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4 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.

Yongjinglong

The generic name is derived from the name of the historical Yongjing County, near where the holotype of Yongjinglong and numerous dinosaur track fossils were collected, and from long, meaning "dragon" in Chinese.


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.

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.

Balingiin Tserendorj

In the face of Chinese threats to exile the Bogd Khan, Tserendorj, Prime Minister Gonchigjalzangiin Badamdorj and the Bogd Khan agreed to sign a document “voluntarily” abdicating Mongolia's autonomy to Chinese rule.

Bye, baby Bunting

In "Further Tales of the City" (1982) by Armistead Maupin, Jim Jones sings 'Bye, Baby Bunting' to DeDe's half-Chinese twins, Edgar and Anna.

Central City Opera

The World Premiere of Chinese opera, Poet Li Bai, commissioned by the Asian Performing Arts of Colorado, was presented in 2007.

China Policy Institute

Its Director is Steve Tsang, Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, known for summing up the nature of the political system in the People's Republic of China as a ‘consultative Leninist’ system, and for his works on Taiwan's democratisation and the history of Hong Kong.

Chinese Brazilian

Ken Chang, a Brazilian actor of Chinese descent, popular TV series star in Taiwan and China.

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.

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.

CNC World

The venture is part of Beijing's effort to "present an international vision with a Chinese perspective," Xinhua President Li Congjun said at the press conference announcing the launch of CNC World.

Dewoitine D.500

In 1938, 18 Chinese D.510s saw action against the Japanese, including the defense of Chengdu and the Chinese wartime capital Chongqing.

Eagles Claw

Eagle's Claw, 1978 Chinese language martial arts film made in Hong Kong

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.

Empress Zeng

Empress Xiaoyixiang (died 1646) was a Chinese Empress consort of the Southern Ming Dynasty, empress to the Longwu Emperor.

Erik Reece

It includes the work of modern American poets (among them, Robert Frost, Wendell Berry, Hayden Carruth, Charles Wright) plus that of four classical Chinese poets, who wandered and wrote about an area of southeastern China that is similar in landscape and ecology to the eastern woodlands of the United States.

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.

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.

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.

Halofuginone

It is a synthetic halogenated derivative of febrifugine, a natural quinazolinone alkaloid which can be found in the Chinese herb Dichroa febrifuga (Chang Shan).

Hanshan

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

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.

Jaroslav Průšek

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

Lianhuanhua

Lianhuanhua (Chinese: 连环画 (Simplified) 連環畫 (Traditional); Pinyin: Liánhuánhuà or 連環圖) is a palm-size picture book of sequential drawings found in China in the early 20th century, and they were once used as political/propaganda tool for the Communist Party of China.

Mabel Lee

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

Macetown

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

Meng Huo You

The earliest mention of "rock oil" (石油), the Chinese name for petroleum, is by a book "Grand Peace Records" from the Northern Song Dynasty, and officially designated the current name by Song Dynasty scientist Shen Kuo using the description found in his famous book Dream Pool Essays.

Miniopterus tao

In 1934, Chinese paleontologist C.C. Young was the first to describe fossil bats from the fossil site of Zhoukoudian Locality 1, which is famous for Peking Man.

Mongol invasion of East Asia

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

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.

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.

Oliver Mears

His production of Benjamin Britten's Noye's Fludde for NI Opera was performed at the Beijing Music Festival in October 2012, the Chinese premiere of the piece.

Pascale Petit

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

Ping Chong

Cathay was set in China and used three interconnected stories to explore three eras of Chinese history: the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and contemporary China today.

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.

Rickshaw Boy

The most recent full translation is Rickshaw Boy: A Novel (New York: Harper Perennial Modern Chinese Classics, 2010), Translated by Howard Goldblatt.

Schiermonnikoog

Due to environment and health concerns, since 2013 six Chinese electric buses BYD ebus (range of about 250 km) are the only buses on the island for at least the 15 year contract period (BYD won the contract, beating its European opponents).

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.

Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry

2006: The SCCCI unveiled the Dendrobium Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry as its floral symbol.

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.

Soup dumpling

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

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.

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

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.


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1935 in archaeology

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

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.

Ark Yuey Wong

He stayed in San Francisco, Oakland and Stockholm, where he taught many Chinese students, since at the time the Chinese community was still very secretive about their martial arts.

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.

Chos grub

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

David R. Knechtges

An expert on Han dynasty and Six dynasties period literature, Knechtges' studies of Chinese fu poetry are largely responsible for the revival of Western academic interest in the subject, a major genre which had become largely neglected until the mid-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.

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.

Han Fu

Hanfu, the traditional clothing of the Han Chinese ethnic group

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.

Ishido: The Way of Stones

Integrated into Ishido is a, oracle, way to ask questions of the ancient Chinese Book of Changes, the I Ching.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Stonebridge Railway

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

Wasta

Roughly equivalent words in other languages include Sociolismo in Cuba; Blat in Russia; Guanxi in Chinese and Vetternwirtschaft in German, protektzia in Israeli slang; in Brazilian-Portuguese it is called "Pistolão", or in the slang "peixada".

Wenz

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

Xiaojing

Emperor Xiaojing of Eastern Wei (524–552), emperor of the Chinese/Xianbei dynasty Eastern Wei

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

七夕

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