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'I spoke Chinese first and more easily, ' she recalled.

她回忆说：“我一开始说的就是中文，而且学得很容易。

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"When the Chinese first got rich," says Mr Lu, "they wanted to go to Thailand and South Korea."

“中国人刚有钱时，”卢建说，“想去泰国和韩国。”

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First,Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek was trying to organize all of China under the control of his Nationalist forces.

VOA: special.2011.03.03

First domesticated by the Chinese more than 3000 years ago, the soybean is one of the pillars of American agriculture.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Lavrov briefed Clinton on his visit to North Korea late last month, which was the first by a major-power diplomat since Pyongyang announced it was quitting Chinese-brokered negotiations on its nuclear program.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

The Chinese first used the stuff in weapons--including rockets and cannon--about 600 years later.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Consider that this other story recently went viral throughout the Chinese blogosphere: an (as far as I can tell, apocryphal) account of the teaching of the Cinderella fairy tale in a Chinese first-grade classroom.

FORBES: China's Achilles Heel: Education System

And at Stratford-upon-Avon, The Orphan of Zhao - "the Chinese Hamlet" - becomes the first Chinese play ever produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

BBC: Theatre review of 2012: An Olympian year