Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

Chinese and Arabic numerals may coexist, as on this kilometer marker: 1620 km on China National Highway 209 | Hwy G209 ( G二〇九 )

An early experimental Chinese keyboard with many keys was developed by researchers of National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, but it never came to the mainstream.

Allied with a number of Chinese Communists and advised by Soviet agent Mikhail Borodin, Wang declared the National Government as having moved to Wuhan.

Wang named himself President of the Executive Yuan and Chairman of the National Government ( not the same ' National Government ' as Chiang's ), and led a surprisingly large minority of anti-Chiang / anti-Communist Chinese against his old comrades.

Museum of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

# Jia Qinglin: Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

* Chinese National Standards

Compare these transcriptions of Chinese 道: Wade – Giles tao or tao < sup > 4 </ sup > ( marking 4th tone ), Legge romanization tâo, Latinxua Sin Wenz dau, Yale Romanization dàu, Mandarin Phonetic Symbols II dau, Hanyu Pinyin dào, Tongyong Pinyin daˋo, Gwoyeu Romatzyh or National Romanization daw, Zhuyin fuhao ㄉㄠ, and Cyrillic Palliday system дао.

* 1978 – The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.

* 1950 – Chinese Civil War: The National Revolutionary Army instigates the unsuccessful Battle of Tianquan against the People's Liberation Army.

Malaysia has had regular elections since 1974, and although campaigning is reasonably free at election time, it is in effect a one-party state, with the UMNO-controlled National Front usually winning nearly all the seats, while the DAP wins some Chinese urban seats and the PAS some rural Malay ones.

* 1932 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins its defense of Harbin.

Kuomintang Muslim General Bai Chongxi was Chairman of the Chinese Islamic National Salvation Federation.

*** Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference

Macau also has representation on the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

The Barisan Nasional coalition currently consists of the United Malays National Organisation ( UMNO ), Malaysian Chinese Association ( MCA ), Malaysian Indian Congress ( MIC ) and 11 other political parties.

Standardization came with the formation of the National Mah Jongg League ( NMJL ) in 1937, along with the first American mahjong rulebook, Maajh: The American Version of the Ancient Chinese Game.

The aid was not capable of saving the First East Turkestan Republic, as the Afghan, Uighur and Kirghiz forces were defeated in 1934 by the Chinese Muslim 36th Division ( National Revolutionary Army ) led by General Ma Zhancang at the Battle of Kashgar and Battle of Yarkand.

In 2004 and again in 2006, Chinese President Hu Jintao made state visits to Nigeria and addressed a joint session of the National Assembly of Nigeria.

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Site of the Museum of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party | First National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a typical shikumen building

* Palace Museum Chinese Text Database

Pei's tunnel through a mountain leading to the Miho Museum was partly inspired by a story from fourth-century Chinese poet Tao Yuanming.

Commenting on her design of a new home for the Museum of Chinese in America near New York City's bella Chinatown, Lin attached a personal significance to the project being a Chinese-related project because she wanted her two daughters to " know that part of their heritage.

It is now kept at Museum of Chinese History, Beijing.

* Rawson, Jessica, Chinese Ornament: The Lotus and the Dragon, 1984, British Museum Publications, ISBN 0-7141-1431-6

Today they are open to the public and form a complex of halls and buildings housing art exhibits, including a Museum of Asian Art, unique across Southern Europe in its scope and in the richness of its Chinese and Asian exhibits.

* The Museum of Asian art of Corfu is located at the Palaia Anaktora ( mainly Chinese and Japanese Arts ); its unique collection is housed across 15 rooms, taking in over 12, 000 artifacts, including a Greek Buddhist collection that shows the influence of Alexander the Great on Buddhist culture as far as Pakistan.

A Dongfeng 2 ( CSS-1 ) at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution | Beijing military museum

The National Palace Museum which has one of the largest collections of Chinese artifacts and artworks in the world is located in Taipei.

The National Palace Museum houses over 600, 000 History of China | ancient Chinese artifacts.

The National Palace Museum is an art gallery and museum built around a permanent collection centered on ancient Chinese artifacts.

These buildings include the Royal Glasshouses in the grounds of the Palace at Laken, the Japanese Tower, the Chinese Pavilion, the Musée du Congo ( now called the Royal Museum for Central Africa ), and their surrounding park in Tervuren, the Cinquantenaire in Brussels, and the 1895-1905 Antwerpen-Centraal railway station.

Having garnered inspiration from the monochromatic prints of Edgar Degas featured in a 1994 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the motifs of his Landscapes in the Chinese Style series are formed with simulated Benday dots and block contours, rendered in hard, vivid color, with all traces of the hand removed.

The Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum ( Chinese: 李鄭屋古墓 ) is composed of a brick tomb ( E. Han or slightly later ) and of an exhibition hall adjacent to it.

The National Palace Museum and Palace Museum, located inside the Forbidden City in the People's Republic of China, share the same original roots, which was split in two as a result of the Chinese Civil War.

The British Museum Book of Chinese Art, 2007 ( 2nd edn ), British Museum Press, ISBN 9780714124469

The Tibetan Revolutions Museum established by the Chinese in Lhasa has numerous morbid ritual objects on display to illustrate these claims.

In late 2011, the Chinese Youth Society of Melbourne, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic Of China, unveiled, in a Lion Dance Blessing ceremony, a memorial statue of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen outside the Chinese Museum in Melbourne's Chinatown, on the spot where their traditional Chinese New Year Lion Dance always ends.

however the President, who would like to woo the former Chinese province away from both Peking and Moscow, would promise Chen nothing more than an abstention by the U.S. if Outer Mongolia's admission comes to a vote.

Others prefer pinyin-based Daoism because of growing acceptance internationally of Hanyu Pinyin as the standard romanization for Chinese, as reflected in other recent spelling changes such as the pinyin Beijing that replaced the Wade Pei-ching or Chinese Postal Map Romanization Peking.

One month after he came into office, Japanese troops clashed with Chinese troops near Peking in the Marco Polo Bridge Incident.

Mervyn Peake never returned to China but it has been noted that Chinese influences can be detected in Peake's works, not least in the castle of Gormenghast itself, which in some respects echoes the ancient walled city of Peking ( Beijing ) as well as the enclosed compound where he grew up in Tientsin ( Tianjin ).

In May 1919, the May Fourth Movement had erupted in Peking, with Chinese patriots rallying against the Japanese occupation and Duan's collaborative government.

By 1921, small groups of Marxists existed in six Chinese cities: Shanghai, Peking, Changsha, Wuhan, Canton and Tsinan, with a further group having been founded by Chinese students in Paris.

He then lived for three years in China, where he studied under Luo Changpei at Peking University and under Wang Li at Lingnan University, before returning to take a PhD in Chinese Linguistics at Cambridge under the supervision of Gustav Hallam and then J. R. Firth.

** Boxer Rebellion: Boxers destroy three villages near Peking and kill sixty Chinese Christians.

** Radio Peking claims that U. S. planes have shot down a Chinese plane over Yunnan ( the U. S. denies the story the next day ).

* September 22 – Radio Peking announces that Indian troops have dismantled their equipment on the Chinese side of the border.

She found herself billed between Charlton Heston and David Niven in the epic 55 Days at Peking in 1963, a lavish version of the Chinese revolt against foreign control during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900.

The Russian Empire and the Qing Empire had maintained a long peace, starting with the Treaty of Nerchinsk in 1689, but Czarist forces took advantage of Chinese defeats to impose the Aigun Treaty of 1858 and the Treaty of Peking of 1860 which ceded territory in Manchuria much of which is held by Russia to the present day.

His speech at Peking University was particularly noteworthy as Li publicly urged the Chinese Communist Party to protect the freedom of speech as laid down in the constitution of the PRC.

Mao Dun entered the three-year foundation school offered by Peking University in 1913, in which he studied Chinese and Western literature.

Peking University (), colloquially known in Chinese as Beida ( 北大, Běidà ), is a major research university located in Beijing, China, and a member of the C9 League.

In addition to academics, Peking University is especially renowned for its campus grounds, and the beauty of its traditional Chinese architecture.

In 1920, Peking University became the second Chinese university to accept female students, after Nanjing University.

In 2010, the Chinese University Alumni Association in partner with China Education Center ranked Peking University 1st among national universities in the country, while the China University Ranking placed Peking University 2nd among universities in China, behind Tsinghua.

In 1917, Chen became a lecturer of Chinese Literature, and a Dean of Peking University （ 北京大学 ).

However, due to a naming conflict under postal regulations at that time, Lima was renamed Nankin Township, after the Chinese city Nanking, and Richland as Pekin Township, named after Peking, though Pekin became Redford Township in 1833.

* Beijing ( formerly Romanized as Peking, from Chinese Postal Map Romanization ( CPMR ); briefly known as Peip ' ing in Wade-Giles ( WG ) or Běipíng in pinyin ( py )), the Northern Capital, was and has been the capital of various Chinese governments including ( sorted chronologically ):