She spent 10 years studying professional dancing, and classical Chinese dance was her major.
The lessons are in classical Chinese, which is as different from modern Man-darin as Latin is from today's Italian.
He wrote poems in classical Chinese, owed his politics to a German and under his rule many Vietnamese learned Russian.
Classical Chinese notions of beauty call for cherry-blossom lips and an egg-shaped face, and the artists have shaped young Mulan accordingly.
This includes Chiang's own diary, in which he wrote at least a page of classical Chinese daily from 1918 to 1972.
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The Golden Dragon Museum opened in Bendigo in 1991 and has crafted classical Chinese gardens, the Guan Yin Temple and a Chinese tea room.
The Hong Kong auction, which will feature ink paintings, calligraphy and classical Chinese furniture, marks the first time a Chinese auction house will compete with Sotheby's and Christie's on their home turf.
At the northern end of the Forbidden City is the Imperial Garden, a classical Chinese garden with 7, 000 sq metres of fine landscaping, including rockeries, walkways, pavilions and ancient - carbuncular and deformed - cypresses.
They are part neighbourhood association centre, part temple, part community foundation, and almost always decorated in coiling dragons, paintings of Immortals, Confucian sages, Taoist demigods and Buddhist scripture, photos of ancestors and inlaid classical Chinese script.
In 1912, the government abolished the teaching of the classics and began promoting a written form of the vernacular, rather than classical written Chinese, which was decipherable only to scholars.
He and his friends poured over Western books, enjoyed Western classical music and even began to opt for Western-style toilets over Chinese ones.
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