Chen was equally adamant in his opposition to the admission of Outer Mongolia ; ;

An American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen.

While married to Mao, Chiang adopted two concubines ( concubinage was still a common practice for well-to-do, non-Christian males in China ): he married Yao Yecheng ( 姚冶誠, 1889 – 1972 ) in 1912 and Chen Jieru ( 陳潔如, 1906 – 1971 ) in December 1921.

Chen claiming that, by the time she married Chiang, he had already divorced Mao, and that Chen was therefore his wife.

In 2004, President Chen Shui-bian was re-elected by a narrow margin following a controversial assassination attempt on him and the Vice President Annette Lu only hours before the election.

After the recount, President Chen was confirmed the winner of the election by a smaller margin ( 25, 563 as opposed to 29, 518 originally ).

Premier Frank Hsieh, DPP election organizer and former mayor of Kaohsiung twice tendered a verbal resignation immediately following the election, but his resignation was not accepted by President Chen until January 17, 2006 after the DPP chairmanship election had concluded.

A diplomatic row with China erupted on 5 May 2005, when President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan arrived for a private visit and was welcomed at a private function at Suva's Sheraton Resort by Vice-President Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, Ratu Ovini Bokini ( Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs ), Senate President Taito Waqavakatoga and several other Senators and MPs, and several judges including Chief Justice Daniel Fatiaki.

Foreign Minister Kaliopate Tavola asserted that those who attended the welcoming ceremony did so " of their own accord ," not as government representatives, and that Prime Minister Qarase's presence in the same hotel where President Chen was staying was purely " coincidental.

In January 2007 de Klerk was a speaker promoting peace and democracy in the world at the " Towards a Global Forum on New Democracies " event in Taipei, Taiwan, along with other dignitaries including Poland's Lech Wałęsa and now former Taiwan President Chen Shui-Bian.

The merchants were conservative and reactionary, and their Volunteer Corp leader Chen Lianbao was a prominent comprador trader.

This blood was swallowed by a washer woman, who gave birth to Chen Jinggu ( 陈靖姑 ) or Lady Linshui ( 临水夫人 ); the hair was turned into a female white snake and sexually used men and killed rival women.

Chen was a beautiful and talented girl, but did not wish to marry Liu Qi.

Chen managed to kill the snake with a sword, but died either of a miscarriage or hemorrhage ; she was able to complete the ritual, and ended drought.

In the early years of the Republic of China, intellectuals of the New Culture Movement, such as Hu Shih and Chen Duxiu, successfully campaigned for the replacement of Literary Chinese as the written standard by written vernacular Chinese, which was based on northern dialects.

" He was heavily influenced by several teachers at the school, including the professor of ethics, Yang Changji, who urged Mao and his other students to read a radical newspaper, New Youth ( Hsien Ch ' ing-nien ), which was the creation of his friend Chen Duxiu ( 1879 – 1942 ), Dean of the Faculty of Letters at Peking University.

Nonetheless, by joining the university's Philosophy and Journalism Societies, he was able to attend various lectures and seminars by the likes of Chen Duxiu, Hu Shi, and Qian Xuantong, but various lecturers still treated him with contempt and refused to answer his questions.

From Peking, Mao moved along to Shanghai, working as a laundryman and meeting with Chen Duxiu, who had been recently freed from prison ; together, they discussed Marxism, which Chen was also beginning to accept.

The Communist Party of China was founded by Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao in the French concession of Shanghai in 1921 as a study society and an informal network.

Chen Binghe was accompanied by the chief of staff of the Second Artillery Corps and two PLA Military Region chiefs of staff.

Chiang then succeeded Chen as leader of the Chinese Revolutionary Party in Shanghai.

* The Chinese general Zhang Han of the Qin Dynasty pacifies a peasant rebellion led by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, and then lays siege to the rebel city of Julu.

When touring a troupe of young girls excelling in marksmanship, she " discovered " Joan Chen, then 14 years old, launching Joan's career as a Chinese and then international actress.

As part of making the upcoming U. S. visit by then vice-president Hu Jintao go smoothly, the United States cautioned the Chen Shui-bian administration not to " go too far " in cross-Strait relations.

Mao Dun's mother Chen Aizhu ( 陳愛珠 ) then became his teacher.

" Fortunately, Cai did not become angry with Chen and the publication was then amended before publishing.

As the protests escalated and then Party-chief Zhao Ziyang was removed from office, Jiang was selected by the Party leaders as a compromise candidate over Tianjin's Li Ruihuan, Premier Li Peng, Li Xiannian, Chen Yun, and the retired elders to become the new General Secretary.

When Chen Shui-bian became President, the parade was not held until 2007 and then it was entitled a " Celebration Drill " and not a traditional military parade.

Early in his presidency, Hu faced an independence-supporting counterpart in then ROC president Chen Shui-bian.

The concept was first introduced by Kuo Tsaï Chen in the 1970s, under the name " differential spaces ", then rediscovered by Souriau in the 1980s and later refined by many people.

Cuan Chen ( 爨琛 ) named himself king and held authority from Lake Dian ( then called Kunchuan ).

Following a downturn in the late 1990s, Sybase returned to profitability under the management of John Chen in 2000, has maintained profitability since then and continues to reinvent itself with a new ' Unwired Enterprise ' strategy.

However, attempts by the Democratic Progressive Party administration to create a new Constitution during the second term of DPP President Chen Shui-bian failed, because the then opposition Kuomintang controlled the Legislative Yuan.

He was later transferred to Beijing in 1996 to replace then Beijing Party-chief Chen Xitong who was arrested on corruption charges.

Liu Bei then consulted Kong Rong and Chen Deng, who advised him to switch ally and seek confirmation from the leading warlord, Yuan Shao.

Emperor Xiaowen, despite his own weakened physical state, then decided to again advance south to react against a retaliation campaign by the Southern Qi general Chen Xianda ( 陳顯達 ).

Lü Zhi then appointed Chen Ping as Right Chancellor and her illicit lover Shen Yiji ( 審食其 ) as Left Chancellor.

Chen Jiongming then captured Huizhou.

In 1987 HLS purchased Northern Engineering and Testing, Inc., and then in 1988 bought Empire Soils Investigations Inc., Chen Associates Inc., and Asteco Inc.

After the completion of his two terms as magistrate in 1997, he was in 1998 appointed Chairman of the Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation by then Mayor Chen Shui-bian.

* Mori promised then newly elected ROC President Chen Shui-bian that he would celebrate if Chen won the 2000 presidential elections.

Since then, the people of this state began to use Chen as their surname.