Indeed, far more Chinese alligators live in zoos around the world than can be found in the wild.

Miami MetroZoo in Florida also has a breeding pair of Chinese alligators.

Chinese alligators at Shanghai Zoo

In an effort to ensure the species ' survival, Chinese alligators hatched at zoos in the United States are being reintroduced into the wild in China.

The Free Chinese know that the situation on the Mainland is in flux, and are poised to strike.

As the work progresses the frame and moving parts become a sort of Chinese puzzle where several pieces must be removed before the part you are working on is accessible.

The desire to contrast the first parts of words which are alike in their last components produces an exceptional disregard of the normal patterns of stress of Chinese and Japanese.

A number of fossil cryptobranchids have been found but there are only three living species, the Chinese giant salamander ( Andrias davidianus ), the Japanese giant salamander ( Andrias japonicus ) and the hellbender ( Cryptobranchus alleganiensis ) from North America.

Beyond the logographic Chinese writing, many phonetic scripts are in existence in Asia.

Observers claim that the Chinese community in Angola might include as many as 300, 000 persons at the end of 2010, but nothing near to reliable statistics are at this stage available on this point.

The term apocrypha is used with various meanings, including " hidden ", " esoteric ", " spurious ", " of questionable authenticity ", ancient Chinese " revealed texts and objects " and " Christian texts that are not canonical ".

In Chinese speaking regions, abalone are commonly known as bao yu, and sometimes forms part of a Chinese banquet.

* 1937 – Chinese Air Force Day: The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when 6 Imperial Japanese Mitsubishi G3M bombers are shot down by the Nationalist Chinese Air Force while raiding Chinese air bases.

Amaranth greens, also called Chau lai ( Hindi ) and Chu or Chua ( Kumauni ), Chinese spinach, hinn choy or yin tsoi (); callaloo, dhantinasoppu ( ದ ಂ ಟ ಿ ನ ಸ ೊ ಪ ್ ಪ ು) / harive ( ಹರ ಿ ವ ೆ) ( Kannada ); త ో టక ూ ర ( Telugu ); Rajgira ( र ा जग ी र ा) ( Marathi ); ம ு ள ை க ் க ீ ர ை ( Tamil ); cheera ച ീ ര ( Malayalam ); bayam ( Indonesian ); phak khom ผ ั กโขม ( Thai ); tampala, or quelite ( Oriya ); Khada Saga, are a common leaf vegetable throughout the tropics and in many warm temperate regions.

Stir frying, pan frying, and deep frying tend to be the most common Chinese cooking techniques used in this cuisine, which are all easily done using a wok.

Since tomatoes are New World plants, they are also fairly new to China and Chinese cuisine.

Even more divergent are American stir-fry dishes inspired by Chinese food, that may contain brown rice instead of white, or those with grated cheese ; milk products are almost always absent from traditional Chinese food.

* Fried rice – Fried rice dishes are popular offerings in American Chinese food due to the speed and ease of preparation and their appeal to American tastes.

* Wonton soup – In most American Chinese restaurants, only wonton dumplings in broth are served, while native Chinese versions may come with noodles.

Restaurants specializing in Cantonese, Sichuanese, Hunanese, Northern Chinese, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong traditions are widely available, as are more specialized restaurants such as seafood restaurants, Hong Kong-style diners and cafes ( also known as Cha chaan teng ( 茶餐廳 chácāntīng )), dim sum teahouses, and hot pot restaurants.

This dish is quite popular in Chinese restaurants in the United States, but not so popular in China.

In Cantonese they are called " Gwat Pai " ( 骨牌 ), which literally means " bone tiles ", it is also the name of a northern Chinese game, where the rules are quite different from the southern Chinese game Tien Gow.

However, both versions of " school-standard " Chinese are often quite different from the Mandarin dialects that are spoken in accordance with regional habits, and neither is wholly identical to the Beijing dialect.

The Chinese scholar-monk Yin Shun felt that it was the work of a South Indian, and that Nāgārjuna was quite possibly the author.

This practice may be quite old, as the red panda seems to be depicted in a 13th-century Chinese pen-and-ink scroll showing a hunting scene.

Julius Klaproth had noted in 1823 that Burmese, Tibetan and Chinese all shared common basic vocabulary, but that Thai, Mon and Vietnamese were quite different.

In other cases, the Chinese system results in something quite different.

He also ordered the arrest of opium trader Lancelot Dent, the head of Dent and Company ( a rival company to Jardine Matheson ) since the Chinese were more familiar with Jardine as the trading head and were quite unfamiliar with Matheson.

Chinese brands are mostly reverse-engineered models and quite passable.

) Hakka is quite conservative, and is generally closer to Middle Chinese than other modern Chinese languages.

In Hong Kong, although McDonald's and KFC are quite popular, there are 3 major local fast food chains providing Hong Kong Chinese style fast food.

After the German government took over Shandong, many Chinese feared that the missionaries and quite possibly all Christians were imperialist attempts of " carving the melon ," i. e., to divide and colonise China piece by piece.

Reflecting this inconsistency, some Chinese soldiers were quite liberally firing at foreigners under siege from its very onset.

Chinese cuisine ranges from a long established Australian-Chinese style based on the cooking of the Chinese community established during the gold rushes of the late 19th century, to quite different cuisine more recently imported from different regions of China.

Chinese cuisine features long, deep-fried doughnut sticks that are often quite oily, hence their name in Mandarin, yóutiáo ( 油條, lit.

An affair between the teenaged Marguerite and a Chinese man was to be treated several times ( described in quite contrasting ways ) in her subsequent memoirs and fiction.

Because of the warmer wintertime temperatures, Hardy Palms, including Trachycarpus Fortunei ( Chinese Windmill Palm ) and Needle Palms, would work quite well in the landscape, these plants having survived for many years also in other parts of coastal New Jersey, from Sandy Hook to Cape May.

On the other, it is quite clear that the Chinese were increasingly encroaching upon the territory of these peoples, getting the better of them by trickery, and putting many of them under subjection.

Because of the warmer wintertime temperatures, Hardy Palms including Trachycarpus fortunei ( Chinese Windmill Palm ) and Needle Palms would work quite well in the landscape.

Yue pronunciation and vocabulary are quite similar to the official language of the Tang dynasty, and its pronunciation and vocabulary has preserved some features and elements from the Middle Chinese that was spoken during the Tang.

Using Malay, or Chinese grammar in conjunction with English words, is often done quite spontaneously, sometimes even for comic effect.

Van Gulik was quite interested in Chinese painting.