Living a vagrant lifestyle and traveling in groups, people in the region easily formed a strong sense of clan.
But they face a wasteland of charity options because China's communist revolution dismantled traditional charity channels such as clan associations.
QUESTION 2: John's father has five sons named Alan, Blan, Clan and Dlan.
In fourth place is the youngest member of the Kardashian-Jenner clan Kylie, 18, with a celebratory graduation picture of herself posing in a cap and gown, while proudly holding up her diploma from Laurel Springs High School.
The film, with a $200m budget and millions more spent on marketing, represented a big gamble for the Walt Disney Company, which had already plunked down $4b for rights to the Skywalker clan.
Liu was given the title "Haihunhou" (Marquis of Haihun) after he was deposed as emperor after only 27 days, having been cast down by the royal clan because of "his lack of talent and morals," according to official sources.
" The influx of cats prompted a period of dramatic decline among the dog clan.
My last novel, A Season for Ashes, had been about a university professor who joins a clan of gypsies after he finds his wife in bed with one of his stu dents.
Legend has it that there lived a clan of hundreds of families deep in Jingshan mountain living and laboring in peace and contentment.
Finally, government officials are usually regarded as occupying the highest rung of the social hierarchy and a student who succeeds in becoming government official is considered the pride of the family, adding prestige and glory to the entire clan.
Lost her to a fate most Afghans considered far worse than death: She ran off with a clan of traveling singers and dancers.
On the day of the Lantern Festival, Jia Zheng's mother led all members of her clan to wait by the main entrance to the garden.
A SONG OF UNENDING SORROW Bai Juyi China's Emperor, craving beauty that might shake an empire, Was on the throne for many years, searching, never finding, Till a little child of the Yang clan, hardly even grown, Bred in an inner chamber, with no one knowing her, But with graces granted by heaven and not to be concealed, At last one day was chosen for the imperial household.
Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818 Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family.
