Chinese leaders see a modern navy as necessary to protecting Chinese assets and interests increasingly spread across the world.
Modern Chinese society continues to have many aspects that still emphasizes family wealth.
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And IOC officials are already pointing out how the Beijing Games have apparently inspired more volunteerism, still relatively rare in modern Chinese society.
This odd situation became apparent when Mr Midler witnessed large, modern Chinese factories outsourcing work to smaller, grittier, facilities even though this meant forgoing the production benefits from economies of scale.
She went on to read modern Chinese with Japanese at Durham University where she was described as a bright, capable, "lively" student who would always speak out if she had something to say.
For anyone numbed by the impersonal nature of modern Chinese apartment blocks or the frenzied pace of urban China, the earth buildings are enchanting reminders of communal village life and the ancient rhythms of the agrarian southeast.
Founded in 1973, Cloud Gate (it gets its name from China's oldest dance, dating back 5, 000 years) is on a nonstop voyage through world cultures, fusing tai chi, meditation, Chinese opera, modern dance and ballet into an art form that has captivated international audiences.
While all countries experience leadership changes that can be described as generational in one sense or another, modern Chinese history has been so eventful as to have created generations that, as a group, share distinct characteristics and are markedly different from their forebearers in their historical, educational and career experiences.
The Hong Kong company aims to strike gold by expanding the global appeal of traditional Chinese medicines and by using modern drug development methods to unearth new drugs within Chinese medicinal herbs.
In the 1990s several big pharmaceutical firms, including Bayer AG of Germany, Eli Lilly and Pfizer, formed alliances with Chinese research institutes or companies that specialized in traditional Chinese medicines, aiming to apply modern drug-hunting techniques to screen Chinese herbal medicines for potential Western blockbusters.
In the 1990s several big pharmaceutical firms, including Bayer (nyse: BAY - news - people ) AG of Germany, Eli Lilly and Pfizer, formed alliances with Chinese research institutes or companies that specialized in traditional Chinese medicines, aiming to apply modern drug-hunting techniques to screen Chinese herbal medicines for potential Western blockbusters.
The National Library of China (NLC) contributed manuscripts, maps, books, and rubbings of steles and oracle bones that span the range of Chinese history from ancient to modern times.
Venus boxes will supposedly allow the majority of TV owners to leapfrog that stage and enter the information superhighway almost immediately. (The devices, developed at Microsoft's Beijing lab, are expected to be ready by the end of the year.) This, say Venus boosters, is a modern device with Chinese characteristics.
The hotel also has a modern version of a Chinese tea house and sunken garden on street level.
Mathaf, billed as an Arab museum of modern art, had Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang as the centerpiece of its first major solo show.
The lessons are in classical Chinese, which is as different from modern Man-darin as Latin is from today's Italian.
But this place truly is the sort of spot where the island's many identities - Malay, Chinese, Indian, British colonial, modern tourist - thread together into a beautiful knot.
The story focuses on character and plot more than many Chinese epics do, and its presentation is modern, using slow-mo fight replays and computer-animated anatomy sequences to illustrate the forensic detective work.
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Modern translations of the novel have been published in Chinese, German, French, Italian and English.
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Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have stuck with the old ways, shunning modern medical tools such as MRIs and CAT scan machines.
Around the year 1200, the Chinese refined the design, creating suan-pan, or the modern, wire-based abacus.
Block engraving may be used to print books in a variety of traditional styles, to create modern books with conventional binding, or to reproduce ancient Chinese books.
Following a model used by Japan and Korea, China is also encouraging foreign automakers to bring modern emissions and safety technology and share it with their Chinese partners.
Many of these young Chinese started returning home in the 1920s and 1930s, imbued with Western ideas about modern design.
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Many Chinese companies use Western-sounding names to make their companies or product brands sound modern, or to imply their businesses have Western connections.
Modern Media Holdings, which partners with Bloomberg L.P. to publish a Chinese-language edition of Bloomberg Businessweek in China, said yesterday it has reached an agreement with the U.S. media giant to develop mobile and tablet products in addition to its print version.
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The Chinese people will restore themselves to their rightful place since 1700 AD with a new outlook towards the modern era as peaceful partners in our global and increasingly interdependent world.
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