American Chinese cuisine refers to the style of food served by many Chinese restaurants in the United States.

* In Chinese, (), meaning Northern Dipper, refers to an asterism consisting of ε Ursae Majoris, α Ursae Majoris, β Ursae Majoris, γ Ursae Majoris, δ Ursae Majoris, ζ Ursae Majoris and η Ursae Majoris.

The name " Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon " is a literal translation of the Chinese proverb " 卧虎藏龍 " which refers to the mysteries ( or hidden talents, undiscovered talents ) that lie beneath the surface of an otherwise normal-looking individual.

Chinese historiography refers to the study of methods and assumptions made in studying Chinese history.

Decimal notation often refers to a base-10 positional notation such as the Hindu-Arabic numeral system ; however, it can also be used more generally to refer to non-positional systems such as Roman or Chinese numerals which are also based on powers of ten.

The Han Dynasty ( simplified Chinese: 汉朝 ; traditional Chinese: 漢朝 ; pinyin: Hàn Cháo ; 206 BCE – 220 CE ) was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms ( 220 – 265 CE ). Spanning over four centuries, the period of the Han Dynasty is considered a golden age in Chinese history. To this day, China's majority ethnic group refers to itself as the " Han people ".

In everyday English, " Mandarin " refers to Standard Chinese, which is often called simply " Chinese ".

One track on the latter exemplified both the scene's close-knit character and the popularity of heroin within it: " Chinese Rocks "— the title refers to a strong form of the drug — was written by Dee Dee Ramone and Hell, both users, as were the Heartbreakers ' Thunders and Nolan.

But the Chinese word huǒ ​ hú ​ refers to the Firefox web browser.

Today it is often called Chinese opera although this normally refers specifically to the more well-known forms such as Beijing Opera and Cantonese Opera, there have been many other forms of theatre in China.

In Chinese, the " Square Celestial Granary " () refers to an asterism consisting of τ Ceti, ι Ceti, η Ceti, ζ Ceti, θ Ceti and 57 Ceti.

In common usage, horoscope often refers to an astrologer's interpretation, usually based on a system of Sun sign astrology ; or on the calendar significance of an event, as in Chinese astrology.

To this day, China's majority ethnic group refers to itself as the " Han people " and Chinese characters are referred to as " Han characters ".

The Chinese government refers to it under the official translation of family planning policy.

The Chinese Book of Zhou ( 7th century ) presents an etymology of the name Turk as derived from " helmet ", explaining that taken this name refers to the shape of the Altai Mountains.

The Chinese democracy movement (, abbreviated as Mínyùn ()) refers to a series of loosely organized political movements in the People's Republic of China against the continued one-party rule by the Communist Party.

In modern literature, " Manchuria " usually refers to Inner ( Chinese ) Manchuria.

The term " Overseas Chinese " refers to those of Han Chinese ethnicity living outside of Republic of China and People's Republic of China, or more broadly, to all 56 recognized ethnic groups in China ; Chinese people in the sense of Zhonghua minzu.

Within the books the Ryan Doctrine is not officially invoked after Daryaei's death ( although Ryan threatens to use it on the Chinese leadership in The Bear and the Dragon, should anything happen to American citizens living in the People's Republic of China as a consequence of the Siberian War ).

In explaining the goals and purpose of the Awakening Society, Zhou declared that " anything that is incompatible with progress in current times, such as militarism, the bourgeoisie, partylords, bureaucrats, inequality between men and women, obstinate ideas, obsolete morals, old ethics ... should be abolished or reformed ", and affirmed that it was the purpose of the Society to spread this awareness among the Chinese people.

Chinese interpretations of avoiding gu " grains ; cereals " have varied historically ; meanings range from not eating particular foodstuffs such as food grain, Five Cereals ( China ), or staple food to not eating anything such as inedia, breatharianism, or aerophagia.

" Cultural relic " is a common translation for " Wenwu " ( 文物 ), a common Chinese word that usually means " antique " but can be extended to anything, including object and monument, that is of historical and cultural value.

The FBI conducted a search of Lee's house on April 10, seizing any item related to computers or computing, as well as anything that had notations written in Chinese.

The hackers enjoyed Chinese food, and they would order anything that seemed interesting to their exploratory minds.

The lack of decent supply caused the Chinese to have to gain equipment from anything the enemy dropped.

This was a new idea for the Chinese, who had always been uncomfortable with activities which create wealth from anything other than land.

The story of Tikki Tikki Tembo, a popular American children's story published under the auspices of being a retelling of a Chinese folktale, is much more similar to Jugemu than anything in Chinese culture and its sources may have been directly copied from a Jugemu account.

The role of information processing in consciousness has been criticised by John Searle who, in his Chinese room argument, states that he cannot find anything that could be recognised as conscious experience in a system that relies solely on motions of things from place to place.

As the dish has become increasingly popular, many cooks have come up with their own interpretations of the same basic main ingredient of ricecake strips / flat rice noodles fried with anything from eggs ( chicken or duck ), onions, garlic, prawns, cockles, Chinese sausage, chives, etc.

Due to the melding of American and Chinese influences in the Alliance, most people in the Firefly universe are equally adept in speaking both English and Mandarin ; some characters on the show speak Chinese at times ( usually when using obscenities, so Whedon wouldn't have to bleep anything out and ruin the suspension of disbelief ), and many signs are printed in both English and Chinese.

When he was shooting the scene where he and McDonnell eat at a Chinese restaurant, Robinson told him he could do anything he wanted to make her laugh.

In the interim, he would trade these goods with peoples further upstream and all over the archipelago, the end result being that other locals were not able to buy anything from the Chinese directly, but from Lakandula, who made a tidy profit as a result.

" He further commented that " if anything, this episode should be included in the ' batshit-crazy endings ' DVD ," referring to the ending scenes with the Chinese pirates.

Just weeks after the Japanese air Attack on Pearl Harbor ( Sunday morning, December 7, 1941 ), the first news reports released to the public pertaining to Claire Chennault's war exploits occurred on December 20, 1941 when senior Chinese officials in Chungking that Saturday evening released his name to United Press International reporters to commemorate the first aerial attack made by the international air force called the American Volunteer Group ( AVG ).

The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support them in the `` just wars of liberation '' they would like to embark on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective countries.

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

My father went as a missionary to China in a generation that responded to Student Volunteer Movement speakers who held watches in their hands and announced to the students in their audiences how many Chinese souls were going to hell each second because these students were not over there saving them.

The similarity of the Roman abacus to the Chinese one suggests that one could have inspired the other, as there is some evidence of a trade relationship between the Roman Empire and China.

The Chinese abacus migrated from China to Korea around 1400 AD.

Zhuyin ( sometimes called Bopomofo ) is a semi-syllabary used to phonetically transcribe Mandarin Chinese in the Republic of China.

As of early 2011, trade with China is dominated by imports of Chinese goods and accounts for about 10 percent of Armenia's foreign trade.

Chinese philosophy is the dominant philosophical thought in China and other countries within the sinosphere, including Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

Mahayana Buddhism was far more successful in China than its rival Hinayana, and both Indian schools and local Chinese sects arose from the 5th century.

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

* 1972 – The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.

In the process, cooks adapted southern Chinese dishes such as chop suey, and developed a style of Chinese food not found in China.

American Chinese food typically treats vegetables as a side dish or garnish while cuisines of China emphasize vegetables.

American Chinese cuisine often uses ingredients not native and very rarely used in China.

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

Ming Tsai, the owner of the Blue Ginger restaurant in Wellesley, Massachusetts, said that American Chinese restaurants typically try to have food representing 3-5 regions of China at one time, have chop suey, or have " fried vegetables and some protein in a thick sauce ," " eight different sweet and sour dishes ," or " a whole page of 20 different chow meins or fried rice dishes.

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

Although large Chinese bridges of wooden construction existed at the time of the Warring States, the oldest surviving stone bridge in China is the Zhaozhou Bridge, built from 595 to 605 AD during the Sui Dynasty.

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.

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The Chinese, who make up 29 % of the population of Sarawak and 17 % of total population in West Kalimantan, originally migrated from southeastern China.

The Chinese Communists were able to fight their way from the north and northeast, and virtually all of mainland China was taken by the end of 1949.

Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation ; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine ; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film ; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd ; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.