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  • In southern Taiwan you can sometimes hear this policy encompassed in a saying that is a sardonic parody of sloganeering in Chinese: zhong bei qing nan stress the north, ignore the south

    Archive 2009-01-01 Michael Turton 2009

  • In southern Taiwan you can sometimes hear this policy encompassed in a saying that is a sardonic parody of sloganeering in Chinese: zhong bei qing nan stress the north, ignore the south

    "Stress the North, Ignore the South" Michael Turton 2009

  • In southern Taiwan you can sometimes hear this policy encompassed in a saying that is a sardonic parody of sloganeering in Chinese: zhong bei qing nan (stress the north, ignore the south)

    The View from Taiwan 2009

  • The 115-foot-long tomb dates from the Zheng State of the Spring and Autumn period (Eastern Zhou Dynasty, 770-475 B.C.) and was built in the shape of the Chinese character "zhong," meaning "middle."

    Astonishing Discovery in Henan 2003

  • So the answer is to study as hard as you can and also: repetition! you'll find that some though not all Chinese words are meaning-sound combinations: for instance, many words that are pronounced "zhong" have one radical that is also pronounced

    Slashdot timothy 2010

  • We let them decide what they wanted for themselves but for Suanne and I, we went to choose two "zhong" (is that how you spell dishes in Cantonese?).

    BC Bloggers 2009

  • 2 Bronzeware script is a family of scripts found on Chinese bronze such as zhong (bells) and ding (tripods)

    Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008

  • "zhong" by itself though perhaps in a different tone.

    Slashdot timothy 2010

  • When Huang Jian-zhong first came in 1999, moving his food-additive manufacturing company from Guangdong province in the south, Kunshan was a rural backwater to cosmopolitan Shanghai, he recalled.

    Despite a government standoff, people of China and Taiwan increasingly mingle 2010

  • When Huang Jian-zhong first came in 1999, moving his food-additive manufacturing company from Guangdong province in the south, Kunshan was a rural backwater to cosmopolitan Shanghai, he recalled.

    Despite a government standoff, people of China and Taiwan increasingly mingle 2010

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