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One key feature of the MPF II was its Chinese BASIC, a version of Chinese-localized BASIC based on Applesoft BASIC.

Chinese BASIC () is the name given to several Chinese-localized versions of the BASIC programming language in the early 1980s.

At least two versions of Chinese BASIC were modified Applesoft BASIC that accepted Chinese commands and variables.

In addition to Apple II clones, Multitech also developed a Zilog Z80-based port of the Chinese BASIC for its own line of high-end computers.

In a typical Chinese BASIC environment, Chinese and English commands are interchangeable.

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In Multitech's Chinese BASIC, a variable can be 3 bytes long ( one Chinese character + one numeral ).

* A page of the Chinese BASIC manual ( in traditional Chinese )

One key feature of the MPF III in some models was its Chinese BASIC, a version of Chinese-localized BASIC based on Applesoft BASIC.

* Chinese: Chinese BASIC

While Zhuyin is not used as a mainstream writing system, it is still often used in ways similar to a romanization system — that is, for aiding in pronunciation and as an input method for Chinese characters on computers and cellphones.

* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

For example: in Africa, the bronze heads of the Kingdom of Benin ; in Europe, Grecian bronzes typically of figures from Greek mythology ; in east Asia, Chinese bronzes of the Shang and Zhou dynasty — more often ceremonial vessels but including some figurine examples.

* Keys to the Chinese Language: Book II — Google Books

In this period, the Chinese worshipped many different gods — weather gods and sky gods — and also a supreme god, named Shangdi, who ruled over the other gods.

" Attributes that are seen as religious — such as ancestor worship, ritual, and sacrifice — were advocated by Confucius as necessary for social harmony ; however, these attributes can be traced to the traditional non-Confucian Chinese beliefs of Chinese folk religion, and are also practiced by Daoists and Chinese Buddhists.

When the Confucian advisers pressed their point, Li Ssu had many Confucian scholars killed and their books burned — considered a huge blow to the philosophy and Chinese scholarship.

Other events fell on the same day coincidentally, such as the first day of the Battle of the Somme in 1916 — shortly after which Newfoundland recognized July 1 as Memorial Day to commemorate the Newfoundland Regiment's heavy losses during the battle — and the enactment of the Chinese Immigration Act in 1923 — leading Chinese-Canadians to refer to July 1 as Humiliation Day and boycott Dominion Day celebrations until the act was repealed in 1947.

However, these causal properties can't be detected by anyone outside the mind, otherwise the Chinese Room couldn't pass the Turing test — the people outside would be able to tell there wasn't a Chinese speaker in the room by detecting their causal properties.

The Chinese elements were seen as ever changing and moving — one translation of wu xing is simply " the five changes ".

Some think the name was chosen from the classic Chinese book the I Ching ; others note that the first character of his courtesy name is also the first character of the courtesy name of his brother and other male relatives on the same generation line, while the second character of his courtesy name shi ( 石 — meaning " stone ") suggests the second character of his " register name " tai ( 泰 — the famous Mount Tai of China ).

By adopting the name Chung-cheng (" central uprightness "), he was choosing a name very similar to the name of Sun Yat-sen, who was ( and still is ) known among Chinese as Zhongshan ( 中山 — meaning " central mountain "), thus establishing a link between the two.

In Ancient China, successful men often supported several concubines — for example, it has been documented that Chinese Emperors accommodated numbers in the thousands.

* Egg roll – While native Chinese spring rolls have a thin crispy skin with mushrooms, bamboo, and other vegetables inside, the Westernized version ( specifically the version found in such American Northeast metro areas as Boston and New York ) uses a thick, fried skin stuffed with cabbage and usually bits of meat or seafood ( such as pork or shrimp ), but no egg.

* Moo shu pork – The native Chinese version uses more typically Chinese ingredients ( including wood ear fungi and daylily buds ) and thin flour pancakes while the American version uses vegetables more familiar to Americans and thicker pancakes.

This, of course, gave great prestige to the Chinese version and in the first four years of play only one winner has emerged out of China.

A more recent version, more Chinese in style, is prepared by the Ōbaku school of zen, and known as ; this is served at the head temple of Manpuku-ji, as well as various subtemples.

The Chinese version of Microsoft's 3D Movie Maker contained a Doraemon-themed expansion pack.

A version of keno, an ancient Chinese lottery game, is played in casinos around the world.

" They held a private memorial service in St Bartholomew's Hospital in London on the evening of 6 December 1989, with a chorus of the Chinese version of the hymn " Jerusalem " ("… Bling me my speal, oh crowds unford, bling me my chaliot of file …").

In Secret Avengers # 6-10, writer Ed Brubaker officially sidestepped the entire issue via a storyline where a rogue group of S. H. I. E. L. D agents resurrect a zombified version of Fu Manchu only to discover that " Fu Manch " was only an alias ; that Shang-Chi's father was really an ancient Chinese sorcerer who discovered the secret to immortality.

Pai Gow poker ( also called Double-hand poker ) is an Americanized version of Pai Gow ( in that it is played with playing cards bearing poker hand values, instead of Pai Gow's Chinese dominoes ).

* Kerson Huang based a Chinese version on FitzGerald's version.

Chinese Dao Sabre ( Decorative or acrobatic version )

Other films shot in widescreen were the musical Happy Days ( 1929 ) which premiered at the Roxy Theater, New York City, on February 13, 1930, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell and a 12 year old Betty Grable as a chorus girl ; Song o ’ My Heart, a musical feature starring Irish tenor John McCormack and directed by Frank Borzage ( Seventh Heaven, A Farewell to Arms ), which was shipped from the labs on March 17, 1930, but never released and may no longer survive, according to film historian Miles Kreuger ( the 35mm version, however, debuted in New York on March 11, 1930 ); and the western The Big Trail ( 1930 ) starring John Wayne and Tyrone Power, Sr. which premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on October 2, 1930, all of which were also made in the 70mm Fox Grandeur process.

* August – September ( the eighth month of the Chinese calendar ) – Wanyan Xiyin completes the design of the first version of the Jurchen script

Investigation determined that the Chinese manufacturer used an outdated version of Kingsoft's Chinese-to-English translation software for writing the tags ; it translated the Chinese " dark-brown " characters to " Nigger-brown ", and neither the Canadian supplier nor the store owner had noticed the incorrectly translated tag ; subsequently, Kingsoft corrected its translation software.

Legal translation was very important from 1896 to 1936 during which period the Chinese absorbed and codified their version of Western laws.

* 1995: Frédéric Mitterrand directed a film version of the opera in Tunisia, North Africa, starring Richard Troxell and Chinese singer Ying Huang in the lead roles.

A Chinese version of Tru64 UNIX named COSIX was jointly developed by Compaq and China National Computer Software & Technology Service Corporation ( CS & S ).

The water pipe employed since the Qing dynasty can be divided into two types: the homemade bamboo bong commonly made and used by country people, and a more elegant metal version employed by Chinese merchants, urbanites, and nobility.