Modernizing education was critical to modernizing China.

But it seems that pressures against him are coming from somewhere -- in the first place from China, but perhaps also from that `` China Lobby '' which, I was assured in Moscow nearly two years ago, exists on the quiet inside the party.

To find out, we traveled throughout that part of Laos still nominally controlled, in the daytime at least, by the Royal Lao Army: from Attopeu, the City of Buffalo Dung in the southeast, to Muong Sing, the City of Lions in the northwest, close to Communist China ( map, page 250 ).

Chief among the seed crops grown primarily for industrial uses are the oil-bearing seeds -- flax, castor, tung ( nuts from the China wood-oil tree ), perilla ( from an Oriental mint ), and oiticica ( from a Brazilian tree ).

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

yet some must have survived, because the old interest in number symbolism, divination, and magic persisted on into the Han dynasty, which succeeded in reuniting China and keeping it together for a longer period ( from 202 B.C. to A.D. 220 ).

taking the former from the Five Sacred Mountains of the Han period and the latter from the principal river systems of Old China.

Then the monk praised Yang Shan saying: `` I have come over to China in order to worship Manjucri, and met unexpectedly with Minor Shakya '', and after giving the master some palm leaves he brought from India, went back through the air.

Songs from China and Japan were reserved exclusively for Miss Mao, who is a native of China, and those of the British Isles were sung by Mr. Fuller, who is English by birth.

It was night on this hemisphere, but the light blazed from the megalopolises of Australia, Japan, China, Southeast Asia, India, Siberia.

The oldest known caecilian is Eocaecilia micropodia, also from Arizona, while the earliest salamander is Beiyanerpeton jianpingensis from the Late Jurassic of northeastern China.

" Counting tray "), imported from China around 1600.

The Chinese abacus migrated from China to Korea around 1400 AD.

Many companies are coming into the country from China and surrounding nations to help improve road surfaces.

For some time, China has been the largest producer of antimony and its compounds, with most production coming from the Xikuangshan Mine in Hunan.

In June 2010, Transport Minister Manuk Vartanian revealed that Yerevan is seeking as much as $ 1 billion in loans from China to finance the railway ’ s construction.

In 1951 Dean Rusk, the Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs, branded the People's Republic of China a " Slavic Manchukuo ", implying that it was a puppet state of the Soviet Union just as Manchukuo had been a puppet state of the Empire of Japan.

Its Founding Dean, Professor Zhu Rongji, later became the fifth Premier of the People ’ s Republic of China.

* Wen-Tsuen Chen: President of National Tsing Hua University, Dean of the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Distinguished Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science, National Chair of the Republic of China, IEEE Fellow, IEEE Technical Achievement Award & Taylor L. Booth Education Award winner

The Null-point hypothesis has been quantitatively proven in Akaroa Harbour, New Zealand, The Wash, U. K., Bohai Bay and West Huang Sera, Mainland China, and in numerous other studies ; Ippen and Eagleson ( 1955 ), Eagleson and Dean ( 1959, 1961 ) and Miller and Zeigler ( 1958, 1964 ).

China expert and author Orville Schell had been serving as Dean of the school since 1996, up until the summer of 2007.

* China on the World Stage from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives

* David M. Lampton-George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies, Director of the China Studies Program, and Dean of Faculty

The Commission's members had included both William Welch, the first Dean of the Johns Hopkins Medical School and Simon Flexner and the China Medical Board modeled the school after Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine following the recommendations of the Flexner Report which set the foundation of modern Medical Education in the United States and Canada.

She has given Master Classes in Australia ( Adelaide ); Germany ( Berlin ); China, ( Beijing and Hong Kong ); Germany ( Weikersheim ); Italy ( Naples ); Japan ( Nagoya and Tokyo ); Slovenia ; South Africa ; South Korea ( Seoul ); Spain ; Switzerland ( Ticino Festival ); the UK ( Charterhouse, Jackdaws and West Dean ); and the US.

He was born in Oxford, Mississippi, to Dr. Billy S. Guyton, a highly respected eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist, who later became Dean of the University of Mississippi Medical School, and Kate Smallwood Guyton, a mathematics and physics teacher who had been a missionary in China before marriage.

Some of the major merchandising campaigns include: Dean and Son's annuals and other books, Valentine & Sons postcards ( approximately 500 ), the Artisco series of plaster figures, badges and pins, celluloid figures, Chad Valley and Steiff stuffed toys, Cowan & McKay toffee tins, Royal Grafton China, Royal Worcester and Royal Doulton figures, German and Japanese produced ceramics and most recently The Richard Dennis China Collection.

Intellectual historian Peter Watson has summarized this period as the foundation of many of humanity's most influential philosophical traditions, including monotheism in Persia and Canaan, Platonism in Greece, Buddhism, Jainism and Hinduism in India, and Confucianism and Taoism in China.

Lev Izmailov, ambassador of Peter the Great, once reported from China: " They make such fireworks that no one in Europe has ever seen.

* Zarrow, Peter, “ Intellectuals, the Republic, and a new culture ”, in Zarrow, Peter: China in war and revolution, 1895-1949 ( New York: Routledge ), 2005, 133-143.

* Zarrow, Peter, “ Politics and culture in the May Fourth Movement ”, in Zarrow, Peter: China in war and revolution, 1895-1949 ( New York: Routledge ), 2005, 149-169.

Accepting a tip from inside China, where Achilles is held prisoner, Peter had planned for Bean to operate the mission, but at the last minute ( because he doubted Bean would cooperate ) assigns Suriyawong, a battle school student from Thailand, to rescue Achilles in transport, believing that he can spy on Achilles, take over his network, and then turn Achilles over to some country for trial ( at the time of this story, Achilles has betrayed Russia, Pakistan, and India ).

The novel ends with Peter restored as Hegemon, Petra reunited with Bean, a Caliph in command of the world's Muslims, a China severely reduced in territory and forced to accept humiliating surrender terms, and the embryos still lost.

* 1834-American Presbyterian Mission opens work in India in the Punjab ; Peter Parker MD, associated with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, first American Medical Missionary to China opens Ophthalmic Hospital at Canton

* 1895-Africa Inland Mission formed by Peter Cameron Scott ; Japan Bible Society established ; Roland Allen sent as missionary for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts to its North China Mission.

* Peter Huang ( 黃文雄 ): famous for his failed assassination attempt against Chiang Ching-kuo in 1970 ; erstwhile National Policy Advisor on human rights issues to the President of the Republic of China ; avid supporter of the party since it was founded.

Peter Max's childhood began when he and his parents fled Nazi Germany, ( Berlin, Germany ) in 1938 to escape the Holocaust and traveled to Shanghai, China, where they lived for the next ten years.

* Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672 / " An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperor of China: delivered by their excellencies Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking wherein the cities, towns, villages, ports, rivers, & c. in their passages from Canton to Peking are ingeniously described by John Nieuhoff ; also an epistle of Father John Adams, their antagonist, concerning the whole negotiation ; with an appendix of several remarks taken out of Father Athanasius Kircher ; Englished and set forth with their several sculptures by John Ogilby " ( 1673 )

Other relatives include British Canadian CBC wartime broadcaster Peter Stursberg, whose 2002 book No Foreign Bones in China records the story of the Anglo-Japanese couple, and his son, current CBC vice-president Richard Stursberg.

Other notable explorers include Heinrich Handel-Mazzetti ; George Forrest ; Joseph Francis Charles Rock, who from 1922 – 1949 spent most of his time studying the flora, peoples and languages of southwest China, mainly in Yunnan ; and Peter Goullart, a White Russian who studied Naxi culture and lived in Lijiang from 1940 to 1949.

* Peter Hessler, contributor to The New Yorker and author of three books about China

It was there that she met Peter Fleming, a well-known writer and correspondent of The Times, with whom she would team up to cross China from Peking to Srinagar ( 3, 500 miles ), much of the route being through hostile desert regions and steep Himalayan passes.

Peter van Walsum, the now-retired Ambassador of the Netherlands to the United Nations and chairman of the Iraq Sanctions Committee from 1999 to 2000, speculated in a recent book that Iraq deliberately divided the Security Council by awarding contracts to France, Russia, and China but not to the United Kingdom and the United States.

* Lee, Peter, LANL, China ( discussing hohlraums )

London: Jonathan Cape ( Peter Fleming's account of his 1935 bid to travel the ancient trade route from China to India known as the ' Silk Road '.

In 1983, theater and opera director Peter Sellars proposed to American composer John Adams that he write an opera about Nixon's 1972 visit to China.

Environment minister Peter Kent argued that, " The Kyoto protocol does not cover the world's largest two emitters, the United States and China, and therefore cannot work.

* Rebecca E. Karl and Peter Gue Zarrow, eds., Rethinking the 1898 Reform Period: Political and Cultural Change in Late Qing China.

* Perdue, Peter C. China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia.