Some special cases are the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau where the Communist Party does not function at all as part of the governmental system, and the autonomous regions where, following Soviet practice, the chief executive is typically a member of the local ethnic group while the party general secretary is non-local and usually Han Chinese.

Some examples of ancient Chinese prefects include: Chong Fu-prefect of the Ying District in the East Han Dynasty and Qing Tsao-prefect of the modern Shang-tung Province.

Some believed it comes from the late Han era and was said to have been used by the Han general Guan Yu.

Some say that they have assimilated with the Han and do not practice Islam anymore, and only their genealogies indicate their Uyghur ancestry.

Some " Turkic " troops were nomadisized Han Chinese, a desinicized people.

Some of the earliest Han maps discovered were ink-penned silk maps found amongst the Mawangdui Silk Texts in a 2nd-century-BCE tomb.

Some disaffected subgroups moved to central or eastern Taiwan, but most remained in their ancestral locations and acculturated or assimilated into Han society.

Some say that the Chinese Emperor Wu became interested in developing commercial relationships with the sophisticated urban civilizations of Ferghana, Bactria and Parthian Empire: " The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana ( Dayuan ) and the possessions of Bactria ( Ta-Hsia ) and Parthian Empire ( Anxi ) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value on the rich produce of China " ( Hou Hanshu, Later Han History ).

Some dynasties, such as the Han and Tang dynasties, were particularly expansionist, extending far into Central Asia, while others, such as the Jin and Song dynasties, were forced to relinquish the North China Plain itself to rivals from Northeastern and Central Asia.

" Some historians, such as Bo Yang, count 11, including Yan and Qi, but not Northern Han, viewing it as simply a continuation of Later Han.

Some claim that Chinese nationalism is actually a manifestation of beliefs in Han Chinese ethnic superiority ( also known as Sinocentrism ), though this is hotly debated.

Some scholars, including Chinese scholar Han Rulin, as well as G. Vambery, A. Scherbak, P. Budberg, L. Bazin and V. P.

Some of the controversy stems from the fact that the very decision of performing Han unification was made by the initial Unicode Consortium, which at the time was a consortium of North American companies and organizations ( most of them in California ), but included no East Asia government representatives.

Some current techniques can be traced to Neolithic China, while others were added later ( most notably the Han dynasty, the Tang, the Song, and the Ming ).

Some Han Chinese were also absorbed directly into the Manchu banners.

Some Han Chinese also joined Manchu banners directly, instead of joining the separate Chinese banners.

Some of them are scattered among the Han Chinese or other ethnic minorities.

Some of the best preserved bodies in the world are from Han dynasty China.

Some specialists have argued otherwise and have attempted to characterize the North Korean state as corporatist ( Bruce Cumings ), race-based nationalist ( Brian Myers ), guerrillaist ( Wada Haruki ), monarchist ( Dae Sook-suh ), and theocratic ( Han S. Park, Christopher Hitchens ).

Some historians argue it was the last Han Dynasty because its founding emperor Liu Bei was directly related to the sovereign family of the original Han Dynasty, and bore their surname.

Some writings on cloth were excavated from the Han Dynasty tomb at Mawangdui near the city of Changsha in 1973 and edited and published in Beijing in 1976 as Zhanguo Zonghengjia Shu (, " Works from the School of Diplomacy During the Warring States Period )".

Some historians state that Diocletian, like some emperors before him, adopted Maximian as his filius Augusti, his " Augustan son ", upon his appointment to the throne.

Some Roman emperors were great admirers of Alexander of Macedon and attempted to imitate the Macedonian Phalanx.

Some link with Julius Caesar, or with Roman emperors in general, exists in other languages, as well.

Some emperors, like the Kangxi Emperor, after abolishing the position of Crown Prince, placed the succession papers in a sealed box, only to be opened and announced after his death.

Some of Japan's literary monuments were written during the Nara period, including the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki, the first national histories, compiled in 712 and 720 respectively ; the Man ' yōshū, an anthology of poems ; and the Kaifūsō, an anthology written in Chinese by Japanese emperors and princes.

Some sources record two Chinese emperors sending missions to Zhang Sanfeng to ask for his advice, although neither mission is reported to have found him.

Some emperors were noted for their devoted observance of the Sigillaria.

Some of the earliest surviving painted portraits of people who were not kings or emperors, are the funeral portraits that survived in the dry climate of Egypt's Fayum district.

Some emperors supported it for political reasons while many educated men and women were attracted by its beauty and power.

Some of the emperors who ruled only for a short time made sure that a coin bore their image ; Quietus, for example, ruled only part of the Roman Empire from 260 to 261 AD, and yet he issued two coins bearing his image.

Some claim this flag ( called The Yellow Flag for short ) is the first true " national flag " of the Vietnamese people for it reflects the aspiration and hope of the people, not just the emperors, for independence and unification of the Viet nation.

Some of the earliest known examples of the dovetail joint are in furniture entombed with mummies dating from First Dynasty of ancient Egypt, as well the tombs of Chinese emperors.

He transformed into hardcore pornography such divers subject matter as the tragedies of William Shakespeare ( Juliet & Romeo, Othello 2000, Anthony and Cleopatra ), Greco-Roman mythology ( Ulysses, Samson and Hercules in the Land of the Amazons, Olympus-Refuge of the Gods ), Roman emperors ( Caligula-The Devious Emperor, Nero, Messalina ), the 1920s and 1930s in the U. S. ( Gangland Bangers, Some Like It Hard, Rudy-The Valentino Story ), the W. I. P.

Some rulers of the Western Yan declared themselves emperors while some declared themselves wang ( translatable as either " king " or " prince ").

Some were attributed to kami, emperors and empresses, nobles, generals, commoners and sometimes enemies of the court.

Some emperors of China also had a liking to the qin, including the Song dynasty emperor, Huizong, as clearly seen in his own painting of himself playing the qin in " Ting Qin Tu ".

Some of the events emanating from the radical practices of both ideologies include the very War for Independence and Revolution, not to mention countless revolts and the overthrowing of several presidents and even two emperors.

Some Roman legions were called Flavia, since they had been levied by Flavian emperors:

Some Byzantine emperors were anxious to exploit the wealth of the Jews of Greece, and imposed special taxes on them, while others attempted forced conversions to Christianity.

Some of these soldier emperors were members of the equestrian class who had worked their way up to a sufficient position of influence within their legion that the soldiers would support a bid for the purple, although this was a risky undertaking because the soldiers could withdraw their support at any time and perhaps shift it to another military leader who looked more promising at the time.

Some eunuchs in the latter part of the dynasty were so powerful that they alone held the abilities to support or depose any emperors at whim.