china

     

China (traitional Chinese: 中國; simplified Chinese: 中国; Hanyu Pinyin: Zhōngguó (help·info); Tongyong Pinyin: Jhongguó; Wade-Giles (Mandarin): Chung¹kuo²) is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity occupying a large portion of land in East Asia.

Trivia about china

  • Of the 4 largest Asian countries in area, it's the only one that borders the other 3
  • It was the 1st country to use paper money
  • On October 16, 1964 at Lop Nor this nation detonated its first nuclear device
  • Because of a policy adopted in 1979, this country's young people are collectively referred to as "little emperors"
  • In 1882 the emperor of this country established the Order of the Double Dragon for foreigners
  • P'u-Yi
  • Li Xiaoshuang became the first athlete from this country to win the men's all-around gold in gymnastics
  • An 1882 act excluded laborers from this Asian country from entering the U.S.
  • This country has accused the Falun Gong sect of plotting to overthrow the country; they deny it, of course
  • This Asian country leads the world in the production of rice & pears
  • Sung T'ai Tsu founded this country's Sung dynasty in 960
  • The California Gold Rush started the first big wave of immigration from this Asian nation
  • The artists known as The Four Wangs rose to prominence under this country's Ch'ing Dynasty
  • A popular Chippendale style of the 1750s was inspired by designs from this large Asian country
  • Nancy Reagan chose the design for this, ivory edged in red; it was donated to the White House
  • In the legends of this country, Hsi Wang Mu keeps the peaches of immortality
  • The first rockets were used in this country as early as 1232
  • Go Ba Soup, a specialty of this country, makes a sizzling sound when poured over deep-fried rice patties
  • The 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk between Russia & this country on its east remained in force for 170 years
  • Anise, fennel, cloves, cinnamon & szechwan pepper make up this country's 5-spice powder
  • This country is thought to have invented gunpowder, as well as soy sauce
  • Li Po, who lived over 1,000 years ago, was one of this country's greatest poets
  • "I'd love to get you on a slow boat to" this country, "all to myself alone"
  • Mongolia
  • Hainan,Hunan,Yunnan
  • Colorful patches called p'u-fang used to indicate the rank of officials in this country
  • In 1958 this country launched its second 5-year plan, called "The Great Leap Forward"
  • Of the 6 nations India borders, this one is the most populous
  • The ancient Ban Chiang poetry of Thailand resembles that of this country's neolithic Yang-Shao period
  • Using a launch site in the Gobi desert, this country became the third to send a human into orbit
  • In the 1st Century the Trung sisters headed Vietnam's revolt against the Han overlords from this country
  • During the Tang dynasty, 618 to 907, Chang'an in this country was the most populous city in the world
  • Lion dances are entertainment during this country's New Year's Day celebrations--in 2009, January 26
  • Maybe "dynasty" is the wrong word for this country's Hsin, which lasted about 15 years & 1 emperor
  • Kuan Han-Ch'ing was a leading playwright of this country's Yuan dynasty
  • Hong Kong
  • In the 1790s, Lord Macartney, the first British emissary to this large Asian land, got the brush-off from the emperor
  • 2nd century B.C. historian Ssu-Ma Ch'ien put together the first comprehensive history of this country
  • The first comprehensive guide to tea drinking was written by Lu Yu of this country in the 8th century
  • There's a 9.6 million-square-foot mall in Dongguan in this country
  • In 220 this country's Han dynasty was overthrown, beginning the period of disunity
  • Americans thought the war would end by Christmas 1950 -- until this country joined the fray
  • Albania broke diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in 1961 & became allied with this Asian power
  • Ding Ling, who wrote about independent, brave women, was one of this country's most popular authors
  • In the 7th century Sui Gong Di succeeded Sui Yang Di as emperor of this country
  • Official population 1.3 billion
  • By the end of the Cold War the population of this "sleeping giant" was over 1 billion
  • Wired magazine asked & answered the question "How much is all the tea" here "actually worth?" $1,590,653,400
  • Its leader in 1000 A.D. was Emperor Chen-tsung; today it's president Jiang Zemin
  • From ancient times, the dragon was the symbol of this country's imperial family & adorned its flag until 1911
  • In area, it's the largest country that's entirely in Asia
  • Jet-lagged or just hung-over? Let's wake up your face with Wu Morning!, a mask from this Asian country
  • Some folks from Scotland are Highlanders, while some people from this country are Shanghailanders
  • An expert in sinology is familiar with the history & customs of this country
  • Its national anthem includes the line "With our flesh and blood, let us build our new great wall"
  • Gavin Menzies makes a big claim for Admiral Zheng He in "1421: The Year" this nation "Discovered America"
  • This country's Shang dynasty arose in the 1700s B.C. along the Yellow River
  • About 94% of this country's population belongs to the Han nationality
  • This country's Shang dynasty arose in the 1700s B.C. along the Yellow River
  • With almost 3 million, this country leads the world in the number of active duty troops
  • Both Stravinsky's "The Nightingale" & Puccini's "Turandot" are set in this country
  • You can check the papers; paper goes back to this country around 105 A.D.
  • The Times reported on Mattel's 2007 apology to this country for harming its reputation with recalls
  • North Korea & Nepal
  • In 1982 this country, appropriately, began issuing a series of panda coins
  • Many say this country's ruler, Tzu-Chi, gave a deathbed command to have her nephew, the emperor, killed
  • The 17th & 18th C. French decorative style called Chinoiserie was influenced by the art of this country
  • It's this Asian country's flag adopted in 1949 seen here
  • In 1856 France joined Britain in a second Opium War with this country
  • (I'm Nicholas Kristof.) As a journalist, I visited 140 nations & every one of this country's more than 30 provinces, even Hainan
  • Between 1850 & 1864, the Taiping Rebellion claimed an estimated 20,000,000 lives in this country
  • Han lives in Changchun, in Kirin province, in this country
  • The Haiyuan fault slices through the Gansu Province of this Asian country
  • A king described Nepal as "a yam between two boulders"; one is India, this is the other
  • On April 24, 1970 this country launched its first satellite, Mao 1
  • This Asian country's economy grew to be the third-largest in the world in 2007, behind only the U.S. & Japan
  • Chad,China,Chile
  • Near the end of the fifth century, the Japanese borrowed this nation's system of writing
  • Tsai Shen, a god of wealth of this country may appear with Fu Shen, a god of happiness
  • Oddly, Marco spent 17 years in this country, yet his book doesn't mention tea, chopsticks or the Great Wall
  • On Oct. 15, 2003 it became the third country to launch a man into space; the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft orbited the Earth 14 times
  • This country's first satellite, launched April 24, 1970, was the Mao I
  • In 1974 farmers digging for water found an army of clay warriors "protecting" an emperor's tomb in this country
  • Tsingtao
  • Shaanxi & Jiangsu
  • General Tao was smiling in 1987 when KFC became the first U.S. fast-food chain in this country
  • Asian country second only to U.S. in corn production
  • Hebei,Hubei,Shandong
  • In the 15th century, Cheng Ho explored the Indian Ocean while in the service of this country
  • Under Shotoku & his aunt Suiko, Japan established relations with the Sui dynasty in this country
  • This country is the number one producer & consumer of fresh pork, hopefully not all sweet & sour
  • This country denounced the awarding of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize to the Dalai Lama as politically motivated
  • Many hot, spicy dishes such as Szechwan shrimp originated in this country's Szechwan province
  • In 1958 this country predicted its Great Leap Forward would establish a Communist utopia
  • The northern part of this country was once called "Kitai" or "Cathay"
  • The first Asian country to detonate a nuclear bomb
  • The Boxer Protocol, signed in September 1901, forced this country to pay about $330 million
  • P.F. Chang's is an upscale bistro specializing in the cuisine of this country
  • Probably crude gunpowder-filled tubes tied to arrow shafts, rockets appear to have originated in this country
  • Players from this country won every title at the world table tennis championships
  • In 1844 a treaty signed by Tyler's envoy in Wanghia opened up trade with this Asian country
  • Tea & rice wine were first drunk in this country
  • Country credited with invention of pasta, porcelain, & paper
  • (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Kiyomizudera Temple in Kyoto, Japan.) Japanese Buddhism is divided into several sects; Kiyomizudera Temple represents North Hosso Buddhism, brought from this country in the 600s
  • It's the largest country in area that borders Russia
  • "I'd love to get you on a slow boat to" this place, "all to myself, alone"
  • In 1982 this country began issuing a series of panda coins
  • Today you have your raps & your raves; in the '60s, this Asian country had a real cultural revolution
  • The photo seen here ran to coincide with an exhibit on the terra-cotta warriors of this country
  • It's the country someone with sinophobia would be least apt to visit
  • In 1934 & 1935 history's longest march covered 6,000 miles, 18 mountain ranges & 24 rivers, in this country
  • (Kelly stands in front of several vases) Hoover began collecting these vases when he lived in this country, and was trapped there during the Boxer Rebellion
  • Hans Christian Andersen's "The Nightingale" sang its sweet melodies for the emperor of this country
  • Puyi, aka Xuantong
  • In the '30s the Burma Road was built to move supplies from Burma into this country
  • People's Almanac describes the People's Daily as "the ultimate voice of authority" in this country
  • A person who specializes in Sinology would be an expert on this country's history & customs
  • 14 countries border this country that's more than 3,000 miles long & wide
  • You'll wnna whip out your yuan when buying jade or other goods in this country
  • The place is an Asian country; the thing is cups & plates made from ceramic materials
  • People from this land were barred from immigrating to the U.S. in 1882; in 1943, as a WWII ally, it got a quota of 105
  • Rat & monkey are just 2 of the animals in this most populous country's 12-year zodiac cycle
  • In 1979 this country put a 1-child limit on couples; now a one-son-or-two-child policy is in force
  • Associated with unicorns, the ch'i-lin of this large country's pantheon visits when philosophers are born
  • Led by a man professing to be Jesus' brother, the Taiping Rebellion roiled this nation in the 19th century
  • This country's "Six Dynasties" period stretched from the fall of the Han in 220 to 589
  • Go, one of the world's oldest games, is thought to have originated c. 2000 B.C. in this Asian mainland country
  • Its PLA has an active strength of about 1.25 million personnel
  • A disastrous economic program called the “Great Leap Forward” was begun in this country in 1958
  • Many say that Tu Fu was this country's greatest poet
  • In 2002 U.S. parents adopted 5,053 kids from this country, more than from any other
  • On Dec. 13, 1937 Japan took over the city of Nanking in this Asian country after heavy fighting
  • In 2000 Gao Xingjian became the first writer from this country to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
  • In November 1999 this country launched Shenzhou, its first capsule capable of carrying a man into space
  • J.G. Ballard's experiences in this country during World War II shaped his novel "Empire of the Sun"
  • The effort to save the golden monkey is this country's biggest species protection project since the panda
  • 1970:This Asian nation is "A great & vital people who should not remain isolated..."
  • A lychee is a rough-shelled red fruit given as a good-luck charm for the New Year in this country of its origin
  • Each year this country changes the design of its gold & silver panda coins, adding to their appeal
  • A nation shares its name with this traditional 20th wedding anniversary present
  • Among individual nations, it was the world's biggest exporter in 2010
  • Following this large country's 1911 revolution, its influence in Tibet was greatly reduced
  • The billion-dollar empire of animal feed titans the Liu brothers makes them one of this country's richest families
  • This country is the world's leading producer of peanuts & people
  • Egg drop
  • Part of Oz is populated by breakable people made of this, also the name of a real country
  • Wu Hao was Empress of this nation for 50 years in the 7th & 8th centuries
  • Between 770 & 476 B.C., a time of struggle is called the Spring & Autumn Period in this Asian country's history
  • "Arise, Ye Who Refuse To Be Slaves; With Our Very Flesh And Blood Let Us Build Our New Great Wall"
  • North Korea's longest
  • Hainan
  • Actress Gong Li has appeared in many films from this country, including 1991's "Raise The Red Lantern"
  • 12th century rabbi Benjamin of Tudela may have been the first European to reach this land, before Marco Polo
  • According to legend, fish would forget to swim when Xi Shi, one of the "Four Great Beauties" of this country, walked by
  • Dr. Sun Yat-Sen
  • Principal mountain ranges in this large country include the Kunlun, the Tian Shan & the Trans-Himalaya
  • This country's National People's Congress has had up to around 3,500 members
  • This country's GDP is growing about 10% a year & in 2004, says the World Bank, contributed 1/3 of world growth
  • It covers more than 3.7 million square miles
  • Max Frankel won a 1973 Prize for his reporting on President Nixon's trip to this country
  • In 1232 A.D. the Mongols were repulsed by "arrows of flying fire", or rockets, at Kaifeng-Fu in this country
  • Athletes wearing masks to this country's Olympic games apologized even though the USOC gave them the masks
  • Deng Xiaoping, from Hua Guofeng
  • Credited to Luo Guanzhong, "All Men Are Brothers" is a famous tale about an outlaw gang of this country
  • In 1279 Kublai Khan founded the Yuan Dynasty, putting all of this Asian country under foreign rule for the first time
  • I'll head to this country, the No. 5 destination, so my son can study Wushu martial arts and I can drink pijiu, its beer
  • The Yangtze flows into the "East" this "Sea"; the Mekong into the "South" this "Sea"
  • Brazil,China,Poland
  • Recycled paper became billions of dollars for "The Queen of Trash", Zhang Yin, from this country
  • Hu Jintao became the General Secretary of the Communist Party in 2002 & leader of this country in 2003
  • In 1999 this country began 3 "golden weeks" of vacation for its vast populace, including one around May Day
  • With songs like "Fly Away", rock star Cui Jian is one of the leading pop musicians from this Asian country
  • Hayes vetoed a bill restricting immigration from this country, but another version passed under Arthur
  • Once an important stop on the Silk Road, the city of Urumqi in this country is the world's farthest from an ocean
  • The Central Ballet of this country has created "Ode to the Yimeng Mountain", & "Lin Dai-Yu" & "Lan Hua-Hua"
  • The Long March Missile
  • In 1368 the Ming dynasty didn't just take over this country, they urned it
  • The earliest known appearance of a Cinderella story was a 9th C. tale about a girl named Yeh-hsien in this country
  • Dominoes originated in this country in ancient times; the game didn't reach Europe until the 18th century
  • This country's CCTV censored Barack Obama's Inauguration Day speech upon mention of communism
  • This country's name came from its first leader, who was buried with thousands of clay soldiers for protection
  • The fresco seen here shows monks practicing martial arts in this country
  • Nepal & Mongolia
  • You'll find the seaport of Xiamen in this Asian nation's Fujian province
  • (Sofia of the Clue Crew) Devilstick juggling probably originated in this Asian country, where it's called wakan
  • In 1999 the U.S. women's soccer team won its first World Cup when it defeated this country's team in the finals
  • Around 4000 B.C. communities of people settled in the Yellow River Valley in what is today this country
  • Sauerkraut didn't originate in Germany but was brought from this country by the Tatars
  • Laos, Nepal & North Korea are among the 14 nations that border it
  • There was much rejoicing in 2005 as taikonauts from this country returned from space
  • Hainan
  • It's the largest country in the world to have only one time zone
  • Any porcelain ware
  • Hu Jintao is in charge here, where the rate of conviction is 99.7% & 250-300,000 dissidents are held without trial
  • Its natives call it Zhongguo, "central country"
  • A secret code called nu shu is pivotal to the plat of "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan", set in this country
  • America's "Open Door Policy" of the late 19th century pertained to trade with this country
  • "If Don Mattingly isn't the American League MVP, something isn't kosher in" this Asian country
  • In July 2001 a cargo plane brought the salvaged parts of a U.S. spy plane back to the U.S. from this country
  • The Gobi, the largest desert in Asia, is in southern Mongolia & the northern part of this country
  • The Sinowilsonia was named for Dr. E.H. Wilson who introduced plants from this country to England
  • At 976,300,000 bushels, this Asian country led the world in apple production in 1998; the U.S. was 2nd at 271,100,000
  • In 2010 this country won its 17th Swaythling Cup in men's team table tennis
  • This nation has planted billions of trees called the "green great wall" to fend off desertification
  • After the Civil War Garrison kept defending rights, of blacks, women & also of Asian immigrants, mainly from this country
  • India ranks second to this country in rice production
  • Liaoning,Anhui.Guangdong
  • The 2 types of alligator are the American alligator & a rare variety that makes its home in this Asian country
  • With 1.2 billion, this country has the largest population of any nation on Earth
  • The weight of the water held in this country's Three Gorges dam tilts the earth's axis nearly an inch
  • What's called India ink didn't come from India, but from this country
  • Cathay
  • This Asian country has the world's largest armed forces
  • Due partly to a policy of its govt., in 2005 this country led the world in foreign babies adopted by Americans
  • Next afterChile
  • A late arrival to manned space flight, this country's space pilots are called taikonauts

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