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.
It is also possible that Europe is worth listening to precisely because it has made its own mistakes, some of which have their echoes in modern Chinese policy.
"With a lack of political reform, one can hardly say that the Chinese Communists' foundation for building a modern Chinese state are consolidated, " Hong Kong Economic Journal comments.
He was part of that so-called fifth generation of film makers who first opened the world's eyes to modern Chinese cinema but who fell foul of official opinion inside China.
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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.
That is until you log on to sites, particularly those of foreign media (such as this one), which give you a bit more insight into modern Chinese life than the coal output for September in Heilongjiang province.
Modern Chinese travel, like the modern Chinese state, is predicated on the fragile promise that it will impose order on a chaotic world, by shepherding its citizens and keeping them safe from threats that can include Western thieves and Western cuisine.
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.
Chinese leaders see a modern navy as necessary to protecting Chinese assets and interests increasingly spread across the world.
Like the Japanese who fanned out across the world after the 19th-century Meiji Restoration, this modern generation of Chinese entrepreneurs is unashamedly copying ideas and business models wherever they can find them.
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.
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 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.
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.
We can debate whether "Communist" has much meaning now or whether the party is just the modern version of the Chinese dynast, but its singular hold is what gives a liberal world fits.
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.
Only when Chinese have free access to information will Chinese society become truly modern.
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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.
Modern translations of the novel have been published in Chinese, German, French, Italian and English.
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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.
Third, Chinese corporations have yet to develop a modern capitalist mindset, whereby corporations exist to create value for consumers and the society at large rather than to enrich their owners, often party bosses and government bureaucrats.
Of course, modern sartorial trends aren't nearly as punishing as Chinese foot binding or Victorian-era corsets, which could crush women's ribs and displace internal organs.
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