It was a war of attrition for the Chinese pilots, as many of their most experienced ace fighter pilots, such as Lieutenant Liu Tsui-Kang and Colonel Kao Chih-Hang were lost early in the war.

In 2004, as the apparent ace of the staff, Wang led Chinese Taipei to the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

Ming Tsai, the owner of the Blue Ginger restaurant in Wellesley, Massachusetts, said that American Chinese restaurants typically try to have food representing 3-5 regions of China at one time, have chop suey, or have " fried vegetables and some protein in a thick sauce ," " eight different sweet and sour dishes ," or " a whole page of 20 different chow meins or fried rice dishes.

His reputation was not confined to Europe ; a Chinese mandarin sent him a letter addressed to " the illustrious Boerhaave, physician in Europe ," and it reached him in due course.

" Reflections on the ' New Qing History ' School in the United States ," Chinese Studies in History, Winter 2009 / 2010, Vol.

" Chinese History: A Useful Category of Gender Analysis ," American Historical Review, Dec 2008, Vol.

" The overwhelming majority ," notes BBS editor Stevan Harnad, " still think that the Chinese Room Argument is dead wrong.

By 1880, almost a thousand Chinese people, " one for every five Caucasians ," lived in Carson City.

" Ai ," the traditional Chinese character for love ( 愛 ) consists of a heart ( middle ) inside of " accept ," " feel ," or " perceive ," which shows a graceful emotion.

A playing card form was published by an official of Britain's Consular Service named William Henry Wilkinson, author of " Chinese origin of playing cards ," under the name of Khanhoo.

Meadows successfully argued in his Desultory Notes on the Government and People of China, published in 1847, that " the long duration of the Chinese empire is solely and altogether owing to the good government which consists in the advancement of men of talent and merit only ," and that the British must reform their civil service by making the institution meritocratic.

" Mozi: Language Utilitarianism: The Structure of Ethics in Classical China ," The Journal of Chinese Philosophy 16 ( 1989 ) pp. 355-380.

* --, " The Significance of the Ch ' ing Period in Chinese History ," The Journal of Asian Studies 26. 02 ( 1967 ): 189-195.

* Evelyn Rawski, " Reenvisioning the Qing: The Significance of the Qing Period in Chinese History ," Journal of Asian Studies 55. 4 ( November 1996 ).

However, Jacques ( 2006 ) notes, " comparative work has never been able to put forth evidence for common innovations to all the Tibeto-Burman languages ( the Sino-Tibetan languages to the exclusion of Chinese )," and that " it no longer seems justified to treat Chinese as the first branching of the Sino-Tibetan family ," as the morphological divide between Chinese and Tibeto-Burman has been bridged by recent reconstructions of Old Chinese.

" At a very early period the Chinese recognized the Cannabis plant as dioecious ," and the ( ca.

The Abbasides or " Black Flags ," as they were commonly called, are known in Chinese history as the Heh-i Ta-shih, " The Black-robed Arabs.

Chinese si " silk ," Manchurian sirghe, Mongolian sirkek ).

Ethnic Chinese ( who laid most of the Central Pacific railway ) established a flourishing Chinatown in Salt Lake City nicknamed " Plum Alley ," which housed around 1, 800 Chinese during the early 20th century.

During the immediate postwar period, the Chinese Kuomintang administration on Taiwan was inept and corrupt, while soldiers were breaking the laws.

He regarded Sukarno's Republic as economically inept and unable to ward off the Indonesian Chinese, Indonesian Indians and the rising Indonesian Communist Party.

* The Chinese polymath statesman and scientist Su Song has the successful pilot model for his astronomical clock tower constructed in Kaifeng, China.

After a crash landing, the pilot dies, but not before telling the four ( in Chinese, which Conway knows ) to seek shelter at the nearby lamasery of Shangri-La.

After the United States entered the war, the Army Air Forces also developed a pilot training program for the Chinese Air Force.

Among them, the School of Software is the only statewide pilot School of Software at a teachers ’ university ; The International College of Chinese Studies is among the 8 State Bases for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, certified by the Ministry of Education.

The National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio, has an extensive display dedicated to the AVG, including an A-2 jacket worn by an AVG pilot in China, a banner presented to the AAF by the Chinese government, and a P-40E.

The Chinese media report that the plane, which had taken off in Guangzhou, crashed when the pilot attempted to fight off an armed hijacker.

Jiangmen was selected by the Chinese state as a pilot city for a nationwide information programme.

The Central Aircraft Manufacturing Company, fronting for the Chinese and American governments, recruited 82 pilots and 359 ground crewmen from the U. S. Army in the fall of 1941, and an undetermined number, including one pilot, actually sailed for Asia aboard Noordam and Bloemfontein of the Java-Pacific line.

In the pilot episode of The Muppet Show, the Chef's commentary was supplemented by Chinese subtitles, but this was abandoned for all other episodes of the series.

On January 26, 2011 it was announced that the PLA Chinese Air Force began issuing pilot licenses for first time as reported by Zhang Qian, People's Daily Online, again, addressing the questions raised by Professor Paksoy

* Bad weather forces a U. S. Marine Corps pilot down in communist-controlled territory near Tsingtao, China, during the Chinese Civil War.

In the Second Sino-Japanese War prior to World War II, foreign volunteer pilots of Flying Tigers carried notices printed in Chinese that informed the locals that this foreign pilot was fighting for China and they were obliged to help them.

) Gabreski and a fellow former 56th pilot, Colonel Walker M. Mahurin, planned and executed a mission in early 1952 in which the F-86s turned off their IFF equipment and overflew two Chinese bases.

It has been singled out for setting up experimental pilot programs in distance education and in teaching Chinese as a foreign language.

He is perhaps best remembered for portraying villains, in particular his recurring TV guest role as Chinese agent Wo Fat on Hawaii Five-O ( from the pilot in 1968 to the final episode in 1980 ), and brainwasher Dr.

Liu Boming (; born September 1966 ) is a Chinese pilot selected as part of the Shenzhou program.

The Alliance flag shown in the pilot is a blending of the American and Chinese flags, having the red and white stripes of the United States flag and the red field and yellow stars of the Chinese flag.

Malindi is where Vasco da Gama picked up his pilot to navigate with the monsoon winds to India ; Mambrui appears to be the site where contact occurred with the Chinese during the era of the Yongle Emperor and the expeditions of Zheng He.

* During the Shanghai Incident on February 22, 1932 Lt Robert Short ( US Army Reserve ) while piloting a Boeing 218 with Chinese markings damaged one IJN Type 13 carrier attack aircraft, killing the pilot, Lt. Kotani and wounding the observer, before he was killed in action.

William Pawley is second from left, at rear ; Chinese pilot Moon Chen, fourth from left ; Wong Tsu of the Chinese government, fifth from left in dark suit ; Charles Hunter of Curtiss-Wright, at far right.