* 1982 – Li Na, Chinese tennis player

Perhaps even more personally important for Pei was a new offer from the Chinese government, which had come in 1982.

* 1982 – Chinese American Vincent Chin dies in a coma after being beaten in Highland Park, Michigan on June 19, by two auto workers who had mistaken him for Japanese and who were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies.

This huge success of the Krugerrand encouraged other gold-producing countries to mint and issue gold bullion coins of their own, including the Canadian Gold Maple Leaf in 1979, the Australian Nugget in 1981, the Chinese Gold Panda in 1982, the American Gold Eagle in 1986, and the British Britannia coin in 1987.

* 1982 – Li Yundi, Chinese classical pianist

* 1982 – Shi Jun, Chinese footballer

Various international organizations eagerly assisted the Chinese in conducting the 1982 census, including the United Nations Fund for Population Activities, which donated US $ 15. 6 million for the preparation and execution of the census.

Since 1982, when the International Organization for Standardization adopted Pinyin as the standard romanization of Chinese, many Western languages have changed from spelling this loanword dao in national systems ( e. g., French EFEO Chinese transcription and English Wade – Giles ) to dao in Pinyin.

After the Cultural Revolution devastated the ranks of intellectuals and legal professionals, it took until 1982 for the idea of individual rights to reemerge as a significant influence on Chinese law.

In 1982 President Ronald Reagan also saw that the Six Assurances were adopted, the fifth being that the United States would not formally recognize Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan.

* Pete Townshend's 1982 solo album, All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes, contained the track " Stardom in Acton " in reference to his home town, while the accompanying video was filmed on and around Acton High Street.

* Lu Lu or Li Xiaolu ( born 1982 ), Chinese actress

This release was followed in 1982 by All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes, which included the popular radio track " Slit Skirts ".

Since pinyin became the international standard for Chinese romanization in 1982, other romanizations ( including the Wade-Giles system, Gwoyeu Romatzyh developed by Yuen Ren Chao, and Latinxua Sin Wenz ) have become rarely used.

* Emily Prager's short story A Visit from the Footbinder, from her collection of short stories of the same name ( 1982 ) describes the last few hours of a young Chinese girl's childhood before the professional footbinder arrives to initiate her into the adult woman's life of beauty and pain.

Liu Huaqing (; October 1916 – January 14, 2011 ) was the Commander of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy from 1982 through 1988, and is considered to been responsible for its modernization efforts.

Tung Chao Yung () better known as 董浩雲,, born 18th of the eighth lunar month in 1912 ; died 15 April 1982 ), also known as C. Y. Tung, was a Chinese shipping magnate, the founder of the Orient Overseas Line ( now Orient Overseas Container Line or OOCL ).

Although the 1982 constitution guarantees freedom of speech, the Chinese government often uses the subversion of state power and the protection of state secret clause to imprison those who are critical of the government.

Previously written using logograms based on Chinese characters (" Sawndip "), Standard Zhuang was written in Latin script, with a few added Cyrillic letters for tone, between 1957 and 1982.

Custody and repatriation ( Chinese: 收容遣送 ; Pinyin: shōuróng qiǎnsòng ) ( C & R ) was an administrative procedure, established in 1982 and ended in 2003, by which the police in the People's Republic of China ( usually cities ) could detain people if they did not have a residence permit ( hukou ) or temporary living permit ( zanzhuzheng ), and return them to the place where they could legally live or work ( usually rural areas ).

The Kowloon – Canton Railway Corporation ( KCRC ; Traditional Chinese: 九廣鐵路公司 ) was established in 1982 under the Kowloon – Canton Railway Corporation Ordinance for the purposes of operating the Kowloon – Canton Railway ( KCR ), and to construct and operate other new railways.

Vincent Jen Chin (; May 18, 1955 – June 23, 1982 ) was a Chinese American beaten to death in June 1982, in the enclave of Highland Park, Detroit, Michigan, United States.

After the 1980 United States Census, his district was renumbered to the 33rd, and defeated U. S. Congressman Wayne Grisham in the Republican primary of 1982, 57 % to 43 %.

A Democratic redistricting plan after the 1980 Census carved up the 4th District, with only about 15 % of its territory being retained and added to various territory from other districts ; Derwinski and fellow Republican congressman George M. O ' Brien were placed in the same district, and O ' Brien won the 1982 primary on the strength of having more of his previous district included in the new configuration.

A 1982 attempt to revert to the original spelling was rejected by the United States Census Bureau.

According to the 1982 Population Census, the town had a population of 2, 973.

According to the 1982 Population Census, the town had a population of 8, 216.

According to the 1982 Population Census, the village has a population of 1, 370.

According to the 1982 Population Census, the town had a population of 26, 758, by 1992 this had risen to 32, 984.

According to the 1982 Population Census, the town had a population of 8, 114, this rose to 16, 826 in the 1992 census.

According to the 1982 Population Census, the town had a population of 4, 874.

According to the 1982 Population Census, the village had a population of 1, 492.

In 1982, redistricting caused by the United States Census changed Spence ’ s district number from 20 to 18.

According to the 1982 Population Census, the village had a population of 1, 633.

Connes was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982, the Crafoord Prize in 2001 and the gold medal of the CNRS in 2004.

The same schema was adopted by James Patrie ( 1982 ) in the context of an attempt to classify the Ainu language.

In 1982 – 83 Australia had Greg Chappell back from WSC as captain, while the England team was weakened by the enforced omission of their South African tour rebels, particularly Graham Gooch and John Emburey.

The last known deportation of Ainu to Japan occurred in 1982, when Keizo Nakamura, a full blooded Northern Kurils Ainu was deported to Hokkaido after serving 15 years hard labor in the province of Magadan.

An axiomatic approach to Kolmogorov complexity based on Blum axioms ( Blum 1967 ) was introduced by Mark Burgin in the paper presented for publication by Andrey Kolmogorov ( Burgin 1982 ).

This manuscript, which Jack Sharrar recovered in 1982 during his research for Avery Hopwood, His Life and Plays, was published July, 2011.

In 1982 Aston Martin was granted a Royal Warrant of Appointment by the Prince of Wales.

Morita was awarded the Albert Medal by the United Kingdom's Royal Society of Arts in 1982, the first Japanese to receive the honor.

Aon was created in 1982, when the Ryan Insurance Group ( founded by Pat Ryan in the 1960s ) merged with the Combined Insurance Company of America ( founded by W. Clement Stone in 1919 ).

It was the largest triumphal arch in existence until the construction of the Arch of Triumph in Pyongyang, in 1982.

In the prolongation of the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, a new arch, the Grande Arche de la Défense, was built in 1982, completing the line of monuments that forms Paris's Axe historique.

DXF was originally introduced in December 1982 as part of AutoCAD 1. 0, and was intended to provide an exact representation of the data in the AutoCAD native file format, DWG ( Drawing ), for which Autodesk for many years did not publish specifications.

The Atari 5200 SuperSystem, commonly known as the Atari 5200, is a video game console that was introduced in 1982 by Atari Inc. as a higher end complementary console for the popular Atari 2600.

The novel was published in 1982, when A. D. Sakharov was in exile in Nizhny Novgorod.

It was approved in Japan circa 1982 and Germany in 1990.

In 1982, he was again elected governor and kept this job for ten years.

Colonel Zerbo also encountered resistance from trade unions and was overthrown two years later on November 7, 1982, by Major Dr. Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo and the Council of Popular Salvation ( CSP ).

Wills ' record was broken in turn by Lou Brock in 1974, and Rickey Henderson in 1982.

It is the sequel to Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human, which was a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner, and the book on which the film was based, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?.

The project was scheduled to be completed in 1998 at an estimated cost of $ 2. 8 billion ( in 1982 dollars, US $ 6. 0 billion adjusted for inflation ).

The project was not completed, however, until December 2007, at a cost of over $ 14. 6 billion ($ 8. 08 billion in 1982 dollars ).

BHRA was formed in 1982 to restore the historic tunnel.