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.
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.
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.
"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.
Around the year 1200, the Chinese refined the design, creating suan-pan, or the modern, wire-based abacus.
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.
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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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.
The events sparked a lot of comment about how generous foreigners could be, what the Chinese could learn from them, and whether modern China is becoming a soulless place.
Chinese leaders see a modern navy as necessary to protecting Chinese assets and interests increasingly spread across the world.
The hotel also has a modern version of a Chinese tea house and sunken garden on street level.
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.
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.
Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have stuck with the old ways, shunning modern medical tools such as MRIs and CAT scan machines.
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.
Acknowledging the contribution made to the current foment in China brought on by increasing popular exposure to Western values and liberties and by the Chinese tradition of student leadership in reforming society, it is modern communications, not commercial relations, that have been the largest single influence on and enabler for the popular demonstrations in Beijing.
On a secret trip to Beijing shortly before the summit, Chinese sources say, he was astounded to see what modern computers can do.
And IOC officials are already pointing out how the Beijing Games have apparently inspired more volunteerism, still relatively rare in modern Chinese society.
Mathaf, billed as an Arab museum of modern art, had Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang as the centerpiece of its first major solo show.
Many of these young Chinese started returning home in the 1920s and 1930s, imbued with Western ideas about modern design.
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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.
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.
The story focuses on character and plot more than many Chinese epics do, and its presentation is modern, using slow-mo fight replays and computer-animated anatomy sequences to illustrate the forensic detective work.
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The Chinese people will restore themselves to their rightful place since 1700 AD with a new outlook towards the modern era as peaceful partners in our global and increasingly interdependent world.
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.
The Pentagon has reported rising overall numbers of Chinese naval vessels in recent years as well as a greater proportion of which the U.S. considers modern.
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