This became the book The Chinese Maze Murders ( completed around 1950 ).

* Maze Rats: A band of pirates, mostly Chinese.

Hart was succeeded by Sir Francis Aglen ( 1869 – 1932 ) ( Chinese name 安格联 ) and then by his own nephew, Sir Frederick Maze ( 1871 – 1959 ) ( Chinese name 梅乐和 ), who served from 1929-1943.

The Shadow appears as Fritz in at least 23 Shadow novels: " The Living Shadow ," " Hidden Death ," " The Ghost Makers ," " The Crime Clinic ," " Crime Circus ," " The Chinese Disks ," " The Dark Death ," " The Third Skull ," " The Black Master ," " The Voodoo Master ," " The Third Shadow ," " The Circle of Death ," " The Sledge Hammer Crimes ," " The Golden Masks ," " The Ghost Murders ," " Hills of Death ," " The Hand ," " The Racket's King ," " The Green Hoods ," " The Crime Ray ," " The Getaway Ring ," " Masters of Death ," and " The Crystal Skull.

The reviews were good, and van Gulik wrote two more books ( The Chinese Bell Murders and The Chinese Lake Murders ) over the next few years, also with an eye toward Japanese and then Chinese editions.

Van Gulik's intent in writing his first Judge Dee novel was, as he wrote in remarks on The Chinese Bell Murders, " to show modern Chinese and Japanese writers that their own ancient crime-literature has plenty of source material for detective and mystery-stories ".

* The Chinese Bell Murders ( written 1953 – 1956, published 1958 )

* The Chinese Lake Murders ( written 1953 – 1956, published 1960 )

* The Chinese Gold Murders ( written 1956, published 1959 )

* The Chinese Nail Murders ( written 1958, published 1961 )

* Robert van Gulik's The Chinese Gold Murders ( 1952 ) and The Red Pavilion ( 1958 )

However, in The Chinese Gold Murders, which describes Dee's initial appointment and first criminal cases, the judge encounters two highwaymen, euphemistically called " men of the greenwood ," Ma Joong and Chiao Tai, who attempt to rob him but are so impressed with his character that they give up their criminal careers and join his retinue on the spot.

A little later, in The Chinese Lake Murders, a third criminal, Tao Gan, an itinerant confidence trickster and swindler, similarly joins.

Tales of Judge Dee is set when the Judge was the magistrate of Poo-yang ( the same time period as The Chinese Bell Murders and several other novels ).

The earliest known written documentation of the Chinese abacus dates to the 2nd century BC.

Most American Chinese establishments cater to non-Chinese customers with menus written in English or containing pictures.

Chinese languages treat these two phones differently ; for example in Mandarin, ( written b in Pinyin ) and ( written p ) contrast phonemically.

A Chinese book on houseplants written in 1st – 3rd centuries BC mentioned a medical use of Ephedra and opium poppies.

It is mainly an oriental art form, and most 3D beading resources are written in oriental languages, such as Japanese and Chinese, further impeding wide access to English-speaking countries.

Chinese characters can also be written in either direction as well as vertically ( top to bottom then right to left ), especially in signs ( such as plaques ), but the orientation of the individual characters is never changed.

** Chinese character, a written language symbol ( sinogram ) used in Chinese, Japanese, and other languages

" These pictographs are reputed to be similar to the earliest characters confirmed to be written Chinese.

The findings at Anyang include the earliest written record of Chinese past so far discovered: inscriptions of divination records in ancient Chinese writing on the bones or shells of animals – the so-called " oracle bones ", dating from around 1200 BC.

The Chinese character numeral system consists of the Chinese characters used by the Chinese written language to write spoken numerals.

It supposes that there is a program that gives a computer the ability to carry on an intelligent conversation in written Chinese.

If the program is given to someone who speaks only English to execute the instructions of the program by hand, then in theory, the English speaker would also be able to carry on a conversation in written Chinese.

Linebarger's stories are unusual, sometimes being written in narrative styles closer to traditional Chinese stories than to most English-language fiction.

The first systematic Chinese historical text, Shiji or Records of the Grand Historian, was written by Sima Qian.

All of these pre-Qin texts were written in classical Chinese.

More broadly speaking, Chinese classic texts may refer to texts, be they written in vernacular Chinese or in classical Chinese, that existed before 1912, when the last imperial Chinese dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, fell.

During the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 ), the Chinese used a silver canister where written lots could be drawn that designated which player had to drink and specifically how much ; for example, from 1, 5, 7, or 10 measures of drink that the youngest player, or the last player to join the game, or the most talkative player, or the host, or the player with the greatest alcohol tolerance, etc.

* 1950 – U. S. President Harry S. Truman declares a state of emergency, after Chinese troops enter the fight with communist North Korea in the Korean War.

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

* 1950 – Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon.

* 1950 – Korean War: North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea.

Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong on a Chinese postage stamp, 1950.

* 1950 – Yuen Wah, Chinese actor and stuntman

In 1950, the Chinese People's Liberation Army annexed Tibet and later the Chinese extended their influence by building a road in 1956 – 67 and placing border posts in Aksai Chin.

In the period between 27 November and 13 December 1950, 30, 000 United Nations ( UN ) troops ( nicknamed " The Chosin Few ") under the command of Major General Edward Almond were encircled by approximately 67, 000 Chinese troops under the command of Song Shi-Lun.

The Chinese Civil War ( 1927 – 1950 ) was a civil war fought between the Kuomintang ( KMT ), or the Chinese Nationalist Party-led Nationalist Government of the Republic of China, and the Communist Party of China ( CPC ), for the control of each other's territory which eventually led to two de facto states, the Republic of China ( ROC ) in Taiwan and the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in mainland China both claiming to be the legitimate government of China.

* Chinese Civil War 1945 – 1950

Chinese Emperor Puyi, captured by Soviet troops in Manchuria was relocated to Khabarovsk and lived here from 1945 up to 1950, when he was returned to China.

The Chinese chronicles Suí shū 隋書 ( Book of Suí ), Běi shǐ 北史 ( History of Northern Dynasties ) and Táng shū 唐書 ( Book of Táng ) mention a possession called Shí 石 or Zhěshí 赭時 with a capital of the same name since the fifth century AD 1950. v. II.

* Tongmenghui ( or " Revolutionary Alliance "), a Chinese underground resistance movement which operated in Japan from 1905 to 1950

Known as the Resist America, Aid Korea Campaign in China, the first major offensive of the Chinese forces was pushed back in October, but by Christmas 1950, the " People's Volunteer Army " under the command of Gen. Peng Dehuai had forced the United Nations to retreat back to the 38th Parallel.

Meanwhile, Chinese forces invaded and annexed Tibet in October 1950.

Thus, the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Friendship was signed and the Chinese at last departed in February 1950.

The People's Republic of China as well as Chinese nationalists in the Republic of China in their effort to discredit Tibetan lamaism make frequent and emphatic reference to the historical human sacrifice in Tibet, portraying the 1950 People's Liberation Army invasion of Tibet as an act of humanitarian intervention.

Lockwood thinks that it is very likely that the U. S. did use insects dropped from aircraft during the Korean War to spread diseases, and that the Chinese and North Koreans were not simply engaged in a propaganda campaign when they made these allegations, since the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretary of Defense had approved their use in the fall of 1950 at the " earliest practicable time ".

By his second wife, he had two daughters, Claire Anna Chennault ( born 1948 ) and Cynthia Louise Chennault ( born 1950 ), a professor of Chinese at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Ma Ying-jeou (; born 13 July 1950 ) is a Chinese politician and the 12th and 13th term President of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), and the Chairman of the Kuomintang, also known as the Chinese Nationalist Party.

From March to May 1950, the Landing Operation on Hainan Island captured the island for the Chinese communists.

When Chinese Communists entered North Korea in late 1950 and again drove back American forces, Bradley agreed that rollback had to be dropped in favor of a containment strategy of North Korea.