The identity of the high-ranking personage who lived luxuriously in Chinese style, far outside of the borders of the Han Empire, has remained a matter for discussion ever since.

Thus, this notion, which remained relevant throughout Chinese history, reflects the order of nature.

The relationship between Chiang Kai-shek and Chinese capitalists remained poor throughout the period of his administration.

After the war, 200, 000 Chinese troops under General Lu Han were sent by Chiang Kai-shek to northern Indochina ( north of the 16th parallel ) to accept the surrender of Japanese occupying forces there, and remained in Indochina until 1946, when the French returned.

Chinese thought on the form of the earth remained almost unchanged from early times until the first contacts with modern science through the medium of Jesuit missionaries in the seventeenth century.

He remained unimpressed with China and the Chinese, writing: " A Chinaman can not live up to a thing, he always drags it down.

It was lent to the Portugal as a trading post but remained under Chinese authority and sovereignty.

Legalism, along with its pro-meritocratic ideals, remained a key part of Chinese philosophy and politics for another two millennia, although after the Qin Dynasty it was heavily diluted.

The Socialist People's Republic of Albania took the Chinese party's side in the Sino-Soviet Split and remained committed, at least theoretically, to Hoxhaism, its brand of Stalinism, for decades thereafter, under the leadership of Enver Hoxha.

Wuxia stories have become a new genre of writing within Chinese society and have remained popular in several countries with significant Chinese-speaking communities, such as Taiwan, Singapore, Vietnam and Malaysia.

Despite its loss of influence during the Tang Dynasty, Confucianist doctrine remained a mainstream Chinese orthodoxy for two millennia until the 20th century, when it was attacked by radical Chinese thinkers as a vanguard of a pre-modern system and an obstacle to China's modernization, eventually culminating in its repression during the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.

Animalistic guardian spirits of day and night wearing Han Chinese clothing | Chinese robes, Han Dynasty Chinese paintings | paintings on ceramic tile ; Michael Loewe writes that the Hybrid ( mythology ) | hybrid of man and beast in art and religious beliefs predated the Han and remained popular during the first half of Western Han and the Eastern Han.

In Chinese history, people wrote of two vital aspects of the soul of which one is freed from the body during slumber to journey a dream realm, while the other remained in the body.

After the war, 200, 000 Chinese troops under General Lu Han sent by Chiang Kai-shek invaded northern Indochina north of the 16th parallel to accept the surrender of Japanese occupying forces, and remained there until 1946.

These mummified remains may have been of people who spoke Indo-European languages, that remained in use in the Tarim Basin, in the modern day Xinjiang region, until replaced by Turkic influences from the northern Xiongnu Empire, and by Chinese influences from the eastern Han Dynasty, who spoke a Sino-Tibetan language.

Despite a considerable movement among Inner Mongolia's Mongols ( who comprised then around 15 % of Inner Mongolia's population, while Han Chinese around 83 %) for unification with Outer Mongolia, Inner Mongolia remained part of China.

Several prominent members of the Chinese Soviet who remained behind were captured and executed by the Kuomintang after the fall of Ruijin in November 1934, including Qu Qiubai and the youngest brother of Mao Zedong, Mao Zetan.

Esoteric practices related to Cundi ( Buddhism ) | Cundī have remained popular in Chinese Buddhism and the Sinosphere.

Proposals for reunification were not actively floated in Taiwan and the issue remained moot under President Chen Shui-bian, who refused to accept talks under the pre-conditions insisted on by Beijing until 2008 with the presidential election of Ma Ying-Jeou, agreeing to the One China policy and stating the official government of the Chinese state is the Republic of China.

General Sun was a popular Chinese war hero from the Burma Campaign against the Japanese and remained under house arrest until Chiang Ching-kuo's death in 1988.

The evacuation of the cities disproportionately affected Chinese and Vietnamese, who were unused to agricultural work, segregated from Khmers in labor camps, and forbidden to speak their own language or practice non-Khmer religion.

However, the arrived-at number of 105 per annum granted to the Chinese was disproportionately low.

Moreover, the Burmese Chinese have a disproportionately large presence in Burmese higher education, high powered private sector white collar jobs, and the educated class in Burma.

The Burmese Chinese place a high importance on education, and represent a disproportionately high share of those with advanced ( medical, engineering or doctorate ) degrees in Burma.

One of the probable reasons for this trade developing out of Swatow, or present-day Shantou, has to do with the disproportionately large numbers of ethnic Chinese migrating to South East Asia from Guangdong and neighboring Fujian Province.

Indonesian President Sukarno, backed by the powerful Communist Party of Indonesia ( PKI ), chose to regard Malaysia as a " neocolonialist " plot against his country, and backed a Communist insurgency in Sarawak, mainly involving elements of the local Chinese community.

Eventually coming to adopt an orthodox Marxist-Leninist position by accepting not only Marx's ideas but also those of Lenin, he came to view Chinese nationalism as a powerful tool in the national liberation struggle against western and Japanese dominance, but unlike orthodox Marxist-Leninists also viewed nationalism as something intrinsically valuable in itself.

* Emperor Han Zhangdi dies at age 31 after a 13-year reign in which Chinese military forces have become powerful enough to march against tribes who threaten their northern and western borders.

* In the Tang Dynasty Chinese capital of Chang ' an, a powerful court eunuch orders 50 wrestlers to arrest 300 commoners over a land property dispute in Northwest Chang ' an, whereupon a riot breaks out in the streets between the grapplers and the citizens.

* December 14 – Ganlu Incident: In the northeast sector of the Chinese capital Chang ' an, after a failure by the chancellor Li Xun to slaughter the powerful eunuchs, troops under the eunuchs ' command slaughter many court officials and Li Xun's associates.

* October 21 – Taizu of Later Liang, powerful Chinese jiedushi who overthrew the Tang Dynasty ( d. 912 )

When the Chinese communists took over Tibet in 1951, Bhutan closed its frontier with Tibet and sided with its powerful neighbor to the south.

A location in the west of the archipelago was thus sought ; the Straits of Malacca were strategic, but had become dangerous following the Portuguese conquest and the first permanent VOC settlement in Banten was controlled by a powerful local ruler and subject to stiff competition from Chinese and English traders.

* Cao Zhi, Chinese poet, also younger brother of Cao Pi and son of the powerful warlord Cao Cao.

During the mid-Qing dynasty, Chinese pirate fleets grew increasingly powerful throughout the early 19th century.

* Taizu of Later Liang, powerful Chinese jiedushi who overthrew the Tang Dynasty ( b. 852 )

The Chinese were also strongly attracted by the tall and powerful horses ( named " Heavenly horses ") in the possession of the Dayuan, which were of capital importance in fighting the nomadic Xiongnu.

The Xiongnu were the most powerful non-Chinese ethnic group bordering the Chinese Han Dynasty, therefore the Han simply referred to them as the Hu ( the non-Chinese or barbarians ).

In Chinese Lat Sao the focus is more on realistic powerful attack, so the sequence generally ends within two-three strikes.

In a few places, eunuchs wielded vast power ; one of the most powerful eunuchs in Chinese history was Wei Zhongxian during the Ming Dynasty.

Thus, by 1900, the Qing dynasty, which had ruled China for more than two centuries, was crumbling and Chinese culture was under assault by powerful and unfamiliar religions and secular cultures.

Champa and the powerful Khmer Empire took advantage of the Lý Dynasty's distraction with the Chinese to pillage the south of the country.

Chu was nominally a tributary state of the Zhou Dynasty, and it was itself an extension of the Chinese civilization that had emerged some centuries before in the north ; but it was also culturally unique, and was a powerful state that held onto much of the middle and lower Yangtze River, with power extending northwards into the North China Plain.

* Tutu Chengcui ( died 820 ), a powerful eunuch during the reign of Chinese Emperor Xianzong

* Han ( state ) ( 韓國 Hanguo ), one of seven powerful kingdoms during the Chinese Warring States Period

The Chinese dragon is one of the most important mythical creatures in Chinese mythology, considered to be the most powerful and divine creature as well as controller of all waters.

The Chinese concept of the world was largely a division between the civilized world and the barbarian world and there was little concept of the belief that Chinese interests were served by a powerful Chinese state.