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See also:MIAOTSZE, or MIAUTSE , one of the aboriginal tribes of See also:southern See also:China. At one See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time they occupied a considerable portion of the fertile lands which now See also:form the central See also:province of the See also:empire, but as the See also:Chinese advanced southwards they were driven into the See also:mountain districts of the provinces of Yunnan, Kwei-chow, Kwang-si and Kwang-tung, where they are found at the See also:present See also:day. As See also:early as the reign of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Suan (about 800 B.C.) we read of an expedition having been sent to drive them out of Hu-nan. The last important See also:campaign against them was undertaken by the See also:emperor K'ien-See also:lung, who, having completely subjugated the Eleuths, attacked the Miaotsze, who suffered a crushing defeat, and were compelled to See also:purchase See also:peace by See also:- SWEARING (O. Eng. swerian, to swear, originally to speak aloud, cf. andswerian, to answer, Ger. schworen, Dan. svaerge, &c., all from root sorer-, to make a sound, cf. " swarm," properly the buzzing of bees, Lat. susurrus)
swearing See also:allegiance to their conquerors. They still maintain a semi-See also:independence in their mountain-homes, but are a decaying See also:race, gradually giving way before the Chinese. They are allowed to govern themselves on their own patriarchal See also:system. The Miaotsze of both sexes are shorter and darker-complexioned than the Chinese, their faces are rounder and their features sharper.
See Sketches of the Miau-tsze, trans. by E. C. See also:Bridgman; J. Edkins, The Miautsi Tribes, their See also:History; and " See also:Quaint Customs in Kweichow," Cornhill See also:Magazine (See also:Jan. 1872); See also:Playfair, The Maotzu of Kwei-chow and Yunnan (See also:London, 1877) ; A. R. Colquhoun, Across Chryse (1883).
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