Starostin's ( 1991 ) lexicostatistical research claimed that the proposed Altaic groups shared about 15 – 20 % of potential cognates within a 110-word Swadesh-Yakhontov list ( e. g. Turkic – Mongolic 20 %, Turkic – Tungusic 18 %, Turkic – Korean 17 %, Mongolic – Tungusic 22 %, Mongolic – Korean 16 %, Tungusic – Korean 21 %).

A mummified man, determined to be 5, 000 years old, was discovered on a glacier at the Austrian – Italian border in 1991.

* 1919 – Billy Vaughn, American musician and bandleader ( d. 1991 )

* 1991 – Magnus Paajarvi, Swedish hockey player

* 1991 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

* 1991 – Moldova declares independence from the USSR.

* 1991 – Rikiya Otaka, Japanese actor

* 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.

* 1991 – Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.

* 1991 – Jiao Liuyang, Chinese swimmer

* 1902 – Zino Francescatti, French violinist ( d. 1991 )

* 1991 – Hansika Motwani, Indian actress

* 1991 – Candela Vetrano, Argentine actress and singer

* 1898 – Regis Toomey, American actor ( d. 1991 )

* 1912 – Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1991 )

* 1991 – Dave Days, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1991 – Skyler Day, American actress

* 1991 – Evander Kane, Canadian ice hockey player

* Party of Labour of Albania, the sole legal political party in Albania during communist rule ( 1946 – 1991 )

* 1991 – Lin Lin, Chinese-born Japanese singer ( Morning Musume and Shin Minimoni )

In the 1991 Pamela Dean novel Tam Lin, one of the major characters is Robert Armin ( better known as Robin ), a Classics and Theater student at a small college in the Midwestern U. S. during the early 1970s who has a surprisingly detailed knowledge of William Shakespeare's life and work.

Among them are: the notable frequent full-frontal nudity of Hong Kong Chinese females and the brief but particularly notable full-frontal adult male nudity of a Hong Kong Chinese male actor, Chung Lin, who plays the robot version of Japanese scientist Ryuichi Yamamoto, in the 1991 science fiction / comedy film Robotrix ( perhaps the first time in Hong Kong cinema that a Chinese adult male's genitals have been fully revealed on camera in a film on general release ), the full-frontal appearance of Hong Kong Chinese actor Michael Lam, who was the lead in Bugis Street ( 1995 ), as his clothes and underwear are torn off by his lover, fully exposing his genitals ; a variety of East Asian actors in The Pillow Book ( 1996 ); of Hong Kong Chinese lead actor Sunny Chan in a bathroom scene as he enters a shower, fully revealing his genitals for a few moments, in Hold You Tight ( 1997 ); of mainland China lead actor Liu Ye in Lan Yu ( 2001 ), whose genitals are shown as he lies naked on a bed ; a variety of East Asian actors in Under One Roof ( 2002 ); of French Vietnamese actor Steve Tran whose genitals are shown as he walks naked in a high school locker room in Cold Showers ( 2005 ); of Singapore Chinese actor / director Zihan Loo, who removes all his clothes, uncovering his genitals, and while waiting to meet a prostitute, masturbates on camera, eventually revealing his fully erect penis, in Pleasure Factory ( 2007 ); a variety of Taiwanese Chinese actors who dare each other to skinnydip in Winds of September ( 2008 ), and of lead actor Ron Heung and the Hong Kong National Baseball Team, who are shown naked in City Without Baseball ( 2008 ), with their genitals fully revealed on camera.

In 1991 there were 2, 000 foreign learners taking China's official Chinese Proficiency Test ( comparable to the English Cambridge Certificate ), while in 2005, the number of candidates had risen sharply to 117, 660 .< ref > " 汉语水平考试中心 ： 2005年外国考生总人数近12万 ",< sup > Gov. cn </ sup > Xinhua News Agency, January 16, 2006 .</ ref >

The Chinese government in 2003 acknowledged that it had lost track of 121 tons of ivory between 1991 and 2002.

* Second Sight ( 1991 ) Released from a Chinese prison, Christopher meets a daughter he did not know he had

* 1991 – Zhou Yimiao, Chinese tennis player

* 1991 – Zhang Yixing, Chinese / Korean singer

Despite the departure of most Chinese nationals from Somalia in 1991, the two countries maintained a small trading relationship ; total trade volume in 2002 was US $ 3. 39 million, with Somalia exporting US $ 1. 56 million of goods to China and importing $ 1. 83 million.

" Lexicon of Reconstructed Pronunciation in Early Middle Chinese, Late Middle Chinese, and Early Mandarin " ( UBC Press, 1991 ).

Jiang Qing ( March 19, 1914May 14, 1991 ) was the pseudonym that was used by Chinese leader Mao Zedong's last wife and major Communist Party of China power figure.

The Last Eunuch, a 1991 Chinese biographical film directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang, tells the story of Li Lianying, a eunuch who wielded power in the waning days of the Qing Dynasty.

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Tsui Gallery of Chinese art opened in 1991, displaying a representative collection of the V & As approximately 16, 000 objects from China, dating from the 4th millennium BC to the present day.

Zhū Róngjī ( pinyin: Zhū Róngjī ; Wade-Giles: Chu Jung-chi ; IPA: ; born 23 October 1928 in Changsha, Hunan ) is a prominent Chinese politician who served as the Mayor and Party chief in Shanghai between 1987 and 1991, before serving as Vice-Premier and then the fifth Premier of the People's Republic of China from March 1998 to March 2003.

*** Ye Xuanping 葉選平 / 叶选平 ( 1924 -; Meixian, Guangdong ; Hakka pronunciation: Yap Sen Phin ), Vice-Chairman, Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, 1991 – 2003 ; Governor of Guangdong, 1985 – 1991

* John W. Garver, " The Soviet Union and the Xi ' an Incident ," The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs. 26 ( 1991 ): 145-175.

* Ames, Roger T. ( 1991 ), ‘ The Mencian Concept of Ren Xing: Does it Mean Human Nature ?’ in Chinese Texts and Philosophical Contexts, ed.

# Yuejin Wang, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews 13 ( Dec. 1991 )

During the entire post-war era, until at least 1991, the Bank of Japan's monetary policy has primarily been conducted via its ' window guidance ' ( 窓口指導 ） credit controls ( which are the model for the Chinese central bank's primary tool of monetary policy implementation ), whereby the central bank would impose bank credit growth quotas on the commercial banks.

Chinese dissidents Li Shuxian and Fang Lizhi were jointly honored in 1991 ; two American Presidents, George H. W.

IDBF member associations or federations have been established in 62 countries or territories, since 1991 ( e. g. China DBA, Hong Kong DBA, Chinese Taipei DBA, Macau DBA, Singapore DBA, Australian DBF, United States DBF, Dragon Boat Canada, British DB Racing Association, Italian DBF, German DBA, Swiss DBA, South African DBA, Danish DBA, Chilean DBF, Uganda DBF, Trinidad & Tobago DBA ) as well as many others and there are a further 15 other Countries known to the IDBF, with a developing interest in Dragon Boating.

After his presidency, Yen served as Chairman of the Council on Chinese Cultural Renaissance and Chairman of Board of the National Palace Museum until 1991.

One study conducted at the University of Oregon in 1991 – 1993, compared the results of using Pinyin and GR in teaching elementary level Chinese to two matched groups of students, and concluded that " GR did not lead to significantly greater accuracy in tonal production.