He even quoted an old Chinese proverb about building a "golden bridge" for your opponent.
Setting off firecrackers to drive away bad luck and welcome the new year is a centuries-old Chinese tradition.
"I love the Internet, " says Casey Lau, a 26-year-old Chinese Canadian who with friend John Wong, 30, co-founded ActionAce.
"You can read it as poetry, " said Sun Ganlu, a prominent 54-year-old Chinese writer whose work has been translated into English, French and Japanese.
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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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The label is run by a 23-year-old Chinese designer known for his made-to-measure evening dresses, which have been scooped up by Goldie Hawn and Marcia Gay Harden.
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.
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 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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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.
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.
She said the money would go on renovating her home, which she said had a "mouldy cellar, " and hiring a part-time nanny for her newly adopted five-year-old Chinese son, to allow her to work on new installations.
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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By converting a five-storey "tong lau" -- an old Chinese building -- with solar panels, a turfed roof and energy efficient appliances, Khan also is keen to emphasize that his eco-friendly flat is as much about preserving the old and a sense of heritage as it is about being green.
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.
In a Boston Globe story, the man who was carjacked -- a 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur identified only as Danny -- described his 90-minute ordeal, from when a man brandishing a silver handgun got into his Mercedes to when he ran for his life into a Mobil gas station's supply room.
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.
Now for the first time, these groups are focusing on the behaviour of foreign companies seeking to list on American stock exchanges--a process that looks set to make life a lot harder for old-style Chinese companies emerging from the state sector.
There are old-fashioned Chinese medicine herbalists, traditional foodstuff vendors selling seaweed and glazed crickets by the handful, and more than a few shops hawking aka-pantsu -- bright red, high-waisted underwear believed to ward off evil and bring the wearer strength and vitality.
The 31-year-old takes along traditional Chinese prescriptions whenever she travels abroad.
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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Few other companies straddle the old and new worlds of Chinese medicine the way Chi-Med does.
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.
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.
Japan's export-led recovery, now almost two years old, owes much to surging Chinese demand for its products.
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The administrators, some teachers, and an eleven-year-old half-American, half-Chinese pianist named Vanessa waited for Lang Lang.
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