| dollar |
the chief monetary unit of the Republic of China (Taiwan), equaling one hundred cents; yuan dollar. [1/3 definitions] |
| East China Sea |
an extension of the North Pacific between China, Korea, and Japan. |
| fan-tan |
a gambling game originating in China in which players bet on a final number of objects after a pile of the objects is counted off in groups of four. [1/2 definitions] |
| fen2 |
the smallest monetary unit of the People's Republic of China. (Cf. yuan, renminbi.) |
| Forbidden City |
a vast, walled complex of buildings in Beijing, China, formerly the Imperial Palace (1491-1911), now open to the public as the Palace Museum. |
| giant panda |
a large, bearlike, carnivorous animal with black-and-white fur and black rings around the eyes, native to China and Tibet. |
| ginkgo |
a deciduous ornamental tree, native to China, with fan-shaped leaves and edible fruit and seeds. |
| Gobi |
a desert in northern China and southwestern Mongolia. |
| Gobi Desert |
a large arid region in northern China and southwestern Mongolia. |
| Great Wall of China |
a defensive fortification in northern China which stretches for thousands of miles. Parts of the structure were built as early as the seventh century BCE. These and other parts were connected in the third century, beginning the creation of what became considered the Great Wall. Later parts were eventually added, especially in the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries. |
| Guangzhou |
a seaport and provincial capital on the southern coast of China; Canton. |
| Gulf of Thailand |
an arm of the South China Sea that borders Thailand, Cambodia, and small parts of Vietnam and Malaysia. |
| Gulf of Tonkin |
a shallow arm of the South China Sea lying between Vietnam and China, purportedly the site of North Vietnamese attacks on US ships that precipitated the United States' entry into the Vietnam War in 1964. |
| Hmong |
an ethnic group of Asia whose homeland includes the mountainous regions of southern China and northern Southeast Asia. [1/2 definitions] |
| Hong Kong |
a region of southeast China containing Hong Kong Island as well as many other islands and the adjacent mainland. Hong Kong was a British colony from the 1840s until 1997 when it was reverted to Chinese rule as a "Special Administrative Region." While it is a part of China and controlled by the Chinese government on all matters related to defense and foreign affairs, Hong Kong operates with a great deal of autonomy, with its own legal system, police force, immigration policy, and currency. |
| Huang He |
a major river originating in the mountains of western China and flowing mostly eastward toward the Bohai Sea; Yellow River. |
| Huang He River |
a major river originating in the mountains of western China and flowing mostly eastward toward the Bohai Sea; Yellow River. |
| Indochina |
a large Southeast Asian peninsula south of China, between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. |
| ironstone |
a durable pottery used for dishes; ironstone china. [1/2 definitions] |
| jiao |
an intermediate monetary unit of the People's Republic of China, equaling ten fen. (Cf. yuan.) |
| Kalmuck |
a member of a Buddhist Mongol tribe of northwestern China and the lower Volga River region. [1/2 definitions] |