Then the Chinese hostler, who rode with Vernon on the box, would break open a hamper and produce filets of smoked bass or sturgeon, sandwiches, pickled eggs, and a rum sangaree to be heated over a spirit lamp.

A 2nd-century Lacquerware | lacquer-painted scene on a basket box showing famous figures from Chinese history who were paragons of filial piety ; Zhang Heng became well-versed at an early age in the Five Classics | Chinese classics and the philosophy of China's earlier sages.

Baron Fassini Camossi, the former Italian diplomat to China, gave Puccini as a gift a music box which played a number of Chinese melodies.

A scene of historic paragons of filial piety conversing with one another, Chinese painted artwork on a Lacquerware | lacquered basketwork box, excavated from an Eastern-Han tomb of what was the Chinese Lelang Commandery in modern North Korea

A Chinese lacquerware box with the " Panyu " name on its surface, one piece of evidence that the Qin Dynasty governed the area of Guangzhou before the Nanyue Kingdom did

On September 21, 2004, the film was released in Region 1-together with Shadows, Faces, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, and Opening Night-as part of the eight-disc box set John Cassavetes-Five Films by The Criterion Collection.

The AED box has information on how to use it in Japanese, English, Chinese and Korean, and station staff are trained to use it.

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

The term " citre " is also used more broadly, to describe the entire family of stringed instruments in which the strings do not extend beyond the sounding box, including the hammered dulcimer, psaltery, Appalachian dulcimer, guqin, guzheng ( Chinese zither ), koto, gusli, kantele, gayageum, đàn tranh, kanun, autoharp, santoor, yangqin, piano, harpsichord, santur, swarmandal, and others.

* Straddle split ( also called: side split ; box split ; Chinese split ; cut split )-A split in which the legs are extended to the left and right, until a 180 degree angle between the legs is reached.

A Ming Dynasty Chinese box ( c. 1490s AD ) made of carved lacquer over wood, with decorations of the palace of the Chinese moon Goddess Chang ' e, displaying outdoor courtyards, trees, buildings, and denizens of the moon including a rabbit that pounds the elixir of immortality with a pestle and mortar, a three-legged toad ( referencing the story of when Chang ' e landed on the moon ) and groups of Chinese scholars.

Finally, Chinese also has mass-classifiers, or words that are not specific to any one object ; for example, the mass-classifier ( hé, box ) may be used with boxes of objects, such as lightbulbs or books, even though those nouns also have their own special classifiers.

The sequel, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, depicts Croft in search of Pandora's box in competition with a Chinese crime syndicate.

In this manner we would end up with a " Chinese box series of propositions " of ever decreasing material content ascribed to the original observer.

The release of her Singapore film, Just Follow Law, in which she had to play an uncouth and scruffy man in a woman's body, was a major attraction at the Chinese New Year box office and won her critical acclaim in the Singapore and Malaysian media.

Ah Long Pte Ltd reached # 1 in both Singapore and Malaysia's box office during the Chinese new year.

* Chu ( instrument ), an ancient Chinese instrument made of wood like a box that is struck by a stick to mark section beginnings

:" Disguising myself as different characters and I had a whole box of dressing up clothes ... Red Indian, sailor suit, Chinese costume and I was very spoiled in that way ...

' 108 ' in the anime series ' Tokko ' is the number of pieces in the Box of Dirge Chinese puzzle box created by alchemy as a doorway between the world of demons and this one.

* Chinese three-striped box turtle

The Chinese invention of the horse collar by the 5th century was also a great improvement from the breast harness, allowing the horse to haul greater weight without heavy burden on its skeletal structure.

The party's organizational structure was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution and rebuilt afterwards by Deng Xiaoping, who subsequently initiated " Socialism with Chinese characteristics " and brought all state apparatuses back under the rule of the CPC.

In December, Imperial General Headquarters, a structure completely autonomous from the elected government, ordered its forces in China to drive toward Nanking, the Chinese capital.

Jin Guantao, a professor of the Institute of Chinese Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Fan Hongye, a research fellow with the Chinese Academy of Sciences ' Institute of Science Policy and Managerial Science, and Liu Qingfeng, a professor of the Institute of Chinese Culture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, have argued that without the influence of proto-scientific precepts in the ancient philosophy of Mohism, Chinese science lacked a definitive structure:

While the Manchus followed the governmental structure of the preceding Ming dynasty, their ethnic policy dictated that appointments were split between Manchu noblemen and Han Chinese officials who had passed the highest levels of the state examinations, and because of the small number of Manchus, this insured that a large fraction of them would be government officials.

Sociologists have linked guanxi with the concept of social capital ( it has been described as a Gemeinschaft value structure ), and it has been exhaustively described in Western studies of Chinese economic and political behavior.

In 1995, Chinese authorities began looking to Falun Gong to solidify its organizational structure and ties to the party-state.

The tomb's cross-shaped structure and the burial objects found inside show great similarities as compared to other Han tombs found in South China, which prove that early Chinese civilisation had spread to Hong Kong 2, 000 years ago.

The objective of the school is to bring full advantage of Tsinghua University's comprehensive academic structure to Chinese and international media, to construct a first-rate discipline in journalism and communication studies, to cultivate talented professionals in the field and to explore advanced concepts in journalism and communication.

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.

Under the strains and losses of the early campaigns of the Second Sino-Japanese War the Chinese decided in mid 1938 to standardize their Divisions as triangular divisions as part of their effort to simplify the command structure and placed them under Corps which became the basic tactical units.

Among the questions on which Chinese nationalists have disagreed is what policies would lead to a strong China, what is the structure of the state and its goal, what the relationship should be between China and foreign powers, and what should be the relationships between the majority Han Chinese, minority groups, and overseas Chinese.

Much of Manglish grammatical structure is taken from Chinese dialects.

In addition, changing Constitutional conventions have led to significant changes in the structure of Chinese government in the absence of changes in the text of the Constitution.

The general vocabulary and structure of Xibe has not been affected as much by the influence of Chinese as Manchu has been.

The remaining Asian subspecies, the relatively large intermedius and mandarinus, and the smaller sowerbyi, also differ in structure and voice, and may represent a third species, the Chinese Blackbird ( T. mandarinus ).

Pynchon provides an intricate conspiracy theory involving Jesuits and their Chinese converts, which may or may not be occurring within the nested and ultimately inexact narrative structure.

Rújiào and Kǒngjiào contain the Chinese character jiào, the noun " teach ", used in such as terms as " education ", or " educator ".

Outside of Europe, subject – verb – object languages have a strong tendency to place adjectives, demonstratives, and numerals after the noun they modify, though Chinese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Malay place numerals before nouns as English does.

Either dào 道 " the thing which is doing the conducting " is a Tone B ( shangsheng 上聲 " rising tone ") " endoactive noun " derivation from dào 導 " conduct ", or dào 導 is a Later Old Chinese ( Warring States Period ) " general tone C " ( qusheng 去聲 " departing tone ") derivation from dào 道 " way ".

Moreover, tone plays little role in modern Chinese grammar, though the tones descend from features in Old Chinese that did have morphological significance ( e. g. changing a verb to a noun or vice-versa ).

Some languages, such as Mandarin Chinese, treat all nouns as mass nouns, and need to make use of a noun classifier to add numerals and other quantifiers.

Six Dynasties ( Chinese: 六朝 ; Pinyin: Liù Cháo ; 220 or 222-589 ) is a collective noun for six Chinese dynasties during the periods of the Three Kingdoms ( 220 – 280 AD ), Jin Dynasty ( 265 – 420 ), and Southern and Northern Dynasties ( 420 – 589 ).

In some of the latter cases the noun is formed by adding-man or-woman, for example English / Englishman / Englishwoman ; Irish / Irishman / Irishwoman ; Chinese / Chinese man / Chinese woman ( versus the archaic or derogatory terms Chinaman / Chinawoman, which are not the preferred nomenclature ).

Ancient classifier-like constructions, which used a repeated noun rather than a special classifier, are attested in Chinese as early as 1400 BCE, but true classifiers did not appear in these phrases until much later.

In Chinese, a numeral cannot quantify a noun by itself ; instead, the language relies on classifiers, commonly referred to as measure words.

( In English, some words, as in the cited example of " cattle ", are often paired with a noun used much like the Chinese measure word.

In the modern varieties of Arabic ( using illi placed after the modified noun ); in Chinese ( using de placed before the modified noun ); and in Japanese ( using no placed before the modified noun ).

* Relative clause preceding the head noun, as in Turkish, Japanese, or Chinese.

In modern Chinese, 關 ( guān ) is most often a verb meaning to close, but it also functions as a noun with the meaning of checkpoint, such as a customs house or a fortress guarding a mountain pass.

They are SVO in word order but are not as rigidly right-branching as the Tai – Kadai languages or most Mon – Khmer languages, since they have genitives and numerals before the noun like Chinese.

Each Xiao Xiao cartoon is given a Chinese title with the adjective " Xiao Xiao " preceding a descriptive noun phrase.

For instance, in Mandarin Chinese, the general noun classifier for humans is ge ( 個 ), and it is used for counting humans, whatever they are called:

Languages with noun classifiers include Chinese ( see Chinese classifier ), Persian, Japanese, Korean, Southeast Asian languages, Austronesian languages, and Mayan languages.