Mr. Altuzarra, whose mother is Chinese-American and father is French, was born and raised in Paris.

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While Americans saw Chang as a med-student son of an immigrant father, Chinese viewers will see a film about a Chinese native living in America but returning to China.

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Woo's mother is white, and his father is part Chinese.

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Her father is of Chinese ethnicity (so she has a Chinese name), she has a law degree from the private Aoyama Gakuin University and has studied Mandarin in Beijing.

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Mae, whose full name is Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson was born in Singapore to a Chinese mother and a Thai father but was brought up in the UK when her mother remarried a Briton.

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Growing up without electricity and running water in a village near Chinese University--where his father was a professor--he was more interested in skipping school than in learning arithmetic.

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But Father Kapaun spotted a wounded Chinese officer.

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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.

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Both of his parents were involved in the Chinese opera, his mother as a singer and his father as a composer.

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Liu said that Chinese families often contain a strict mother and a gentle father and that discipline and guidance from mothers are essential in putting children on the path to future success.

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But she happens to be a bisexual woman whose father is black and Latino and whose mother is Chinese.

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While in Makhachkala, Tamerlan proposed to his father that they start a trading business, importing Chinese goods, Anzor Tsarnaev said.

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He recently became a father when his wife, Ye Li, a former Chinese national team volleyball player gave birth to a baby girl in May 2010.

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