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  • Chinese-born artist Cai Guo - Qiang is renowned around the globe for his gunpowder art and his fervent views on Chinese society and politics.

    Editor's Letter Tina Gaudoin 2010

  • But Cai Guo-Qiang is a master: With time you start to get to know the material.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • But Cai Guo-Qiang is a master: With time you start to get to know the material.

    The “45.5 Meteorite Craters Made by Humans on Their 45.5 Hundred Million Year Old Planet” Fountain 2005

  • The fact that there was no linguistically, culturally, or even geographically consistent historical community which corresponded to what the Han called the Qiang is, like all formations of national identity from Norwegians to Japanese, pretty much irrelevant.

    languagehat.com: CREATING THE QIANG. 2004

  • Over time, the Chinese empires would come to classify these peoples into smaller and smaller distinct groups and those who were called the Qiang by the Han shifted linguistically, not physically further and further to the West until this bumped into Tibetan cultural communities that the Chinese categorized as the Fan 番.

    languagehat.com: CREATING THE QIANG. 2004

  • Many of the monks who have died were in the regions of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, in Sichuan.

    Tibet Strife Spreads as Top Monk Kills Self Brian Spegele 2012

  • Researchers Qiang Chen and Tie Jun Cui of Southeast University in Nanjing, China created a device that partially simulates the effects (to a limited scale) of a black hole.

    Scientists Create Pocket-Sized Black Hole 2009

  • Li Qiang was a partial of of a Central Committee of a Communist Party, as good as was allocated Minister of Foreign Trade in 1978.

    Batin Itam: The Li Blood Line admin 2009

  • "Inflation and a possible economic slowdown stemming from tightening measures could lead to a spike in credit losses over the next two to three years," said Qiang Liao , director of financial services ratings at Standard & Poor's.

    S&P Warns of Profit Squeeze for China's Banks 2011

  • The director of the city's judicial department, Wen Qiang, was executed for bribery, rape, extortion and organized crime gang-related activities.

    China's Communist Party Announces More Crackdowns on Corrupt Officials 2011

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