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  China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One of the most important events for the Chinese people that happens during the last decade of the 20th century was the return of the colonies of Hong Kong by the United Kingdom and Macao by Portugal to the PRC in 1997 and 1999 respectively.
Chinese was the official language, though periods of Mongol and Manchu conquest saw the arrival of Mongol and Manchu as alternate official languages.
Chinese characters have had many variants and styles throughout the Chinese history, and were "simplified" in the mid-20th century on mainland China.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/China   (6790 words)

  
 Chinese  security strategy in Asia-Pacific region
Chinese security strategy is based on the basic interest of Chinese people, not for an alliance with any big power and national group; stand for peaceful and negotiated settlement of all its problems.
The basic character of Chinese are organic unity, peace in foreign policy on the basis of protecting national sovereignty and prosperity and developing nature of defence of military strategy and nature of cooperation of regional security.
Chinese policy of being independent and keeping initiative in her own hands, help preventing in emergence of single hegemonic situation, preventing a new political alliance group in Asia-Pacific region, keeping other countries in maintaining independence and keeping initiative in their hands, and protecting peace and security in Asia-Pacific region.
www.defencejournal.com /2002/march/chinese.htm   (3364 words)

  
 Exploring Chinese History :: Geographical Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
A list of Chinese geographic terms and their meanings, Chinese cities and provinces and topographical features, such as rivers, lakes and mountains as well as an index to all terms in the database are all located at the end of the page, after the database entries.
Chinese: 安徽; Pinyin: Ānhuī; Anhwei)- Province in eastern China, comprising the broad alluvial lowland of the flood-prone Huai River in the north, the intensively cultivated alluvial lowlands along the Yangtze River in the south, and a rugged, hilly area in the extreme south.
The island was retaken in 1945 by the Chinese Nationalists, and in 1950 it passed to the Chinese Communists.
www.ibiblio.org /chinesehistory/geo.html   (17211 words)

  
 China's WMD in the Greater Middle East's Door
The Chinese are increasingly viewed by states in the region as a counterbalance or alternate source of military assistance by many nation-states in the Middle East and South Asia.
Chinese military and security assistance is a means for American security partners to seek weapons and training that are not offered by American security assistance programs, as well as to provide a source of military hardware that could be used in combat against U.S. forces in the event of war.
Chinese security relationships with these countries, particularly in areas related to weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems, will have a major impact on the regional balance of power as well as on American security policy toward these states and the region.
meria.idc.ac.il /journal/2005/issue3/jv9no3a6.html   (6473 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China (Chinese Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
The region has an extensive network of waterways, in addition to several roads and railroads; a railway runs to Vietnam.
The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, which has a large non-Chinese minority, was created in 1958 from Guangxi prov.
The Zhuang are the second largest ethnic group in China after the Han, and are by far the largest minority in the region.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/GuangxiZ.html   (381 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China (Chinese Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region[ning´shyA´ hwE] Pronunciation Key, autonomous region (1994 est.
The Chinese population is by far the largest; other ethnic groups include the Hui, Mongols, Tibetans, and Manchus.
Formerly a province, Ningxia was incorporated into Gansu in 1954 but was detached and reconstituted as an autonomous region for the Hui people in 1958.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/NingxiaH.html   (333 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | Chinese region 'must conduct 20,000 abortions'
A CHINESE county has been ordered to conduct 20,000 abortions and sterilisations before the end of the year after communist family planning chiefs found that the official one-child policy was being routinely flouted.
Hospitals use the operations to generate cash both from local women and visitors from neighbouring Hong Kong who think it is easier to travel across the border and pay £40 for the procedure than to go through the formalities required under the laws of the former British colony.
The clinics catering for Hong Kong and Chinese city-dwellers are a far cry from the primitive facilities in Huaiji.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/08/05/wchin05.xml   (872 words)

  
 East Asia Analytical Unit - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Even today, ethnic Chinese may differentiate among themselves according to dialect, sub-dialect, clan and family, all of which are linked to their place of ancestral origin in China, as well as by country of birth, or of current residence, outside China.
Despite their size, the major ethnic Chinese enterprises in the region remain, for the most part, entrepreneurial and agile, with the ultimate head, no matter how large the enterprise, staying close to the market, and remaining sensitive to shifts in market conditions.
In this manner, the ethnic Chinese business community of East Asia appears to have taken on a role akin to that of the Japanese in the 1970s and early 1980s, as underwriters of the earlier stages of the region's economic transformation.
www.dfat.gov.au /publications/catalogue/overseas_chinese_business.html   (4142 words)

  
 NARA - Pacific Region - Chinese Exclusion Laws-Background   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Passed by the 47th Congress, this law suspended immigration of Chinese laborers for ten years; permitted those Chinese in the United States as of November 17, 1880, to stay, travel abroad, and return; prohibited the naturalization of Chinese; and created a "Section 6" exempt status for teachers, students, merchants, and travelers.
Referred to as the Geary Act, it allowed Chinese laborers to travel to China and reenter the United States but its provisions were otherwise more restrictive than preceding immigration laws.
This Act required Chinese to register and secure a certificate as proof of their right to be in the United States.
www.archives.gov /pacific/education/4th-grade/chinese-exclusion.html   (414 words)

  
 Chinese Cuisine
To begin, it is best to divide Chinese cuisine, with all the appropriate disclaimers and caveats, into that of four major regions: the northern plains, including Beijing; the fertile east, watered by the Yangtse River; the south, famous for the Cantonese cooking of the Guangdong Province; and the fecund west of Szechwan and Hunan Provinces.
The north is not amenable to rice cultivation so, wheat, barley, millet and soybeans are the staples; breads and noodles anchor the meal.
Beijing is the pearl of the region; royal haute cuisine was born and bred inside her walls.
www.cuisinenet.com /glossary/china.html   (425 words)

  
 chinese foreign investment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Charles McClain often used by conference speakers to describe Chinese foreign trade and investment law was that of the moving target An annotated list of Internet resources on foreign investment and trade in China.
Charles McClain often used by conference speakers to describe Chinese foreign trade and investment law was that of the moving target There's currently meager Chinese investment in the United States to see Chinese investment here.
Charles McClain often used by conference speakers to describe Chinese foreign trade and investment law was that of the moving target Chinese Foreign Investment Laws.
www.4-topic.info /foreign-investment/chinese-foreign-investment.htm   (1299 words)

  
 Learn to cook like a Chef - Chinese Cuisine: A Culinary Trip to China
Chinese Cuisine - A Culinary Trip to China's Beijing Region (North) : Beef skewers with Sweet Chili Dip, Quick Chicken Soup with Nappa cabbage, Shredded Pork Wrapped in Sesame Crepes.
Chinese Cuisine - A Culinary Trip to China's Canton Region (South) : Chinese Broccoli with Oyster Sauce, Steamed Striped Bass with Black Bean Sauce, Singapore Noodles with Shrimp.
Chinese Cuisine - A Culinary Trip to China's Sichuan Region (West) : (Szechaun): Chinese Greens with Honey Mustard Dressing and Walnuts, Kung Pao Chicken, Egg Noodles with Spicy Vegetables.
recipes.chef2chef.net /learn-to-cook/chinese-cuisine   (223 words)

  
 Asian GIS Data License Price List: Soviet Union, Russia, China, South-East and South Asia
Data for the entire former Soviet Union are available, and the Economic Regions of the Russian Federation and the Ukraine are available separately, as are the Baltic, Transcaucasus and Central Asian Economic Regions.
All points are identified with Chinese character and both pinyin and luomaji romanised names, and are coded with the Guobiao codes of their administative units as of the GB/T 2260 - 2002, which has a currency date of 2002-10-01.
Chinese Character and pinyin (romanised) names and GB 2260 - 1991 official Guobiao codes are included.
www.asian.gu.edu.au /price.html   (7415 words)

  
 Education World® - *Arts & Humanities : Literature : By Region : Asian : Chinese
Chinese Literature Includes children's literature, criticism and theory, folk literature, magazines, novels, opera and drama.
Chinese Text Initiative Big 5 texts with English translation of Chinese literature, including 300 Tang poems and Gu Yao Yan.
Literature from the Descendants of the Dragon General overview of chinese literature from 4000 B.C. to 1945, with brief notes on various authors and works.
db.education-world.com /perl/browse?cat_id=6857   (399 words)

  
 China and Islam in the Northwest Chinese Region - by Sascha Matuszak
The people of the region retain the traces of the past in their buildings, mode of life, and faces — local Uighur populations range from dark and heavily bearded to green-eyed and pale.
Hotan region is a good example of what happens when Han and Uighur are thrown together.
When money from the center arrives in Urumqi and is dispersed throughout the regions, Han businessmen flock to the small towns and gobble up the loans, acting on tips from Party and bank officials.
www.antiwar.com /matuszak/?articleid=2535   (1493 words)

  
 Ultimate AV: Chinese-region DVD?
May 26, 2002 — Taiwanese and Chinese electronics makers hope to save billions in royalty fees by developing proprietary optical disc formats for the Chinese region, according to reports from Taipei in late May.
Chinese manufacturers have until June 30 to sign on with that plan.
Chinese and Taiwanese engineers are also reportedly making progress on a red laser-based high definition optical disc format.
ultimateavmag.com /news/11303   (350 words)

  
 Chinese region aims to provide free AIDS treatment for up to 20,000
Chinese region aims to provide free AIDS treatment for up to 20,000
A poverty-stricken south Chinese region that has been severely hit by the AIDS epidemic plans to offer free anti-viral treatments for up to 20,000 people, state media said Monday.
The program, launched in the Guangxi Zhuang region bordering on Vietnam, will be carried out over the coming five to 10 years, the Xinhua news agency reported.
www.terradaily.com /2005/050502030300.i75nx3y5.html   (298 words)

  
 DVDBeaver.com - DVD Comparison "Sonatine" MIA - Region 2 - PAL vs. Chinese Bootleg - Region 3 - NTSC vs. Panorama - ...
The Chinese Bootleg is from the Bandai DVD and, once more, is the best of the compared.
The MIA DVD looks basically as a direct transfer from the Panorama, only with different subtitles, as both colour scheme and bottom / left cropping of 2,5% are the same.
The Chinese Bootleg has a sharper more detailed picture and the colours are rich and saturated.
www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDCompare2/sonatine.htm   (776 words)

  
 Relief efforts stepped up in frozen Chinese region
Much of the bad weather, the worst in 20 years in the region that borders Central Asia and Russia, was centered around the cities of Altai, Tacheng, Yining and Bole.
In worst-hit Altai region over one meter (3.3 feet) of snow had fallen since late December, while the mercury had dropped to as low as minus 43 degrees Celsius (minus 45 degrees Fahrenheit), the Xinmin Evening News said.
Average daily highs in the region were expected to remain as low as minus 17 degrees Celsius.
www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=98385   (531 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | The Chinese region with women in charge
Visitors also beat a path to the region because of their fascination with the unique social structure of the Mosuo people, which is very different from that of China's other 54 ethnic groups.
But the Han Chinese have this problem," said 17-year-old Bima Qizou, who described Mosuo relationships as "pure love".
And the rest of the 20,000-strong Mosuo people in this region want a share of the 21st Century too.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/4252552.stm   (937 words)

  
 Chinese region 'must conduct 20,000 abortions' [Free Republic]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
I equate the investors eager to sink their American money into Chinese deals with the fools who threw fortunes at dot com enterprises - buying stock at $65 per share that is now worthless.
I was referring to Chinese women who are forced to have abortions and who don't resist - because naturally they are in trouble already for being pregnant and they don't want to be injured or killed.
Most of us are indeed born with a conscience but the Chinese are brainwashed from birth onward, thus denying them their God-given instinct and aren't even aware that it is God who gave them life in the first place.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b6cb12f02e8.htm   (5425 words)

  
 Hwang - UF Journal of Undergraduate Research Paper
By choosing a region in which there was not a strong base of coffee drinkers, Starbucks had a first-mover advantage and the opportunity to create a new perception of coffee, as it had in the United States.
Starbucks’ decision to implement its Chinese expansion strategy was not only based on its initial success in mainland China, but also by the overall development of the coffee market.
Despite the difficulties of Chinese real-estate due to the country’s rapid growth and urban expansion, Starbucks’ target consumers in each of its Chinese markets is helpful in predicting where in China a Starbucks would succeed.
www.clas.ufl.edu /jur/200507/papers/paper_hwang.html   (3438 words)

  
 World Masterpiece Theater // Video List // Nausicaa.net
Japanese and Mandarin dub with Traditional Chinese and English subtitles.
Japanese and Mandarin dub with Traditional Chinese and Japanese subtitles.
Japanese and Mandarin dub with Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese subtitles.
www.nausicaa.net /miyazaki/video/wmt   (741 words)

  
 It Shines For All: 'Chinese Region of Tibet'? Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
A Chinese soldier, left, and an Indian soldier maintain ceremonial positions marking the international boundary of their countries respectively at the opening of the Nathu La Pass, in northeastern Indian state of Sikkim, Thursday, July 6, 2006.
The opening ceremony took place at the windswept border between India's Sikkim state and the Chinese region of Tibet.
About 200,000 Palestinians are residents of East Jerusalem, occupied by Israel in 1967 and later annexed in a move not recognised internationally.
www.shinesforall.com /archives/2006/07/chinese_region.html   (330 words)

  
 Political Crossfire Forums :: View topic - Chinese region 'must conduct 20,000 abortions'
Either the chinese have aborted babies or possibly have people starve in the future...
To keep the population stable you have to have a 2 child policy in place.
I know religion is supposed to be the opiate of the masses but in your case you may be over doing it.
www.politicalcrossfire.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=36078   (902 words)

  
 DVDBeaver.com - DVD Comparison "The Celebration" Alliance Atlantis (Canada) - Region 1 - NTSC vs. Universal - Region 1 ...
The Chinese disc has a distinctly warmer color cast, which is usually a good thing, but I'm not certain it's preferable in this instance.
The Chinese disc's audio is an artificial surround mix, which while not awful, also does nothing to improve on the original two-channel sound.
I believe this Chinese DVD of The Celebration was released in 2000, and was possibly the first edition of the film in the world with English subs, but I haven't seen it offered anywhere recently.
www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDCompare7/celebration.htm   (943 words)

  
 CTAP Region 1 - Chinese Cookware Wireless Antenna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
CTAP Region 1 - Chinese Cookware Wireless Antenna
Experimenters in New Zealand have found a unique use for a mesh chinese cooking scoop and a USB wireless adapter.
Visit this web page for the details on construction and their remarkable testing results.
ntap.k12.ca.us /article.php?story=20040526091856270&mode=print   (89 words)

  
 ASPAC:PAPERS:INDEX:REGION:CHINA/CHINESE STUDIES
The following page is an index of previously submitted ASPAC Conference papers.
This index is organized alphabetically by geographic region.
In order to find the paper that you are interested in, please click on the nation below which corresponds to the nature of the paper which you are interested in.
mcel.pacificu.edu /aspac/papers/indexis/china.htm   (285 words)

  
 WJLA - Chinese Region OKs More Foreign Investment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
China has gradually been ceding government control as it attempts to restructure aging, unprofitable factories into modern, competitive enterprises.
Rules on access to foreign investors vary by region and by industry.
Liaoning is in northeastern China's rust belt of aging state industries that once dominated a centrally planned economy.
www.wjla.com /headlines/0905/260644.html   (421 words)

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