people. Poetry was an art form which was very important in Chinese history. One of the most famous Chinese poets was Li Bai. He lived nearly 2000 years ago‚ during the Tang dynasty. He grew up near Chengdu‚ in Sichuan Province‚ which is adjacent to Yunnan Province in the western part of China. Li Bai was influenced by Taoism which is one of the most influencing religions way back more than two millennia.(Robinet‚ 1997) It puts emphasis on the link between people and nature and much of Li Bai’s poetry
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Shanxi Airlines and Yunnan Shilin Aviation Travel Service Co.‚ Ltd to serve passengers flying to and from Yunnan. Yunnan Lucky Air Co.‚ Ltd. (abbreviation: Lucky Air) is the fourth largest aviation group in China - Hainan Airlines Group member companies.As of 2009‚ Hainan Airlines Group’s total assets of about 900 billion yuan‚ the total fleet size of over 200. Hainan Airlines Group member companies listed in Yunnan‚ the capacity share of the market‚ ranking second in Yunnan. February 26‚ 2006‚
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Concept Paper: The 1996 Lijiang Earthquake Lijiang is a prefecture-level city located northwest in the province of Yunnan‚ People’s Republic of China. It has a population of about 1.2M as of the 2010 census. The Old City of Lijiang is not so famous unlike the other well-known cities in China like Beijing‚ Shanghai‚ or Macau‚ but this city is known for having earthquakes throughout years. There have been around three to four recorded earthquakes in Lijiang and the one that I am going to talk about
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......................................16 Impacts of energy and power imports on pricing system ...................................17 Table 1: Basic data of electricity generation‚ transmission and consumption in southern China and between China (Yunnan) and the Mekong region..............18 Power demand from Guangdong nurtures Western energy base ......................19 Key energy projects concerned in the Mekong region ..............................................21 A list of power companies
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Assignment No. 3 A Memorable Event There are many memorable events in my life‚ but because I am in China‚ I will describe something that happened in Zhong Guo. In 1993 I first came to China. I taught in Kunming‚ Yunnan Province‚ which is in southwest China. I was working at Yunnan University [Yun Da] and I wanted to visit Dali‚ the famed city that was the terminus of the Burma Road. It was built in 1940 to allow supplies to cross into China from British occupied Burma. The supplies were desperately
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The Ethnic Minority People in Shenzhen The Report for the field trip CHEN‚weiwei Christina 20090647 HUMA2635 Professor: MA‚ jianxiong Field Trip Outline: Time: November 17th Venue 1: Shenzhen China Folk Culture Villages Venue 2: Shenzhen Futian District “I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.” ― J.D. Salinger‚ The Catcher in the Rye A large number of people who read this sentence will recall the rebellious stories of Holden Caulfield
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Milestones in Hong Kong and China |Year | |Development | | | | | |1993 | |Officially incorporated in Hong Kong. Received nonprofit status from Hong Kong’s Internal Revenue Department. | | | |
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landslides to occur. The area is often in long periods of droughts followed by heavy showers. The area is covered with basin folds and thrust faults. There are also a lot of sedimentary rocks in the area. On August 21‚ 2012 A landslide occurred in the Yunnan Province in south west China. The Landslide Killed 19 people 18 of them were children who were attending school when the landslide occurred. The landslide also wiped out two houses in its path of destruction. The landslide blocked a river which posed
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I believe in education. Without a good education I could not be here tonight‚ speaking to you in English. I was born in 1968 in a small village in Yunnan province in southwest China. My parents are farmers who speak ethnic Bai language‚ which is my first language. They have 3 sons and I am the second one. My mother is illiterate. She cannot read or write. My father had about 9 years’ education‚ and so did my older brother. My younger brother only had 3 years’ schooling and dropped out. I am the
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Balzac and the Seamstress "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress" by Dai Sijie is one of those special books‚ moving and delicately twisted and full of insights about life under communism. It gives us a glimpse into a frighteningly oppressive world where learning and reading are political crimes punishable by death. The book is a fictionalized account of the author’s own experience of surviving Chinese communism and in particular Mao’s Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution was Mao’s
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