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3 unusual facts about Chinese


Chinese

Standard Chinese, the standard form of the Chinese language in China, Taiwan and Singapore, and the variety most commonly taught as a foreign language

Chinese Chemical Society

Chinese-American Chemical Society, an organization of Chinese chemists and chemical engineers

Chinese-American Planning Council

, Major John Fugh (1994), film director Ang Lee (1996), Nobel Prize winner Dr. Daniel C. Tsui (1999), Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Sheryl WuDunn (2011), and others.


1935 in archaeology

December: Chinese prehistorian Jia Lanpo appointed field director of the continuing excavations at Peking Man site in Zhoukoudian, China.

2011 National People's Congress

Chinese premier Wen Jiabao delivered the central government's work report earlier in the meeting.

Aoste, Isère

The pork products produced in Isère department and especially the Jambon Aoste (Aoste Ham) are manufactured exclusively in this Groupe Aoste factory which was owned by the industrial group Sara Lee Corporation who ceased their activities in deli products and resold the operation to the American buyer Smithfield Foods through which it passed to the Chinese group Shuanghui in September 2013.

Article 23

Hong Kong Basic Law Article 23, which requires Hong Kong to pass security legislation concerning sedition against the Chinese government

ASIMCO Technologies

ASIMCO Technologies was founded in 1994 by Jack Perkowski with a business model based on accessing and transferring capital, technology and managerial techniques from the United States and Europe to upgrade existing Chinese manufacturing operations that fall under the ASIMCO umbrella.

Benedict Kingsbury

United Nations, Divided World, Chinese edition with fully revised Introductory chapter and appendices, and Foreword by Professor Wang Jisi of Peking University (Beijing: Central Composition and Translation Press, forthcoming) (ed. with Sir Adam Roberts)

Bids for the 2000 Summer Olympics

When IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch thanked the five competing cities before announcing the winning bid, many Chinese in Beijing mistook his utterance of the city's name, before any of the others, as an announcement that it had been awarded the Games, and widespread celebrations began.

China's Wikipedia

Baidu Baike, a "wiki-like" Chinese-language online encyclopedia

Chinese exonyms

"London Heathrow Airport" is usually rendered in Chinese text as 倫敦希斯路機場 (Lúndūn Xīsīlù Jīchǎng), with the English pronunciation of 'London' fairly accurate, and of 'Heathrow' less accurate: literally as Chinese this means "kinship, honest" (for London), "hope/rare, given/this, road" (for Heathrow), "aircraft, field", with the last syllable of "Heathrow" rendered as "lu" although the more accurate "lo" and "lou" are known Chinese words.

Ching Ling Foo

The Christopher Nolan movie, The Prestige (film), depicts a Chinese magician working in London, who performs a similar trick with a water bowl.

Chos grub

Among other works he translated the Mdzangs blun (Sutra of the Wise and the Fool) from Chinese into Tibetan.

Eclecticism

Originally based on the Japanese martial art Daitō-ryū Aiki-jūjutsu, it has since incorporated techniqes from a diverse range of styles such as Japanese Judo, Korean Taekwondo, western boxing, as well as some Chinese Chin Na techniques from styles such as Shaolin Kung Fu and Eagle Claw.

Edelweiss Cheung

Instead, Miss Hong Kong 2008 first runner-up Skye Chan went for the competition and won the Miss Chinese International 2009 first runner up.

EFEO Chinese transcription

The Chinese transcription of the École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO) was the most used phonetic transcription of Chinese in the French speaking world until the middle of the 20th century.

Emperor Guangwu of Han

Some Russian archaeologists have identified a Han-era Chinese-style palace unearthed near Abakan (in Southern Siberia) in 1941–45 as Lu Fang's residence after he had left China for the lands of the Xiongnu.

Erik Zürcher

In 1962 he became professor of history of East Asia, particularly the Chinese Buddhism, Chinese reactions to the Christianity and early relations between China and the outside world.

Federation for a Democratic China

In 2005 Chen Yonglin, then Chinese consulate-general working in Sydney, defected to the Australian government by a formal claim for political asylum.

First Republic of South Korea

The resulting Armistice Agreement was signed by the North Korean army, Chinese People's Volunteers and the U.S.-led and Republic of Korea-supported United Nations Command.

From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China

The film documented Mr. Stern's rehearsals and performances of Mozart and Brahms violin concertos with the famous Chinese conductor Li Delun, who also acted as his guide and translator on his trip.

Han Fu

Hanfu, the traditional clothing of the Han Chinese ethnic group

Hanshan

Hanshan Deqing (憨山德清), a Buddhist monk from the Chinese Ming Dynasty

Heibao

Heibao (company), a Chinese automotive manufacturing company based in Weihai, Shandong.

Hong Kong 1967 Leftist riots

The legacy of the 1967 Hong Kong riots extends even to the Chinese lexicon; in Cantonese, a home-made bomb is often referred to as a Boh Loh (lit. Pineapple).

Huang Yong Ping

Essentially it is two books, one by a Chinese art historian Wang Bomin and another by American art historian Herbert Read, both well established.

Immaculate Conception Academy-Greenhills

The school moved seven times to accommodate its growing population, partly due to influx of Chinese immigrants escaping the Sino-Japanese War as well as the damage of school buildings as a result of the shelling of Manila by the Americans and the Japanese during World War II.

Jiaomei

Both are members of the influential Chinese-Filipino Cojuangco clan, and thus are direct descendants of Hongjian native Co Yu Hwan (Christian name: José Cojuangco), who emigrated to Spanish Philippines in 1861.

Khabarovsk Krai

According to various Chinese and Korean records, the southern part of Khabarovsk Krai was originally occupied one of the five semi-nomadic Shiwei, the Bo Shiwei tribes and the Black Water Mohe tribes living respectively on the west and the east of the Bureinsky and the Malyi Khingan ranges.

Ma Xuejun

The Chinese, and Asian, record is currently held by Xiao Yanling with 71.68 metres.

Macetown

The Chinese miners annually celebrated Chinese New Year with a feast and a display of fireworks to the delight of all.

Mongol invasion of East Asia

Mongol invasion of China, lasting six decades, culminated with the fall of the Chinese Song Dynasty in 1276

Monotype Imaging

CTDL was responsible for developing Microsoft JhengHei, the default traditional Chinese interface font for Windows Vista.

NJStar Communicator

NJStar Communicator was a very popular Traditional Chinese Microsoft Windows add-on for Windows 95 and Windows 98 that supports Chinese, Japanese and Korean input and web pages viewing in the same windows before Windows provided those functions.

Oi Yoi Yoi

The paintings have similarities with the Dancing Beijing logo for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, designed by Guo Chunning, which was inspired by the Chinese character (jīng, meaning "capital"), and also resembles a dancing figure with arms raised, or a runner crossing a finishing line.

Parliament of Fiji Islands

The remaining 46 are reserved for Fiji's ethnic communities and are elected from communal electoral rolls: 23 Fijians, 19 Indo-Fijians, 1 Rotuman, and 3 "General electors" (Europeans, Chinese, and other minorities).

Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China

According to informed academic observers such as Cheng Li, a scholar at Brookings Institution, and Susan Shirk of the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, rise in the Chinese political system and selection to the Standing Committee depends more on family connections and loyalty to powerful patrons than on ability.

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus

Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) is a virus that causes a disease of pigs, called porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), also known as blue-ear pig disease (in Chinese, zhū láněr bìng 豬藍耳病).

Sadnalegs

Although Tibetan forces were fighting the Chinese between 799 and 803, with battles in Yanzhou, Linzhou, Weizhou, Yazhou and Suizhou, envoys began travelling regularly from 804 onwards between Lhasa and China, although no formal treaty was signed.

Shi Pei Pu

The incident became the basis of David Henry Hwang's 1988 play M. Butterfly, in which B. D. Wong played Song Liling, a Chinese opera singer and spy based on Shi Pei Pu in the original Broadway production of the play.

The Grapes

Other popular writers have been fascinated by Limehouse: Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray; Arthur Conan Doyle, who sent Sherlock Holmes in search of opium provided by the local Chinese immigrants; and, more recently, Peter Ackroyd in Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem.

Việt Nam Quang Phục Hội

Some members went back to Vietnam while others stayed in the border provinces of Yunnan and Guangxi along the Chinese border with Vietnam.

Wee Boon Teck

#Opium and empire: Chinese society in Colonial Singapore, 1800-1910 By Carl A. Trocki

Wenz

Latinxua Sin Wenz, a little-used romanization system for Mandarin Chinese.

Xu Xusheng

As a historian, Xu Xusheng authored the 1943 book, Zhong-guogushi tie chuanshiio shidai ("The legendary times in early Chinese history") where he comments that the name of Five Emperors was not mentioned until the Warring States era and cannot be found in the Zuo Zhuan, Guoyu, Lunyu, Mozi or Mengzi.

Y7

Xian Y-7, a Chinese-built version of the Antonov An-24 aircraft

Yang Rui

On May 24, 2012, The Atlantic Monthly's James Fallows quoted more controversial comments, discovered by Shanghaiist, an online Chinese news discussion board, that had been made by Yang Rui on his Sina Weibo account.

Yinka Dene Alliance

On February 6, 2012, the Yinka Dene Alliance released an open letter to Chinese President Hu Jintao.

Yu Feihong

Faye Yu Feihong (俞飞鸿) (born 1971 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang) is a Chinese actress, film director and producer, best known in the west for appearing in Wayne Wang's award-winning American films A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007) and The Joy Luck Club (1992).

Zhang Junmai

Opposed to the Chinese communists, but also dissatisfied with Chiang Kai-shek's (also spelled Jiang Jieshi) noncompliance with the constitution, Zhang Junmai went to the United States after 1949.

Zhao Fei

Allen, himself, praised the Chinese cinematographer, comparing Zhao favorably with Allen's past DOPs, including Carlo Di Palma, Gordon Willis, and Sven Nykvist.

七夕

Qixi Festival, a Chinese festival celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month on the Chinese calendar


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Albert d'Orville

He joined the Society of Jesus in 1646, and while studying theology at the Catholic University of Leuven he attended the 'Chinese lectures' given by Martino Martini an Italian Jesuit missionary, then visiting the University of Leuven.

Amur Bridge Project

The bridge would link Nizhneleninskoye (in Russian: Нижнеленинское) in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast with Tongjiang (in Chinese: 同江) in Heilongjiang Province.

Austin Area Translators and Interpreters Association

As of 2011, there are about 240 members working in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hungarian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Mandarin, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

Chang Baohua

He is a Chinese communist as well as a first-level national actor, who enjoys special government allowances.

Chinoiserie

While classical styles reigned in the parade rooms, upscale houses, from Badminton House (where the "Chinese Bedroom" was furnished by William and John Linnell, ca 1754) and Nostell Priory to Casa Loma in Toronto, sometimes feature an entire guest room decorated in the chinoiserie style, complete with Chinese-styled bed, phoenix-themed wallpaper, and china.

Dick Doran

He served as a "life teacher" and devoted friend to young Chinese pianist Lang Lang, who studied with Gary Graffman at Curtis.

Fairlie, North Ayrshire

These include the "Village Inn" (a pub and restaurant), a petrol station, a deli, a Chinese takeaway and a small gift and flower shop.

ICLP

The International Chinese Language Program (ICLP), an institute for Chinese language instruction located in Taiwan.

Ilocos Norte-class patrol boat

On Apr. 8, 2013, BRP Romblon (SARV 3503) was deployed when a Chinese fishing vessel ran aground in Tubbataha Reef.

Jaroslav Průšek

He was sent to China and Japan in 1930s, and he had made friends with many Chinese intellectuals, including Lu Xun.

Klotski

Huarong Dao (alternatively named Huarong Path or Huarong Trail, Chinese name: 華容道) is the Chinese variation, based on a fictitious story in the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms about the warlord Cao Cao retreating through Huarong Trail (in present-day Jianli County, Jingzhou, Hubei) after his defeat at the Battle of Red Cliffs in the winter of 208/209 CE during the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Ma Yuehan

In 1936, he coached the Chinese sports delegation to the 11th Olympic Games.

Mabel Lee

Following publication, Gao Xingjian became the first Chinese to win a Nobel Prize in Literature.

No Sleep til Shanghai

The film gained wide acclaim and some shock from screening audiences at the Atlanta Film Festival as they reacted to the startling visage of Jamaican-American promoter Andrew Ballen speaking fluent Chinese on the Shanghai leg of the tour.

Pascale Petit

She has translated poems of a number of contemporary Chinese poets including Yang Lian, Wang Xiaoni and Zhai Yongming.

Qiandaohu-class replenishment ship

The Qiandaohu-class or Type 903 replenishment ship (NATO codename: Fuchi) entered service with the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy in 2003.

Radio Canada International

Before beginning its Mandarin Chinese service, RCI produced a 40-week series called Everyday English which was broadcast in 1988 and early 1989 over local stations in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.

Rosana Simón

In the gold medal match, Simón beat Liu Rui of China 6-4, landing a game-leading 3-point kick to the head against the Chinese opponent and knocking her down with 15 seconds left in the final round.

Sisters of Pearl

Sisters of Pearl (Traditional Chinese: (掌上明珠) is a TVB pre-modern drama series, starring Jessica Hsuan, Bowie Lam, and Michael Tao.

Sophia Alekseyevna of Russia

She was fictionally portrayed in Chinese novelist Jin Yong's novel The Deer and the Cauldron in which the young protagonist Wei Xiaobao went to Russia and helped her lead the coup against her half-brother Peter I.

Soup dumpling

Xiaolongbao, a small Chinese-styled steamed bun filled with soup;

SS Escambia

The casualties included Chief Officer Stephen George of Wales, Second Officer John Simpson of Liverpool, Third Officer J. Meyler of London, Chief Engineer James Sturrock, Second Engineer P. Walker, all the stokers (most of whom were Chinese), other hands, and a passenger named O. Detchon of South Shields.

Stonebridge Railway

The Chinese premier, Li Keqiang, pledged in January 2014 to invest directly in the £50bn HS2 project.

Storm Rider Clash of the Evils

Storm Rider Clash of the Evils is a Chinese animated feature film directed by Dante Lam and produced by Puzzle Animation Studio Limited and Shanghai Media Group.

Zhu Dake

Review of the 21st Century Chinese Culture, issued under Zhu Dake and Zhang Hong’s (张闳, culture critic and essayist) general editorship and published by Guangxi Normal University Press from 2003 to 2008, is an annual presentation of the cultural achievement of China Mainland.