From Sung China to Genoa, Venice, Portugal, the Netherlands, Britain, and the United States, and claims that each actor in succession played an unusually critical role in creating a structure of leadership that became increasingly global in scope across time

Buoyed by the initial success, manager Phil Nelson persuaded China Records to advertise the album on television and, unusually, the album reached No. 1 in its second week on the chart.

The substance of that knight's alleged travels in India and China is stolen from Odoric, though amplified with fables from other sources and from his own invention, and garnished with his own unusually clear astronomical notions.

Europe's interest in China led to the EU becoming unusually active with China during the 1990s with high-level exchanges.

" 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.

Prior to the increased industrialization and modernization following the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the consumption of meat or animal products was " strikingly low.

The ease of transportation and the low cost of the bikes ( they are priced from approximately US $ 200 for a basic model built in China to around US $ 7, 000 for a top of the line Italian model, making them an affordable way for children ( some as young as six ) to learn about motorcycle racing and for adults to race without the high costs and risks associated with full-sized motorcycle racing.

China imports oil, from Sudan, and Sudan imports low cost items as well as armaments from China.

The newly-signed agreement will allow for more than 500 products made in Taiwan to enter China at low or no tariffs.

The removal of trade and investment barriers, the growth of domestic markets, artificially low currencies, the proliferation of education, the rapid development of high tech and information systems industries and the growth of the world economy lead to a significant growth of offshore outsourcing during the decade as many multinational corporations significantly increased subcontracting of manufacturing ( and increasingly, services ) across national boundaries in developing countries and particularly in China and India, due to many benefits and mainly because the two countries which are the two most populous countries in the world provide huge pools from which to find talent and as because both countries are low cost sourcing countries.

International trade continued to expand during the decade as emerging economies and developing countries, in particular China and South-Asian countries, benefited low wages costs and most often undervalued currencies.

Outsourcing production to low wage countries like Bangladesh, China, India and Sri Lanka became possible when the Multi Fibre Agreement ( MFA ) was abolished.

Shipping lines and Container Leasing Companies have become expert at repositioning empty containers from areas of low or no demand, such as the US West Coast, to areas of high demand such as China.

In the 18th century, Adam Smith declared that China had been one of the most prosperous nations in the world, but that it had remained stagnant for a long time and its wages always were low and the lower classes were particularly poor:

China had threatened to curtail business negotiations with Disney over that film and, as the government only accepts ten Western films per year to be shown in their country, Mulans chances of being accepted were low.

This is confirmed by research in China showing that men in rural areas have very low rates of clinical BPH, while men living in cities adopting a western lifestyle have a skyrocketing incidence of this condition, though it is still below rates seen in the West.

What assists in this argument is the fact that China subsidizes their industries 17 % to keep their currency artificially low and to tariff American goods.

The 1964 National Day parade was struck by tragedy when a low flying airforce F-104 Starfighter fighter aircraft struck a Broadcasting Corporation of China tower, causing the plane's fuel tank to fall and kill three people including a woman and her baby in front of the Central Weather Bureau building in downtown Taipei.

" They protested CCP control over intellectuals, the harshness of previous mass campaigns such as that against counterrevolutionaries, the slavish following of Soviet models, the low standards of living in China, the proscription of foreign literature, economic corruption among party cadres, and the fact that ' Party members many privileges which make them a race apart '".

At the same time, prisoners usually do not make a good workforce, and the products produced by prison labor in China are of extremely low quality and have become unsalable on the open market in competition with products made by non-imprisoned paid labor.

As a result of high demand for tea, silk, and porcelain in Britain and the low demand for British commodities in China, Britain had a large trade deficit with China and had to pay for these goods with silver.

The status of women in China was low, largely due to the custom of foot binding.

" Indonesia is still exporting light, sweet crude oil and importing heavier, more sour crude oil to take advantage of price differentials ( import is greater than export ) due to Air pollution in Indonesia still being low as compared to China or India.

However, per capita GDP is low compared to other eastern and central provinces, and Henan is considered to be one of the more backward areas in China.

In mainland China, the government provides public housing through various sources, such as new housing, abandoned properties, and old flats which are rented at a low price and called ' Lian Zu Fang ' ( literally ' low-rent house ' or ' low-rent housing ', Chinese: 廉租房 ).

Focus on the impact of a Little Ice Age on the empire, as the empire, beginning with a sharp drop in temperatures in the 13th century during which time the Mongol leader Kubla Khan moved south into China.

studied temperatures in China during the past 2000 years ; they found high uncertainty prior to the 16th century but good consistency over the last 500 years, highlighted by the two cold periods 1620s – 1710s and 1800s – 1860s, and the warming during the 20th century.

In China, winters can be very cold, but temperatures tend to be more stable than in Europe and especially North America, where large temperature swings can occur in winter.

They are distributed in the mountains and foothills of Himalaya, India, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and China and are well adapted to cold temperatures and even frost.

* Low temperatures, even snow during the summer ( snow reportedly fell in August in China, which postponed the harvest there )

Qin Dahe, the former head of the China Meteorological Administration, said that the recent fast pace of melting and warmer temperatures will be good for agriculture and tourism in the short term ; but issued a strong warning:

The earliest example of stoneware is found in China, naturally as an extension of higher temperatures achieved from early development of reduction firing.

Qin Dahe, the former head of the China Meteorological Administration, said that the recent fast pace of melting and warmer temperatures will be good for agriculture and tourism in the short term ; but issued a strong warning:

* Windmill Palm ( Trachycarpus fortunei, T. takil )-the best known cold-hardy palms, these tough species are native to the Himalaya and east to central China, where although not growing so far north ( to about 31 ° N ) as the Needle Palm, they do grow at high altitudes where temperatures are cool.

Native to the northeast of the species ' range in Korea and Northern China, it is more cold-tolerant than the typical form, surviving temperatures down to at least-25 ° C.

Thubten Gyatso issued a Declaration of Independence for his kingdom in Central Tibet from China during the summer of 1912 and standardised a Tibetan flag, though no other sovereign state recognized the independence.

The origins of the Anti-Comintern Pact went back to the summer and fall of 1935, when in an effort to square the circle between seeking a rapprochement with Japan and Germany's traditional alliance with China, Ribbentrop and Ōshima devised the idea of an anti-Communist alliance as a way to bind China, Japan, and Germany together.

According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu, the summer palace of the Mongol ruler and Emperor of China Kublai Khan.

In the summer of 1925, Radek was appointed Provost of the newly established Sun Yat-Sen University, where Radek collected information for the opposition from students about the situation in China and cautiously began to challenge the official Comintern policy.

The first session of the National Congress of the Communist Party of China was attended by 13 delegates, Mao included, and initially met in a girls ' school that had been closed for the summer.

The warming Arctic climate and summer retreat of sea ice there has suddenly turned the attention of countries from China to the United States toward the top of the world, where resources and shipping routes may soon be exploitable.

The part of China south of the Qin Mountains experiences abundant rainfall, often above, most of it coming with the monsoon during summer and late spring.

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.

* June 14 – Tientsin Incident: The Japanese blockade the British concession in Tianjin, China, beginning a crisis which almost causes an Anglo-Japanese war in the summer of 1939.

* An enormous drought in Henan province, China, coupled with a gigantic swarm of locusts in the summer, forces many in destitute agricultural communities to turn to cannibalism instead of dying by starvation.

In the summer of 1986, astrophysics professor Fang Lizhi, who had returned from a tenure at Princeton University, began a personal tour around universities in China, speaking about liberty, human rights, and separation of powers.

* Composer Katherine Allan Lively dedicated her piano composition, Within the Walls of China: A Chinese Episode, to Barthelmess in the sheet music published in 1923 by G. Schirmer, Inc. An article in The Music Trades reported that Mrs. Lively was inspired by a viewing of the film, Broken Blossoms, and performed the piece for Mr. Barthelmess and his friends in New York in the summer of 1922

Uniforms in mainland China usually consist of two sets, one for summer and the other for winter.

A real bar / club by this name existed in the Xihai district of Beijing, China but closed in the summer of 2010.

It is the home of famous writer Lin Yutang, the summer residence of Chiang Kai-shek, residences of foreign diplomats, the Chinese Culture University, the meeting place of the now defunct National Assembly of the Republic of China, and the Kuomintang Party Archives.

Shanxi is one of the sunniest parts of China ; early summer heat waves are common.

For high scorers on the final competition for the team selection, there also is a summer camp, like that of China.

Mount Holyoke has study abroad programs and exchanges for full-year or semester study in France, Senegal, Costa Rica, Chile, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Germany, Spain, and the UK, as well as a summer program in China and January Term programs in the Republic of Georgia and South Africa.

On 22 January 2008, RJ launched flights to Hong Kong via Bangkok, with three flights / week during winter, and five flights / week during summer, making it the airline's first route to China.

In addition to the aforementioned, Riverside is home to Klein's Supermarket, now known as Shop Rite, the sole grocery store ; plus Hair Cuttery, Riverside Pizzeria, Riverside Liquors, China Moon Chinese restaurant, Wye Knot Crabs, Bliss Coffee & Wine Bar, H & R Block, Rite-Aid, Subway and, in the summer, a snowball stand.

Increasingly, however, Soviet bomber and fighter squadrons took over from China's battered units, and in the summer of 1938 Chennault went to Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in Western China, to train a new Chinese Air Force from an American mold.

The film, which was set in China, showed the victory of Mao Zedong's armies in the Chinese civil war, which ended with his ascension to power in 1949, but was actually filmed in England during the summer of 1961, using sets from the 1958 film, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, which had the same setting.

Xanadu (; Mongolian: ), or Shangdu (, ) was the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Yuan Dynasty in China, before he decided to move the seat of his dynasty to the Jin Dynasty capital of Zhōngdū (), which he renamed Dàdū, the present-day Beijing.