a member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in Laos and Thailand and speaking the Lao language; related to the Thais
of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand
the Tai language of a Buddhist people living in the area of the Mekong River in Thailand and Laos a member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in Laos and Thailand and speaking the Lao language; related to the Thais of or relating to a member of the Buddhist people inhabiting the Mekong river in Laos and Thailand
the Tai language of a Buddhist people living in the area of the Mekong River in Thailand and Laos
orig. Shu Qingchun or Shu Sheyu born Feb. 3, 1899, Beijing, China died Aug. 24?, 1966, Beijing Chinese writer. He worked as an educator before going to England in 1924, and he was inspired to write his first novel while reading the works of Charles Dickens to improve his English. He originally championed strong, hard-working individuals but later expressed the futility of the individual's struggle against society, as in Luotuo Xiangzi (1936), the tragic story of a ricksha puller; Rickshaw Boy, an unauthorized translation with a happy ending (1945), became a U.S. best-seller. After the onset of the Sino-Japanese War, he wrote lesser patriotic and propagandistic plays and novels. In 1966 he fell victim to the Cultural Revolution
prisoner-of-war camp where the North Vietnamese army held many American soldiers during the Vietnam War (known by American soldiers as the "Hanoi Hilton")
Political ideology based on the tenets attributed to the Yellow Emperor Huangdi and on the Daoist teachings of Laozi. This method of governance, which stressed the principles of reconciliation and noninterference, became the dominant ideology of the imperial court in the early Western Han (206 BC-AD 25). The Huang-Lao masters believed that Laozi's Daodejing perfectly described the art of rulership, and they venerated the legendary Yellow Emperor as the founder of a golden age. Their teachings constitute the earliest Daoist movement for which there is clear historical evidence. See also Daoism