); 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.

Among Chinese Buddhists she is worshiped as goddess of light and as the guardian of all nations, whom she protects from the fury of war.

but why did the Old Chinese postulate five elements, when the Ancient Near East -- which may have initiated the idea that natural elements exerted influence in human life and activities -- recognized only four??

In classical Chinese astronomy, the northern sky is divided geometrically, into five " enclosures " and twenty-eight mansions along the ecliptic, grouped into Four Symbols of seven asterisms each.

Using the same coloring scheme of the traditional Chinese dice, every half-domino with 1 or 4 spots has those spots colored red ( for example, the 4-5 domino has four red spots and five white spots ).

The doctrines of Chinese medicine are rooted in books such as the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon and the Treatise on Cold Damage, as well as in cosmological notions like yin-yang and the five phases.

The Chinese elements were seen as ever changing and moving — one translation of wu xing is simply " the five changes ".

Yin, Yang, and the five elements are associated with themes in the I Ching, the oldest of Chinese classical texts which describes an ancient system of cosmology and philosophy.

The five elements also play an important part in Chinese astrology and the Chinese form of geomancy known as Feng shui

Air is not one of the traditional five Chinese classical elements.

Within Chinese medicine texts the Wu Xing are also referred to as Wu Yun ( 五運 wŭ yùn ) or a combination of the two characters ( Wu Xing-Yun ) these emphasise the correspondence of five elements to five ' seasons ' ( four seasons plus one ).

By 1880, almost a thousand Chinese people, " one for every five Caucasians ," lived in Carson City.

* Wu Xing, sometimes translated as five elements, the basis of the universe according to Chinese Taoism

A playable 9000-year-old Gudi ( literally, " bone flute ") was excavated from a tomb in Jiahu along with 29 defunct twins, made from the wing bones of red-crowned cranes with five to eight holes each, in the Central Chinese province of Henan.

Five-spice powder is a mixture of five spices used primarily in Chinese cuisine but also used in other Asian cookery.

The tutorial he gave to Chinese physicists helped them to develop the bomb they tested five years later, according to authors Thomas Reed and Daniel Stillman.

The Khitan, however, had two scripts of their own and many Mongolic words are found in their half-deciphered writings that are usually found with a parallel Chinese text ( for example, nair = sun, sair = moon, tau = five, jau = hundred, m. r = horse, im. a = goat, n. q = dog, m. ng = silver, ju. un = summer, n. am. ur = autumn, u. ul = winter, heu. ur = spring, tau. l. a = rabbit, t. q. a = hen and m. g. o = snake ).

* 2005 – The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.

Phonemic tones are found in languages such as Mandarin Chinese, in which a given syllable can have five different tonal pronunciations.

The five largest religious groups by population, estimated to account for between 5 and 7 billion people, are Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism ( with the relative numbers for Buddhism and Hinduism dependent on the extent of syncretism ) and Chinese folk religion.

There are five major styles of t ' ai chi ch ' uan, each named after the Chinese family from which it originated:

Another example of a unary counting system clustered in counts of five is the Chinese, Japanese and Korean custom of writing the Chinese character, Korean Hanja character, or Japanese kanji character 正 which takes 5 strokes to write, one stroke each time something is added.

In Southern dialects of Chinese, such as Cantonese or Minnan, some monosyllabic words are made of exclusively nasals, such as " no " and " five ".

The classical element of Water was also one of the five elements in traditional Chinese philosophy, along with earth, fire, wood, and metal.