It took some getting used to, but after six months, Langerman is part of his Chinese family.
The old adage of what would it mean if every Chinese family had just one car still stands.
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In the traditional Chinese family, children, especially sons, look after their parents (though this is now changing see story on next page).
In China, only about 5% do, and despite falling prices the machines are still too expensive and complicated for the average Chinese family.
One former home of a wealthy Chinese family opened in 2010 as a boutique hotel, Le Sun Chine, complete with a retro champagne bar.
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Some try to have a second child abroad, so that the child can get a foreign passport and not be counted by Chinese family-planning officials.
Two hundred members of a Chinese family are reportedly changing surname because the character used to write it is so rare computers do not recognise it.
The tale about a child bride sold into a Straits-Chinese family who beats the odds to become its powerful matriarch, has been performed many times in the past 15 years.
"Our service was terrible - that was the assumption from the beginning, " says the Ivy Leaguer, whose ethnic Chinese family founded Thai Farmers (No. 96 in the 500) in 1945.
He inherited the party's long-standing policy of encouraging Taiwan to return to what it calls the Chinese family, joining the two other prodigals, Hong Kong and the former Portuguese colony of Macau.
Chinese values are important, not only because of its emergence as a major market for Volvo, but also because the carmaker is now itself part of a Chinese family, as a subsidiary of China Zhejiang Geely Holding Group.
It's no coincidence the 2010 "Karate Kid" remake, with Mr. Chan and Jaden Smith, replaces the Japanese karate of the original with Chinese kung fu (Mr. Chan's "Rush Hour 3" had been banned in China, presumably for depicting a Chinese crime family).
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For this reason, Jeju has decided to focus on smaller, family-based investment on the island to attract Chinese tourists and family investors to the island.
For many Chinese the ideal family consists of a boy and a girl.
Chinese media say family planning officials in Hunan province took the children from poor homes unable to pay fines for having more than one child.
Traditional Chinese beliefs about family have led most people to treat sons ritualistically as the perpetuators of clans, meant to produce offspring to carry on the family name.
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Mid-Autumn Festival is an important day for the Chinese, marked by family reunions and gift-giving.
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We've inherited Chinese skills - my family came from the mainland.
The New York Times won four awards including two awards for its reporting on Apple and Wal-Mart overseas, and another for an examination of the hidden wealth of the Chinese premier's family.
SHENYANG, China (AP) The Chinese student killed in the Boston Marathon blasts grew up in an intellectual family in a northeastern Chinese city with gritty, industrial roots, and graduated from a highly competitive high school that routinely sends students abroad.
The department of immigration said it had granted the first significant-investor visa to a Chinese toy manufacturer and his family.
Lee Man Tat and his family, for instance, lead family-run Chinese sauce maker Lee Kum Kee, whose history traces back to 1888.
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Several said he was connected to the Bo family through his Chinese wife, who was from the northeastern city of Dalian, where Mr. Bo was mayor from 1993 until 2001.
"We are calling for the extradition of the murder suspect back to Canada as soon as possible in order to bring justice and peace to our family, the Chinese community and the whole society, " they said.
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With Android 4.1, a quad-core 1.5GHz processor, 13-megapixel camera and a 720p 4.7-inch Infinity Edge Display, it joins the likes of the Ascend Mate and D2 in forming the Chinese manufacturer's smartphone family in 2013.
With Android 4.1, a quad-core 1.5GHz processor, 13-megapixel camera and a 720p 4.7-inch Gorilla Glass 2 Infinity Edge Display, it joins the likes of the Ascend Mate and D2 in forming the Chinese manufacturer's smartphone family in 2013.
Abe for one is already planning to continue the Chinese rock 'n' roll family tree.
The Chinese brand brought Shaq into its family, but he was on the tail end of his career at that point.
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After the victim agreed to meet the healer at the hotel, the third Chinese female offered to bless her family's valuables and cash.
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