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Examples:Edgar Snow (1905-1972), American journalist, reported from China 1928-1941, author of Red Star Over China—rail line from China through Central Asia Europe—Ma Ying-jeou (1950-), Taiwanese Kuomintang politician, Mayor of Taipei from 1998, President of Republic of China from 2008—prohibition on opium (esp. in China from 1729)—Lai Changxing (1958-), notorious Xiamen mafia boss involved in large scale corruption and smuggling, extradited from Canada back China in 2008—(old) contemptuous term for people from southern China (used by northern Chinese people)—ethnic groups from outside China—Wakhan Corridor, joining Afghanistan and China (Xinjiang), and dividing Tajikistan from Pakistan—company established in mainland China with direct investment from foreign entities or from investors in Taiwan, Macao or Hong Kong—cooking oil that has been used and discarded (and, in China, sometimes illegally recovered from gutters and sewers, reprocessed and sold back restaurants)—Chahar Province (former province in North China existing from 1912-1936)—folk song from Wu or from south China more generally—Xinjiang small-plate chicken (typical dish from North-West China)—modern history (for China, from the Opium Wars until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, i.e. mid-19th early 20th century)—northerner, person from Northern China (Cantonese)—(in Taiwan) Han Chinese people other than those who moved Taiwan from mainland China after 1945 and their descendants—Jon Huntsman, Jr. (1960-) Governor of Utah from 2005 2009, US Ambassador to China since August 2009—Hakka ethnic group (Han Chinese migrants from north south China)—the Xirong, an ancient ethnic group of Western China from the Zhou Dynasty onwards—bone china (fine white porcelain made from a mixture of clay and bone ash)— |