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York Chow

Hong Kong :: China | 9 months ago | technology-news

York Chow Yat-ngok (traditional Chinese: 周一嶽; simplified Chinese: 周一岳; pinyin: Zhōu Yīyuè; born 1947, Hong Kong), GBS, SBS, MBE, JP, is the Secretary for Food and Health of Hong Kong. He is a member of the Executive Council. He was...
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Cheng Yi (philosopher)

Luoyang :: China | 9 months ago | technology-news

Cheng Yi (simplified Chinese: 程颐; traditional Chinese: 程頤; pinyin: Chéng Yí; Wade–Giles: Ch'eng I, 1033–1107), courtesy name Zhengshu (正叔), also known as Mr. Yichuan (伊川先生), was a Chinese philosopher born in Luoyang during the Song Dynasty. He worked with his...
Views: 165 | News Stories: 27 | Blog Posts: 23 | 24 | 29 | 0
 
Wangari Maathai

Lhasa :: China | 9 months ago | technology-news

Wangari Muta Maathai (born April 1, 1940 in Ihithe village, Tetu division, Nyeri District of Kenya) is a Kenyan environmental and political activist. She was educated in the United States at Mount St. Scholastica and the University of Pittsburgh, as...
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Griffith John

Shanghai :: China | 9 months ago | technology-news

Griffith John (14 December 1831 – 25 July 1912) was a Welsh Christian Congregationalist missionary to China and a pioneer evangelist with the London Missionary Society (LMS). He was also a writer and a translator of the Bible into Chinese....
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Jonathan Spence

Shanghai :: China | 9 months ago | technology-news

Jonathan D. Spence (Self-adopted Chinese name: simplified Chinese: 史景迁; traditional Chinese: 史景遷; pinyin: Shǐ Jǐngqiān, born August 11, 1936) is a British-born historian and public intellectual specializing in Chinese history. He was Sterling Professor of History at Yale University from...
Views: 235 | News Stories: 10 | Blog Posts: 11 | 15 | 35 | 0
 
Robert Morrison (missionary)

Guangzhou :: China | 9 months ago | technology-news

Robert Morrison (traditional Chinese: 馬禮遜; simplified Chinese: 马礼逊; pinyin: Mǎ Lǐxùn) (January 5, 1782 in Bullers Green, near Morpeth, Northumberland – August 1, 1834 in Guangzhou) was a Scottish missionary, the first Christian Protestant missionary in China.
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Sima Qian

Shanghai :: China | 9 months ago | technology-news

Sima Qian (ca. 145 or 135 BC – 86 BC) (pinyin: Sīmǎ Qiān; Wade–Giles: Ssu-ma Ch'ien) was a Prefect of the Grand Scribes (太史公 taishigong) of the Han Dynasty. He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography for his highly praised...
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Wu Qi

Xihe :: China | 9 months ago | technology-news

Wu Qi (simplified Chinese: 吴起; traditional Chinese: 吳起; pinyin: Wú Qǐ; Wade–Giles: Wu Ch'i, 440-381 BC) was a Chinese military leader and politician in the Warring States period.
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John Ostrom

Shanghai :: China | 9 months ago | technology-news

John H. Ostrom (February 18, 1928 – July 16, 2005) was an American paleontologist who revolutionized modern understanding of dinosaurs in the 1960s, when he demonstrated that dinosaurs are more like big non-flying birds than they are like lizards (or...
Views: 31 | News Stories: 4 | Blog Posts: 0 | 1 | 34 | 0
 
Stephen Matthews (linguist)

Hong Kong :: China | 9 months ago | technology-news

Stephen Matthews, a linguist and typologist, specialises in language typology, syntax and semantics. His current interests include the word order typology of Chinese; the grammar of Chinese dialects, notably Cantonese, Chaozhou and other Minnan dialects; language contact and bilingualism,...
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