It is the official spoken language of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), the official language of the Republic of China ( R. O. C ./ Taiwan ), and one of the four official languages of the Republic of Singapore.

She also recorded a song called " Distant Storm " for the film China O ' Brien ; in the credits, the song is attributed to a band called Tess Makes Good.

* The Road to Samarcand is one of Patrick O ' Brian's early novels ( 1954 ) about an American teenage boy, the son of recently deceased missionary parents, who travels from China with a small party on the Silk Road en route to the West.

* O ' Brien, Neil L. " An American Editor in Early Revolutionary China: John William Powell and the China Weekly / Monthly Review.

China O ' Brien is a martial arts film starring actress and martial artist Cynthia Rothrock.

Police Officer China O ' Brien ( Cynthia Rothrock ) is a good cop who teaches martial arts class to her fellow officers.

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He invited a number of other villains — including Flintheart Glomgold, the Beagle Boys, Magica De Spell, Steelbeak and Ammonia Pine of F. O. W. L., and Hammerhead Hannigan, among others — to his resort to auction off the list and use the resulting billions to buy all the tea in China.

This is not the China Grove mentioned in Eudora Welty's short story " Why I Live at the P. O.

) Other Beery films include Billy the Kid ( 1930 ) with Johnny Mack Brown, The Secret Six ( 1931 ) with Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, Hell Divers ( 1931 ) with Gable, Grand Hotel ( 1932 ) with Joan Crawford, Tugboat Annie ( 1933 ) with Dressler, Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ) opposite Harlow, The Bowery with George Raft, Fay Wray, and Pert Kelton that same year, China Seas ( 1935 ) with Gable and Harlow, and Eugene O ' Neill's Ah, Wilderness!

* January 18 – exactly four years after Australia's Susie O ' Neill set her world record ( 2: 04. 16 ) in the women's 200m butterfly ( short course ), Yang Yu from PR China betters that time at Berlin, clocking 2: 04. 04

Some of the best known zarzuelas are La virgen morena ( Grenet ), La Niña Rita ( Grenet and Lecuona ), María la O, El batey, Rosa la China ( all Lecuona ); Gonzalo Roig with La Habana de noche ; Rodrigo Prats with Amalia Batista and La perla del caribe ; and above all, Cecilia Valdés ( the musical of the most famous Cuban novel of the 19th century, with music by Roig and script by Prats and Agustín Rodríguez ).

He was portrayed by Pat O ' Brien in 1936's " The China Clipper ".

* In the field of business, Rider graduates include: Neil B. Friedman, president of Mattel Brands ; Thomas J. Lynch, CEO of Tyco Electronics ; Donald Monks, Vice Chairman & Chief Administrative Officer, The Bank of New York Mellon ; Mike Pulli, CEO of Pace plc ; Thomas O ' Riordan, former CEO of American Sporting Goods Corporation ; Robert Schimek, Senior Vice President & CFO American International Group ; Ronald Schlosser, chairman & CEO of Haights Cross Communications ; John T. Spitznagel, chairman & CEO of Oceana Therapeutics ; Howard Stoeckel, CEO of Wawa ; Kenneth Yen, CEO of China Motor Corporation ; Meg Walsh, president of Medscape Consumer and internationally-recognized authority in e-health ; and Michael F. Lee, Jr., CAIA, Regional Director of Hatteras Funds

His diary of travels in China,, was translated into English by Professor Edwin O. Reischauer under the title Ennin's Diary: The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law.

* Edwin O. Reischauer, Ennin's Diary: The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law ( New York: Ronald Press, 1955 ).

* Edwin O. Reischauer, Ennin's Travels in T ' ang China ( New York: Ronald Press, 1955 ).

Missionaries such as James O. Fraser, Allyn Cooke and Isobel Kuhn and her husband, John, of the China Inland Mission ( now OMF International ), were active with the Lisu of Yunnan.

* J. O. Fraser and Church Growth Among the Lisu of Southwest China, Walter Leslie McConnell ( M. C. S.

NASA Administrator Sean O ' Keefe called Shenzhou 5 an " important achievement in human exploration " and wished China " a continued safe human space flight program.

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Her films include China O ' Brien and China O ' Brien 2, Guardian Angel, Honor & Glory, No Retreat, No Surrender 2 and Prince of the Sun amongst a roster of thirty films.

He played a leading role in the 1995 science fiction / martial arts thriller Heatseeker, a follow-up to the 1990 Cynthia Rothrock and Richard Norton vehicle China O ' Brien in which he also appeared.

On 23 September 2011, Bille August announced that he has opened his studio in Hangzhou, China and taken a position as Tianpeng Media's Art Director, aiming to produce Chinese films for Tianpeng Media over the next few years.

In particular, Kurosawa's Seven Samurai has been remade several times as Western films, such as The Magnificent Seven ( 1960 ) and Battle Beyond the Stars ( 1980 ), and has also inspired several Bollywood films, such as Sholay ( 1975 ) and China Gate ( 1998 ).

Following the 1940 release of Republic Pictures ' serial adaptation of Drums of Fu Manchu, the U. S. State Department requested the studio make no further films with the character as China was an ally against Japan.

The completed films included the seven-episode Why We Fight series — consisting of Prelude to War ( 1942 ), The Nazis Strike ( 1942 ), Divide and Conquer ( 1943 ), The Battle of Britain ( 1943 ), The Battle of Russia ( 1943 ), The Battle of China ( 1944 ), War Comes to America ( 1945 ) – plus Know Your Enemy: Japan ( 1945 ), Tunisian Victory ( 1945 ), and Two Down and One to Go ( 1945 ) that do not bear the Why We Fight banner ; as well as the African-American related, The Negro Soldier ( 1944 ).

Pei was fascinated by the representations of college life in the films of Bing Crosby, which differed tremendously from the academic atmosphere in China.

He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts ( for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award ), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger ( for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award ), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing ( for which he won ' Best Actor ' at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival ), Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.

The festival's chief executive, Richard Moore, compared Loach's tactics to blackmail, stating that " we will not participate in a boycott against the State of Israel, just as we would not contemplate boycotting films from China or other nations involved in difficult long-standing historical disputes .” Australian lawmaker Michael Danby also criticised Loach ’ s tactics stating that “ Israelis and Australians have always had a lot in common, including contempt for the irritating British penchant for claiming cultural superiority.

His experiences in China reportedly deeply affected Peckinpah, and may have influenced his depictions of violence in his films.

With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ) ( and its much darker German counterpart Westfront 1918 ), Howard Hawks ' Road to Glory ( 1936 ) and Grand Illusion ( 1937 ), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's Doughboys ( 1930 ) and Wheeler & Woolsey's Half Shot at Sunrise ( 1930 ), or exciting tales of the U. S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's Flight ( 1930 ), The Leathernecks Have Landed ( 1936 ) and Tell it to the Marines ( 1926 film ).

Since 2006, Warner Bros operated a joint venture with China Film Group Corporation and HG to form Warner China Film HG to produce films in Hong Kong and China, including Connected, which is a remake of the 2004 thriller film Cellular, they have co-produced many other Chinese films as well.

China had threatened to curtail business negotiations with Disney over that film and, as the government only accepts ten Western films per year to be shown in their country, Mulans chances of being accepted were low.

The 1972 Yugoslav Partisan film Valter brani Sarajevo ( Walter Defends Sarajevo ) starring Serbian actor Bata Živojinović is one of the most-watched war films of all time, owing mainly to audiences in the People's Republic of China.

She followed with popular and successful films such as The China Syndrome ( 1979 ), about a cover-up of an accident in a nuclear power plant ; and The Electric Horseman ( 1979 ) with her previous co-star, Robert Redford.

Set in the late 1920s in China, this was an early entry in a series of Vietnam war era films ( Catch-22, M * A * S * H ), which, though set in other periods of wartime, nevertheless sounded with its depictions of gunboat diplomacy what would come to be recognized as timeless themes.

A steady stream of Johnny Wadd films followed which included Tell Them Johnny Wadd is Here ( 1976 ), Liquid Lips ( 1976 ), The Jade Pussycat ( 1977 ), The China Cat ( 1978 ), and Blond Fire ( 1978 ), all of which were huge box office successes.

Hung has starred in 75 films, and worked on over 230, beginning as a child actor whilst still attending the China Drama Academy.

This television series is sometimes regarded as a television counterpart to the Once Upon a Time in China films.

It seems reasonable that if general nuclear war is not to be one cataclysmic act of burning each other's citizens to cinders, we must have a manned strategic force of long-endurance aircraft capable of going into China or Russia to find and destroy their strategic forces which continued to threaten us.

Thus, while it remains possible that the Babylonians and/or the Pythagoreans may perhaps have had the magic square of three before the Chinese did, more definite evidence will have to turn up from the Middle East or the Classical World before China can lose her claim to the earliest known magic square by more than a thousand years.

yet some must have survived, because the old interest in number symbolism, divination, and magic persisted on into the Han dynasty, which succeeded in reuniting China and keeping it together for a longer period ( from 202 B.C. to A.D. 220 ).

Then the monk praised Yang Shan saying: `` I have come over to China in order to worship Manjucri, and met unexpectedly with Minor Shakya '', and after giving the master some palm leaves he brought from India, went back through the air.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

The similarity of the Roman abacus to the Chinese one suggests that one could have inspired the other, as there is some evidence of a trade relationship between the Roman Empire and China.

Amalgams have been used since 200 BC in China for plating objects with precious metals, called gilding, such as armor and mirrors.

Ming Tsai, the owner of the Blue Ginger restaurant in Wellesley, Massachusetts, said that American Chinese restaurants typically try to have food representing 3-5 regions of China at one time, have chop suey, or have " fried vegetables and some protein in a thick sauce ," " eight different sweet and sour dishes ," or " a whole page of 20 different chow meins or fried rice dishes.

And even this 1. 5 % will be reduced to 1 %, if we take out India and China, which have not pursued liberal trade and industrial policies recommended by the developed countries.

Likewise, Joseph E. Stiglitz, speaking not only on China but East Asia in general, comments " The countries that have managed globalization ... such as those in East Asia, have, by and large, ensured that they reaped huge benefits ..." According to The Heritage Foundation, development in China was anticipated by Milton Friedman, who predicted that even a small progress towards economic liberalization would produce dramatic and positive effects.

" However some earlier high zinc, low iron brasses such as the 1530 Wightman brass memorial plaque from England may have been made by alloying copper with zinc and include traces of cadmium similar those found in some zinc ingots from China.

Indonesia, South Korea, China, and Malaysia along with Denmark are among the nations that have consistently produced world-class players in the past few decades, with China being the greatest force in both men's and women's competition in recent years.

Bourne contends that as most Gigantopithecus fossils are found in China, and as many species of animals migrated across the Bering land bridge, it is not unreasonable to assume that Gigantopithecus might have as well.

The Black Death is thought to have started in China or central Asia, before spreading west.

It is estimated to have killed 25 million people or 30 % of the population of China.

Nestorian graves dating to 1338 – 9 near Lake Issyk Kul in Kyrgizstan have inscriptions referring to plague and are thought by many epidemiologists to mark the outbreak of the epidemic, from which it could easily have spread to China and India.