But Barlow noted that in this case studio marketers had to overcome audiences' unfamiliarity with the subject matter -- the 2000-year-old Chinese legend of a courageous young women who disguises herself as a man to enter the National Chinese Army in order to save her ailing father from being drafted.
Meanwhile, Guan Tianlang's bid to make this year's British Open suffered a major setback as the 14-year-old Chinese golf prodigy fell seven shots off the lead after the first round of International Final qualifying Asia Thursday.
The early treasures would be better seen in the old building near the superb collection of early Chinese sculpture of much the same period.
His group first looked to nature for inspiration, using studies of the biochemistry of organisms that survive without water: 500-year-old Chinese lotus seeds, the hardy resurrection plant of the Sonoran desert and the microscopic tardigrade creature.
Hendry, without a ranking title since the 2005 Malta Cup, begins against 18-year-old Chinese prodigy Zhang Anda and the seven-time champion admits he is uncertain what awaits him.
The 27-year-old Li ensured that two Chinese players reached the last eight of a grand slam event for the first time in history with a 6-4 6-3 victory.
Few other companies straddle the old and new worlds of Chinese medicine the way Chi-Med does.
It has been the old deadlock in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin during the week-long talks.
Two days after the fact, the media, both social and traditional, continue to percolate with speculation that other players wouldn't have received the same treatment, particularly after Augusta officials on Thursday took a harder line with the 14-year-old Chinese phenom Tianlang Guan.
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But a big attraction is the 57-year-old Yau himself: He's the leading Chinese mathematician and ranks among the top ten in the world, says Phillip Griffiths, a math professor and a former president of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
There was the one-shot penalty called against 14-year-old Guan Tianlang that nearly kept the Chinese teen from becoming the youngest player to make the cut.
The crew of the International Space Station is on alert this weekend thanks to a piece of space debris from an old Chinese satellite, which has the potential to hit the station.
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That's the kind of solution the feisty economist thinks genetically modified organisms (GMOs) will be for some of China's biggest problems, and the 44-year-old Huang has been pushing Chinese planners for almost six years to allow the commercialization of GM rice.
"I'm just so happy that I signed for another two years, " said the 29-year-old American marketing manager, who moved to the Chinese capital four years ago.
Despite a timely mea culpa from the 50-year-old Basic Instinct star, the company ultimately pulled its Chinese ads.
Baidu, the ten-year-old leading Chinese search engine firm, is developing a new mobile operating system, like Android or Windows, the Chinese media reports.
One important tangent of this discussion hasn't had much exposure in the United States: the now 25-year-old wave of new Chinese documentary (and documentary-influenced fiction), whose development has paralleled the nation's emergence as an economic powerhouse.
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With the Chinese season already two weeks old, they're under contract to stay put.
Setting off firecrackers to drive away bad luck and welcome the new year is a centuries-old Chinese tradition.
An old Chinese proverb says that the best time to plant a tree was twenty-five years ago, but the second best time is now.
" Mr. Wagener notes that the 3, 000-year-old Chinese culture has a long and fabulous tradition of luxury, "an even more natural relationship to luxury than Europeans.
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Take, for example, the story of 51-year-old Chinese man Sun Jifa, who lost both of his arms in an explosion and built his own bionic hands out of scrap metal.
The 31-year-old takes along traditional Chinese prescriptions whenever she travels abroad.
The eight-month old company sells Japanese toys and action figures made in nearby Chinese mainland factories to consumers around the world via its colorful, content-packed Internet website.
Danny Bowien, the thirty-year-old Korean-born chef and main owner of Mission Chinese Food, grew up in Oklahoma eating the Chinese dishes of Middle America, fried rice and lo mein.
The old adage of what would it mean if every Chinese family had just one car still stands.
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Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have stuck with the old ways, shunning modern medical tools such as MRIs and CAT scan machines.
The Chinese do not really have that many old vehicles to retire, so the number on the road is growing at a rapid clip.
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