The Chelsea was also home to many sailors returning from their duties in World War I. Ruth Harkness, an adventurer / naturalist who brought the first live giant panda from China to the U. S. in the 1930s, stayed at the Chelsea Hotel after her return to the States.

* Tomorrow Square ( contains the JW Marriott Hotel Shanghai at Tomorrow Square ), Shanghai, China, 1997 – 2003

Restaurants include Usmania, Tabaq, Green Hotel, Gulab Hotel, Lal Kabab, and the Abasin Hotel all of which serve both Pakistani and western food while the Cafe China is one of the oldest Chinese restaurants.

) Other Beery films include Billy the Kid ( 1930 ) with Johnny Mack Brown, The Secret Six ( 1931 ) with Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, Hell Divers ( 1931 ) with Gable, Grand Hotel ( 1932 ) with Joan Crawford, Tugboat Annie ( 1933 ) with Dressler, Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ) opposite Harlow, The Bowery with George Raft, Fay Wray, and Pert Kelton that same year, China Seas ( 1935 ) with Gable and Harlow, and Eugene O ' Neill's Ah, Wilderness!

* Matt the Knife set a new Guinness World Record for " Fastest Escape from a Straitjacket " using a Posey Straitjacket with the front arm loop, side arm loops, and pelvic strap in a time of 18. 8 seconds on September 17, 2007 at The Media Hotel in Beijing, China.

He was called " The Boy Wonder " for his youth and his extraordinary ability to select the right scripts, choose the right actors, gather the best production staff and make hundreds of very profitable films, including Grand Hotel, China Seas, Camille, Mutiny on the Bounty and The Good Earth.

As a result, he helped develop some of MGM's most prestigious ventures, including Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 film starring his wife Norma Shearer ), Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ), China Seas ( 1935 ), A Night at the Opera ( 1935 ) with the Marx Brothers, San Francisco ( 1936 ), and Romeo and Juliet ( 1936 ).

China Hotel

China Hotel, A Marriott Hotel ( Simplified: 中国大酒店 ; Traditional: 中國大酒店 ) is a 5-star Marriott Hotel in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

China Hotel was built in 1979 by the Hong Kong listed conglomerate Hopewell Holdings Ltd ( controlled by Sir Gordon Wu ) under a novel contractual agreement that came to be known as Build-Operate-Transfer, a means of building and operating joint ventures with local authorities in China.

China Hotel became China Hotel, A Marriott Hotel.

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.

* 2003 – The first six-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan and Russia, convene to find a peaceful resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

* 1927 – The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China.

* 1945 – Ten days after World War II ends with Japan announcing its surrender, armed supporters of the Communist Party of China kill Baptist missionary John Birch, regarded by some of the American right as the first victim of the Cold War.

Aston Martin has also boosted its worldwide appeal by opening more dealers in Europe, as well as branches in China for the first time in its 93 year history in Beijing and Shanghai.

However, according to George Sussman, the first obvious medical description of plague in China dates to 1644.

Dating back to the Neolithic Age, the first bronze drums, called the Dong Son drums, have been uncovered in and around the Red River Delta regions of Vietnam and Southern China.

The General Synod and the College of Bishops of Chung Hwa Sheng Kung Hui planned to publish a unified version for the use of all Anglican churches in China in 1949, which was the 400th anniversary of the first publishing of the Book of Common Prayer.

The Eastern leaders retaliated against these steps by integrating the economies of their nations in Comecon, their version of the Marshall Plan ; exploding the first Soviet atomic device in 1949 ; signing an alliance with People's Republic of China in February 1950 ; and forming the Warsaw Pact, Eastern Europe's counterpart to NATO, in 1955.

In China, the Hongwu Emperor created and refined a document he called Ancestral Injunctions ( first published in 1375, revised twice more before his death in 1398 ).

This, of course, gave great prestige to the Chinese version and in the first four years of play only one winner has emerged out of China.

Continuing the coalition's free-trade strategy, in August 2006 President Bachelet promulgated a free trade agreement with the People's Republic of China ( signed under the previous administration of Ricardo Lagos ), the first Chinese free-trade agreement with a Latin American nation ; similar deals with Japan and India were promulgated in August 2007.

Taking boats through these used large amounts of water leading to conflicts with watermill owners and to correct this, the pound or chamber lock first appeared, in 10th century in China and in Europe in 1373 in Vreeswijk, Netherlands.

To break out of the limitations caused by river valleys, the first summit level canals were developed with the Grand Canal of China in 581 – 617 AD whilst in Europe the first, also using single locks, was the Stecknitz Canal in Germany in 1398.

The Xia Dynasty of China ( from c. 2100 to c. 1600 BC ) is the first dynasty to be described in ancient historical records such as Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian and Bamboo Annals.

It was the first dynasty to embrace the philosophy of Confucianism, which became the ideological underpinning of all regimes until the end of imperial China.

This enabled the first opening of trading connections between China and the West, along the Silk Road.

The first of several Roman embassies to China is recorded in Chinese sources, coming from the sea route in AD 166, and a second one in AD 284.

During the era after the war, later called the Pax Mongolica, adventurous Westerners such as Marco Polo travelled all the way to China and brought the first reports of its wonders to Europe.

This was the first dynasty to rule the whole of China from Beijing as the capital.

Sun Yat-sen, founder and first president of the Republic of China.

In around 500 BCE, after the Zhou state weakened and China moved into the Spring and Autumn Period, the classic period of Chinese philosophy began ( it is an interesting fact that this date nearly coincides with the emergence of the first Greek philosophers ).

The Latinized name " Confucius " is derived from " Kong Fuzi ", which was first coined by 16th-century Jesuit missionaries to China, most probably by Matteo Ricci.

* 2008 – The 2008 Summer Olympics officially opened with the opening ceremony at National Stadium, Beijing, China.

* Chop suey sandwich – Sandwich of chicken chop suey on a hamburger bun ( North Shore of Massachusetts – the only known remaining restaurants serving this specialty are " Genghis Salem ", " Salem Lowe " ( Salem ), and the newly opened " China Roma " restaurant on Revere Beach, ( Revere, Massachusetts ).

" Jagdish Bhagwati argues that reforms that opened up the economies of China and India contributed to their higher growth in 1980s and 1990s.

On 23 September 2011, Bille August announced that he has opened his studio in Hangzhou, China and taken a position as Tianpeng Media's Art Director, aiming to produce Chinese films for Tianpeng Media over the next few years.

Costa Rica maintained official relations with the Republic of China ( commonly known as " Taiwan ") instead of the People's Republic of China ( commonly known as " China ") until June 1, 2007, when it opened relations with China.

Deng opened China to foreign investment, the global market and limited private competition.

Greenpeace East Asia's first China office was opened in Hong Kong in 1997.

This defines a PHY amendment adds new rf spectrum specifications to address the Chinese regulatory changes which have opened the 314-316 MHz, 430-434 MHz, and 779-787 MHz bands for Wireless PAN use within China.

It opened a stock exchange in 2011, and has become a rising regional player in its role as a hydroelectric power supplier to neighbors such as China, Vietnam and Thailand, although the country remains one of the poorest countries in South-East Asia.

In so doing, Laos has opened the door to rapprochement with Thailand and China at some expense to its special dependence on Vietnam.

In 2005 a new internet café opened in Pyongyang, connected not through China, but through the North Korean satellite link.

All other trolleybus systems in China opened after 1950.

In 2012, Stanford opened the Stanford Center at Peking University, a just-under 400, 000-square-foot, three-story research center at the heart of Peking University, consistently ranked as the best university in China.

The city was one of several opened to foreign trade following the British victory over China in the First Opium War and the subsequent 1842 Treaty of Nanking which allowed the establishment of the Shanghai International Settlement.

In so doing, Laos has opened the door to rapprochement with Thailand and China at some expense to its special dependence on Vietnam.

On July 1, 1992, in order to meet growing demand, the Chinese government opened the legal services market to foreign law firms allowing them to establish offices in China when the Ministry of Justice and the State Administration of Industry and Commerce ( SAOIC ) issued the Provisional Regulation of Establishment of Offices by Foreign Law Firms regulation.

Emigration to other parts of the world from China accelerated in the 1860s with the enactment of the Treaty of Peking, which opened the border for free movement.

** Line 4 of Guangzhou Metro in Guangzhou, China ( opened 2005 ).

Fernão Pires de Andrade visited Canton in 1517 and opened up trade with China, where in 1557 the Portuguese were permitted to occupy Macau.

More Steinway Halls, Steinway Piano Galleries, Homes of Steinway, Steinway Rooms and Steinway Salons opened across the world, mainly in China, Japan and Korea.

Around the same time, the Venetian explorer Marco Polo became one of the first Europeans to travel the Silk Road to China, and his tales, documented in The Travels of Marco Polo, opened Western eyes to some of the customs of the Far East.

This was the main driving factor for the Portuguese explorations of the Indian Ocean, including the sea of China, resulting in the arrival in 1513 of the first European trading ship to the coasts of China, under Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, followed by the Fernão Pires de Andrade and Tomé Pires diplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders of Manuel I of Portugal, which opened formally relations between the Portuguese Empire and the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.