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The Chinese severely damaged four Japanese warships — the Japanese flagship Matsushima suffered the worst single-ship loss with more than 100 dead or wounded after being hit by a heavy Chinese round ; Hiei being severely damaged and retired from the conflict ; Akagi suffering from heavy fire and with great loss of life ; Saikyo, the converted liner, urged on by Admiral Kabayama Sukenori despite its lack of offensive armament, had been hit by four 12 inch ( 305 mm ) shells and was sailing virtually out of control as a result — did cosmetic damage to two more, and killed about 180 Japanese sailors and wounded 200 more.
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He made the documentary Chung Kuo, Cina, but it was severely denounced by the Chinese authorities as " anti-Chinese " and " anti-communist ".
The status of traditional Chinese culture within China was also severely damaged as a result of the Cultural Revolution.
* The Chinese city of Jinyang is severely flooded in the Battle of Jinyang, where the elite families of Jin, Zhao, Zhi, Wei, and Han, fight.
American playwright and novelist Frank Chin has severely criticized Kingston's The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, claiming that she had tainted the purity of Chinese tradition in reinterpreting stories and myths.
Tang China was in a state of decline, and Chinese Buddhists were severely persecuted, undermining Japanese respect for Chinese institutions.
Paparazzi and Infotainment, especially in the severely competitive Chinese language newspaper market, often lead to the voice for more control over media.
The monastery reached its peak of influence during the Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 CE ), but was severely damaged during the Taiping Rebellion and was almost destroyed during the Republican period ( 1912 – 1949 ) of Chinese history.
* Group 5 contained a miscellaneous set of demands, ranging from Japanese advisors appointed to the Chinese central government and to administer the Chinese police force ( which would severely intrude on Chinese sovereignty ) to allowing Japanese Buddhist preachers to conduct missionary activities in China.
For instance, Wang Yangming's theories, which were popular in the Chinese Ming Dynasty, were regarded as heresy and severely condemned by Korean neo-Confucianists.
The War of the Eight Princes severely damaged the traditional Chinese economic heartlands in the lower Yellow River.
The Turpan kingdom under Mansur in alliance with Oirat Mongols tried to raid Suzhou in Gansu in 1528, but were severely defeated by Ming Chinese forces and suffered heavy casualties.
Chinese troop movement was severely handicapped by the lack of sufficient motorized vehicles and adequate railway lines.
As the Chinese formations surged in they were engaged from all sides from the surrounding hills and quite severely mauled.
His Rangers held off five successive Chinese counterattacks before he was severely wounded during a sixth counterattack and evacuated despite his protests.
In three days of fighting, the determined resistance of 29th Brigade severely disrupted the Chinese offensive, causing it to lose momentum and allowed UN forces in the area to withdraw to the No-Name Line, a defensible position north of Seoul, where the Chinese were halted.
Gen. Yamashita instructed the Syonan garrison to cooperate with the Syonan Kempeitai, the Japanese military police to " punish hostile Chinese severely ".
The rocks are severely weathered on the surface, a thick layer of the coarser products of denudation covers the flat parts and climbs a good way up the flanks of the mountain ranges, but all the finer material, sand and clay has been blown away partly southeast into the Ordos, partly into the Chinese provinces of Shen-si and Shan-si, where it is deposited as loess, and partly west, where it chokes all the southern parts of the basin of the Tarim.
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There has been a gradual relaxation of Marxist interpretation after the death of Mao in 1976, which was accelerated after the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989 and Revolutions of 1989, which have damaged Marxism's ideological legitimacy in the eyes of Chinese people.
When the People's Republic was founded in 1949, the telecommunications systems and facilities in China first established by the Qing and Republican ITA and Ministry of Posts and Communications had been seriously damaged from over thirty years of on and off war between warlords, Japan, and the two sides of the Chinese Civil War.
Colonel Linnan was portrayed as half-European, a change which she found insulting to his Chinese lineage, and she felt her reputation damaged by the Hollywood-embellished love scenes in the film ; not only had she never kissed any man, but also the film's ending portrayed her character abandoning the orphans in order to join the colonel elsewhere even though in reality she did not retire from working with orphans until she was sixty years old.
Anti-Falun Gong propaganda activities dominated the Chinese media during that time as the government justified its actions, arguing that Falun Gong practices were dangerous and damaged people's physical and mental health.
For example, Chinese and Russian industrial pollution, such as phenols and heavy metals, has devastated fish stocks in the Amur River and damaged its estuary soil.
The Global Language Monitor predicts it will thrive, and estimates that roughly 20 percent of new English words derive from Chinglish, for instance, shanzhai ( 山寨 ; literally " mountain stronghold ; mountain village ") meaning " counterfeit consumer goods ; things done in parody " — Huang Youyi, president of the China Internet Information Center, predicts that linguistic purism could be damaged by popular Chinese words of English origin ( such as OK and LOL ).
Civilians sort through the ruins of their homes in Cholon, the heavily damaged Chinese section of Saigon
Many credited the prompt action of foreign advisers in the Beiyang Fleet ( most notably McGiffin ) from keeping the fleet from total annihilation, and for keeping even the most heavily damaged Chinese ships fighting till the very end of the engagement.
Because Chinese farmers were not eligible for bonuses ( since they were not technically state employees ), China's agricultural sector, which had prospered in the first stage of the reform, was especially damaged by inflation.
Herbie pulls Jim back to safety, but then is impounded by the San Francisco Police Department There, Mr. Wu, a Chinese businessman whose store was damaged during Herbie's rampage, demands compensation that Jim can no longer afford.
The silk is partially damaged, with many Chinese characters missing.
Today, Japanese and some Chinese scholars discredit the intentionally damaged stele theory based on the study of the stele itself and the pre – Sakō and pre-lime-marred rubbings.
Colonel Linnan was portrayed as half-European, a change which she found insulting to his Chinese lineage, and she felt her reputation damaged by the Hollywood-embellished love scenes in the film ; not only had she never kissed any man, but also the film's ending portrayed her character abandoning the orphans in order to join the colonel elsewhere even though in reality she did not retire from working with orphans until she was sixty years old.
The damaged EP-3E makes an emergency landing without permission at Lingshui airfield on Chinas Hainan Island, where the Chinese take its 24-person crew prisoner.
There was extensive ecological damages as well ; many trees were damaged or destroyed, including the city ’ s aged Chinese elm trees.
Imari bigan to be exported to Europe, because the Chinese kilns at Ching-te-Chen were damaged in the political chaos and the new Qing dynasty government stopped trade in 1656 – 1684.
Although Chinese civilization originated in the North China Plain around the Yellow River, natural climate change and continuous harassment from nomadic enemies damaged North China's agricultural productivity throughout the 1st millennium AD.
Environmentalists complained that it damaged the habitat of the Chinese white dolphins.
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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??
And why did the Chinese suddenly begin to talk about the Five Directions, when the animals they used as symbols of the directions designated only the usual four??
At the World Championships, four Chinese swimmers tested positive for the banned substance Triamterene, a diuretic used to dilute urine samples in order to mask the presence of anabolic steroids.
Although its Academy Award was presented to Taiwan, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was in fact an international co-production between companies in four regions: the Chinese company China Film Co-Production Corporation ; the American companies Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Sony Pictures Classics and Good Machine ; the Hong Kong company EDKO Film ; and the Taiwanese Zoom Hunt International Productions Company, Ltd ; as well as the unspecified United China Vision, and Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd., created solely for this film.
This, of course, gave great prestige to the Chinese version and in the first four years of play only one winner has emerged out of China.
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 ).
In 1986, Prince Philip commented on Chinese eating habits at the World Wildlife Fund conference: " If it has four legs and is not a chair, if it has two wings and flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.
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 ).
Some Chinese couplets may consist of two lines of four characters each.
Chinese checkers ( alternate spelling Chinese chequers ) is a board game that can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners.
Chinese society has traditionally been divided into four social classes: scholar-officials, farmers, artisans, and merchants.
The word for four in Chinese is a homophone of the word for death and is considered unlucky ; it is probable that red fours are of Indian origin.
In Hanyu Pinyin, the four tones of Mandarin Chinese are denoted by the macron ( first tone ), acute ( second tone ), caron ( third tone ) and grave ( fourth tone ) diacritics.
The last encyclopedia of the four, the Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau, amounted to 9. 4 million Chinese characters in 1, 000 written volumes.
The Han Dynasty ( simplified Chinese: 汉朝 ; traditional Chinese: 漢朝 ; pinyin: Hàn Cháo ; 206 BCE – 220 CE ) was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms ( 220 – 265 CE ). Spanning over four centuries, the period of the Han Dynasty is considered a golden age in Chinese history. To this day, China's majority ethnic group refers to itself as the " Han people ".
Both Syrian and Russian hamsters mature quickly and can begin reproducing at a young age ( 4 – 5 wk ), whereas Chinese hamsters will usually begin reproducing at two to three months of age, and Roborovskis at three to four months of age.
Russian hamsters ( Campbell's and Djungarian ) live about two to four years in captivity, and Chinese hamsters 2. 5-3. 0 yr.
He divided livelihood into four areas: food, clothing, housing, and transportation ; and planned out how an ideal ( Chinese ) government can take care of these for its people.
There are seventeen newspapers ( twelve in Chinese, four in Portuguese and two in English ).
Radios and Radio Stations: There are 250, 000 radios ; two twenty-hour FM radio stations, one Portuguese, one Chinese ; and four AM stations.
Standard Chinese or Standard Mandarin is the official language of the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China and one of the four official languages of Singapore.
The internal microarchitecture of Loongson microprocessors was designed independently by the Chinese, and early implementations of the family lacked four instructions patented by MIPS Technologies.
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