The Miraculous Mandarin, a modern story of prostitution, robbery, and murder, was started in 1918, but not performed until 1926 because of its sexual content.

Mandarin Oriental also embarked on its strategy to double its available rooms and capitalize on its brand.

The firm ’ s business interests include Jardine Pacific, Jardine Motors, Hongkong Land, Dairy Farm, Mandarin Oriental, Jardine Cycle & Carriage, through which its interest in Astra is held, and Jardine Lloyd Thompson.

The group ’ s flagship hotel, Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, has been recognized as one of the world ’ s leading hotels since shortly after its opening in 1963 along with the equally world-renowned Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok, previously known as The Oriental.

When Jesuit missionaries learned this standard language in the 16th century, they called it Mandarin, from its Chinese name Guānhuà ( 官话 / 官話 ), or " language of the officials ".

The Zhongyuan Yinyun shows the typical Mandarin four-tone system resulting from a split of the " even " tone and loss of the entering tone, with its syllables distributed across the other tones ( though their different origin is marked in the dictionary ).

Besides English, Singapore recognizes three other languages, namely, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and Malay as its official languages, with Malay being the national language.

A 1953 government report on mountain areas stated that its aims were chiefly to promote Mandarin in order to strengthen a national outlook and create good customs.

In mainland China, this was seen as an effort to diminish the use of standard Mandarin and its cultural influences in favor of revising the cultural and psychological foundations on the island of Taiwan by using other languages.

To avoid confusion, academic texts may call the primary branch of Chinese Yue, following the Mandarin pinyin spelling, and either restrict " Cantonese " to its common usage as the dialect of Guangzhou, or avoid the term " Cantonese " altogether and distinguish Yue from Canton or Guangzhou dialect.

In the 20th century, the term was imported to modern Mandarin, rendered as, where it retains its older meaning of " convenient " and also refers to bento in mainland China and generic boxed lunches in Taiwan.

This entertainment fiction would later be labeled " Mandarin Ducks and Butterfly " fiction by New Culturalists, who despised its lack of social engagement.

" Some editions of the novel, including the first 1957 edition ( and the 2009 edition ) by William Morrow and Company, NY, and the 1990 publication by Mandarin Paperbacks, include extracts from the poem, such as its concluding lines:

China Airlines and its subsidiary Mandarin Airlines would fly seven round-trips a week, with four to Shanghai, two to Beijing and one to Guangzhou from Kaohsiung, Makung, Taichung and Taipei.

China Airlines and its Mandarin Airlines subsidiary would offer 29 return flights in the month of July to Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Xiamen, while Eva Air would offer 7 flights per week initially from Taiwan Taoyuan and Songshan airports.

Beijing Mandarin and Jianghuai Mandarin formed the standard for Written vernacular Chinese before and during the Qing dynasty up until its replacement by modern Standard Chinese.

* 牛肚 / 金錢肚 ( Mandarin: Niudu / Jinqiandu ; Cantonese, Ngautou / Gumtsintou ) -- Chinese cuisine Tripe with inner lining resembling ancient Chinese coin with square hole give its name: " coin stomach ".

* Clementine, sometimes known as a " Christmas orange ", as its peak season is December ; becoming the most important commercial Mandarin orange form, have displaced mikans in many markets

* Tangor, also called the temple orange, a cross between the Mandarin orange and the common sweet orange ; its thick rind is easy to peel and its bright orange pulp is sour-sweet and full-flavored

While Mandarin sandhi is simple, Amoy Min has a more complex system, with every one of its tones changing into a different tone when it occurs before another, and which tone it turns into depends on the final consonant of the syllable that bears it.

Native speakers who are not academic linguists may not recognize that the variants they speak are classified in linguistics as members of " Mandarin " ( or so-called " Northern dialects ") in a broader sense.

Onomatopoeias are not the same across all languages ; they conform to some extent to the broader linguistic system they are part of ; hence the sound of a clock may be tick tock in English, dī dā in Mandarin, or katchin katchin in Japanese.

However, linguists have given a broader definition for Beijing Mandarin () that also includes some dialects closely akin to that of urban Beijing.

Mandarin Chinese Guoyu (" Nation-Language "), was promoted as an standard tongue, and the establishment of communications facilities ( including radio ) were used to encourage a sense of Chinese nationalism in a way that was not possible when the nation lacked an effective central government.

This article uses the term " Mandarin " in the sense used by linguists, referring to the diverse group of Mandarin dialects spoken in northern and southwestern China, which Chinese linguists call Guānhuà.

It therefore makes sense, if one can preserve other goals, to make a priority of enabling confident first-time pronunciation of Mandarin words by the untrained.

Given the fact that overseas learners of Mandarin are not taught Tongyong Pinyin either, there are few people in the world who use it in any practical sense.

It appears frequently in the text of the classic novel Water Margin, and is written as 鳥 ( meaning " bird ", pronounced niǎo in Mandarin and niu5 in Cantonese when used in this usual sense ).

even as they compete globally because Mandarin encompasses a cultural repository of values and traditions that is identifiable to all Chinese.

The TFC has also collaborated with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on numerous recordings, including Mahler's Second, Third, and Eighth symphonies, Strauss's Elektra, Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder, and Bartók's The Miraculous Mandarin, on Philips ; Mendelssohn's complete incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream, on Deutsche Grammophon ; and Berlioz's Requiem and La damnation de Faust, Fauré's Requiem, and Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades, on RCA Victor Red Seal.

# Middle Mandarin, up through c. 1800 ( sometimes specifically given as 1455-1795 ), documented in numerous Chinese, Korean and European sources.

The series was also translated into numerous other languages, including Cantonese, Mandarin, French, Spanish, Italian, Catalan, Basque, Portuguese, Korean, Turkish and Arabic, being broadcast across Europe, Latin America, the Arab World, and numerous other regions.

Tabor offers classes in the traditional liberal arts fields such as the humanities, math and the sciences but also Greek, ichthyology, Mandarin Chinese, lighting design, and numerous nautical and marine science courses.

A form of Mandarin Chinese known as Putonghua was promoted by the Central People's Government in Beijing as the lingua franca in a continuation of the Kuo-yü of the Republic of China ( ROC, " Taiwan "), but the various local spoken variants and the languages of the numerous ethnic groups of China remains in use.

An opposite example is the case of Chinese, whose variations such as Mandarin and Cantonese are often called dialects and not languages, despite their mutual unintelligibility, because the word for them in Mandarin, 方言 fāngyán, was mistranslated as " dialect " because it meant " regional speech ".

Within Chinese social or cultural discourse, there is not a common " Mandarin " identity based on language ; rather, there are strong regional identities centred on individual dialects because of the wide geographical distribution and cultural diversity of their speakers.

However, both versions of " school-standard " Chinese are often quite different from the Mandarin dialects that are spoken in accordance with regional habits, and neither is wholly identical to the Beijing dialect.

In the Far East, Africa and South America, regional languages have been or are being coercively replaced or marginalized by the language of a dominant culture — Tibetan and minority Chinese dialects by Mandarin Chinese, Ainu by Japanese, Quechua by Spanish, and so on.

Chinese ( hànyǔ 汉语 / 漢語 or zhōngguóhuà 中国话 / 中國話 ) comprises many regional language varieties sometimes grouped together as the Chinese dialects, the primary ones being Mandarin, Wu, Cantonese, and Min.

It is not uncommon to encounter children who grew up with a regional variant of Mandarin as their mother tongue with little or no fluency in a Wu variety at all.

Located on Spring Mountain Road between Valley View Boulevard and Arville Street, Chinatown Plaza ( 中國城, Mandarin: zhong guo cheng ) comprises of bustling immigrant commerce, with restaurants offering regional Chinese and Hong Kong cuisine as well as other Asian cuisine ( Filipino, Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese ).

In the infancy of the station, Singapore Mandarin programmes were acquired from stations in Hong Kong, Macau and Republic of China which resulted in these programmes being broadcast in a variety of regional Singapore Mandarin dialects ( such as Hong Kong Cantonese and Taiwanese with no dubbing in Singapore Mandarin.

The Foreign Service Institute's School of Language Studies also maintains a network of language field schools in Taipei, Yokohama, Seoul, and other regional programs in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia where a further 44 weeks of instruction is offered overseas in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic.