The zero was probably introduced to the Chinese in the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) when travel in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East would have provided direct contact with India, allowing them to acquire the concept of zero and the decimal point from Indian merchants and mathematicians.

" The Abbot " was a nickname of RZA from the Wu Tang Clan.

Buddhism arrived in China around the 1st century AD, but it was not until the Northern and Southern, Sui and Tang Dynasties that it gained considerable influence and acknowledgement.

The oldest extant Chinese star chart dates to the Tang period and was preserved as part of the Dunhuang Manuscripts.

In China during the Tang Dynasty, cannibalism was supposedly resorted to by rebel forces early in the period ( who were said to raid neighboring areas for victims to eat ), as well as both soldiers and civilians besieged during the rebellion of An Lushan.

This economic phenomenon was a slow and gradual process that took place from the late Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 ) into the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ).

Tang Dynasty was founded by Emperor Gaozu on June 18, 618.

Underlying the prosperity of the early Tang Dynasty was a strong centralized bureaucracy with efficient policies.

The emperor Xizong fled to Chengdu, and Huang established a new temporary regime which was eventually destroyed by Tang forces.

Buddhism arrived in China around the 1st century AD, but it was not until the Northern and Southern, Sui and Tang Dynasties that it gained considerable influence and acknowledgement.

It was created by the Hui people during the Tang Dynasty of China.

Mail was introduced to China when its allies in Central Asia paid tribute to the Tang Emperor in 718 by giving him a coat of " link armour " assumed to be mail.

The Battle of Talas in 751 CE was a conflict between the Arab Abbasid Caliphate and the Chinese Tang Dynasty over the control of Central Asia.

Though the fact of the irregularity of the lunar orbit was known in the 1st century BC, the starts of the months were calculated using the mean motions of both the sun and moon until 619, the second year of the Tang dynasty, when chronologists began to use true motions modeled using two offset opposing parabolas ( with small linear and cubic components ).

Tsai Chin was Fu Manchu's daughter, Lin Tang in the five Christopher Lee films of the 1960s.

In this era of escalating Japanese militarism, the name was changed from (" Chinese hand " or " Tang hand " verbatim, as the name of the Tang dynasty was a synonym to China in Okinawa ) to (" empty hand ") – both of which are pronounced karate – to indicate that the Japanese wished to develop the combat form in Japanese style.

Japan was invading China at the time, and Funakoshi knew that the art of Tang / China hand would not be accepted ; thus the change of the art's name to " way of the empty hand.

* In China, Guanshiyin was changed to Guanyin due to the unacceptability of the original under the naming taboo of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, whose personal name was Li Shimin ( contains the Chinese character shi 世 ).

One of the masters of the form was Du Fu, who wrote during the Tang Dynasty ( 8th century ).

The first known book on cards called Yezi Gexi was allegedly written by a Tang era woman, and was commented on by Chinese writers of subsequent dynasties.

By September 1982, he had settled on John Sykes who had been a member of Tygers of Pan Tang, and he co-wrote the first single from the album, " Cold Sweat ", although the rest of the album had already been written.

Initially, President Chen Shui-bian appointed to the premiership Tang Fei, who was a member of the Kuomintang, but this arrangement proved unworkable and subsequent appointments were from the Democratic Progressive Party.

His father Tang Hsiang Chien is a former standing committee member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the advisory body to the National People's Congress.

Tang's father is Tang Hsiang Chien, a former standing committee member of the CPPCC.

His brother, Tom Tang Chung-yen, is a member of the Trade Development Council, and whose reappointment to the post by CY Leung, after he vanquished Tang to become Chief Executive in 2012, was seen as part of a reconciliation between the two camps.

* In Taiwan ( Republic of China ), the Democratic Progressive Party ( Min-chu Chin-pu Tang, member LI, CALD ) is a left-of-center liberal party.

The Democratic Progressive Party ( Min-chu Chin-pu Tang, a member of LI, CALD ) is a liberal party in Taiwan.

He is a former member of the rock band Tang Dynasty and has further enlivened contemporary Chinese music culture with the formation of another ethnically-oriented heavy metal rock group, Spring and Autumn ().

His key opponent, former Chief Secretary Henry Tang, had 285 and the third candidate, opposition member Albert Ho 76 votes.

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, most warlords in China begun to nominally unite against the Japanese invaders and Tang became an important member of Chiang Kai-shek's national defense committee.

He was a member of Japanese missions to Tang China.

Qian Liu recognized the new Later Liang emperor as well, despite urgings by his staff member Luo Yin to join the other military governors in opposing Later Liang due to its usurpation of the Tang throne.

The ninth member, Tang escaped re-arrest as she was in the United Kingdom.

The ninth member, Tang Fong Har, escaped the re-arrest as she was overseas at the time, and has remained in exile to this day.

Tang briefly served from 25 May to 21 June 2005 as acting Chief Executive after Tung Chee Hwa, the former Chief Executive who resigned citing health reasons.

Tang served as Acting Chief Executive of HKSAR soon after Tsang's resignation was announced.

On 28 September 2011, in a widely trailed move, Tang resigned from his post, and then in late November announced his candidacy for Chief Executive.

He threw his weight behind his ally Henry Tang in the 2011 Chief Executive election.

On 27 May 2011, Michael Lynch, the former Chief Executive of the London ’ s Southbank Centre, was appointed as CEO of West Kowloon Cultural District Authority by Hong Kong's chief secretary Henry Tang.

* Non Executive Director: Richard Yat-sun Tang *

He is the father of Henry Tang Ying Yen, the former Financial Secretary of Hong Kong and now candidate for Chief Executive from 2012.