Since the early 1990s, many American Chinese restaurants influenced by California cuisine have opened in San Francisco and the Bay Area.

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.

Tsiang and John King Fairbank, who used newly opened archives in the 1930s to write from the Chinese point of view.

This defines a PHY amendment adds new rf spectrum specifications to address the Chinese regulatory changes which have opened the 314-316 MHz, 430-434 MHz, and 779-787 MHz bands for Wireless PAN use within China.

The center was completed in 2009 and opened by the Chinese President Hu Jintao.

Their atrocities at Ningpo and Macao, and their subsequent servility, had opened the eyes of the Chinese to their true character, and unfortunately for other European adventurers, they had come to the conclusion that all western nations were alike.

In 1940, they returned to Chongqing and established the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives, which opened job opportunities for people through weaving, sewing and other crafts.

A new social computing and e-health laboratory opened in Beijing as a collaboration with the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to provide cross-disciplinary research in information science, health and social computing.

On July 1, 1992, in order to meet growing demand, the Chinese government opened the legal services market to foreign law firms allowing them to establish offices in China when the Ministry of Justice and the State Administration of Industry and Commerce ( SAOIC ) issued the Provisional Regulation of Establishment of Offices by Foreign Law Firms regulation.

Devising an appropriate response to the problems created by reforms opened a rift in the Chinese leadership.

Besides all levels of Chinese language teaching, the university has opened courses such as Chinese literature, Chinese history, Chinese economy, Chinese philosophy and Chinese law for interested international students.

Under the terms of the Treaty of Nanjing, signed in 1843, Ningbo became one of the five Chinese treaty ports opened to virtually unrestricted foreign trade.

Tsui Gallery of Chinese art opened in 1991, displaying a representative collection of the V & As approximately 16, 000 objects from China, dating from the 4th millennium BC to the present day.

In the 1980s, banks which opened new branches and others which were renovating started to use Chinese traditional styles for their building facades.

In addition, the Qing Dynasty opened Manchuria to Han Chinese immigration during the 19th century ; Shandong was the main source of the ensuing tide of migrants.

One of the first public projects of the fund was financing the establishment of the Laogai Museum, a museum opened by noted Chinese dissident Harry Wu to showcase China's laogai penal system.

Xiamen was one of the five Chinese treaty ports opened by the Treaty of Nanking ( 1842 ) at the end of the war.

# Ten more Chinese ports would be opened for foreign trade, including Niuzhuang, Tamsui, Hankou, and Nanjing

# Folding fans ( Chinese:, zhě shàn ; Japanese:, sensu, can be freely opened ): silk folding fans, paper folding fans, sandalwood fans, etc.

* A Chinese Honeymoon London production opened at the Strand Theatre on October 5 and ran for 1075 performances.

In East Asia fire is represented by the Vermilion Bird, known as 朱雀 ( Zhū Què ) in Chinese, Suzaku in Japanese and Ju-jak ( 주작, Hanja: 朱雀 ) in Korean.

The Chinese fire lance was the direct predecessor to the modern concept of the firearm.

The original predecessor of all firearms, the Chinese fire lance and European hand cannon were loaded with gunpowder and the shot ( initially lead shot, later replaced by cast iron ) through the muzzle, while a fuse was placed at the rear.

A Chinese pirate or commercial shipwreck site yielded a paired swivel gun, for rapid firing: one barrel would fire whiles its opposite was being reloaded, though this remains a rare find.

The impression made by Greek fire on the west European Crusaders was such that the name was applied to any sort of incendiary weapon, including those used by Arabs, the Chinese, and the Mongols.

* 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.

* Chinese fire drill

* Assam smoked oolong: Assam tea made according to Chinese methods, and delicately smoked over open fire

Daoshi act as interpreters of the principles of Yin-Yang 5 elements ( fire, water, soil, wood, and metal p. 53 ) school of ancient Chinese philosophy, as they relate to marriage, death, festival cycles, and so on.

Ninth century Chinese Taoist alchemists discovered black powder while searching for the elixir of life ; this accidental discovery led to experiments as weapons such as bombs, cannon, incendiary fire arrows and rocket-propelled fire arrows.

The terminology used by al-Rammah indicated a Chinese origin for the gunpowder weapons he wrote about, such as rockets and fire lances.

* Shin Ki Chon — Korean variation of the Chinese fire arrow

The site for constructing the walls and the thickness of the walls in Beijing's Forbidden City were favored by the Chinese Yongle Emperor ( r. 1402 – 1424 ), because they were in pristine position to resist cannon volley and were built thick enough to withstand attacks from cannon fire.

* Observing the confusion in the Vikings defense: " Look at Kassulke ( Viking SS Karl Kassulke ) out there, it looks like he's in a Chinese fire drill.

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

* July 31 – Captain Kerans of the HMS Amethyst decides to make a break after nightfall, under heavy fire from the Chinese People's Liberation Army on both sides of the Yangtze River, and successfully rejoins the fleet at Woosung the next day.

* Chinese text the Huolongjing by Jiao Yu describes fire lances, fire arrows ( rockets ), rocket launchers, land mines, naval mines, bombards, cannons, and hollow cast iron cannonballs filled with gunpowder, and their use to set ablaze enemy camps.

* In 919, the first use of gunpowder in battle occurred with the Chinese Battle of Lang-shan Jiang ( Wolf Mountain River ), where the naval fleet of the Wen-Mu-King defeated Chien Yuan Kuan because Wen had used ' fire oil ' ( huo yóu, 火油 ) of gunpowder-fuse ignited flamethrowers to burn Chien's fleet.

* In the Tang Dynasty Chinese capital of Chang ' an, a large fire consumes 4, 000 homes, warehouses, and other buildings in the East Market, yet the rest of the city is at a safe distance from the blaze ( which is largely quarantined in East Central Chang ' an thanks to the large width of roads in Chang ' an that produce fire breaks ).

* August 7 – The Ming Dynasty Chinese military general Cao Qin stages a coup against the Tianshun Emperor ; after setting fire to the eastern and western gates of the Imperial City ( Beijing ) ( which are doused by pouring rains during the day-long uprising ), Cao Qin finds himself hemmed in on all sides by imperial forces, loses three of his own brothers in the fight, and instead of facing execution he flees to his home in the city and commits suicide by jumping down a well located within his walled compound.

* April 15 – A fire breaks out in the Song Chinese capital city of Hangzhou, raging for 4 days and nights, destroying 58, 097 houses over an area of more than 3 miles, killing 59 people, and an unrecorded amount of other people who are trampled while attempting to flee.

* A major fire destroys some 30, 000 dwellings in the Chinese capital city of Hangzhou.