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unusual facts about Sino-American relations



A Miss Mallard Mystery

A Miss Mallard Mystery is a Sino-Canadian mystery animated series produced by Cinar and Shanghai Animation Film Studio for the Teletoon network and OTV (Shanghai Media Group), loosely based on the Robert Quackenbush book series.

Airco DH.9A

The Soviets deployed R-1s in support of the Chinese Kuomintang forces in the Northern Expedition against warlords in 1926-27 and against Chinese forces in clashes over control of the Chinese Eastern Railway in Manchuria in 1929.

Austronesian languages

French linguist and Sinologist Laurent Sagart considers the Austronesian languages to be related to the Sino-Tibetan languages, and also groups the Tai–Kadai languages as more closely related to the Malayo-Polynesian languages.

Balamindin

He is best known in Burmese history for his spirited defense Fort Kaungton against repeated attacks by numerically superior Chinese invasion forces in the Sino-Burmese War (1765–1769).

Bamar people

Its core vocabulary consists of Sino-Tibetan words, but many terms associated with Buddhism, arts, sciences, and government have derived from the Indo-European languages of Pali and English.

Carl Fredrik Liljevalch, Sr.

The Treaty was almost identical with the Sino-American Treaty of Wanghia, which had been concluded three years earlier, and it gave Sweden-Norway the same privileges as other treaty powers.

Charles Edwin Fripp

He painted mainly military subjects and worked as a special artist for The Graphic and The Daily Graphic during various wars in South Africa including the Kaffir War of 1878, the Zulu War, and the Boer War; he also covered the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and the Philippines campaign of the Spanish-American War in 1899.

Chengzhi

Liao Chengzhi (1908-1983), Communist Party of China leader who played an important role in Sino-Japanese relations

Former Residence of Zhou Enlai

After that, he received Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and signed the Sino-Japanese Joint Communique

Fritz Mühlenweg

In 1927, Luft Hansa contributed to the Sino-Swedish expedition to Central and South Asia, following plans for an airline connection between Berlin and Beijing.

Fushi

Fushi Copperweld (傅氏科普威), a Sino-American NASDAQ-traded company based in Beijing

Gang of Four

The new commanders of the People's Liberation Army demanded that order be restored in light of the dangerous situation along the border with the Soviet Union (see Sino-Soviet split).

Gaspar da Cruz

One of the major irritants in the early Sino-Portuguese relations was the Portuguese' proclivity to enslave Chinese children and take them to various Portuguese colonies, or to Portugal itself.

Golf-class submarine

The second unit was supposed to be built and delivered by USSR (pennant number K-208), but due to Sino-Soviet split, most on board equipment was not delivered, and the boat was used as sample for reverse engineering to complete the first unit, which entered Chinese service in August 1966.

Harbin/CHDRI Z-6

Fear of an attack by the USSR, after the Sino-Soviet border conflict, precipitated evacuation of production and development to the Changzhou Airplane Factory and Changhe Aircraft Industries Corporation in 1970.

History of Yunnan

In fact, between 1904 and 1909 the French had built the 885 km long Sino-Vietnamese Railway which ran from Hanoi to Kunming via Hekou, with an offshoot to Gejiu.

Ho Chi Minh Highway

It is a two-lane highway and is planned for 8-lane highway and will connect Cao Bằng Province by the Sino-Vietnamese border to Cà Mau Province with the total length of 3,167 km.

Hu Nim

Hu Nim was born in 1932 (25 July 1932 according to some sources) in the village of Korkor, Kampong Siem District, Kampong Cham Province to a Sino-Khmer family.

Human placentophagy

Oral administration of the placenta was reported in Sino-Vietnamese medicine to aid the recovery of those suffering from tuberculosis.

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.

J-600T Yıldırım

CPMIEC officials have confirmed at the IDEF 2007 military fair in Ankara that B-611M, the improved version of B-611, was not a part of the Sino-Turkish cooperation program.

Japanese minelayer Itsukushima

Istukushima was assigned to the IJN 3rd Fleet from 20 October 1936, but is reassigned directly to the Combined Fleet after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Jiangqiao

Jiangqiao Campaign, campaign of the Second Sino-Japanese War which occurred in the above town

Jim Laurie

He underwent his postgraduate studies at George Washington University's Sino-Soviet Institute in 1973-74, under Professor Gaston Sigur.

John Dalvi

In January 1962, he was given the Command on 7th Infantry Brigade in NEFA and fought in the Sino-Indian War

John F. Melby

Secretary of State Edmund Muskie restored Melby's security clearance in December 1980 and hired him to work as a consultant on the Sino-Vietnamese Conflict for several months.

Kana

Katakana is also used to represent onomatopoeia and interjections, emphasis, technical and scientific terms, transcriptions of the Sino-Japanese readings of kanji, and some corporate branding.

Konstantin Rokossovsky

Soon after, while serving in the Special Red Banner Eastern Army under Vasily Blücher, he took part in the Russo-Chinese Eastern Railroad War of 1929-1930 when the Soviet Union intervened to return the Chinese Eastern Railway to joint Chinese and Soviet administration, after Chinese warlord Zhang Xueliang of the Republic of China attempted to seize complete control of the railway.

Lo Hsing Han

Asia World Company is involved in a number of mega projects such as a Sino-Burma oil and gas pipeline project, a deep sea port at Kyaukpyu, the controversial Myitsone hydro-power plant and the TaSang hydro-power plant.

Margary Affair

Margary Affair (Chinese: 马嘉理事件 or 滇案) is the name of a crisis in Sino-British relations, which followed the murder of British official Augustus Raymond Margary in 1875.

Rawak Stupa

1929: The Chinese archaeologist Huang Wenbi, who was part of the Sino-Swedish expedition under the leadership of Sven Hedin, made a short visit to Rawak.

Red Chinese Battle Plan

Despite the widening rift between the China and the Soviet Union, both powers supported the Vietnamese communists during the Indochina conflict, while the Western Bloc cultivated a myth of Chinese expansionism throughout the decade.

RMS Empress of Asia

The Empress of Asia and the Empress of Canada evacuated civilians from Shanghai in 1937 during the Sino-Japanese War.

Sino-Burma pipelines

The oil and natural gas pipelines will run in parallel and start near Kyaukphyu, run through Mandalay, Lashio, and Muse in Burma before entering China at the border city of Ruili in Yunnan province.

Sino-Forest Corporation

Sino-Forest Applied Research Centre for Pearl River Delta Environment (ARCPE) officially opened on 22 June 2009 at the Hong Kong Baptist University.

Sino-Indian border dispute

It is a virtually uninhabited high altitude wasteland crossed by the Xinjiang-Tibet Highway.

Sino-Indian War

A Hindi movie Haqeeqat (1964) and a Tamil movie Ratha Thilagam (1963) were based on events of the Sino-Indian war.

This was further triggered by Mao Zedong's views that: "The way to world conquest lies through Havana, Accra, and Calcutta".

Sino-Mauritian

Like members of other communities on the island, some of the earliest Chinese in Mauritius arrived involuntarily, having been "shanghaied" from Sumatra in the 1740s to work in Mauritius in a scheme hatched by the French admiral Charles Hector, comte d'Estaing; however, they soon went on strike to protest their kidnapping.

Sino-Nepal Friendship Bridge

From the bridge on the Nepalese side, Kodari in Sindhulpalchok District, the Arniko Rajmarg (abbreviated ARM; rajmarg means highway) links to Kathmandu.

Sino-Nepalese War

When Prithvi Narayan Shah of the Gorkha Kingdom launched an economic blockade on the Kathmandu Valley during his unification campaign, Jaya Prakash Malla of Kathmandu faced an economic crisis which he tried to alleviate by minting low quality coins mixed with copper.

As Tibet had refused to pay the tribute to Nepal, Bahadur Shah sent a troop under Abhiman Singh Basnet to Kerung and another troop under the command of Damodar Pande to Kuti in 1791.

Sino-Ocean Land

It is one of the largest real estate companies in Beijing and has a diversified portfolio of development projects and investment properties in Beijing, Pan-Bohai Bay, Yangtze River Delta, and Pearl River Delta regions.

Sino-Persian relations

Sino-Persian relations (Chinese: 中伊关系, Pinyin: Zhōng-Yī guānxì), or Sino-Iranian relations, refers to the historic diplomatic, cultural and economic relations between the cultures of China proper and Greater Iran, dating back to ancient times.

Sino-Tibetan War

Ma Xiao was a Muslim brigade commander in Liu Wenhui's army.

Three Kingdoms of Korea

This is different from the concept of state (guk or Sino ko: 國, walled-town state, etc.) in the discipline of Korean History.

Tuyên Quang

The French post at Tuyên Quang (Sino-Vietnamese: 宣光) was defended for four months against 12,000 troops of the Yunnan Army and the Black Flag Army by two companies of the French Foreign Legion during the Sino-French War (August 1884 to April 1885).

Upper Mongols

They under name as Khoshuud Khanate of Tsaidam and the Koke Nuur are played a major role in SinoMongolTibetan politics of 17-18th centuries.


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