" He goes on to note that, " I have known that place these thirteen years, it was then a rising place, but it has been falling ever since, and is now almost nothing ; not a house has been built but many a one has fallen down and still are falling ... if you get into it in the Spring, you can't get out till Summer ; and if you get into it in the Fall, you must wait till the Winter, and whose fault is it but the Magistrates and Gentry of Richmond ; that is to say the Shopkeepers?

Shopkeepers may reject large banknotes: this is covered by the legal concept known as invitation to treat.

The phrase " a nation of Shopkeepers " (" une nation de boutiquiers ") is a disparaging remark supposedly used by Napoleon to describe the United Kingdom as unfit for war against France.

Shopkeepers may manage their own independent corner shop or run a franchise store on behalf of a retail chain.

Shopkeepers employ " beckoning " tactics, placing an employee at the entrance of the store beckoning passers-by to enter their shop.

Shopkeepers were instructed to place the lollipops near the cash register within reach of children's hands, instead of the traditional placement behind the counter.

Shopkeepers in the region will sometimes make a spitting gesture on the cash proceeds from the first sale of the day ( called bohni ), which is a custom believed to ward-off nazar from the business.

Shopkeepers Daniel and Saxton Miner in Milltown owned the sole other vehicle mentioned, a “ carriage on springs .” Nine leading citizens, including Elias Sanford Palmer and Thomas Prentice, also possessed another status symbol: clocks with “ steel and brass parts .” Serving not just the thirst of the townspeople but also of the many millworkers were nine taverns, five of which were connected with stores.

* Macpherson, Mary-Etta, Shopkeepers to a Nation, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1963.

Shopkeepers, publicans and other traders built the town up quickly in support of the rush.

Shopkeepers had a very hard time during period when the Wool Act was in force.

Most of them were Dutch, French, British ( English ), Arab and Jewish ( from Lebanon and Morocco ), Chinese ( especially from Macau ), American, and Brazilian ( including people of Portuguese and African descent ).

" The burakumin are one of the main minority groups in Japan, along with the Ainu of Hokkaidō and those of residents of Korean and Chinese descent.

Asians, mostly of Chinese descent are descendants of farm workers and railroad laborers in the early 20th century.

* Other-Garífuna, descended from Black Africans and indigenous peoples from St. Vincent's, live mainly in Livingston and Puerto Barrios, and other blacks and mulattos ; Asians, mostly of Chinese descent, and also a growing Koreans in Guatemala and in nearby Mixco, currently numbering about 10, 000.

People from Hong Kong generally refer to themselves, in Cantonese, as Hèung Góng Yàhn (); however the term is not restricted to those of Chinese descent.

It was also a significant and growing social problem in the continental United States, especially among immigrants of Chinese descent.

* University of the West Indies: 76. 3 % African descent, 15. 1 % Afro-European, 3. 4 % East Indian and Afro-East Indian, 3. 2 % Caucasian, 1. 2 % Chinese and Afro-Chinese and 0. 8 % Other.

Category: Canadian people of Chinese descent

There are approximately 30, 000 Mauritians of Chinese descent, from the Hakka and Cantonese sub-ethnic / linguistic groups.

* 1998 – Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.

Category: Cambodian people of Chinese descent

* 3000 people of Chinese descent, all of whom are either counted as one of the above three races.

In terms of ethnicity, the 2001 census data reveals that 77. 5 % of Western Australia's population is of European descent: the largest single group was those reporting English ethnicity, accounting for 733, 783 responses ( 32. 7 %), followed by Australian with 624, 259 ( 27. 8 %), Irish with 171, 667 ( 7. 6 %), Italian with 96, 721 ( 4. 3 %), Scottish with 62, 781 ( 2. 8 %), German with 51, 672 ( 2. 3 %) and Chinese with 48, 894 responses ( 2. 2 %).

At the Battle of Talas in 751, Qarluq mercenaries under the Chinese defected, helping the Arab armies of the Islamic Caliphate to defeat the Tang force under commander Go Seonji ( d. 756, also known as Gao Xianzhi, a general of Goguryeo descent ).

" In 1965, Amos Hanks married Frances Wong, a San Francisco native of Chinese descent.

Because he was not of Asian descent, when producer Irving Thalberg offered him the role, he stated, " I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.

Vera Ellen Wang was born and raised in New York City and is of Chinese descent.

Category: American fashion designers of Chinese descent

Overseas Chinese () are people of Chinese birth or descent who live outside the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), People's Republic of China and Hong Kong.

Overseas Chinese defines several criteria for identifying Han overseas Chinese: there is a direct racial lineage of descent from groups originating from China, they still retain their culture, self-identify with Chinese culture or acknowledge Chinese origin.

However, in recent years, immigration from People's Republic of China has increased ; 624, 994 persons of Chinese nationality have immigrated to South Korea, including 443, 566 of ethnic Korean descent.

As well as with dim sum, many Chinese drink their tea with snacks such as nuts, plums, dried fruit ( in particular jujube ), small sweets, melon seeds, and waxberry.

For example, it has been suggested that, in the early 20th century Shanghai, “ Western food, and in particular identifiably nourishing items like milk, became a symbol of a neo-traditional Chinese notion of family .”

The official historical view within the People's Republic of China associates each of these stages with a particular era in Chinese history as well as making some subdivisions.

This particular instrument is known throughout Asia but in different forms: the Japanese koto, which is a distant relative to the Chinese zheng, the Korean gayageum, and the Vietnamese dan tranh.

For some lunar calendars, such as the Chinese calendar, the first day of a month is the day when an astronomical new moon occurs in a particular time zone.

Standard Chinese is based on the particular Mandarin dialect spoken in Beijing, with some lexical and syntactic influence from other Mandarin dialects.

Dishes in Beijing cuisine that are served as main courses are mostly from other Chinese cuisines, and some of the following in particular have been central to the formation of Beijing cuisine.

Also important was the immigration of Arabs and Asians: in particular Chinese, Lebanese, Palestinians, South Asians ( from India and Pakistan ) and Syrians.

Chinese Martial Arts in particular have preserved a wide variety of weapons and techniques.

In particular, the Chinese and Russian collections grew considerably.

American, Australian and Chinese oil companies, in particular, are excited about the prospect of finding petroleum and other natural resources in the country.

For example, a Unicode code point like U + 5408, which corresponds to a particular Chinese character, has to be converted to a decimal number, preceded by and followed by, like this:, which produces this: 合 ( if it doesn't look like a Chinese character, see Template: Special characters ).

Many pieces of carved furniture dating from the 18th century — in particular, mirror frames — depict rocks, shells, and dripping water in their composition, frequently in association with Chinese figures and pagodas.

France received a large settlement of Chinese immigrant laborers, mostly from the city of Wenzhou, Zhejiang province of China ( to this day, France continues to attract many Chinese immigrants from this particular province ; Paris, Chinatowns in Belleville, and the XIIIème arrondissement of Paris, both making the Paris Region home to the largest Chinese population in Europe.

In the post-war period, lawsuits and demands for compensations were presented against the Mitsubishi Corporation, in particular by former Chinese slave laborers.

Chinese sovereign is the ruler of a particular period in ancient China.

Chinese feudal rulers with power over their particular fiefdoms were called Wang ( 王 ), roughly translated as King, but in fact somewhat amorphous and also readily maps to " duke " in English.

There are many other lingua francas centralized on particular regions, such as Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish.

She dominated the Chinese arts, and in particular attempted to reform the Beijing Opera.

Local curators within the country such as Gao Minglu and critics such as Li Xianting ( 栗宪庭 ) reinforced this promotion of particular brands of painting that had recently emerged, while also spreading the idea of art as a strong social force within Chinese culture.

Chinese merchants, in particular, were often forced to keep their goods at artificially low prices under threat of death.

The Wubi method is based on the structure of characters rather than their pronunciation, making it possible to input characters even when you do not know the pronunciation, as well as not being too closely linked to any particular Chinese dialect.