The findings at Anyang include the earliest written record of Chinese past so far discovered: inscriptions of divination records in ancient Chinese writing on the bones or shells of animals – the so-called " oracle bones ", dating from around 1200 BC.

Although the People's Republic of China has been historically hostile to the philosophy of ancient China, the influences of past are still deeply ingrained in the Chinese culture.

) The influences of the past are still deeply ingrained in the Chinese culture.

David Cole writes that " the Chinese Room argument has probably been the most widely discussed philosophical argument in cognitive science to appear in the past 25 years ".

Also sponsored by the PRC is the view that Chinese history should include all of China's ethnic groups past and present ( Zhonghua Minzu ), not just the history of the Han Chinese.

They viewed the Chinese revolution in different terms than the Communists, claiming that China already went past its feudal stage and in a stagnation period rather than in another mode of production.

For example, the K ' iche ' language spoken in Guatemala has the inflectional prefixes k-and x-to mark incompletive and completive aspect ; Mandarin Chinese has the aspect markers-le 了 ,-zhe 着, zài-在, and-guò 过 to mark the perfective, durative stative, durative progressive, and experiential aspects, and also marks aspect with adverbs ; and English marks the continuous aspect with the verb to be coupled with present participle and the perfect with the verb to have coupled with past participle.

They viewed the Chinese revolution in different terms than the Communists, claiming that China already went past its feudal stage and in a stagnation period rather than in another mode of production.

The state has had good relations with the People ’ s Republic of China over the past 30 years, recently receiving the Chinese president ( February 2009 ).

Other events played in the past include Chinese poker, Five card stud, and many others.

Another reason for the move was fear of the Chinese take-over of Hong Kong and the threat of Chinese retaliation for Jardines drug smuggling past.

By contrast, most Chinatowns in the past were solely inhabited by Chinese from southeastern China.

In the past few years, the Cantonese dialect that has dominated Chinatown for decades is being rapidly swept aside by Mandarin Chinese, the national language of China and the lingua franca of most of the latest Chinese immigrants.

" Chinese lexicography past and present " in Lexicography: Critical Concepts, 158 – 173.

:" Words are to the Anthropologist what rolled pebbles are to the Geologist — battered relics of past ages often containing within them indelible records capable of intelligent interpretation — and when we see what amount of change 2000 years has been able to produce in the languages of Greece & Italy or 1000 in those of Germany France & Spain we naturally begin to ask how long a period must have lapsed since the Chinese, the Hebrew, the Delaware & the Malesass had a point in common with the German & Italian & each other — Time!

Afterwards, " To become a Marxist was one way for a Chinese intellectual to reject both the traditions of the Chinese past and Western domination of the Chinese present " Maurice Meisner, Mao's China and After, page 18.

Over the past two thousand years the island has received waves of settlers of diverse origins including Austronesian, Bantu, Arab, South Asian, Chinese and European populations.

The Chinese name of the island, "" (" Taiwan "), derives from an aboriginal term ; in the past ( from the 16th century ), the island has been called " Formosa " ( from Portuguese: Ilha Formosa, " Beautiful Island ") by the west.

* List of past Chinese ethnic groups

Evidence provided by the Defendants that Newport is considered a county seat or one of two county seats by historians, encyclopedias ( editor's note: Wikipedia was cited in this case by the Defendants ) and government agencies is based upon practical realities of how county government and the court system have functioned, pursuant to law, in Campbell County for the past 150 years.

Evidence provided by the Defendants that Newport is considered a county seat or one of two county seats by historians, encyclopedias ( editor's note: Wikipedia was cited in this case by the Defendants ) and government agencies is based upon practical realities of how county government and the court system have functioned, pursuant to law, in Campbell County for the past 150 years.

Columnist Jonathan Dee of The New York Times pointed out in 2007 that " So indistinct has the line between past and present become that Wikipedia has inadvertently all but strangled one of its sister projects, the three-year-old Wikinews ... has sunk into a kind of torpor ; lately it generates just 8 to 10 articles a day ... On bigger stories there's just no point in competing with the ruthless purview of the encyclopedia.

Wales spoke of various issues including his salary, his belief that marijuana and other illegal drugs ought to be legalised, the possibility of introducing advertising to Wikipedia, his addiction to the social networking website Facebook and the death threats he has received in the past, saying " there are crazy people in the world.

The online Wikipedia says ; " The name, related to the same root as the word " broccoli ", comes from Italian broccato meaning " embossed cloth ," originally past participle of the verb broccare " to stud, set with nails ," from brocco, " small nail ," from Latin broccus, " projecting, pointed.

: For a list of all players, past and present, with a Wikipedia article, see Tiverton Town players

The British Conservative Party was also accused of attempting to alter pages on Wikipedia " to airbrush the embarrassing past " by Edward McMillan-Scott, who also stated that his own article had been edited in this way.

Italy coach Nick Mallett had initial reservations about selecting Gower after reading about his past alcohol-related misdemeanours in Gower's Wikipedia article.

That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.

Three days previously, we had steamed past barren Rennell Island in the distance.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

One girl describes her past, her succession of broken marriages, the abortions she has had and finally confesses that she loves sex and sees no reason why she must justify her passion.

Isn't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A & M colleges??

Such performance is a great tribute to American scientists and engineers, who in the past five years have had to telescope time and technology to develop these long-range ballistic missiles, where America had none before.

Many of my friends at the time thought that I had received a well-deserved condemnation when Lincoln Steffens denounced me in a review of one of my books as a perfect example of the obsolete man who could understand and sympathize only with the dead past.

John's thoughts raced painfully into the past as he read the letter he had just received from his sister Mary.

Kate had walked past the school on her morning chores and had seen the whole incident, had seen Joel's burning humiliation before Miss Snow's cold, bespectacled wrath.

Rector had never been able to find out much about Hino's past.

He was in his mid-fifties at this time, long past the establishment of his name and the wish to be lionized yet once again, and it was almost a decade since he had sworn off lecturing.

To the stump of a tree as he passed it, the same stump which had impaled the car of many a guest in the past thirty years and which he refused to have removed.

But when I saw that it was already ten past seven, I began to wonder if something had gone wrong.

Whereas the maintenance rotary fund had in the past sustained losses considerably beyond expectations, the introduction of the cost-billing system plus other control refinements has resulted in keeping the fund on a proper working basis.

For example, the interest of past members of the Foundation's Advisory Board remains such that they place their knowledge and judgments at our disposal much as they had done when they were, formally, members of that Board.

This past year the pattern has been different: The organizing program had the full support of the AFL-CIO, which supplied staff and money to the AWOC, as well as moral support.

The suggestion that in saying something evil had occurred we were after all making no mistake, because we had never meant anyhow to say anything about the past suffering, seems to me merely frivolous.

The storms of the past had died away, and the great upheaval which was to mark the following century had not yet begun to disturb men's minds.

The state had elected Republican candidates in the past two years.

But this fluent, enchanting utterance had, compared with important artists of the past, relatively little content.