* Mandarin Chinese children's story in simplified Chinese showing the stroke order for every character.

The " Gong An story " （ 公案小说, literally ：" case records of a public law court "） is the earliest known genre of Chinese detective fiction.

Some well known stories include the Yuan Dynasty story Circle of Chalk ( Chinese: 灰闌記 ), the Ming Dynasty story collection Bao Gong An ( Chinese: 包公案 ) and the 18th century Di Gong An ( Chinese: 狄公案 ) story collection.

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

The story of a Korean War veteran, brainwashed by the Communist Chinese to assassinate a candidate for President, co-starred Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury as Harvey's evil mother.

Despite this there are many variants of the story in Chinese mythology.

Pu Songling brought the short story form to a new level in his Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, published in the mid-18th century, and Shen Fu demonstrated the charm of the informal memoir in Six Chapters of a Floating Life, written in the early 19th century but published only in 1877.

Each storey finishes with a projecting roof, after the Chinese manner, originally covered with ceramic tiles and adorned with large dragons ; a story is still propagated that they were made of gold and were reputedly sold by George IV to settle his debts.

Making a stop motion animation table in his bedroom, he wrote the Chinese story The Journey of Master Ho.

In an August 2008 Observer interview, Gorillaz band members Albarn and Hewlett revealed the nature and title of the project, Journey to the West, a movie adaptation of the opera of the same name based on a 16th-century Chinese adventure story also known as Monkey.

Taiwanese cuisine relies on an abundant array of seasonings for flavour: soy sauce, rice wine, sesame oil, fermented black beans, pickled daikon, pickled mustard greens, peanuts, chili peppers, cilantro ( sometimes called Chinese parsley ), and a local variety of basil ( 九層塔 jiǔcéngtǎ, literally " nine story pagoda ").

In one type of story, the world is born from a world egg ; such stories include the Finnish epic poem Kalevala, the Chinese story of Pangu or the Indian Brahmanda Purana.

In Chinese mythology, there is a love story of Qi Xi () in which Niu Lang (, Altair ) and his two children ( β and γ Aquilae ) are separated from their mother Zhi Nü (, lit.

* Pu Songling, Chinese short story writer

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

Suppose, says Searle, that this computer performs its task so convincingly that it comfortably passes the Turing test: it convinces a human Chinese speaker that the program is itself a live Chinese speaker.

He calls the entire family " Tibeto-Burman ", which name he says has historical primacy, but most other linguists who reject a privileged position for Chinese continue to call the resulting family " Sino-Tibetan ".

The Chinese scholar A ' de noted this was because the Lotus Sutra says Avalokitesvara takes on the visage of whatever being that would best help pervade the dharma.

However, a Chinese source found in Dunhuang written by Mo-ho-yen says their side won, and some scholars conclude that the entire episode is fictitious.

Chop suey appears in a 1884 article in the Brooklyn Eagle, by Wong Chin Foo, " Chinese Cooking ," which he says " may justly be called the " national dish of China.

An 1860 diary says Chinese Camp was the metropolis for the mining district, with many urban comforts.

" Creel says the Chinese evidently came to use Rongdi and Manyi " as generalized terms denoting ' non-Chinese ,' ' foreigners ,' ' barbarians '," and a statement such as " the Rong and Di are wolves " ( Zuozhuan, Min 1 ) is " very much like the assertion that many people in many lands will make today, that ' no foreigner can be trusted '.

" The sinologist Edwin G. Pulleyblank says the name Yi " furnished the primary Chinese term for ' barbarian '," but " Paradoxically the Yi were considered the most civilized of the non-Chinese peoples.

" Dikötter says, " The nature of the Chinese was regarded as impermeable to the evil influences of the barbarian ; no retrogression was possible.

" Beckwith says Tang texts used fan 番 or 蕃 " foreigner " ( see shengfan and shufan above ) as " perhaps the only true generic at any time in Chinese literature, was practically the opposite of the word barbarian.

Elvin says that the Chinese intelligentsia gradually abandoned Taoism in favor of Confucianism around the 14th century.

As the Chinese proverb says " A wise man learns from experience ; a wiser man learns from the experience of others ".

* c. 80 AD-In his Lunheng ( 論衡 ; Critical Essays ), the Han Dynasty Chinese philosopher Wang Chong ( 27-97 AD ) dispels the Chinese myth of rain coming from the heavens, and states that rain is evaporated from water on the earth into the air and forms clouds, stating that clouds condense into rain and also form dew, and says when the clothes of people in high mountains are moistened, this is because of the air-suspended rain water.

" Kiernan further says: " Calwell had many friends among the Chinese community in Melbourne.

Korean page says: 1945 by the inhabitants, Chinese page says 1956 by the South Korea's Minister of Culture and Minister of Education, Japanese page gives no details.

Monument is relocated 37. 510407 N, 127. 101635 E. Korean page says 2010 / 04 / 25, Japanese page says decision taken 2008, Chinese page gives pictures of the new location.

The legend says that in the 18th century a Chinese girl threw herself from the cliff after her parents objected to her marriage to her lover, read about this here: http :// www. hatbangsaen. com / lovestory. html.

In fact, says Hirayama, Fukuzawa did criticize the Chinese and Korean governments but he did not discriminate against the Chinese and Korean people.

The Chinese Book of Sui says that Japan provided military support to Baekje and Silla.

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.