); its design was planned by the government of the day ; and it places individual letters in syllable clusters with equal dimensions, in the same way as Chinese characters, to allow for mixed-script writing ( one syllable always takes up one type-space no matter how many letters get stacked into building that one sound-block ).

The Chinese government denied all accusations.

Though the unified reign of the First Qin Emperor lasted only 12 years, he managed to subdue great parts of what constitutes the core of the Han Chinese homeland and to unite them under a tightly centralized Legalist government seated at Xianyang ( close to modern Xi ' an ).

Nevertheless, the Manchus adopted the Confucian norms of traditional Chinese government in their rule and were considered a Chinese dynasty.

Major combat in the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949 with Kuomintang ( KMT ) pulling out of the mainland, with the government relocating to Taipei and maintaining control only over a few islands.

Since the radical movement of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese government has become much more tolerant with the practice of traditional beliefs.

The Chinese government in 2003 acknowledged that it had lost track of 121 tons of ivory between 1991 and 2002.

Unlike Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek was socially conservative, promoting traditional Chinese culture in the New Life Movement and rejecting western democracy and the nationalist democratic socialism that Sun Yat-sen and some other members of the KMT embraced in favor of a nationalist authoritarian government.

After American-sponsored attempts to negotiate a coalition government failed in 1946, the Chinese Civil War resumed.

Now with an established national government in Nanjing, and supported by conservative allies including Hu Hanmin, Chiang's expulsion of the Communists and their Soviet advisers led to the beginning of the Chinese Civil War.

In 1927, when he was setting up the Nationalist government in Nanjing, he was preoccupied with " the elevation of our leader Dr. Sun Yat-sen to the rank of ' Father of our Chinese Republic '.

Mandarin Chinese Guoyu (" Nation-Language "), was promoted as an standard tongue, and the establishment of communications facilities ( including radio ) were used to encourage a sense of Chinese nationalism in a way that was not possible when the nation lacked an effective central government.

Alleged infiltration of the U. S. government by Chinese Communist agents may have also played a role in the suspension of American aid.

Seeking to promote Chinese nationalism, Chiang's government actively ignored and suppressed local cultural expression, even forbidding the use of local languages in mass media broadcasts or during class sessions.

Not only do most intellectuals within the Chinese government follow this school of thinking, but it is also the common belief held amongst pro-free trade liberals in the West.

The Chinese government was very quick to reject this and claimed that only it has the authority to select the next Dalai Lama.

* 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The government of Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei.

* 1916 – Wan Li, Chinese government official

* 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.

The Boxer movement was a secret Chinese peasant society committed to resisting oppression both from foreigners and from the Chinese government.

Some Chinese landlords, especially the many real estate agencies in Manhattan's Chinatown of mainly of Cantonese descent, have been accused of prejudice against the Fuzhou immigrants, supposedly making Fuzhou immigrants feel unwelcome with concerns that they will not be able to pay rent secondary to debt to gangs that may have helped smuggled them in illegally into the United States and out of fear that gangs will come up to the apartments to cause trouble.

Forest City's Main Street features a number of businesses including a supermarket, two banks, a pharmacy, three insurance agencies, a Chinese takeout restaurant, bars and a convenience store.

provided the Chinese security agencies with the IP addresses of the senders, the recipients and the time of the message.

In Xinjiang province, Eid ul-Fitr is even celebrated by Han Chinese population during which holiday supplies of mutton, lamb and beef are distributed to households as part of welfare program funded by government agencies, public and private institutions, and businesses.

It is the only Korean wire service that works with foreign news agencies, and provides a limited but freely available selection of news on its Internet website in Korean, English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic and French.

The ministry was formed in 1982 to centralize Chinese defense procurement and technology whose responsibility had been distributed among several agencies.

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Up until recently, Au Pair agencies in China were exclusively sending young Chinese to the west to work as Au Pairs abroad, particularly for families who have adopted babies from China to help them learn Chinese.

The University's role within the bureaucracy of the People's Republic of China is subject to some debate: Chinese government sources and the University's website maintain that it operates under the Ministry of Education, but other sources contend that the University is affiliated with Chinese intelligence agencies, namely the Ministry of State Security ( MSS ), and that its purpose is to train intelligence personnel.

Beijing Financial Street, or BFS (), is a 35 block area which offers a collaborative environment for foreign and domestic financial institutions and Chinese regulatory agencies.

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He immediately printed 100 copies of a further tract “ on the importance of translating and publishing the Holy Scriptures into the Chinese language .” Copies were sent to all the Church of England bishops and the new mission agencies.

In addition, seven agencies have observer status at the WHA-the Vatican, the Palestinian Authority, the Order of Malta, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the Inter-Parliamentary Union, and Chinese Taipei.

The Chinese government encouraged the adaption of Western style media marketing in their news agencies due to internal competition with national commercial media.

According to Der Spiegel, the case demonstrated “ how important fighting Gong is to the government ,” and “ points to the extremely offensive approach that is sometimes being taken by the Chinese intelligence agencies .”

This regulatory hole, which has resulted in considerable international news coverage unfavorable to China, has been known for a decade, but failure of Chinese regulatory agencies to cooperate has prevented effective regulation.

It is generally believed that Chinese intelligence agencies operate differently from other espionage organizations by employing primarily academics or students who will be in their host country only a short time, rather than spending years cultivating a few high-level sources or double agents.

In the past 10 years, more and more Chinese immigrants from different provinces can be found in Hong Kong and Western Societies, which seems to be the main concern of Western and Hong Kong agencies to label the Big Circle Boys in a generic manner.

MNA has so far signed contracts with more than 18 foreign news agencies including the Japanese Kyodo News Agency, the Spanish EFE, the Chinese Xinhua News Agency, the Cuba ’ s official Prensa Latina ( PL ), the Russian Interfax Ltd, the Press Trust of India ( PTI ), Korea's YONHAP, the Vietnam News Agency ( VNA ), the Turkish Cihan News Agency, Malaysia ’ s BERNAMA, Indonesia ’ s ANTARA, the Azerbaijani Trend News Agency, Mongolia ’ s MONTSAME, the Syrian Arab News Agency ( SANA ), the Associated Press of Pakistan ( APP ), and the Philippines News Agency ( PNA ).

Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, Homeopathy and Naturopathy are cited as examples The term appears to have entered into usage through the National Institute of Health's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine ( NCCAM ), which began to employ it as a substitute for alternative medical systems as a way of differentiating widely comprehensive systems of medicine, such as Ayurvedic medicine, from specialized alternative approaches.

The 14th-century plague killed an estimated 25 million Chinese and other Asians during the 15 years before it entered Constantinople in 1347.

The Six Dynasties era saw the rise of the Xuanxue philosophical school and the maturation of Chinese Buddhism, which had entered China from India during the Late Han Dynasties.

By the mid-1950s the Chinese army had entered the north-east portion of Ladakh.

But in late November, Chinese forces entered the war and pushed the U. N. forces back, retaking Pyongyang in December and Seoul in January 1951.

In his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater ( 1821, p. 188 ), it is still about Ottoman, not Chinese, addicts that Thomas de Quincey writes: " I question whether any Turk, of all that ever entered the paradise of opium-eaters, can have had half the pleasure I had.

:... the American Government deems it to be its duty to notify both the Imperial Japanese Government and the Government of the Chinese Republic that it cannot admit the legality of any situation de facto nor does it intend to recognize any treaty or agreement entered into between those Governments, or agents thereof, which may impair the treaty rights of the United States or its citizens in China, including those that relate to the sovereignty, the independence, or the territorial and administrative integrity of the Republic of China, or to the international policy relative to China, commonly known as the open door policy ...

Dodge entered the Japanese market in mid-2007, and re-entered the Chinese market in late 2007.

Japan entered into conflict against the Chinese in 1937.

The Buddhist sign has been standardized as a Chinese character ( pinyin: ) and as such entered various other East Asian languages such as Japanese where the symbol is called ().

Many of these emigrants who entered Western countries were themselves overseas Chinese, particularly from the 1950s to the 1980s, a period during which the PRC placed severe restrictions on the movement of its citizens.

In 1942, after the United States entered the war against Japan and on the side of China, the Chinese government under the KMT renounced all treaties signed with Japan before that date and made Taiwan's return to China ( as with Manchuria ) one of the wartime objectives.

In other words, on the 13th when your troops entered the city, we had nearly all the civilian population gathered in a Zone in which there had been very little destruction by stray shells and no looting by Chinese soldiers even in full retreat ... All 27 Occidentals in the city at that time and our Chinese population were totally surprised by the reign of robbery, raping and killing initiated by your soldiers on the 14th.

There exist various input methods for entering logograms, either by breaking them up into their constituent parts such as with the Cangjie or Wubi method of typing Chinese, or using phonetic systems such as Bopomofo or Pinyin where the word is entered as pronounced and then selected from a list of logograms matching it.

With the Chinese alphabet system however, the strokes forming the logogram are typed as they are normally written, and the corresponding logogram is then entered.

The Chinese term bushi had entered the Japanese vocabulary with the general introduction of Chinese literature, supplementing the indigenous terms tsuwamono and mononofu.

Tensions mounted as Allied troops entered Java and Sumatra ; clashes broke out between Republicans and their perceived enemies, namely Dutch prisoners, Dutch colonial troops ( KNIL ), Chinese, Indo-Europeans and Japanese.

Chinese forces defeated the Sikh army and in turn entered Ladakh and besieged Leh.

China had entered World War I on the side of the Allied Triple Entente in 1917 with the condition that all German spheres of influence, such as Shandong, would be returned to China ; although in that year, 140, 000 Chinese labourers ( as a part of the British army, the Chinese Labour Corps ) were sent to France.

Mao Dun entered the three-year foundation school offered by Peking University in 1913, in which he studied Chinese and Western literature.