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Bone china. Staffordshire bone china covered chocolate cabinet cup, with enamels and gilding, c. 1815–20, Victoria and Albert Museum. Bone china is a type of vitreous, translucent pottery, [ 1] the raw materials for which include bone ash, feldspathic material and kaolin. It has been defined as "ware with a translucent body" containing a ...
A wholly foreign-owned enterprise ( WFOE, sometimes incorrectly WOFE) is a common investment vehicle for mainland China -based business wherein foreign parties (individuals or corporate entities) can incorporate a foreign-owned limited liability company. [ 1] The unique feature of a WFOE is that involvement of a mainland Chinese investor is not ...
Founding members and enlargement. NATO was established on 4 April 1949 via the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty (Washington Treaty). The 12 founding members of the Alliance were: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. [ 4]
Porcelain ( / ˈpɔːrs ( ə) lɪn /) is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including kaolinite, in a kiln to temperatures between 1,200 and 1,400 °C (2,200 and 2,600 °F). The greater strength and translucence of porcelain, relative to other types of pottery, arise mainly from vitrification and the formation of the ...
Total Recall is a 1990 American science-fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven (pictured). Based on a 1966 short story by Philip K. Dick, the film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rachel Ticotin, Sharon Stone, Ronny Cox, and Michael Ironside. It tells the story of Douglas Quaid (Schwarzenegger) and the shadow organization that tries to ...
Noodles were invented in China, and are an essential ingredient and staple in Chinese cuisine. They are an important part of most regional cuisines within China, and other countries with sizable overseas Chinese populations. Chinese noodles can be made of wheat, buckwheat, rice, millet, maize, oats, soybeans, mung beans, yams, cassava, potatoes ...
China painting, or porcelain painting, [ a] is the decoration of glazed porcelain objects such as plates, bowls, vases or statues. The body of the object may be hard-paste porcelain, developed in China in the 7th or 8th century, or soft-paste porcelain (often bone china ), developed in 18th-century Europe.
China has become the world's second largest economy by GDP (Nominal) and largest by GDP (PPP). 'China developed a network of economic relations with both industrial economies and those constituting the semi-periphery and periphery of the world system.' [1] Due to the rapid growth of China's economy, the nation has developed many trading partners throughout the world.