); its design was planned by the government of the day ; and it places individual letters in syllable clusters with equal dimensions, in the same way as Chinese characters, to allow for mixed-script writing ( one syllable always takes up one type-space no matter how many letters get stacked into building that one sound-block ).

The Chinese government denied all accusations.

Though the unified reign of the First Qin Emperor lasted only 12 years, he managed to subdue great parts of what constitutes the core of the Han Chinese homeland and to unite them under a tightly centralized Legalist government seated at Xianyang ( close to modern Xi ' an ).

Nevertheless, the Manchus adopted the Confucian norms of traditional Chinese government in their rule and were considered a Chinese dynasty.

Major combat in the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949 with Kuomintang ( KMT ) pulling out of the mainland, with the government relocating to Taipei and maintaining control only over a few islands.

Since the radical movement of the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese government has become much more tolerant with the practice of traditional beliefs.

Chinese government agencies entered characters using a long, complicated list of Chinese telegraph codes, which assigned different numbers to each character.

The Chinese government in 2003 acknowledged that it had lost track of 121 tons of ivory between 1991 and 2002.

Unlike Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek was socially conservative, promoting traditional Chinese culture in the New Life Movement and rejecting western democracy and the nationalist democratic socialism that Sun Yat-sen and some other members of the KMT embraced in favor of a nationalist authoritarian government.

After American-sponsored attempts to negotiate a coalition government failed in 1946, the Chinese Civil War resumed.

Now with an established national government in Nanjing, and supported by conservative allies including Hu Hanmin, Chiang's expulsion of the Communists and their Soviet advisers led to the beginning of the Chinese Civil War.

In 1927, when he was setting up the Nationalist government in Nanjing, he was preoccupied with " the elevation of our leader Dr. Sun Yat-sen to the rank of ' Father of our Chinese Republic '.

Mandarin Chinese Guoyu (" Nation-Language "), was promoted as an standard tongue, and the establishment of communications facilities ( including radio ) were used to encourage a sense of Chinese nationalism in a way that was not possible when the nation lacked an effective central government.

Alleged infiltration of the U. S. government by Chinese Communist agents may have also played a role in the suspension of American aid.

Seeking to promote Chinese nationalism, Chiang's government actively ignored and suppressed local cultural expression, even forbidding the use of local languages in mass media broadcasts or during class sessions.

Not only do most intellectuals within the Chinese government follow this school of thinking, but it is also the common belief held amongst pro-free trade liberals in the West.

The Chinese government was very quick to reject this and claimed that only it has the authority to select the next Dalai Lama.

* 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The government of Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei.

* 1916 – Wan Li, Chinese government official

* 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.

The Boxer movement was a secret Chinese peasant society committed to resisting oppression both from foreigners and from the Chinese government.

With the death of Stalin in early March 1953, Russian support for a Chinese hard-line weakened and China decided to compromise on the prisoner issue.

Hoxha and Shehu apparently decided in May or June 1960 that Albania was assured of Chinese support, and they openly sided with the PRC when sharp polemics erupted between the PRC and the Soviet Union.

Chinese lottery is not documented before 1847 when the Portuguese Government of Macao decided to grant a licence to lottery operators.

However, Kim Il-sung eventually decided that he was moving too far towards becoming a Chinese satellite.

His third remonstration also went unheeded, and Nichiren — following a Chinese adage that if a wise man remonstrates three times but is ignored, he should leave the country — decided to go into voluntary exile at Mt.

In the 19th century, the threat to the balance of payments of the United Kingdom from Chinese merchants demanding payment in silver in exchange for tea, silk, and porcelain led to the Opium War because Britain had to find a way to address the imbalance in the balance of payments, and they decided to do so by selling opium produced in their colony of British India to China.

The foreign secretary of the British Indian government, Henry McMahon, who had drawn up the proposal, decided to bypass the Chinese ( although instructed not to by his superiors ) and settle the border bilaterally by negotiating directly with Tibet.

After the People's Republic of China was founded, the Republic of China continued to represent China in the UPU, until the organization decided on April 13, 1972 to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative.

Volvo stopped posting profits in 2005 and in 2008, Ford decided to sell its interest in Volvo Cars ; in August 2010, Ford completed its sale of Volvo to the parent of Chinese motor manufacturer Geely Automobile for $ 1. 8 billion.

This drove the Chinese to restore relations with the US, as Mao Zedong decided that the Soviet Union was a much greater threat.

By 1878 Congress decided to act and passed legislation excluding the Chinese, but this was vetoed by President Hayes.

The filmmakers decided to change Mulan's character to make her more appealing and selfless and turn the art style closer to Chinese painting, with watercolor and simpler design-opposed to the details of The Lion King and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Remembering his youth and his family's reasons for leaving the Soviet Union, he " agonized over Google ’ s decision to appease the communist government of China by allowing it to censor search engine results ", but decided that the Chinese would still be better off than without having Google available.

Following this initial defeat, the PAP decided to re-assert ties with the labour faction of Singapore by promising to release the jailed members of the PAP and at the same time getting them to sign a document that they supported Lee Kuan Yew and the PAP, in the hope that it could attract the votes of working-class Chinese Singaporeans.

However, Mao's organs failed and the Chinese government decided to disconnect Mao's life support mechanism.

As Chiang Kai-shek pressured Ma Bufang to contribute more of his troops to fight Japanese invaders, Ma Bufang decided that, instead of using his own troops, he would instead send the 1, 500 Chinese Red Army prisoners-of-war as conscripts.

In 1878 the Chinese had reconquered Xinjiang, and by 1890 they already had Shahidulla before the issue was decided.

By July 1974, the Vietnamese leadership had decided to set the victory year to 1975, instead of 1976 as originally planned, because they believed an earlier Vietnamese unification would put Vietnam in a stronger position against Chinese and Soviet influence in the region.

In the aftermath of the Sino-Indian War of 1962 and the formation of military ties between the Chinese People's Republic and Pakistan, Shastri's government decided to expand the defence budget of India's armed forces.

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.

He read classic Chinese texts and even took his cue from Laozi when he decided to go on Hajj to Mecca.

Many bannermen forged geanealogies of their origin since they did not have any, and then these decided whether or not they were in a Chinese or a Jurchen banner.

Pope Clement XI decided in favor of the Dominicans ( who argued that Chinese folk religion and offerings to the emperor were incompatible with Catholicism ), which greatly reduced Catholic missionary activity in China.

Many bannermen forged genealogies of their origin since they did not have any, and then these decided whether or not they were in a Chinese or a Jurchen banner.

After defeats inflicted by the Chinese General Yuan Chonghuan upon the Manchus, the Manchu then decided to absorb Chinese prisoners who knew how to use guns into their army to supplement their forces.