the 7, Hwa-Shan in Shensi, West China ; ;

Borax glazes were used in China from AD300, and some tincal even reached the West, where the Persian alchemist Jābir ibn Hayyān seems to mention it in 700.

The Chinese, who make up 29 % of the population of Sarawak and 17 % of total population in West Kalimantan, originally migrated from southeastern China.

More recently, although Russia and Eastern Europe remain the most important investment destinations, there have been increasing investment flows from the West through Cyprus into Asia ( particularly China and India ), South America and the Middle East.

This enabled the first opening of trading connections between China and the West, along the Silk Road.

Deployment overseas began in 1954, first to West Germany and later to the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) and South Korea.

Fairbank and Teng Ssu-yu edited the influential China's Response to the West ( 1953 ), which was in turn criticized for ascribing change in China to outside forces.

Missionaries and scholars also brought back new ideas from other civilisations-as with the Jesuit China missions who played a significant role in the transmission of knowledge, science, and culture between China and the West, translating Western works like Euclids Elements for Chinese scholars and the thoughts of Confucius for Western audiences.

Over a period of thirty years, he visited most of the known Islamic world as well as many non-Muslim lands ; his journeys including trips to North Africa, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe in the West, and to the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and China in the East, a distance surpassing threefold his near-contemporary Marco Polo.

As sensitive ethnic, national security and economic issues cooled relations with Russia in the 1990s, Nazarbayev cultivated relations with the People's Republic of China, the other Central Asian nations, and the West.

The Queen Mother of the West in Medieval China, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1993, ISBN 0-8047-2584-5

Therefore, Weber states that it was this difference in social attitudes and mentality, shaped by the respective, dominant religions, that contributed to the development of capitalism in the West and the absence of it in China.

Manichaeism survived longer in the East than in the West, and it appears to have finally faded away after the 14th century in southern China, contemporary to the decline in China of the Church of the East – see Ming Dynasty.

Unlike China, which established new ties across a broad political spectrum, North Korea concentrated its diplomatic efforts in Europe with those countries with a strong communist or socialist party, such as Finland, West Germany, Sweden, and Denmark.

cuspidata ( from South Africa throughout East Africa, Arabia to South West China )

It was also Turkey which, long before China, supplied the West with opium.

China continued to export tea, silk and manufactures, creating a large, favorable trade balance with the West.

By comparison, China had an estimated 114 people, the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) 246 people, and Japan 323 people per square kilometer in the late 1980s.

China and India shared a long border, sectioned into three stretches by Nepal, Sikkim ( then an independent kingdom ), and Bhutan, which follows the Himalayas between Burma and what was then West Pakistan.

Wild West China: The Untold Story of a Frontier Land.

As China began to develop its silk trade with the West, Iranian cities took advantage of this commerce by becoming centers of trade.

According to ABC Radio Australia, " Foreign policy issues that feature in Vanuatu include wide support for the Free West Papua Movement and broadly for independence throughout Melanesia, the One China Policy and relations with Australia and New Zealand.

Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China, U of California Press, 1993 ; complete text online free

Commerce and Society in Sung China.

It showed members of the Revive China Society, with Yeung Kui-wan ( 楊衢雲 or 杨衢云, pinyin Yáng Qúyún ), as President, in the place of honour, and Sun, as secretary, on the back row, along with members of the Japanese Chapter of the Revive China Society.

However, Western Medicine was introduced to China in the 19th Century, mainly by medical missionaries sent from various Christian mission organizations, such as the London Missionary Society ( Britain ), the Methodist Church ( Britain ) and the Presbyterian Church ( USA ).

Benjamin Hobson ( 1816-1873 ), a medical missionary sent by the London Missionary Society in 1839, set up a highly successful Wai Ai Clinic ( 惠愛醫館 ) in Guangzhou, China.

Harmonica Orchestra, the China Harmonica Society, and the Heart String Harmonica Society.

He entered the Society of Jesus in 1737 and was sent in 1750 as a missionary to China.

The Blue Shirts Society, a fascist paramilitary organization within the Kuomintang modeled after Mussolini's blackshirts, was anti-foreign and anticommunist, and stated that its agenda was to expel foreign ( Japanese and Western ) imperialists from China, crush Communism, and eliminate feudalism.

His father Ernest Cromwell Peake was a medical missionary doctor with the London Missionary Society of the Congregationalist tradition and his mother, Amanda Elizabeth Powell, had come to China as a missionary assistant.

She was a Patron of the International Red Cross Committee, honorary chair of the British United Aid to China Fund, and First Honorary Member of the Bill of Rights Commemorative Society.

Time, Science, and Society in China and the West.

), Engaging the Law in China: State, Society, and Possibilities for Justice ( Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005 ).

It was formerly a school of London Missionary Society and later became a member school of the Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China.

The first institution with the name of Ying Wa College was founded in Malacca in 1818 by Robert Morrison of the London Missionary Society, the first Protestant missionary to China.

According to the China Exploration and Research Society, the source of the Yellow River is at 34 ° 29 ' 31. 1 " N, 96 ° 20 ' 24. 6 " E in the Bayan Har Mountains near the eastern edge of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

CAEM was established in 1986, under the management of the China Medical Society ( CMS ).

* Blue Shirts Society – Republic of China and Taiwan ( Kuomintang )

The state-run China Qigong Science Research Society ( CQRS ) was created to oversee and administer the movement.

In 1993, the Beijing-based Falun Dafa Research Society was accepted as a branch of the state-run China Qigong Research Society ( CQRS ), which oversaw the administration of the country's various qigong schools, and sponsored activities and seminars.

Shortly after his first public teaching, in September 1992 Falun Gong was recognized as a branch of qigong under the administration of the state-run China Qigong Scientific Research Society ( CQRS ).