While married to Mao, Chiang adopted two concubines ( concubinage was still a common practice for well-to-do, non-Christian males in China ): he married Yao Yecheng ( 姚冶誠, 1889 – 1972 ) in 1912 and Chen Jieru ( 陳潔如, 1906 – 1971 ) in December 1921.

While some anti-imperialist narratives notably those of historians within the People's Republic of China as well as Western Marxist histories incorporate anti-imperialist narratives in their histories, many anti-imperialist narratives are non-Marxist or as in the case of the Kuomintang in the 1960s, actively anti-Marxist.

While the CIA and MI6 and the People's Liberation Army of China financed the operation along with the Pakistan government against the Soviet Union Eventually the Soviet Union began looking for a withdrawal route and in 1988 Geneva Accords were signed between Communist-Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ; under the terms Soviet troops were to withdraw.

While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary of the Communist Party of China ( the highest position in Communist China ), he nonetheless served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1992.

While his paternal family had become prosperous early on in New York real estate and trade, much of his family's wealth had been built by FDR's maternal grandfather, Warren Delano, in the China trade, including opium and tea.

* 1276 – While taking exile in Fuzhou in southern China, away from the advancing Mongol invaders, the remnants of the Song Dynasty court hold the coronation ceremony for the young prince Zhao Shi, making him Emperor Duanzong of Song.

While most of China is bogged down, almost inevitably, by Civil War, Chinghai is attempting to carry our small-scale, but nevertheless ambitious, development and reconstruction schemes on its own initiative "

While Polo's book describes paper money and the burning of coal, it fails to mention the Great Wall of China, chopsticks, and footbinding, making skeptics wonder if Marco Polo had really gone to China, or wrote his book based on hearsay.

While it had long been thought that Manichaeism arrived in China only at the end of the seventh century, a recent archaeological discovery demonstrated that it was already known there in the second half of the sixth century.

While remote, rural areas still largely depend on non-mechanized means of transport, a modern maglev train system was built in China to connect the city center of Shanghai with its international airport.

While China invested roughly 9 % of its GDP on infrastructure in the 1990s and 2000s, most emerging economies invested only 2 % to 5 % of their GDP.

While much of this structure remains in place, the President Lee Teng-hui in 1991 unofficially abandoned the government's claim of sovereignty over mainland China, stating that they do not " dispute the fact that the Communists control mainland China.

While Vietnam has remained relatively conflict-free since its Cambodia days, tensions have arisen in the past between Vietnam and its neighbors, especially in the case of China since both nations assert claims to the Spratly Islands, an archipelago in a potentially oil-rich area of the South China Sea.

While BMW sells far fewer V12-engined 7-Series vehicles than V8 versions, the V12 retains popularity in the US, China, and Russia, as well as maintaining the marque's prestige in the luxury vehicle market segment.

While originally a civil war, it quickly escalated into a war between the western powers under the United Nations Command led by the United States and its allies and the communist powers of the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union.

* June 3 – While operating at sea on SEATO maneuvers, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne accidentally rammed and sliced in two the American destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in the South China Sea, killing 74 American seamen.

While the Qin emperor successfully instilled fear and respect for law into the minds of his people, the harshness of the law led to his quick demise after only 14 years of reigning over China.

While it had a significant presence in the Central Asia, it did not gain any significance in China and East Asia until modern missionaries from Europe and North America arrived in the 19th century.

* August 11 – While conducting a siege against the Song Dynasty city known as Fishing Town in the province of Chongqing, China, the Mongol Khagan, Mongke Khan, dies in the nearby hills.

While the United States and the Soviet Union each developed robust first-and second-strike capabilities during the Cold War, the People's Republic of China pursued a doctrine of minimal nuclear deterrence.

While en route to the Shi ' ar home world, Xavier is abducted and is later thrown into the M ' Kraan Crystal by Vulcan.

While Iran has outlawed homosexuality, Iranian Shi ' a thinkers such as Ayatollah Khomeini have allowed for transsexuals to change their sex so that they can enter heterosexual relationships.

While on Cable's island, the team and Iceman began working to defeat the Shi ' ar weapon known as the Hecatomb.

While Shi ' a and Druze parties command fierce loyalty to their leaderships, there is more factional infighting among many of the Christian parties.

While Shi ' a and Sunni accept the same sacred text, the Qur ' an, some claim that Shi ' a dispute the current version, i. e. they add two additional surahs known as al-Nurayn and al-Wilaya.

While the vast majority of Samarra's native citizens are Sunnis and the Sunnis do not share the same religious practices that the Ja ' farī Madhhab Shi ' a of Iraq do, they consider these to be the grave sites of their forefathers and the pillars of Islam (' Ali al-Hadi and Hasan al-Askari ).

While Shang Yang ( the Prime Minister of Duke Xiao of Qin ) would allow rulers to listen to musical instruments rather than focus on foreign policy, Han Fei ( the Legalist scholar most admired by the First Qin Emperor, Qin Shi Huangdi ) demanded more of the wise ruler.

While there is reason to doubt Sima Qian ’ s claim that Qin Shi Huang did in fact divide households into groups of ten, certainly the other examples of standardization and administrative organization undertaken by the First Emperor reflect the importance of Legalist thought in Qin law.

While in the Genosha prison cells, Gambit and Xavier find the Shi ' ar parts hunters and they are told what is happening.

While they battle, Rachel and Korvus try, and fail, to stop the beacon that will initiate the attack by the Shi ' ar.

While they battle, Rachael and Korvus try, but fail to stop the beacon that will initiate the attack by the Shi ' ar.

While the Avengers Infinity group are held by the Shi ' ar, the Ruul imprison them under the orders of the Supreme Intelligence.

While ethnic media might provide a useful category of analysis, it can sometimes, as Shi points out, run the risk of homogenizing all members of a certain given ethnic group into a single overarching descriptive category.

While Shen was appointed as the regional inspector of Zhejiang in 1073, the Emperor requested that Shen pay a visit to the famous poet Su Shi ( 1037 – 1101 ), then an administrator in Hangzhou.

While the majority of Muslims in Singapore are traditionally Sunni Muslims who follow the Shafi ' i school of thought, there are also Muslims who follow the Hanafi school of thought as well as Shi ' ite Muslims.

While acknowledging its support base to be the “ traditionally under-represented politically and economically disadvantaged ” Shi ' a community, it aimed, according to Palmer-Harik, to seek social justice for all deprived Lebanese.

While the Shi ' ites take the meaning ' master ' or ' ruler ', some Sunni scholars say that Muhammad was merely saying that anyone who was his friend should also befriend Ali.

While enrolled in the Beijing Film Academy, Tian directed a short student film, Our Corner ( 1980 ), based on a short story by Shi Tiesheng.

While Sunnis regard him as his rightful successor ( caliph ), chosen by the people, indeed, the first of four righteous Caliphs ( Rashidun ), the Shi ' a insist that he violated Muhammad's direct orders and orchestrated a Coup d ' état.

While the Farangis had accepted Mughal gifts in the seventeenth century, by the nineteenth century they had withdrawn from politics to avoid contamination by the Shi ’ a rulers of Lucknow and their British overlords.

While both Sunni and Shi ' a groups believe in the Mahdi, the largest Shi ' a group, the Twelvers, believe that the Mahdi is the Twelfth Imam, Muhammad al-Mahdi, who is believed to have gone into occultation since 874 CE.