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4 unusual facts about Chinese units of measurement


2011 Zhongshan riot

The villagers said the officials were not willing to give compensate 1.5 million yuan per mu of land.

Chinese units of measurement

On 27 February 1984, the State Council of the People's Republic of China decreed the market system to remain acceptable till the end of 1990 and ordered the transition to the national legal measures by that time, but farmland measures would be exempt from this mandatory metrication until further investigation and study.

Homer H. Dubs (1938): The History of the Former Han Dynasty by Pan Ku.

Qiu Guangming

Qiu Guangming (δΈ˜ε…‰ζ˜Ž, b. 1936) is a researcher best known for her works on the history of Chinese metrology.



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