Sorvino is a Mandarin-speaking Harvard University graduate who spent a college year abroad in Beijing.
Third, the novice's chief credentials were that he had been a mandarin in the construction ministry.
He is, however, a mandarin of the new school: instinctively open, naturally beguiling, a manager and a motivator.
As a Mandarin speaker with a small company, she often had the edge over larger, more bureaucratic Western and Japanese companies.
Had he lived in old China Sir Alec would have been regarded as a mandarin, for which there were nine grades.
The Chinese seem to have regarded him as a mandarin, which he was, defining that word as a senior civil servant behaving with careful correctness.
As a Mandarin speaker and the former U.S. ambassador to China, Huntsman appears to have all the qualifications necessary to build a stronger relationship between the two countries.
As a member of the Republican Party, which is generally considered favorable to business and China, and a Mandarin speaker, Ambassador Huntsman is well qualified to speak on the subject.
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The role as head of the civil service will be hived off, after a competition, to a top mandarin running a government department.
On January 15th a young Mandarin-speaking girl dropped some dried noodles she had been nibbling on a Hong Kong underground train.
It may take little more than a web connection and a little Mandarin fluency.
Tonight on Decision Time on BBC Radio 4 I chair a discussion with a tabloid editor, the former chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, a campaigner for Hacked Off, a former Culture Secretary and a senior mandarin.
Yet it was a Treasury mandarin, Sir Steve Robson, who dreamt the whole thing up in the first place, and two secondees working for the Treasury, Adrian Montague and Shriti Vadera, who led last year's protracted negotiations with Mr Kiley.
You may think this blindingly obvious, even to a former Treasury mandarin, but Lord Burns has a serious point, which is that the leading hound does not always kill the fox with a single bite.
As Dodington speaks the Shanghai dialect with a Southern drawl and Lee chats in Mandarin with a Californian twist, Fu, too, has discovered the connection between his musical notes and the city that effortlessly blends East and West.
When a local Cantonese speaker objected to the noodle-eating in bad Mandarin, a quarrel erupted.
And at a seminar in Mandarin in July, Tang reportedly noted that 80% of Chinese Singaporeans speak Mandarin.
More than 25 Chinese Canadian journalists were due to cover the game, including one who presented Lin with a book of "Year of the Dragon" stamps from Canada Post and asked him to record a message in Mandarin, which he did.
For drinks with a view, try the Mandarin Hotel at Columbus Circle for a spectacular panorama overlooking Central Park.
It's not uncommon for students to take a politics class in Mandarin or history in Arabic.
They cannot afford a stay at the Copacabana Palace anymore than an average American can afford a stay at the Mandarin in Boston.
Synaptics' chief scientist, Shawn Day, is close to releasing a phone finger touchpad for writing Mandarin characters--an easier way to key in a mobile text message (the Chinese send millions of them every day).
It also highlights a next step for Apple's retail strategy: Jung, who is fluent in Mandarin, made Avon a force in China.
Siri is going international: In addition to English and a handful of other languages she will now process Spanish, Italian, Korean, Mandarin and Cantonese -- a nod to Apple's growing popularity in China.
Now demand is strong enough that specialists are considering whether Mandarin teachers need a fast-track credential process.
One day James Linen from Time magazine at The Mandarin offered her a public relations job in New York.
Back in Singapore she landed a sales job at the Mandarin Hotel and worked her way up to become assistant general manager.
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At Piedmont High School in the Oakland Hills, there are 14 students in this first-year Mandarin class, a mixture of Asian, white, African-American and Indian.
Before arriving each morning, he works out with a personal trainer or studies Mandarin, which he is learning in preparation for the trip to China.
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