor Gaozu of Tang|E *Valerie Hansen, The Open Empire, New York: W.W. Norton & Company (2000), 195.
  3 KB (390 words) - 19:35, 1 August 2016
• Wang Anshi
  ...e superior for a healthy economy. Yet, even as the Song minted billions of new coins every year, the increasingly monetized economy continued to face an i *Valerie Hansen, ''The Open Empire'', New York: W.W. Norton & Co (2000), 269-270.
  3 KB (488 words) - 17:59, 28 January 2015
• 1846
  ...arrived in Ryûkyû in [[1844]], aboard the ''[[Alcmene]]''. They leave two new missionaries, [[Mathieu Adnet]] and [[Pierre-Julien Le Turdu]], to take his *New York-based publisher John T. White produces a set of ''[[kana]]'' type for type-
  2 KB (302 words) - 02:21, 7 March 2018
• Shinran
  [[File:Shinran.jpg|right|thumb|320px|A statue of Shinran outside the New York Buddhist Church, which previously stood in [[Hiroshima]], through 1945.]] ...Eshinni's inheritance while Shinran pursued his religious activities. His new "True Pure Land sect" (''Jôdo-shinshû''), said to have been founded in [[
  3 KB (471 words) - 06:22, 19 August 2020
• Yamagata Aritomo
  ...Norman, ''Soldier and Peasant in Japan: The Origins of Conscription''. New York: Institute for Pacific Relations, 1945. pp41-42, 49.</ref> In [[1900]], Yamagata put into place a new policy stating that Ministers of Army and Navy had to be active military of
  2 KB (353 words) - 16:52, 13 October 2017
• Lin Zexu
  [[File:Lin-zexu.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Statue of Commissioner Lin in New York Chinatown, labeled "Pioneer in the War Against Drugs."]]
  2 KB (237 words) - 21:55, 2 August 2016
• Emperor Taizong of Song
  *Valerie Hansen, The Open Empire, New York: W.W. Norton & Company (2000), 265-267.
  2 KB (244 words) - 16:18, 28 January 2015
• Samuel Wells Williams
  Williams is buried in his hometown of Utica in upstate New York. Many of his diaries survive, and are held by the Yale University Library.
  2 KB (234 words) - 04:35, 14 November 2019
• Zhao Mengfu
  *Valerie Hansen, ''The Open Empire'', New York: W.W. Norton & Company (2000), 359-363.
  2 KB (264 words) - 23:20, 28 September 2017
• Timber Pagoda
  *Valerie Hansen, ''The Open Empire'', New York: W.W. Norton & Company (2000), 309-311.
  2 KB (252 words) - 00:08, 19 April 2013
• Battle of Tumu
  A new emperor, the [[Jingtai Emperor]], took the throne in Zhengtong's absence, a *Valerie Hansen, ''The Open Empire'', New York: W.W. Norton & Company (2000), 385.
  3 KB (403 words) - 15:44, 19 May 2013

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