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Isolated Xibe people use language skills to restore the once mighty Qing dynasty
Edit Canberra Times 22 Jan 2016
Qapqal, Xibe. Loyal to the core and prized for their horsemanship, several thousand Manchu soldiers heeded the emperor's call ... "They were terribly homesick here and dreamed of one day going back east," said Tong Hao, 56, a descendant of the settlers, from the Xibe branch of the Manchus, who arrived here emaciated and exhausted ... One battle in 1867 nearly halved the Xibe population, to 13,000....
Manchu, former empire’s language, hangs on at China’s edge
Edit Taipei Times 17 Jan 2016
“They were terribly homesick here and dreamed of one day going back east,” said Tong Hao, 56, a descendant of the settlers, from the Xibe branch of the Manchus, who arrived here emaciated and exhausted ... But two-and-a-half centuries later, the roughly 30,000 people in this rural county who consider themselves Xibe have proved to be an ethnographic curiosity and a linguistic bonanza....
Former empire’s language hangs on at China’s edge
Edit Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 17 Jan 2016
QAPQAL XIBE AUTONOMOUS COUNTY, China — Loyal to the core and prized for their horsemanship, several thousand Manchu soldiers heeded the emperor’s call and, with families and livestock in tow, embarked in 1764 on a trek that took them from northeastern China to the most distant fringes of the Qing dynasty empire, the Central Asian lands now known as Xinjiang ... ....
In Song, a Remnant of China’s Former Imperial Language
Edit New York Times 15 Jan 2016
Watch a speaker of Xibe, a dialect of Manchu, sing a folk song inspired by the novel “Romance of the Three Kingdoms.” ... ....
The Province Builds 33 Ethnic Town Folk Culture Exhibition Halls in Three Batches (People's Government ...
Edit Public Technologies 10 Oct 2015
(Source. People's Government of Jilin Province). The province's field meeting on the construction of folk culture exhibition halls for ethnic towns was not long ago held in Hunchun. The participants conducted an on-the-spot inspection of the construction of a folk culture exhibition hall in Yangpao Manchu Town, Hunchun City ... The province has 33 ethnic towns, covering five native peoples such as Korean, Manchu, Mongolian, Hui and Xibe....
Most terrorist groups knocked out at planning stage: White paper
Edit China Daily 24 Sep 2015
BEIJING - Most terrorist groups in Xinjiang autonomous region have been knocked out at the planning stage, according to a white paper published Thursday ... China respects religious freedom ... Ethnic culture thrives in Xinjiang ... Vigorous efforts have been made to preserve traditional ethnic cultural treasures, such as the Mongolian epic, the Kazak' s ballad singing Aytes, the Hui folk song Hua' er, and the Xibe's West Moving Festival ... ....
Guangzhou's five major archaeological discoveries of 2014 revealed
Edit China Daily 12 Jun 2015
The Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology of Guangzhou recently unveiled five major discoveries in 2014 ahead of the 10th Chinese Cultural Heritage Day, which falls on Saturday ... The theme of the Chinese Cultural Heritage Day this year is "protect achievements and share with the public", which is what the institute has been endeavoring to do, said Yi Xibing, the institute's deputy director ... ....
Borderland travel: The China that defies all stereotypes
Edit CNN 05 Nov 2014
November 5, 2014 -- Updated 0313 GMT (1113 HKT). During a year of travel on the edges of China, journalist David Eimer encountered many of the country's 55 ethnic minorities ... "Tibetans are the hardest people to engage with," says Eimer ... There's a specific ethnic minority in Xinjiang -- the Xibe -- who are closely related to the Manchu and who are the descendants of soldiers sent to guard the edges of the Qing Empire in the 18th century....
White paper: Ethnic minorities account for 13.9 pct of XPCC's population
Edit China Daily 05 Oct 2014Drought could end 11 years of harvest growth
Edit China Daily 09 Aug 2014
A severe drought in China's major crop-producing regions threatens to end 11 consecutive years of annual growth in the country's harvest ... It coincides with one of the most critical periods of cultivation, according to agricultural experts ... "We have to give up on the crops. The more we invest, the more we could lose," said Kurbanjan, a farmer in Qong Bura, a town in the Qapqal Xibe autonomous county ... ....
Protection plans launched for three Guangzhou sites
Edit China Daily 16 May 2014
Yi Xibing, deputy director of the archeology department of the city's research institute of cultural relics and archeology, told China Daily on Friday that the city is facing two major challenges in applying for World Cultural Heritage status for the six sites. "Firstly, the government needs to do more to inform the public of the application's importance and of the World Cultural Heritage's selection criteria," Yi said ... ....
Futian inviting expats on cultural outing (Shenzhen Government)
Edit noodls 29 Nov 2013
(Source. Shenzhen Government). Expats visit the Mangrove Nature Reserve at the invitation of Futian District Government in 2012. . A pencai dish. . A work by Guan Bochun.? ... A native of Heilongjiang Province, Guan has collected more than 2,000 stones and written an epic tale about the Xibe, an ethnic group in western and northeastern China, on 56 of them. His work has been displayed by the Chinese National Museum of Ethnology....
The road once taken
Edit China Daily 29 Oct 2013
The belt is the property of the 5-year-old's aunt, who lives in the Qapqal Xibe autonomous county in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. She is one of eight members of the Xibe ethnic group awarded the honor after retracing a journey made by their ancestors almost 250 years ago. On the belt buckle is carved the image of a mythical creature whose Xibe name has been lost through the generations....
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