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...Additional reporting by Emma Zhou in Beijing...
...Last month, the city’s mayor Gong Zheng told reporters that foreign investment last year reached a record $23.5bn, which he argued “shows Shanghai is still one of the most attractive places for foreign investment...
...It had all the fanfare of a friendly state visit, with excursions to the Great Wall and the Ming tombs, plus a brief meeting with an ill Mao Zedong, hours of conversation with Premier Zhou Enlai and a communiqué...
...Tom Mitchell in Singapore, Kathrin Hille in Taipei, Edward White in Seoul, Anthony Klan in Sydney and Emma Zhou and Ryan McMorrow in Beijing...
...Additional reporting by Xinning Liu and Emma Zhou...
...Additional reporting by Qianer Liu in Shenzhen and Emma Zhou in Beijing...
...In fact, Taiwan was formally incorporated into the Qing empire in 1683 after a seaborne invasion that led to the defeat of the Zheng clan, Ming-loyalist warlords....
...During the civil wars on the mainland Ming supporters led by Zheng Chenggong formed what has been called the Kingdom of Tungning and held some parts of the island from 1661 to 1683 when forces of the Qing...
...is depreciating mainly because of market pressures related to the trade war, disappointing second-quarter economic data and the [Chinese] government’s crackdown on domestic financial risks,” says Zhang Ming...
...Andrea Basham, Elizabeth Bieber and Zheng Zhou all join from Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. ICR has hired Steve Parish and Lee Stettner as managing directors. Both join from Solebury Capital....
...Abulafia sets the famous early 15th-century Ming voyages of Admiral Zheng He in contrast with later European discoveries....
...Its provenance stretches from a Ming dynasty Yuanjin temple to the 20th-century painter and collector Wu Hufan....
...Ceramics and steel industries emerged here during the Ming dynasty. Foshan is now at the leading edge of Chinese industry....
...Of these, The Humble Administrator’s Garden (in Chinese Zhou Zheng Yuan) is perhaps the best-known. It has gone through 900 years of evolution, including at times near-total destruction....
...Alibaba has not found any business better than online retailing,” said Ming Lu, a Shanghai-based analyst with financial network Smartkarma....
...“We need to thank people from the big cities for paying so much,” said another farmer, Zhou Fang, who has opened a high-end clothing store with her earnings....
...“Financial regulation has been repeatedly mentioned since the party congress began, and the market has already settled on an expectation of tightening,” wrote Ming Ming, chief fixed-income analyst at Citic...
...Xi's signature policies, Zhou Leji, who takes on the party's critical anti-graft brief, and Han Zheng, former party boss of Shanghai....
...The “road” refers to the maritime trade routes traced by the eunuch admiral Zheng He at the height of the 14th-15th century Ming dynasty influence over Southeast Asia, while the “belt” refers to the silk...
...Chinese celebrities such as Yao Ming, the retired basketball star, have fronted national campaigns against the consumption of ivory, shark fin and other wildlife products....
...That did not stop the owner of a small dumpling restaurant inside the compound, who gave her name as Ms Zheng....
...But other factors can also be considered as a reason to adjust the split,” said Fang Xiaofeng, partner at Gao Ming law firm in Shanghai....
...Recent shows covered CIA assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, the US presidential election, Star Wars, Viking pirates, Ming Dynasty concubines and secret meetings by Zhou Enlai, Mao’s longtime right-hand...
...Prof He quotes the Ming dynasty statesman, Zhang Junsheng, who remarked 500 years ago: “Of all things under Heaven, the difficulty is not in establishing laws, but in enacting them.”...
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