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| Overseas Chinese Overseas Chinese are people of Chinese birth or descent who live outside the territories administered by the rival governments of the People's Republic of China (PRC) (mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau) and the Republic of China (ROC). People of partial Chinese ancestry may also consider themselves Overseas Chinese. A vast majority of the overseas Chinese hail from only three coastal provinces of the mainland viz. Guangdong, Fujian, and Hainan Overseas_Chinese | |
| Measures of national income and output A variety of measures of national income and output are used in economics to estimate total economic activity in a country or region, including gross domestic product (GDP), gross national product (GNP), and net national income (NNI).There are three main ways of calculating these numbers; the output approach, the income approach and the expenditure approach. Measures_of_national_income_and_output | |
| High-speed rail Talk:High-speed_rail | |
| Flood In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide.Flooding may result from the volume of water within a body of water, such as a river or lake, which overflows or breaks levies, with the result that some of the water escapes its normal boundaries. Flood | |
| Methane clathrate Methane clathrate, also called methane hydrate or methane ice, is a solid clathrate compound (more specifically, a clathrate hydrate) in which a large amount of methane is trapped within the crystal structure of water ice. Originally thought to occur only in the outer regions of the Solar System where temperatures are low and water ice is common, significant deposits of methane clathrate have been found under sediments on the ocean floors of Earth. Methane_clathrate | |
| Hello Kitty fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio. Designed by Ikuko Shimizu, the first product, a vinyl coin purse, was introduced in Japan in 1974, and in the United States in 1976.The Hello Kitty line has since developed licensing arrangements worth more than $1 billion a year in sales. Hello_Kitty | |
| Tibet Autonomous Region The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), also called Xizang Autonomous Region (; Wylie:Bod-rang-skyong-ljongs; ), is a province-level autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Within the People's Republic of China, Tibet is identified with the Autonomous Region, which includes about half of cultural Tibet, including the traditional provinces of Ü-Tsang and Kham (western half). Tibet_Autonomous_Region | |
| Long March The Long March () was a massive military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the Chinese Communist Party, the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) army. There was not one Long March, but several, as various Communist armies in the south escaped to the north and west. Long_March | |
| Naming conventions (Chinese) Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(Chinese) | |
| Mirage For other uses, see Mirage (disambiguation) mirage is a naturally occurring optical phenomenon in which light rays are bent to produce a displaced image of distant objects or the sky. The word comes to Eng Mirage | |
| Nursultan Nazarbayev Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev (Kazakh:Нұрсұлтан Әбішұлы Назарбаев ; Russian:Нурсултан Абишевич Назарбаев ) (born 6 July 1940 in Chemolgan, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union) has served as the President of Kazakhstan since the Fall of the Soviet Union and the nation's independence in 1991. He is criticised by some for slow action on widespread corruption, suppression of opposition, unfair elections and insufficient freedom of speech. Nursultan_Nazarbayev | |
| Erfurt massacre The Erfurt massacre was a School massacre that occurred on April 26, 2002 at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany. The gunman, 19-year-old expelled student Robert Steinhäuser, shot and killed sixteen people; comprising 13 faculty members, 2 students, and one police officer, before committing suicide. An additional seven people were injured either directly or indirectly from the shootings. Erfurt_massacre | |
| Alicia Keys Alicia Augello Cook (born January 25, 1981), better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American recording artist, musician and actress. She was raised in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York by her single mother, where Keys made a television appearance on The Cosby Show at the age of four. Alicia_Keys | |
| Lost Horizon Lost Horizon is a 1933 novel by English writer James Hilton. It is best remembered as the origin of Shangri-La, a fictional utopian lamasery high in the mountains of Tibet. Lost_Horizon | |
| Louis XVII of France Louis_XVII_of_France | |
| Guangdong Guangdong (; EFEO Kouangtong; pinyin Guǎngdōng; Postal map spelling:Kwangtung) is a province on the southern coast of People's Republic of China. The province was occasionally written with an alternative English name, the Canton Province, though Kwangtung Province was more commonly used. Guangdong | |
| Sichuan ''Postal map spelling:Szechwan and Szechuan) is a province (shěng) in Southwestern China with its capital in Chengdu. The current name of the province, 四川 (Sìchuān), is an abbreviation of 四川路 (Sì Chuānlù), or "Four circuits of rivers", which is itself abbreviated from 川峡四路 (Chuānxiá Sìlù), or "Four circuits of rivers and gorges", named after the division of the existing circuit into four during the Northern Song Dynasty. Sichuan | |
| Three Gorges Dam The Three Gorges Dam () is a hydroelectric river dam that spans the Yangtze River () in Sandouping, Yichang, Hubei, China. It is the largest hydroelectric power station in the world.With a long history of planning and more than a decade of construction, the dam body was finished in 2006. Three_Gorges_Dam | |
| Ronaldo Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima (; born September 18, 1976), more commonly known as Ronaldo, is a Brazilian professional footballer currently playing for Campeonato Brasileiro club Corinthians. In 1993, Ronaldo began his professional football career playing for Cruzeiro which was already going on to become a successful club. Ronaldo | |
| Political status of Taiwan political status of Taiwan hinges on whether Taiwan, including Penghu, should remain effectively independent as territory of the Republic of China (ROC), become unified with the territories now governed by the People's Republic of China (PRC), or formally declare independence and become the Republic of Taiwan. Political_status_of_Taiwan | |
| Renminbi The renminbi () (sign:¥; code:CNY) is the currency of the People's Republic of China (PRC), whose principal unit is the yuan (), subdivided into 10 jiao (角), each of 10 fen (分). The renminbi is issued by the People's Bank of China, the monetary authority of the PRC. The ISO 4217 abbreviation is CNY, although it is also commonly abbreviated as "RMB". The Latinized symbol is ¥. Renminbi | |
| Justin Timberlake Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31, 1981) Justin_Timberlake | |
| Timeline of historic inventions The timeline of historic inventions is a chronological list of particularly important or significant technological inventions.Note Dates for inventions are often controversial. Inventions are often invented by several inventors around the same time, or may be invented in an impractical form many years before another inventor improves the invention into a practical form. Where there is ambiguity, the date of the first known working version of the invention is used here. Timeline_of_historic_inventions | |
| Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (July 7, 1937 – September 9, 1945) was a military conflict fought between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. From 1937 to 1941, China fought alone with limited foreign help. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the war merged into the greater conflict of World War II as a major front in the Pacific Theatre. The Second Sino-Japanese War was the largest Asian war in the twentieth century. Second_Sino-Japanese_War | |
| Temple of Heaven Tian Tan redirects here. For the Big Buddha statue in Hong Kong, see Tian Tan BuddhaThe Temple of Heaven, literally the Altar of Heaven (; Manchu:Taoist buildings situated in southeastern urban Beijing, in Xuanwu District. The complex was visited by the Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties for annual ceremonies of prayer to Heaven for good harvest. It is regarded as a Taoist temple, although Chinese Heaven worship, especially by the reigning monarch of the day, pre-dates Taoism. Temple_of_Heaven | |
| Jewish Autonomous Oblast Jewish Autonomous Oblast (, Yevreyskaya avtonomnaya oblast; , yidishe avtonome gegnt) is a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous oblast) situated in the Russian Far East, bordering Khabarovsk Krai and Amur Oblast of Russia and Heilongjiang province of China.The autonomous oblast was established in 1934. Jewish_Autonomous_Oblast | |
| Zhang Ziyi Ziyi Zhang (Chinesepinyin:Four Young Dan actresses (四小花旦) in China, along with Zhao Wei, Xu Jinglei, and Zhou Xun. With a string of Chinese and international hits to her name, she has worked with renowned directors such as Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-Wai, Chen Kaige, Jackie Chan, Seijun Suzuki and Rob Marshall. Zhang_Ziyi | |
| Olympic Flame Olympic Flame or Olympic Torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus, its origins lie in ancient Greece, where a fire was kept burning throughout the celebration of the ancient Olympics. The fire was reintroduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, and it has been part of the modern Olympic Games ever since. Olympic_Flame | |
| Horse racing Horse racing is an equestrian sport that has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot races of Roman times are an early example, as is the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology. It is inextricably associated with gambling. The common sobriquet for Thoroughbred horse racing is The Sport of Kings. Horse_racing | |
| 2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, were a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) competed in 302 events in 28 sports, one event more than was on the schedule of the 2004 Games. 2008_Summer_Olympics | |
| China Central Television China Central Television or Chinese Central Television, commonly abbreviated as CCTV () is the major state television broadcaster in mainland China. CCTV has a network of 18 channels broadcasting different programmes and is accessible to more than one billion viewers. Most of its programmes are a mixture of documentary, comedy, entertainment and drama, the majority of which consists of Chinese soap operas and entertainment. China_Central_Television | |
| 1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event celebrated in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. It was the second summer Olympic Games to be held in Asia and the first since 1964 when the Summer Games were held in Tokyo. 1988_Summer_Olympics | |
| Hubei ''Postal map spelling:Hupeh) is a central province of the People's Republic of China. Its abbreviation is 鄂 (pinyin:Qin Dynasty. The name Hubei means "north of the lake", referring to Hubei's position north of Lake Dongting. The capital of Hubei is Wuhan.Gaybei borders Henan to the north, Anhui to the east, Jiangxi to the southeast, Hunan to the south, Chongqing to the west, and Shaanxi to the northwest. The high-profile Three Gorges Dam is located in Yichang, in western Hubei. Hubei | |
| Kashgar Kashgar or Kashi (officially transliterated as Kaxgar in Uyghur; /; , is an oasis city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. Kashgar city has an area of 15Kashgar Prefecture which has an area of 162,000 Kashgar | |
| Fujian This article is about the People's Republic of China province. For the province in the Republic of China (Taiwan), see Fujian Province, Republic of China.''Postal map spelling:Hokkien:provinces on the southeast coast of China. Fujian borders Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait. The name Fujian comes from the combination of Fuzhou and Jian'ou, two cities in Fujian. The name was coined during the Tang Dynasty. Fujian | |
| Python reticulatus Common names reticulated python, regal python, Asiatic reticulated python. Python reticulatus is a species of python found in Southeast Asia. Adults grow to a maximum of over 28 feet (8.7 m) in length and are the world's longest snakes, but are not the most heavily built. Like all pythons, they are non-venomous constrictors and normally not considered dangerous to man, even though large specimens are powerful enough to kill an adult and attacks are occasionally reported. Python_reticulatus | |
| Jiang Zemin Jiang Zemin (; born 17 August 1926) was the "core of the third generation" of Communist Party of China leaders, serving as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002, as President of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003, and as Chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004.Jiang came to power in the wake of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, replacing Zhao Ziyang, who was purged for being too conciliatory towards the protestors, as General Secretary. Jiang_Zemin | |
| EBay EBay | |
| Madonna (entertainer) Madonna (born Madonna Louise Ciccone on August 16, 1958) is an American recording artist, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan and raised in Rochester Hills, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977, for a career in modern dance. After performing as a member of the pop musical groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her self-titled debut album, Madonna in 1983 by Sire Records. Madonna_(entertainer) | |
| Motion picture rating system A motion picture rating system categorizes films with regard to suitability for audiences in terms of issues such as sex, violence, substance abuse, profanity, impudence or other types of mature content. A particular issued rating is called a certification.This helps parents decide whether a movie is suitable for their children. Motion_picture_rating_system | |
| Pebble bed reactor pebble bed reactor (PBR) is a graphite-moderated, gas-cooled, nuclear reactor. It is a type of Very high temperature reactor (VHTR) Generation IV initiative. Like other VHTR designs, the PBR uses TRISO fuel particles, which allows for high outlet temperatures. A number of prototypes have been built. Active development is ongoing in South Africa as the PBMR design, and in China whose HTR-10 is the only prototype currently operating. Pebble_bed_reactor | |
| Xiamen Xiamen (pronounced Pinyin), also known as Amoy (), is a coastal sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian province, People's Republic of China. It looks out to the Taiwan Strait and borders Quanzhou (Chôan-chiu) to the north and Zhangzhou (Chiang-chiu) to the south.Xiamen and the surrounding countryside are famous for being an ancestral home to overseas Chinese and one of China's earliest Special Economic Zones in the 1980s. It covers an area of 1 Xiamen | |
| Jonathan Pryce Jonathan Pryce, CBE (born 1 June 1947) is a Welsh stage and film actor/singer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and marrying Irish actress Kate Fahy in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s. His work in theatre, including an award-winning performance in the title role of the Royal Court Theatre's Hamlet, led to several supporting roles in film and television. He made his breakthrough screen performance in Terry Gilliam's 1985 cult film Brazil. Jonathan_Pryce | |
| Jackie Chan Jackie Chan, SBS, MBE (born Chan Kong Sang, 陳港生, on 7 April 1954) is a Hong Kong actor, action choreographer, filmmaker, producer, martial artist, screenwriter, entrepreneur, singer and stunt performer.In his films, he is known for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons and innovative stunts. Jackie_Chan | |
| Ambulance ambulance is a vehicle for transporting sick or injured people, to, from or between places of treatment for an illness or injury. The term ambulance is used to describe a vehicle used to bring medical care to patients outside of the hospital or to transport the patient to hospital for follow-up care and further testing. Ambulance | |
| Hakka people The Hakka people (Hakka language:Hak-kâ; Mandarin Chinese:Kèjiā) speak the Hakka language and belong to a subgroup of the Han Chinese people based in the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangxi, and Fujian in China. Their ancestors were often said to have arrived from what is today's central China centuries ago, but the origins of the Hakkas is still a contested issue. Hakka_people | |
| Ice cream Talk:Ice_cream | |
| Maggie Cheung Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (; born on September 20, 1964) is a Cannes Best Actress, Berlin Best Actress, five-time Hong Kong Film Award and five-time Taiwan Golden Horse winning Chinese actress from Hong Kong. Raised in England, she has over 70 films to her credit since starting her career in 1983. She is the first Asian actress to win a prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Maggie_Cheung | |
| Gong Li Gong Li (; born December 31, 1965) is a Chinese-born film actress. Gong first came into international prominence through close collaboration with Chinese director Zhang Yimou and is credited with helping bring Chinese cinema to Europe and the United States. Gong_Li | |
| Hu Jintao Hu Jintao ( Hu_Jintao |
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