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Liao (surname)
Liao () is a Chinese surname, most commonly found in Taiwan and Southern China. Statistics show it is among the 100 most common surnames in mainland China; figures from the Ministry of Public Security showed it to be the 61st most common surname, shared by around 4.2 million Chinese citizens. The pinyin romanisation of the Mandarin pronunciation is . Its Cantonese pronunciation is generally transcribed as Liu. Other romanisations of the name include Leo, Leow, Liau, Liaw, Liauw, Leeau, Lio, Liow, Leaw, Leou, Lau, Loh, Liu, Liêu, Liew, Liw and Lew. Notable people surnamed 廖 People with the surname Liao include: * Ashley Liao (born 2001), American actress * Bernice Liu (, born 1979), Canadian actress and former TVB model * Liao Cheng-hao, Minister of Justice of the Republic of China (1996–1998) * Liao Chengzhi (1908–1983), Chinese politician * Liao Chi-chun (1902–1976), Taiwanese oil painter and sculptor * Liao Feng-teh (1951–2008), Taiwanese politician * Gladys Liu, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Surname
Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in China, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, and among overseas Chinese communities around the world such as Singapore and Malaysia. Written Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the Western tradition in which surnames are written last. Around 2,000 Han Chinese surnames are currently in use, but the great proportion of Han Chinese people use only a relatively small number of these surnames; 19 surnames are used by around half of the Han Chinese people, while 100 surnames are used by around 87% of the population. A report in 2019 gives the most common Chinese surnames as Wang and Li, each shared by over 100 million people in China. The remaining top ten most common Chinese surnames are Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Huang, Zhao, Wu and Zhou. Two distinct types of Chinese surnames existed in ancient China, namely ''xing'' () ancestral clan names and ''shi'' () branch lineage names. Later, the two terms began to be used i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liao Hua
Liao Hua (late 180s - 264), courtesy name Yuanjian, originally named Liao Chun, was a military general of the state of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period of China. Like Zhang Yi and Zong Yu, Liao was one of few officials who served the Shu-Han state throughout its entire existence. Early career as Guan Yu's subordinate Liao Hua was from Xiangyang, Jing Province. He was a registrar () under Guan Yu, a general who served under the warlord Liu Bei and guarded Liu Bei's territories in Jing Province. In late 219, while Guan Yu was away at the Battle of Fancheng, Liu Bei's ally, Sun Quan, broke the Sun–Liu alliance by launching an invasion of Jing Province and conquering most of Liu Bei's territories in the province. Guan Yu was captured and executed by Sun Quan's forces. Liao Hua became a prisoner-of-war of Sun Quan, but he constantly thought of returning to Liu Bei's side, so he faked his own death and succeeded in deceiving his captors and escaping. He brought his elderly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Great Clans Of The New Territories
The Five Great Clans of the New Territories are five families that settled early and became sizeable in the New Territories of Hong Kong. They are the Tang (Deng; ), the Man (Wen; ), Hau (Hou; ), Pang (Peng; ) and Liu ( Liao; ). The Hau Clan arrived in modern-day Hong Kong towards the end of the 12th century, during the Southern Song Dynasty. They first settled at Ho Sheung Heung. They later settled three branch-villages: Yin Kong, Kam Tsin and Ping Kong. See also * Chinese kin A Chinese kin, lineage or sometimes rendered as clan, is a patrilineal and patrilocal group of related Chinese people with a common surname sharing a common ancestor and, in many cases, an ancestral home. Description Chinese kinship tend to be ... References Citations Sources * Families of Hong Kong Culture of Hong Kong Chinese clans {{HongKong-hist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Labor (Taiwan)
The Ministry of Labor (MOL; ) is a ministry of the Republic of China (Taiwan) representing opinions of employees, political and academic circles to review labor policies, laws and regulations, as well as related projects and programs in Taiwan. MOL is working with various international organizations and bilateral exchanges for elevating the welfare of labors in ROC, such as the Labor Insurance program. History In 1947, before the implement of Constitution of the Republic of China, the Nationalist government planned to establish the Ministry of Labor under Executive Yuan. May 18, 1948, the Ministry of Social is founded by Executive Yuan, labor affairs was downgrade to an agency under Ministry of Social. March 21, 1949, the Ministry of Social was abolished, labor affairs was minister by Department of Interior Affairs, by the newly founded Division of Labor, Department of Interior Affairs. The ministry was independent established as the Council of Labor Affairs (CLA; ) on 1 August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liau Huei-fang
Liau Huei-fang () is a Taiwanese politician. She was the Deputy Minister of Labor from 20 May 2016 until 27 November 2017. Education Liau obtained her bachelor's and master's degree in law from National Chengchi University. She obtained her doctoral degree in social studies from Tunghai University. Early career Liau had worked as a lawyer, as well as a member of the Committee on Gender Equality in Employment of Council of Labor Affairs, a member of the Committee of the Labor Pension Funds, a member of the Sexual Harassment Prevention Committee of Taipei City Government, vice chairperson and chairperson of the and member of the Committee on Gender Equality in Employment of Minister of Labor., Ministry of Labor Minister appointment Liau was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Labor by Premier Lin Chuan on 28 April 2016 and took office on 20 May in the same year. Minister resignation Liau first tendered her resignation to Miniter Lin Mei-chu from the deputy minister position on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liao Zhongkai
Liao Zhongkai (April 23, 1877 – August 20, 1925) was a Chinese-American Kuomintang leader and financier. He was the principal architect of the first Kuomintang–Chinese Communist Party (KMT–CCP) United Front in the 1920s. He was assassinated in Canton in August 1925. Early life Liao was born in 1877 in San Francisco and received his early education in the United States. He was one of twenty-four children. His father Liao Zhubin, who had five wives, was sent to San Francisco by the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank. Returning to Hong Kong in 1893, at the age of sixteen he studied at Queen's College from 1896. He married He Xiangning in 1897. He then went to Japan in January 1903 to study political science at Waseda University. In 1907 he went to Chuo University to study political and economic science. In politics Liao joined the Chinese Revolutionary Alliance in 1905 upon its founding and became the director of the financial bureau of Kwangtung after the founding of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liao Yiwu
Liao may refer to: Chinese history * Liao (Zhou dynasty state) (蓼), two states in ancient China during the Spring and Autumn period in the 8th and 7th centuries BC * Liao of Wu (吳王僚) (died 515 BC), king of Wu during ancient China's Spring and Autumn period * Liao dynasty (遼朝) (916–1125), a dynasty of China ruled by the Khitan Yelü clan ** Northern Liao (北遼) (1122–1123), a regime in northern China ** Qara Khitai (西遼) (1124–1218), also called the "Western Liao", successor to the Liao dynasty in northwestern China and Central Asia ** Eastern Liao (東遼) (1213–1269), a regime in northeastern China ** Later Liao (後遼) (1216–1219), a regime in northeastern China Other uses * Liaoning, abbreviated as Liao (辽), a province of China * Liao (surname) (廖), a Chinese family name * Liao River, a river in northeast China * ''liao'', a grammatical particle in Singlish * Liao, a character of the video game ''Overwatch'' * House Liao, the noble house in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liao Yaoxiang
Liao Yiaoxiang (; 16 May 1906 – 2 December 1968), was a high-ranking Kuomintang commander who successful fought against both the Imperial Japanese Army and Chinese Communist forces. Apart from General Sun Liren, he was one of the few Nationalist commanders who graduated from a military academy in the West. After the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War, he served as a field commander in Manchuria until his capture by Marshal Lin Biao's Manchurian Field Army in the Liaoshen CampaignGeneral Liao was held for 12 years as a prisoner of war until 1961 and died seven years later during the Cultural Revolution. Early life and career Liao Yiaoxiang was born into a rural gentry family in Hunan Province in 1906. He entered a local high school with Yang Kaihui, wife of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong. In 1926, he applied to enter the Whampoa Military Academy and graduated with top remarks. Some of his famous classmates included Chen Cheng, Xue Yue, Fan Hanjie, Dai Li, Hu Zongnan, Qiu Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liao Tianding
Liao Tianding (; Hepburn: ''Ryō Tentei;'' 1883–1909) was a legendary Taiwanese Robin Hood figure who foiled oppressive rulers when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. He was born in the Upper Tōa-to͘ District () in , Taiwan Prefecture ( Qing-dynasty Taiwan; modern-day Qingshui, Taichung, Taiwan) in 1883, and caught the attention of Japanese authorities repeatedly, for larceny and robbery, as well as the murder of Chen Liang-chiu (). Liao died in 1909, trapped in a cave in present-day Bali District, New Taipei City, with an accomplice, Yang Lin, who had colluded with the police. Liao Tianding was the subject of an extremely popular modern dance composition by Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan. He was also the inspiration for Ma Shui-Lung's Liao Tianding Orchestral Suite, which has been recorded by the Prague Symphony Orchestra. in Bali was constructed to memorialize Liao and is usually referred to as Liao Tianding Temple. Liao is also venerated at Miaosheng Temple () in hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liao Qiuyun
Liao Qiuyun (, born 13 July 1995) is a Chinese weightlifter. She is the silver medalist at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and World and Asian Champion. She competes in the women's 55 kg division. Career In early 2019 she competed at the 2019 IWF World Cup in the 55 kg division and won gold medals in all lifts. Later in 2019 she competed at the 2019 Asian Weightlifting Championships in the 55 kg category, won gold medals in all lifts, and set a world record in the clean & jerk with a lift of 128 kg. She outlifted silver medalist Hidilyn Diaz Hidilyn Francisco Diaz-Naranjo (; born February 20, 1991) is a Filipino World and Olympic champion weightlifter and airwoman, the first Filipino to ever win an Olympic gold medal for the Philippines. She is also an Olympic weightlifting reco ... by 15 kg. In 2021 at the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won China a silver medal in women's 55 kg weightlifting.https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Liao
Martin Liao Cheung-kong, JP (, born 1957) is a non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong and a member of Legislative Council of Hong Kong for Commercial (Second) constituency and a barrister. Background Liao received his honorary Bachelor of Science in Economics and Master of Laws from University College London. He was a member of the Copyright Tribunal from 2001 to 2005. Since 2008, Liao has been a member of the National People's Congress. Andrew Liao is his older brother. In the 2012 Hong Kong legislative election, Liao secured the Commercial (Second) functional constituency, nominated by the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, uncontested. He retained his Legislative Council seat in the 2016 election, again without having to face an opponent. He became convenor of the pro-establishment caucus after Ip Kwok-him of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB) retired. In November 2016, he was appointed by Chief Executive Leun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taichung County
Taichung County was a county in central Taiwan between 1945 and 2010. The county seat was in Yuanlin Township before 1950 and Fongyuan City after 1950. History Taichung County was established on 26 November 1945 on the territory of Taichū Prefecture () shortly after the end of World War II. In the early years, Taichung County consists of most territory of Taichū Prefecture except the territory near cities of Taichū (Taichung) and Shōka (Changhua). The county is subdivide into districts (), which is reformed from Japanese districts (). The districts are divided into townships. On 16 August 1950, another division reform was implemented. The southern part of the county was separated and established Changhua County and Nantou County. The remaining Taichung County has territory equivalent to the Toyohara (Fengyüan), Tōsei (Tungshih), Taikō (Tachia), and Daiton (Tatun) in the Japanese era. In addition, districts in the remaining part of Taichung County was defunct. All town ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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