His research has taken him as far as China, where soybeans have been grown for thousands of years.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

After 7 years of preparations, the Summer Olympic Games were held in China for the first time.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Sixty-two years ago most of the remains were dug up and shipped back to China for reburial.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

His works over the years include the opera "Nixon in China."

VOA: special.2010.07.19

Americans had been trading with China for years, but not heavily.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Modern paper-making began in China about two thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Modern paper-making began in China about 2,000 years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

The new loans are double what China pledged at the first Forum on China Africa Cooperation three years ago in Beijing.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

As China's economy has grown 10-fold over the past 15 years, the country's environment has been degrading.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

Remais and his colleagues searched government documents and science reports published over the past 20 years to quantify and assess China's environmental health.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

The image of made-in-China products has taken some negative hits in recent years, following scandals involving lead paint in toys and tainted food products.

VOA: standard.2010.01.11

We were the first Americansto visit the land of China in a million years or something.

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Jeffery Wassertstrom a Historian professor at the University of California,Irvine, says China is trying to reclaim the powerful status it held hundreds of years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

In the early years of communist rule in China, a sewing machine was one of the so-called big items that indicated a high living standard.

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

The trip to China would be the North Korean leader's first in four years and Mr.Kim's first trip abroad since a suspected stroke in 2008.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03

China has also attracted record investments from overseas companies in the past two years.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

About six years ago,the U.S., Russia,China,South Korea and Japan began trying to persuade North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons in exchange for diplomatic and economic benefits.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

But he said China's sharp increases in military spending in recent years are defensive in nature, and still leave its spending and military capability far behind the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27