In 2015, how many people could have read Wings of China?
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Wings of China Wings of China is the inflight magazine of Air China. The magazine is published monthly in Beijing, China.
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Air China Air China Limited is the flag carrier and one of the major airlines of the People's Republic of China, with its headquarters in Shunyi District, Beijing. Air China's flight operations are based at Beijing Capital International Airport. In 2015, the airline carried 90 million domestic and international passengers with an average load factor of 80%.
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Languages of China The languages of China are the languages that are spoken by China's 56 recognized ethnic groups. The predominant language in China, which is divided into seven major dialect groups (often classified as distinct languages by foreign linguists), is known as "Hanyu" (). and its study is considered a distinct academic discipline in China. "Hanyu", or Han language, spans eight primary dialect groups, that differ from each other morphologically and phonetically to such a degree that dialects from different regions can often be mutually unintelligible. The languages most studied and supported by the state include Chinese, Mongolian, Tibetan, Uyghur and Zhuang. China has 297 living languages according to Ethnologue. According to the 2010 edition of the "Nationalencyklopedin", 955 million out of China's then-population of 1.34 billion spoke some variety of Mandarin Chinese as their first language, accounting for 71% of the country's population.
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Li Yun (Water Margin) Li Yun is a fictional character in "Water Margin", one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. He ranks 97th of the 108 Liangshan heroes and 61st of the 72 Earthly Fiends. He is nicknamed "Green Eyed Tiger".
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Lei Heng Lei Heng is a fictional character in "Water Margin", one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. He ranks 25th of the 36 Heavenly Spirits of the 108 Liangshan heroes and is nicknamed "Winged Tiger".
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The Sky Village The Sky Village is a young adult fantasy novel written by authors Chris Rettstatt, under the pseudonym Monk Ashland, and Nigel Ashland. It was published in hardcover on July 8, 2008. In the story, twelve-year-old Mei Long adventures across China in the Sky Village, a vast network of hot air balloons, in search of her mother, who has been taken prisoner by an army of intelligent machines (meks).
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Sima Ling Wu Siming (; 1933–1989), better known by his pen name Sima Ling (), was a Chinese writer of "wuxia" novels. Over the course of his career, he has published 40 of his works.
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Sina Weibo Sina Weibo (NASDAQ: WB ) is a Chinese microblogging (weibo) website. It is one of the most popular social media sites in China, in use by well over 30% of Internet users, with a market penetration similar to the United States' Twitter. It was launched by Sina Corporation on 14 August 2009, and as of December 2012 has 503 million registered users. By the third quarter of 2015, Sina Weibo has 222 million subscribers and 100 million daily users. About 100 million messages are posted each day on Sina Weibo.
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Age of Ambition Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China is a non-fiction book by Evan Osnos, a staff writer at "The New Yorker". It was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2014. It chronicles the lives of people that Osnos came to know while he was in China from 2005 to 2013. It was awarded the 2014 National Book Award for Nonfiction and was a finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
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Galaxy Award (China) Galaxy Award (Chinese:银河奖, pinyin:yín hé jiǎng) is China's most prestigious literary science fiction award, which was started in 1986. In September 2016, the 27th galaxy award was held in a university of Beijing.
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English education in China The emphasis on English education in China only emerged after 1979 when the Cultural Revolution ended, China adopted the Open Door Policy, and the United States and China established strong diplomatic ties. An estimate of the number of English speakers in China is over 200 million and rising, with 50 million secondary schoolchildren now studying the language.
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Horse in Chinese mythology Horses are an important motif in Chinese mythology. There are many myths about the horse or horses, or horse-like beings, including the pony. Chinese mythology refers to those myths found in the historical geographic area of China. This includes myths in Chinese and other languages, as transmitted by Han Chinese as well as other ethnic groups (of which fifty-six are officially recognized by the current administration of China, according to Lihui Yang, 2005:4). There are various motifs of horses in Chinese mythology. In some cases the focus is on a horse or horses as the protagonist of the action, in other cases they appear in a supporting role, sometimes as the locomotive power propelling a chariot and its occupant(s). According to a cyclical Chinese calendar system, the time period of 31 January 2014 - 18 February 2015 falls under the category of the (yang) Wood Horse.
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Li Peifu Li Peifu (; born October 1953) is a Chinese novelist best known for his novel "The Book of Life", which won him China's top literature prize: Mao Dun Literature Prize, in 2015. Li is a member of the Communist Party of China and the China Writers Association. He was selected as a National First-class Writer by the Chinese government, and enjoys the special subsidy of the State Council.
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Yan Shun Yan Shun is a fictional character in "Water Margin", one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. He ranks 50th of the 108 Liangshan heroes and 14th of the 72 Earthly Fiends. He is nicknamed "Multicoloured Tiger".
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Ten Wings Ten Wings 十翼 "shí yì" - collection of commentaries ("zhuan" 傳) to the classical Chinese "Book of Changes" traditionally ascribed to Confucius.
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If My Heart Had Wings (visual novel) If My Heart Had Wings (この大空に、翼をひろげて , Kono Ōzora ni, Tsubasa o Hirogete ) is a Japanese eroge visual novel produced by Pulltop. It was released on 25 May 2012 and an English localization that was bowdlerized to receive a Teen rating was released by MoeNovel on 28 June 2013.
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Shenzhen Book City Shenzhen Book City (Chinese: 深圳书城) is a bookstore which claims to be the largest in the world. The store also includes multiple restaurants and non-book-related shops, as well as a section devoted to non-Chinese books. Overall, Shenzhen Book City contains over 3 million books. Story-telling competitions are held every Sunday for children 4–8 years old.
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Heart for Heaven Heart for Heaven is a 2015 Chinese comedy film directed by Zhang Cheng. It was released in China on December 31, 2015.
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Yusuf Liu Baojun Haji Yusuf Liu Baojun (born 8 April 1963) is a Chinese Muslim Historian, Researcher, and Author best known as the author of "Exodus Through Tian Shan - The Tale of Chinese Muslim in Central Asia", the book has gained wide attention in Mainland China. He has published more than 15 books since 1991 written in 3 languages namely: English, Mandarin and Malay.
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Chinese language Chinese (汉语 /漢語 ; "Hànyǔ" or 中文 ; "Zhōngwén") is a group of related, but in many cases mutually unintelligible, language varieties, forming a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Chinese is spoken by the Han majority and many other ethnic groups in China. Nearly 1.2 billion people (around 16% of the world's population) speak some form of Chinese as their first language.
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Zheng Tianshou Zheng Tianshou is a fictional character in "Water Margin", one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. He ranks 74th of the 108 Liangshan heroes and 38th of the 72 Earthly Fiends. He is nicknamed "Fair-skinned Gentleman".
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Shanghai Review of Books Shanghai Review of Books () is a Chinese weekly paper-magazine supplement to Shanghai's "Oriental Morning Daily" (东方早报）with articles on literature, culture, history, art and current affairs, including book reviews, interviews and essays. It is published as an insert in each Sunday edition of the daily. It is one of the most influential literary-intellectual magazines in China. Most of its contributors are intellectuals such as writers or scholars. One special column of the "Review" would introduce a personal book room in Shanghai and its owner in every issue. The foundation of the "Review" is inspired by "The New York Review of Books" and "London Review of Books" in early 2008. The pilot issue of the "Review" was published in 25 May, and the formal first issue published in 6 July. The "Review" celebrated its 8th anniversary in 2016. The content of the "Review" also updates on news website The Paper (thepaper.cn). As the print version of "Oriental Morning Daily" has stopped publication since 2017, the "Review" has completely shifted to online edition.