Then the monk praised Yang Shan saying: `` I have come over to China in order to worship Manjucri, and met unexpectedly with Minor Shakya '', and after giving the master some palm leaves he brought from India, went back through the air.

* 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.

* 2012 – At least 26 miners are killed and 21 missing after a blast in the Xiaojiawan coal mine, located at Panzhihua in Sichuan Province, China.

* 2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter is released.

Shortly after World War II, the civil war resumed in China between the Kuomintang ( KMT ) led by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the Communist Party of China led by Mao Zedong.

Forty-seven years after the initial freeze, Costa Rican President Óscar Arias Sánchez announced on 18 March 2009 that normal relations were to be re-established, saying, " If we have been able to turn the page with regimes as profoundly different to our reality as occurred with the USSR or, more recently, with the Republic of China, how would we not do it with a country that is geographically and culturally much nearer to Costa Rica?

The other major contributions of the Qin include the concept of a centralized government, the unification of the legal code, development of the written language, measurement, and currency of China after the tribulations of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.

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.

In 1683, the Qing staged an amphibious assault on southern Taiwan, bringing down the rebel Grand Duchy of Tungning, which was founded by the Ming loyalist Koxinga in 1662 after the fall of the Southern Ming, and had served as a base for continued Ming resistance in Southern China.

Following the abandonment of Legalism in China after the Qin Dynasty, Confucianism became the official state ideology of China, until it was replaced by the " Three Principles of the People " ideology with the establishment of the Republic of China, and then Maoist Communism after the ROC was replaced by the People's Republic of China in Mainland China.

By the time of the Tang Dynasty five-hundred years after Buddhisms arrival into China, it had transformed into a thoroughly Chinese religious philosophy dominated by the school of Zen Buddhism.

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 ).

Cantonese chefs are highly sought after throughout China.

One of the most ubiquitous accessories in modern China, after a wallet or purse and an umbrella, is a double-walled insulated glass thermos with tea leaves in the top behind a strainer.

Returning to China in 1911 after learning of the outbreak of the Wuchang Uprising, Chiang intended to fight as an artillery officer.

In 2008 Nicolas Cheetham at Quercus Publishing bought the rights to the series and planned an ambitious reprinting and repackaging of the sequence, ' recasting ' it as eighteen shorter novels ( including a radically re-written finale ) and an all-new prequel novel, provisionally entitled When China Comes.

* 2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.

The name " Republic of China " was briefly added on January 27, 2005, but has since been changed back to " none ".

More than 40 million farmers have been displaced from their land, usually for economic development, contributing to 87, 000 demonstrations and riots across China in 2005.

A History of China ( 2005 ), 380 pages ' full text online free

A History of China ( 2005 ), 380 pages ' full text online free

On August 8 / 9, 2005, China Central Television ( CCTV ) aired a two-part documentary about flying rods in China.

Due to deadlines, some real-world events have rendered some of Trudeau ’ s comics unusable, such as a 1973 series featuring John Ehrlichman, a 1989 series set in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, a 1993 series involving Zoë Baird, and a 2005 series involving Harriet Miers.

* 2005 – Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China.

* Highest Confluence: in Kuba, Tibet, China at 19, 143 feet ( 5, 835 m ), first visited by Greg Michaels and Robert Whitfield on May 29, 2005.

* Xuzhou, People's Republic of China, since 2005

As of 2005, Fiji has become embroiled in a number of disagreements with other countries, including Australia, China, New Zealand, the United States, and Vanuatu.

A diplomatic row with China erupted on 5 May 2005, when President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan arrived for a private visit and was welcomed at a private function at Suva's Sheraton Resort by Vice-President Ratu Joni Madraiwiwi, Ratu Ovini Bokini ( Chairman of the Great Council of Chiefs ), Senate President Taito Waqavakatoga and several other Senators and MPs, and several judges including Chief Justice Daniel Fatiaki.

On 10 December 2005, the New Zealand Herald quoted Tavola as saying that Fiji would have to find a way to resolve a stand-off between the PRC and Taiwan, over membership of the Suva-based Council of South Pacific Tourism Organisation ; China was resisting Taiwanese attempts to join the organization on an equal basis.

On 14 December 2005, Fiji's Military Commander, Commodore Frank Bainimarama began an official visit to China, at the invitation of the People's Liberation Army.

* In April 2005, an agreement was signed to build a railway from Turkey through Georgia to Azerbaijan ( see Kars Baku Tbilisi railway line ) probably using ( Standard gauge ) supposedly so that it can eventually link with China.

Grenada announced the resumption of diplomatic ties with the People's Republic of China on January 20, 2005.

The top 20 inorganic chemicals manufactured in Canada, China, Europe, India, Japan, and the US ( 2005 data ):

* 2005 – The first direct commercial flights from mainland China ( from Guangzhou ) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei.

His well-known operas include Nixon in China ( 1987 ), which recounts Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China, and Doctor Atomic ( 2005 ), which covers Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the building of the first atomic bomb.

Hsieh resigned from the office of mayor to take up the office of Premier of the Republic of China in 2005.

The World Bank reports that China was the top importer of ores and metals in 2005 followed by the U. S. A. and Japan.

In May 2005, Chen Shui-bian, President of the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), became the first foreign head of state to make an official visit to the Marshall Islands.

During the winter or dry season, extending roughly from November to April, the monsoon winds usually blow from the northeast along the China coast and across the Gulf of Tonkin, picking up considerable moisture ; consequently the winter season in most parts of the country is dry only by comparison with the rainy or summer season.

Mount Tambora ’ s eruption disrupted China ’ s monsoon season, resulting in overwhelming floods in the Yangtze Valley in 1816.

The southwest monsoon which brings rain in Cochin China coincides with the dry season in Annam, the reason probably being that the mountains and lofty plateaus separating the two countries retain the precipitation.

The monsoon wind that blow to northwest during dry season ( March to October ) conveniently brought trade vessels sailing from Southern Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Mollucas and eastern parts of the archipelago to Malacca ; in wet season ( October to March ) the wind blow from mainland Asia to southeast, conveniently brought trade vessels sailing from ports in Northern Sumatra, India, Siam, Cambodia, Vietnam and China to converge in Malacca.

It opened for the 2011 season, and it was built between China and Polynesia in former lands of the Polynesia area, maintaining some of its attractions.

Therefore, the best practice was for a caravan to leave Hohhot in August, just after the grazing season ; upon reaching Gucheng, weaker camels could stay there until the next summer by grazing whatever vegetation is available in winter, while the stronger ones, after a few weeks of recovery on a grain diet ( grain being cheaper in Xinjiang than in eastern China ), would be sent back in late winter / early spring, taking along plenty of grain for fodder, and returning to Hohhot before the next grazing season.

Since camels moult in the summer, camel owners received additional income from collecting several pounds of hair their animals dropped during the summer grazing ( and shedding season ); in northern China, the camel hair trade started around the 1880s.

* 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon episode " Big Cufflink Caper " of season 4 ( 1990 ) features the " Cufflink of Cathay ", an explosive of Ancient China, hidden inside a cufflink.

She joined the cast of the Vietnam War drama series China Beach as a Red Cross volunteer, Holly " the Donut Dolly " Pelegrino, for the show's third season.

In the 2006 / 2007 season he only qualified for one ranking event, the 2007 China Open.

The Japanese Matsutake at the beginning of the season, which is the highest grade, can go up to $ 2000 per kilogram, while the average value for imported Matsutake from China, Europe, and the United States is only about $ 90 per kilogram.

On 18 January 2011, SFO released a statement saying that they had secured composer John Adams ' Nixon in China for their 2011 / 12 season.

Yellow croaker move northward from the East China Sea, where they spend the winter season, to Yeonpyeongdo Island, to spawn at the start of the thawing season.

Sainz took a total of eight podiums, but no wins, and finished fifth in the drivers ' standings, behind his third-placed team-mate Auriol who had taken his only win of the season at the inaugural China Rally.

Because of its proximity to the East China Sea, it has a monsoon season and receives 100 cm of rain annually.

This was repeated in China season three, with 11 teams and only 10 sets of bus tickets.

However, his losing streak in ranking tournaments that season continued with a 5 – 3 first round loss to Barry Hawkins in the China Open and a 10 – 2 loss against Ronnie O ' Sullivan in the World Snooker Championship, but he still ended the season ranked in ninth place, his highest ever ranking.

China Southern Airlines offered scheduled charter flights to and from Beijing during the peak season only, permanently pulled its flights in November 2006.