Hyundai acquired Young Chang in 2006 and in January 2007 has appointed Raymond Kurzweil as Chief Strategy Officer of Kurzweil Music Systems.

Other important styles are Zhaobao t ' ai chi ch ' uan, a close cousin of Chen-style, which has been newly recognized by Western practitioners as a distinct style, and the Fu style, created by Fu Chen Sung, which evolved from Chen, Sun and Yang styles, and also incorporates movements from Baguazhang ( Pa Kua Chang ).

* April 5 – During the Cold Food Festival, Chinese Emperor Zhongzong of Tang has his chief ministers of court, sons-in-law, and high-ranking military officers engage in the festive game of tug of war within a palace of Chang ' an City.

* Chinese Emperor Xuanzong of Tang has four palace walls in the northeast sector of the capital city Chang ' an torn down and reassembled to construct a new Daoist abbey, the grounds of which were formerly a large garden for the governmental Bureau of Agriculture.

Paul Hsao records Chang Chung-Yuan saying that " Heidegger is the only Western Philosopher who not only intellectually understands but has intuitively grasped Taoist thought.

The event has featured such players as Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Jim Courier, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, James Blake and Andy Roddick, before they turned professional.

According to Chang, in the context of imperial China, the term " xiejiao " was used to refer to non-Confucian religions, though in the context of Communist China, it has been used to target religious organizations which do not submit to the authority of the Communist Party.

Chang offers to take Shanghai Lily to his palace, but she claims she has reformed.

And now the best part ... in his research for the new book on The Cain's Ballroom, author, music historian, and Western swing expert John Wooley has discovered that Danny Cain ( he had dropped the last " e " by the time Kwai Chang arrived in America ) had settled in Skedee, Oklahoma, and was what we would think of now as an " old time fiddler " playing jigs and dance tunes popular at the time.

While noting the success of protectionism, Chang has attempted to argue that it would be unfair if the developed countries now re-instituted protectionism by stating that those countries that used protectionist policies during their growth would be trying to " kick away the ladder " from developing countries.

The School has also built a strong reputation for its law and economics group ( professors Howard F. Chang, Tom Baker, David S. Abrams ) and its criminal law group ( professors Stephanos Bibas, David Rudovsky ).

Chang () is the Thai word for elephant, an animal that has cultural and historical significance to Thailand.

Chang has stated in interviews that his newest book, to be published in 2013, is a highly autobiographical novel about his childhood on Long Island.

Evidence of bronze for this date has been found in Thailand ( in the Ban Chang culture ) and Egypt.

The legend has it that one night when Lü Yan was in Chang ' an or Handan ( 邯鄲 Hándān ), he dozed off as his yellow millet was cooking in a hotel.

A story has it that when in Chang An, Lü was tested by Zhongli Quan ten times before Quan took him in as disciple and Lü subsequently became immortal.

The City of Los Angeles has also declared the nearby intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Van Buren Place to be " Dosan Ahn Chang Ho Square " in his honor.

Chang & Eng premiered in 1997 and has since been performed around Asia, starring Robin Goh as Chang Bunker, Sing Seng Kwang as Eng Bunker, and Selena Tan as their mother, Nok.

Hergé mocks his own naïveté deep inside the album when he has Tintin explain to the fictional Chang that his view of the ' white devils ' is based on prejudice.

The LOT has been revised twice -- once by the original creators ( LOT-R ) and also by Chang, Maydeu-Olivares, and D ' Zurilla as the Extended Life Orientation Test ( ELOT ).

* The fractal dimension of its boundary has been approximated numerically by Chang & Zhang.

The plot is centered on a man ( Chang ) who, upon discovering his girlfriend ( Graham ) has cheated on him, tries to destroy all traces of their relationship, eventually realizing that this is futile, as what has happened cannot be undone.

Academia Sinica has made great progress in recent years, according to Taiwanese scholar Chang Jui-te.

He also wrote historical fiction as Reagan O ' Neal, a western as Jackson O ' Reilly, and dance criticism as Chang Lung, and he had ghostwritten an " international thriller " that is still believed to have been written by someone else.

The March 21, 2009 cover of The Economist, " How China sees the World ", is also an homage to the original image, but depicting the viewpoint from Beijing's Chang ' an Avenue instead of Manhattan.

The capital was also moved from Chang ' an to Luoyang.

* Much to the delight of the citizens of Chang ' an City, the Chinese Tang Dynasty government orders fruit trees to be planted along every main avenue of the city, which enriches not only the diets of the people but also the surroundings.

Chinese capital cities Chang ' an and Kaifeng also experienced huge population booms during prosperous empires.

His successor, Emperor Min was also captured in Chang ' an in 316.

The DF-4 missile also served as basis for China's first space launch vehicle, Chang Zeng 1 ( Long March 1 ).

On the same mission in 804, Emperor Kammu also sent monk Kūkai to the Tang Dynasty capital at Chang ' an ( present-day Xi ' an ).

Out of his affair with Chang Ya-juo, Chiang also had twin sons in 1941: Chang Hsiao-tz ' u and Chang Hsiao-yen.

Chang and Halliday also made another claim asserting Chiang Ching-kuo was " kidnapped ", however evidence shows that he went to study in the Soviet Union with Chiang Kai-shek's own approval.

John Woo and Terence Chang also serve as Executive Producers for Mujeogja ; which was a joint production between South Korea, Japan and China.

She also voices Queen Jipjorrulac, the mother of Mark Chang, in The Fairly OddParents.

The ancient capitals of Japan, such as Fujiwara-Kyô ( AD 694-710 ), Nara ( Heijô-Kyô, AD 710-784 ), and Kyoto ( Heian-Kyô, AD 794-1868 ) also adapted from Tang's capital, Chang ' an.

Going farther, in his book Kicking Away the Ladder, Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang also argues, based on economic history, that all major developed countries, including the United Kingdom, used interventionist economic policies to promote industrialization and protected national companies until they had reached a level of development in which they were able to compete in the global market, after which those countries adopted free market discourses directed at other countries to obtain two objectives: open their markets to local products and prevent them from adopting the same development strategies that led to the developed nations ' industrialization.

During Kirk's trial, Chang also mocks Kirk with lines from Richard II.

He also helped Austria reach the semifinals of Davis Cup, where they were eliminated 3 – 2 by the United States despite Muster winning both his singles rubbers against Andre Agassi and Michael Chang.

The Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve ( SNNR ), also referred to as the Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve, or the Three Rivers Nature Reserve, is the area of Qinghai province, PRC which contains the headwaters of the Yellow River ( Huang He ), the Yangtze River ( Chang Jiang ), and the Mekong River ( Lancang Jiang ).

In his next fight, Buchanan beat former 3 time world champion Carlos Ortiz by a knockout in six, also at the MSG, and he finished 1972 with a win over Chang Kil Lee.

Together they also sponsor Chang Everton Football Cup and any promising Thai footballers are invited to Liverpool to trial with Everton.

It is hinted that Chang is also gay and attracted to Lai ; Chang states in a voiceover that he likes ' deep, low voices ' and is seen rejecting advances from an attractive female coworker.