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  • Their bold dives into business -- dubbed xia hai, or "jump into the sea" -- and often unorthodox methods both thrilled and chilled the wider business community.

    China Slowdown Stunts Entrepreneurs 2009

  • Commonly known as “dong chong xia cao” summer-plant, winter-worm in Chinese, cordyceps has been used as a tonic food in China and Tibet and has been used as a food supplement and tonic beverage among the rich because of its short supply due to over harvesting.

    Training Center: Advice from BCSM on using supplements for cycling 2011

  • This enjoyable martial arts flick combines the subgenre of wu xia with TV's CSI to create a detective/action movie that's pretty fun, even if it does get in its own way sometimes.

    Michael Giltz: Cannes 2011 Day Four: Girls With Babies, Boys With Bikes and Outlaws With Chi! Michael Giltz 2011

  • This enjoyable martial arts flick combines the subgenre of wu xia with TV's CSI to create a detective/action movie that's pretty fun, even if it does get in its own way sometimes.

    Michael Giltz: Cannes 2011 Day Four: Girls With Babies, Boys With Bikes and Outlaws With Chi! Michael Giltz 2011

  • “Shen shang xin xia gan zuo pi you” pronounced shun shahng sheen shya gahn dzwaw pee yoe means the Kun Temple is located above the kidneys, below the heart, left of the liver, right of the spleen.

    Tao II Dr. 2010

  • Now, he ' s turning his hand to the martial-arts, or wu xia, genre.

    Peter Chan Dean Napolitano 2010

  • Xian dai hao xia zhuan (1993): Set after a city has been devastated by nuclear attack, an evil deformed villain controls the city's scarce water supply.

    Peter H. Gleick: Water in the Movies: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 2010

  • The last two phrases, di qi shang sheng and tian qi xia jiang, describe how Tao regulates Heaven and Mother Earth.

    Tao II Dr. 2010

  • The last two phrases, di qi shang sheng and tian qi xia jiang, describe how Tao regulates Heaven and Mother Earth.

    Tao II Dr. 2010

  • Di qi shang sheng (pronounced dee chee shahng shung) and tian qi xia jiang (pronounced tyen chee shya jyahng) is to balance Heaven and Mother Earth, yin and yang.

    Tao II Dr. 2010

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