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78 relations: Betty Kwan Chinn, Chifeng, Chinese language, Chinese surname, Daniels (directors), Dǒng, Dongguan (disambiguation), Emperor Yao, Esther Kwan, First Opium War, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Gūwalgiya, Guan Bo, Guan Hanqing, Guan Linzheng, Guan Ping, Guan Tianlang, Guan Tianpei, Guan Tong, Guan Xiaotong, Guan Xing, Guan Yu, Guan Zilan, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation, Hundred Family Surnames, Jade Kwan, Jean Quan, Jie of Xia, Jin (Chinese state), Jin dynasty (1115–1234), Julia Kwan, Jurchen people, Kaiping, Kanji, Ke Huy Quan, Kelvin Kwan, Kevin Kwan, Khitan people, Kwan Hoi-san, Kwan Swee Lian, Kwan Tak-hing, Macau, Manchu people, Michael Kwan, Michelle Kwan, Mongols, Naked News, Nancy Kwan, Overseas Chinese, ... Expand index (28 more) »
Betty Kwan Chinn
Betty Kwan Chinn (關惠群) is a philanthropist who lives in Eureka, California.
Chifeng
Chifeng, also known as Ulankhad in Mongolian, is a prefecture-level city in Southeastern Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China.
See Guān and Chifeng
Chinese language
Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.
Chinese surname
Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in Greater China, Korea, Vietnam and among overseas Chinese communities around the world such as Singapore and Malaysia. Guān and Chinese surname are Chinese-language surnames.
Daniels (directors)
Daniel Kwan (born February 10, 1988) and Daniel Scheinert (born June 7, 1987), known collectively as the Daniels, are an American filmmaking duo.
See Guān and Daniels (directors)
Dǒng
Dong (Wade-Giles: Tung3; Standard Cantonese: Tung or Tong; Cantonese Jyutping: Dung2) is a surname of Chinese origin. Guān and Dǒng are Chinese-language surnames and Individual Chinese surnames.
See Guān and Dǒng
Dongguan (disambiguation)
Dongguan may refer to.
See Guān and Dongguan (disambiguation)
Emperor Yao
Emperor Yao (traditionally c. 2356 – 2255 BCE) was a legendary Chinese ruler, according to various sources, one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
Esther Kwan
Esther Kwan Wing-ho, born 16 July 1964 is a Hong Kong retired actress formerly contracted to TVB and ATV.
First Opium War
The First Opium War, also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empire and the Qing dynasty of China between 1839 and 1842.
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period was an era of political upheaval and division in Imperial China from 907 to 979.
See Guān and Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
Gūwalgiya
Gūwalgiya was one of the most powerful Manchu clans.
Guan Bo
Guan Bo (關播) (719 – February 4, 797), courtesy name Wuyuan (務元), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reign of Emperor Dezong.
See Guān and Guan Bo
Guan Hanqing
Guan Hanqing (1241–1320); sobriquet Yǐzhāi (已齋), Yīzhāi (一齋), Yǐzhāisǒu (已齋叟); was a Chinese dramatist, playwright, and poet during the Yuan Dynasty.
Guan Linzheng
Guan Linzheng (March 19, 1905– August 1, 1980) was a Republic of China general who fought against the Chinese Communists and the Imperial Japanese Army during his career.
Guan Ping
Guan Ping (died January or February 220) was a military general serving under the warlord Liu Bei during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China.
Guan Tianlang
Guan Tianlang (born 25 October 1998) is a Chinese amateur golfer.
Guan Tianpei
Guan Tianpei (1781 – 26 February 1841), courtesy name Zhongyin (仲因), art name Zipu (滋圃), was a Chinese admiral of the Qing dynasty who served in the First Opium War.
Guan Tong
Guan Tong (c. 906-960) was a Chinese painter of the Northern Landscape style during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period and early Song dynasty from the city of Chang'an.
Guan Xiaotong
Guan Xiaotong (born 17 September 1997) is a Chinese actress and singer of Manchu descent.
Guan Xing
Guan Xing (third century), courtesy name Anguo, was an official of the state of Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms period of China.
Guan Yu
Guan Yu, courtesy name Yunchang, was a Chinese military general serving under the warlord Liu Bei during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China.
See Guān and Guan Yu
Guan Zilan
Guan Zilan (January 1903 – 30 June 1986), also known as Violet Kwan, was a Chinese avant-garde painter.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation
The Hong Kong Government uses an unpublished system of Romanisation of Cantonese for public purposes which is based on the 1888 standard described by Roy T Cowles in 1914 as Standard Romanisation.
See Guān and Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation
Hundred Family Surnames
The Hundred Family Surnames, commonly known as Bai Jia Xing, also translated as Hundreds of Chinese Surnames, is a classic Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames. Guān and Hundred Family Surnames are Chinese-language surnames.
See Guān and Hundred Family Surnames
Jade Kwan
Kwan Wai-Man (born 31 July 1979), better known professionally as Jade Kwan Sum-Yin, is a Cantopop singer and philanthropist based in Hong Kong.
Jean Quan
Lai Jean Quan (born October 21, 1949) is an American politician who was the 49th mayor of Oakland, California from 2011 to 2015.
Jie of Xia
King Jie (traditionally 1728–1675 BC) was the 17th and last ruler of the Xia dynasty of China.
Jin (Chinese state)
Jin (Old Chinese: &ast), originally known as Tang (唐), was a major state during the middle part of the Zhou dynasty, based near the centre of what was then China, on the lands attributed to the legendary Xia dynasty: the southern part of modern Shanxi.
See Guān and Jin (Chinese state)
Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
The Jin dynasty, officially known as the Great Jin, was an imperial dynasty of China that existed between 1115 and 1234 founded by Emperor Taizu (first).
See Guān and Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
Julia Kwan
Julia Kwan is a Canadian screenwriter, director, and occasional producer of her own short and feature films.
Jurchen people
Jurchen (Manchu: Jušen,; 女真, Nǚzhēn) is a term used to collectively describe a number of East Asian Tungusic-speaking people.
Kaiping
Kaiping, alternately romanized in Cantonese as Hoiping, is a county-level city in Guangdong Province, China.
See Guān and Kaiping
Kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters adapted from the Chinese script used in the writing of Japanese.
See Guān and Kanji
Ke Huy Quan
Ke Huy Quan (born 1970 or 1971), also known as Jonathan Ke Quan, is an American actor.
Kelvin Kwan
Kelvin Kwan (born 24 March 1983) is a cantopop singer from Go East, a subdivision of Universal Music.
Kevin Kwan
Kevin Kwan (born) is a Singaporean-born American novelist and writer of satirical novels Crazy Rich Asians, China Rich Girlfriend, and Rich People Problems.
Khitan people
The Khitan people (Khitan small script) were a historical nomadic people from Northeast Asia who, from the 4th century, inhabited an area corresponding to parts of modern Mongolia, Northeast China and the Russian Far East.
Kwan Hoi-san
Herman Kwan Hoi-San (born Kwan Ming-kok; October 23, 1925 – September 11, 2006) was a Hong Kong actor.
Kwan Swee Lian
Kwan Swee Lian (born 1933) is a Malaysian chef and businessperson.
Kwan Tak-hing
Kwan Tak-hing, MBE (27 June 1905 – 28 June 1996) was a Hong Kong martial artist and actor best known for his portrayal of martial artist folk hero Wong Fei-hung in at least 77 films, between the 1940s and the 1980s.
Macau
Macau or Macao is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
See Guān and Macau
Manchu people
The Manchus are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia.
Michael Kwan
Michael Kwan Ching-kit is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer previously with the Philips label (the brand Polygram was not adopted until later in Hong Kong), and later with EMI.
Michelle Kwan
Michelle Wingshan Kwan (born July 7, 1980) is a retired competitive figure skater and diplomat serving as United States Ambassador to Belize.
Mongols
The Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (majority in Inner Mongolia), as well as Buryatia and Kalmykia of Russia.
See Guān and Mongols
Naked News
Naked News is a Canadian news and entertainment program owned by Naked Broadcasting Network.
Nancy Kwan
Nancy Kwan Ka-shen (born May 19, 1939) is a Chinese-American actress.
Overseas Chinese
Overseas Chinese people are those of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.
Palaung people
The Palaung (ပလောင် လူမျိုး; Thai: ปะหล่อง, also written as Benglong Palong) or Ta'ang are an Austroasiatic ethnic minority found in Shan State of Burma, Yunnan Province of China and Northern Thailand.
Portuguese people
The Portuguese people (– masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country in the west of the Iberian Peninsula in the south-west of Europe, who share a common culture, ancestry and language.
See Guān and Portuguese people
Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.
Quan
Quán is the Pinyin romanization of the Chinese family names / and, as well as a customary spelling of (pinyin: Guān).
See Guān and Quan
Rehe Province
Rehe Province, known at the time as Jehol Province from an earlier romanization, was a former Chinese special administrative region and province centered on the city of Rehe, now known as Chengde.
Rosamund Kwan
Rosamund Kwan Chi Lam (born Kwan Kar Wai on 24 September 1962) is a Hong Kong former actress, best known for starring as the female lead "Thirteenth Aunt" in the 1990s ''Once Upon a Time in China'' film series.
Seki Takakazu
,Selin, Helaine.
Sharon Kwan
Sharon Kwan (born October 12, 1995) is a Chinese American Mandopop singer.
Shinjitai
are the simplified forms of kanji used in Japan since the promulgation of the Tōyō Kanji List in 1946.
Shirley Kwan
Shirley Kwan or Kwan Suk Yee (born 15 August 1966) is an influential former Cantopop singer from Hong Kong.
Shu Han
Han (漢; 221–263), known in historiography as Shu Han or Ji Han (季漢 "Junior Han"), or often shortened to Shu (p; Sichuanese Pinyin: Su Schuessler, Axel. (2009) Minimal Old Chinese and Later Han Chinese. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i. 157), was a dynastic state of China and one of the three major states that competed for supremacy over China in the Three Kingdoms period.
See Guān and Shu Han
Stanley Kwan
Stanley Kwan (traditional Chinese: 關錦鵬; simplified Chinese: 关锦鹏); born 9 October 1957) is a Hong Kong film director and producer. Kwan landed a job at TVB after receiving a mass communications degree at Hong Kong Baptist College. Kwan's first film was Women (1985), which starred Chow Yun-fat, and was a big box-office success.
Steven Kwan
Steven Robert Kwan (born September 5, 1997) is an American professional baseball left fielder for the Cleveland Guardians of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Susanna Kwan
Susanna Kwan Kuk-ying (born May 3, 1958) is a Hong Kong singer and actress.
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
See Guān and Taiwan
Three Kingdoms
The Three Kingdoms of Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu dominated China from 220 to 280 AD following the end of the Han dynasty.
Tomokazu Seki
is a Japanese voice actor and singer.
Tsutomu Seki
is a Japanese amateur astronomer and discoverer of minor planets and comets, born in Kōchi, Japan.
Village
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.
See Guān and Village
Wade–Giles
Wade–Giles is a romanization system for Mandarin Chinese.
Xia dynasty
The Xia dynasty is the first dynasty in traditional Chinese historiography.
Xiao Mountains
Mount Xiao or Mount Yao is a range of mountains in western Henan, China north of the Luo River and south of Sanmenxia.
Xinhui, Jiangmen
Xinhui, alternately romanized as Sunwui and also known as Kuixiang, is an urban district of Jiangmen in Guangdong, China.
Yinxi
Yinxi, formerly romanized as Yin-hsi, was a legendary figure of Zhou China.
See Guān and Yinxi
Yu-chien Kuan
Yu-chien Kuan or Guan Yuqian (18 February 1931 – 22 November 2018) was a Chinese-born German sinologist, writer and translator.
Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Mongolian:, Yeke Yuwan Ulus, literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its ''de facto'' division.
Zhou dynasty
The Zhou dynasty was a royal dynasty of China that existed for 789 years from until 256 BC, the longest of such reign in Chinese history.
Zhuang people
The Zhuang (italic); Sawndip: 佈獞) are a Tai-speaking ethnic group who mostly live in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in Southern China. Some also live in the Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou, and Hunan provinces. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China.
References
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