Sentence examples for recent mainland from inspiring English sources

Venice lost its recent mainland conquests.

Recent mainland crackdowns on dissent and the Internet have added to Hong Kong's fears.

The solution, even in recent mainland histories, is to skate very quickly over the missionary killings, which are referred to as jiaoan, or "religious cases".

And despite a recent mainland spy hunt that has led to the arrest of ethnic Chinese scholars visiting China, Beijing is more welcoming to people from Taiwan today than any time in the last decade.

No wonder southerners and northerners can't understand each other.Titters greeted Dr Matthews when he was introduced as an expert on Cantonese grammar at a recent mainland conference: politically, Cantonese cannot be an independent language.

To assess the isolated genetic structure of Hainan Island and the original genetic structure at the southern entrance, we studied the Y chromosome diversity of 405 Hainan Island aborigines from all the six populations, who have little influence of the recent mainland population relocations and admixtures.

"Suzhou River" is, compared with other recent films from mainland China, unusually allusive and almost defiantly cosmopolitan.

Recent charges of mainland interference in our normally free press haven't helped either.

Some of the most exciting recent works by mainland Chinese authors, artists and directors have achieved international success but are off limits in China.

In recent years the mainland literary scene had been dominated by young writers, most of them with ties to film and television.

The officers' remarks are the most strident in a barrage of explicit threats directed toward Taiwan in recent weeks by mainland leaders, and they may indicate a decisive shift in Beijing's approach to managing Taiwan affairs.