Chinese house buyers pay a much higher multiple of their incomes on purchases than do buyers in the U.S., where prices are typically a midsingle digit multiple of average income.
The hotel also has a modern version of a Chinese tea house and sunken garden on street level.
Mr. Hua also wanted to keep the essence of the Chinese farm house, including the tiled roof and the whitewashed walls.
The Hong Kong auction, which will feature ink paintings, calligraphy and classical Chinese furniture, marks the first time a Chinese auction house will compete with Sotheby's and Christie's on their home turf.
The movie seems clean and steady, a corrective to the lushness and extravagance that, for better or worse, has come to be seen as the house style of Chinese cinema.
Manufacturing growth rates are starting to taper off and the Chinese powerhouse suffering from rising house prices and other sources of inflation problems looks altogether more likely to raise interest rates on account of price pressures even if the economic growth burst is fading.
He stopped in at a meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister at the White House yesterday.
The upshot is that Chinese science needs to get its house in order.
Another, called Mi Casa Bien Equipada, or My Well-Equipped House, has donated Chinese-made household appliances to tens of thousands of poor families.
Chinese property developers hope that other house-hunters feel the same.
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Indeed, if superstitious, take into account that Ancient Chinese wisdom advises a Snake in the house because it protects you and and your family from starving.
He made about 50 visits to the White House, often taking groups of Chinese business officials with him.
He lives in a 12-room house and is seen in the best Chinese restaurants.
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The award for the most copied building goes to the White House, says Yung Ho Chang, a Chinese architect and the former head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's architecture department.
Mr. Bowien's singular way with Chinese classics (kung pao pastrami, salt cod fried rice made with house-confited mackerel) immediately created a citywide buzz.
Many young Chinese, she notes, are giving up on the ideal of owning a house before marriage and starting their lives together as renters.
Sioeng, the majority notes, was an owner of Mansion House Securities, which intelligence information showed to be owned in part by the Chinese government.
David Ritchie, who directs sales and marketing for the Omni Parker House hotel in Boston, came to the statehouse to learn how to attract more Chinese travellers.
But publisher Shanghai People's Publishing House gave the book market appeal with a slick billboard campaign in the downtown areas of major Chinese cities.
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The rise came to a halt in 2008 when the Chinese authorities sought to cushion exporters from the turbulence of global recession but resumed in 2010 just weeks before the House passed a bill (see chart).
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