" However, Costas ' comments were made subsequent to the suspension of Chinese coach Zhou Ming after seven of his swimmers were caught using steroids in 1994.

However, the Ming Dynasty would be overthrown by Li Zicheng's peasants rebellion, with Beijing captured in 1644 and the last Ming Emperor Chongzhen committing suicide.

However, Turrell V. Wylie states that censorship in the Mingshi in favor of bolstering the Ming emperor's prestige and reputation at all costs obfuscates the nuanced history of Sino-Tibetan relations during the Ming era.

However, to introduce China proper, Winterbotham still used the outdated 15-province system of the Ming Dynasty, which the Qing Dynasty used until 1662.

However, it is estimated that the Northern Song had a population of some 100 million people, and 200 million by the time of the Ming Dynasty.

However, Emperor Ming grew arrogant and refused to grant a pardon to those who had supported Liu Ziye.

#: However, the use of era names makes many mistake these for the names of the emperors themselves, and many scholars therefore encourage a reversed wording for Ming and Qing emperors, e. g., the Kangxi Emperor, the Qianlong Emperor, et cetera.

However, his plan was foiled due to the steadfast leadership of the Ming commander in the capital, Gen. Yu Qian.

However, unlike his father, he did not kill most of his generals, and he entrusted power to eunuchs like Zheng He, with serious consequences for subsequent Ming emperors.

However, the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty revived it in 1395 when his second son died and two of the prince's concubines were sacrificed.

However, their relationship discontinued by Ming, because Ming was planning to make Jurchens their protection of border.

However Hongwu could not govern the sprawling Ming Empire all by himself, and had to create the new institution of the " Grand Secretary ".

However, this custom has only been consistent since the Ming dynasty.

However the critically worsened Manchu-Ming relationship forced him to send ten thousand soldiers to aid Ming in 1619.

However, Southern China was highly developed in Ming, Qing Dynasty.

However, neither the Shiji nor Book of Han histories of Emperor Wu mentions a golden Buddhist statue ( compare Emperor Ming above ).

However, Ming armies were crushed in the Battle of Sarhū.

However, after the third counter encirclement campaign, Mao was removed from the leadership and replaced by the Chinese communists returning from the Soviet Union such as Wang Ming, and the command of the Chinese Red Army was handled by a three man committee that included Wang Ming's associates Otto Braun ( Li De ), the Comintern military advisor, Bo Gu, and Zhou Enlai.

However even the stoutly potted celadons of the Ming period have had their imitators at Jingdezhen ( 景徳鎮 ) and in Japan.

However, those who still lived in the Paoshan plains, standing on the side of the Qing Dynasty, fought against the kingdom of Ming.

However, during the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ), national conflicts sapped the energy and support for Taoism.

However, isolated examples of copper-zinc alloys are known in China from as early as the 5th Millennium BC.

" However some earlier high zinc, low iron brasses such as the 1530 Wightman brass memorial plaque from England may have been made by alloying copper with zinc and include traces of cadmium similar those found in some zinc ingots from China.

However, Brazil is the only country besides China and Russia that has land borders with 10 or more nations.

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

However, due to the geographic proximity of the northern part of China to minority-dominated regions that were not subjected to such restrictions, beef could be easily purchased and transported to northern China.

However, lamb and goat are rarely eaten, unlike in the cuisines of northern or western China.

However, it isn't so popular in South China ( including the more embracing Shanghai ).

However, it was one of the only military products that China imported from foreigners.

However, Chiang presided over purges, political authoritarianism, and graft during his tenure in mainland China, and ruled throughout a period of imposed martial law.

However, more recent studies which use the records of civil magistrates suggest that China did in fact have a very well developed system of civil law, in which provisions of the criminal code were interpreted to allow civil causes of action.

However, Vietnamese rulers never accepted the vassalage relationship with China and always refused to come to Chinese courts to pay homage to Chinese rulers ( a sign of vassalage acceptance ).

However, the concept pre-dates the naming of these establishments, as evidence suggests commercial food preparation may have existed during the age of the city of Pompeii, and urban sales of prepared foods may have existed in China during the Song Dynasty.

However, due to security and technology-independence policy from European Commission, China was, in effect, dis-invited from Galileo and without a return of its monetary investment, a decision that was reinforced by China ’ s move to build its own global system, called Beidou / Compass.

However, Hong Kong registered vehicles may apply for secondary mainland Chinese registration plates, and these can be driven across the border to mainland China ; likewise, left-hand drive cars seen in Hong Kong are usually primarily registered in mainland China and carry supplementary Hong Kong registration plates.

However, Western Medicine was introduced to China in the 19th Century, mainly by medical missionaries sent from various Christian mission organizations, such as the London Missionary Society ( Britain ), the Methodist Church ( Britain ) and the Presbyterian Church ( USA ).

However, price of ivory in China has skyrocketed.

However, the ROC does not actively pursue these claims in practice ; the remaining claims that the ROC are actively seeking are the Diaoyu Islands, whose sovereignty is also asserted by Japan and the PRC ; and the Spratly Islands in South China Sea, with multiple claimants.

However, in the case of Hong Kong, irredentism was incidental: The New Territories part of the British colony were only on a lease expiring in 1997 anyway and, with their surrender, it was thought the Crown territory of Hong Kong itself would be nonviable as an entity independent of mainland China.

However unlike China, there was no real systemic continuity from the western Roman Empire to its German successor which famously was " not holy, not Roman, and not an empire ", and numerous small states existed in variously autonomous confederation.

However, the rapid post-war economic development of the East Asian Tigers, India, the People's Republic of China, along with the collapse of the Soviet Union, have loosened European and North American influence in Asia, generating speculation today about the possible re-emergence of India and China as superpowers.