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China Chow
China Chow (born 1974, London) is a British-American actress, model, and TV host, daughter of Michael Chow and Tina Chow, known for The Big Hit (1998) and hosting Bravo's Work of Art.
China Crisis
China Crisis: English new wave/synth-pop band formed 1979 in Kirkby, Merseyside, by Gary Daly and Eddie Lundon; known for "Wishful Thinking" (UK No. 9) and the Walter Becker-produced Flaunt the Imperfection (1985), distinct from the IAU 'China crisis'.
China cymbal
China cymbal (Chinese cymbal, trash cymbal): a crash-type effects cymbal with an upturned flanged edge and trashy, fast-decaying sound, descended from the Chinese bo, mounted upside down, standard in rock and metal kits.
China Dolls
China Dolls, known in Chinese as Zhong Guo Wa Wa, is a Thai-Chinese pop duo of Hwa Hwa and Bell, who debuted in Thailand in 1999 under GMM Grammy.
China Film Group (2010)
China Film Group (2010): China Film Co., Ltd. (中国电影股份有限公司), the joint-stock company founded 9 December 2010 by China Film Group Corporation with seven partners; 93% CFG-owned, Shanghai-listed 600977 since 2016, renamed CHINA FILM GROUP CO.,LTD. in 2025.
China Film Group Corporation (中国电影集团公司)
China Film Group Corporation (中国电影集团公司, CFGC) is a state-owned Chinese film conglomerate founded in February 1999 from eight merged units. With Huaxia Film it holds China's imported-film distribution duopoly; its listed arm trades as SSE 600977.
China Gate (1998 film)
China Gate (चाइना गेट) is a 1998 Rajkumar Santoshi Hindi action film in which ten court-martialled army veterans return to free a village from the bandit Jageera, inspired by Seven Samurai and Sholay; it earned ₹12.78 crore nett, a Filmfare Best Dialogue award, and the "Chamma Chamma" song.
China Girl (song)
China Girl: song co-written by David Bowie and Iggy Pop in Berlin, 1976–77, first on Pop's The Idiot (1977); Bowie's 1983 Let's Dance version, produced with Nile Rodgers, hit UK No. 2 and US No. 10.
China Kantner
China Kantner (China Wing Kantner, born 1971, San Francisco) is an American actress and former MTV VJ, credited as China Slick Kantner; daughter of Grace Slick and Paul Kantner of Jefferson Airplane.
China Miéville
China Miéville (born 1972, Norwich) is a British weird-fiction and New Weird novelist, author of the Bas-Lag trilogy and The City & the City, three-time Arthur C Clarke Award winner and Marxist political writer.
China Moon
China Moon is a 1994 American neo-noir thriller, John Bailey's directorial debut, starring Ed Harris, Madeleine Stowe, Charles Dance, and Benicio del Toro; filmed 1991, shelved by Orion Pictures, released March 4, 1994, grossing about $3 million.
China Rich Girlfriend
China Rich Girlfriend is Kevin Kwan's 2015 satirical romantic-comedy novel, sequel to Crazy Rich Asians and book two of the trilogy, following Rachel Chu and Nick Young into Shanghai's super-rich world.
China Soul
China Soul (born 1988, Tampa, Florida) is an American singer-songwriter, daughter of actors David Soul and Julia Nickson. London-based since 2007, she released the debut album Secrets & Words in 2010, co-written with Chaz Jankel.
China, IL
China, IL is a Brad Neely-created Adult Swim animated sitcom (2011-2015, 30 episodes) set at the University of China, Illinois, the "Worst College in America", starring the Professor Brothers, Baby Cakes, Hulk Hogan's Dean, and Greta Gerwig's Pony Merks.
Chinari
Chinari (чинари) was an informal circle of young poets and philosophers in 1920s and 1930s Leningrad, centered on Daniil Kharms, Alexander Vvedensky, Leonid Lipavsky, Yakov Druskin, and Nikolai Oleinikov.
Chinchilla (singer)
CHINCHILLA (Daisy Bertenshaw, born 1996) is a London-based British singer, rapper, and producer of "feisty pop"; her 2023 self-released TikTok hit Little Girl Gone made her the first UK female soloist to top Billboard's Emerging Artists chart.
Chindamani
Chindamani (จินดามณี) is a Thai manual of language and versification by the royal scholar Phra Horathibodi, written during King Narai's reign, the oldest surviving text about Thai.
Chinedu Ikedieze
Chinedu Ikedieze, known as Aki, is a Nigerian Nollywood actor born 1977 in Bende, famous as half of the Aki and Pawpaw duo with Osita Iheme after the 2002 film Aki na Ukwa; MFR honoree.
Chinese American Bear (华裔美国熊)
Chinese American Bear (华裔美国熊) is a Seattle-based bilingual indie pop duo of married couple Anne Tong and Bryce Barsten; three albums including Wah!!! (2024) and Dim Sum & Then Some (2026), tours in North America, Europe, and China.
Chinese and Korean visual novels
Chinese and Korean visual novels are visual novels made in China and South Korea. Chinese originals went mainstream around 2012, while South Korea's Cheritz found success with Mystic Messenger.
Chinese animation
Chinese animation (中国动画, donghua) began with the Wan brothers in 1920s Shanghai, matured into the "Chinese School" at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio from 1957, and in 2025 saw Ne Zha 2 become the highest-grossing animated film ever.
Chinese art
Chinese art (中国美术): the visual art tradition of China spanning painting, calligraphy, ceramics, and sculpture. Distinguished by ink painting, porcelain, imperial-era literati painting, major national museum collections, and a regulated art market under 2016 rules.
Chinese avant-garde fiction
Chinese avant-garde fiction (先锋小说) is a movement in Chinese literature from the mid-1980s, associated with Ma Yuan, Can Xue, and Yu Hua, defined by radical formal experimentation.
Chinese calendar (农历)
Chinese calendar (农历, nongli, also 夏历): China's lunisolar traditional calendar, with 29.5306-day synodic months, 365.2422-day tropical years, 19-year/7-leap-month rule, zhongqi-based leap months, standardized by GB/T 33661-2017.
Chinese ceramics
Chinese ceramics: pottery, stoneware, and porcelain made in China (陶瓷) from Neolithic times, including the world's earliest pottery at Xianrendong (~20,000 years), Eastern Han celadon, Song's Five Great Kilns, Tang blue-and-white, and the UNESCO-listed Jingdezhen porcelain industry sites.
Chinese chicken salad
Chinese chicken salad is an American, Californian main-course salad of chicken, cabbage, wonton strips, and sesame-soy dressing, popularized by Madame Wu's Garden in Santa Monica and Wolfgang Puck's Chinois, not a dish from China.
Chinese classics
Chinese classics (五經 Five Classics; 四書 Four Books): the Confucian canonical corpus of poetry, documents, rites, changes, and annals canonized under Han Emperor Wu and recentered by Zhu Xi in 1190.
Chinese cloisonné
Chinese cloisonné (jingtailan) is a decorative art in which copper wires form patterns on metal vessels, with cells filled with colored enamel, introduced from the Islamic world during the Yuan dynasty and matured under the Ming.
Chinese clothing
Chinese clothing (中国服饰; Hanfu, qipao) is China's dress tradition across five millennia: two basic forms, class and ritual symbolism, Qing-era change, and modern guofeng revival.
Chinese cuisine (中国菜)
Chinese cuisine (中国菜) is China's cooking traditions across 34 provincial regional cuisines and 56 ethnic groups; the eight major cuisines (Lu, Chuan, Yue, Su, Min, Zhe, Xiang, Hui) were formally systematized by the China Cuisine Association in 2018.