[H] Some Chinese medicine practitioners, by contrast, worried that the standards had been too-narrowly set, excluding those practising East Asian varieties of traditional acupuncture falling outside of the Chinese tradition: My understanding is that [the regulation] focuses only on the Chinese tradition which is a mistake.
"We are beginning to see ourselves not just from the inside, as an actor doing something on a daily basis, but from the outside — understanding what we look like to the world around us and developing a kind of hybrid identity," Dr. Sinnreich said.
For all the discussion of how much the Web has changed China in recent years, the Web has also fundamentally changed the outside world's understanding of China, by unlocking a universe of official documents, news reports, ordinary people's opinions, élite analysis, and gossip.
As she reminded me, the outside understanding of China is based on Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and the surrounding areas of the mainland -- the most significant metropolitan areas.
Needing to gain some outside acceptance or understanding is a far too difficult of a goal.
"Resistance groups don't seem to be outside our understanding," he said.
With apparently guileless lucidity Lowell recreates the faint presence of a conspicuously unremarkable individual who stands poignantly outside the understanding of the poet and ourselves.
Many of us involved in community-based cultural organizations have been grappling with dwindling support for artistic practices that fall outside mainstream understanding of what constitutes "art".
Apart from the predictable problems that result from advanced age or an already existing infirmity, as well as the occasional spool of bad genes, most of what happens to patients still falls well outside our understanding.
Because she is rich and socially secure and also blessed with theatrical gifts hard to categorize, Ms. Guinness tends to fall outside the understanding of many observers, who look at her wearing shoes with no heels or face-obscuring veils or headpieces reminiscent of carnival ponies and brand her a freak.
