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Niu (surname)
Niu () is a Chinese family name was listed 310th on the Song Dynasty list of the ''Hundred Family Surnames.'' It means "ox". According to a 2013 study it was the 103rd most common surname at the time, shared by 2.20 million people, or 0.150% of the total population, with the province with the most being Henan. Prominent people with family name 牛 * Consort Niu (牛昭容), a concubine said to be a power behind the throne after Tang emperor Shunzong suffered a stroke. * Niu Ben (牛犇), stage name of Chinese actor Zhang Xuejing. * Niu Fu (牛辅), general during the late Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period. * Niu Guannan (牛冠男), Chinese water polo player. * Niu Huijun (牛惠君), international football referee. * Niu Jianfeng (牛剑锋), Chinese bronze medallist in table tennis at the 2004 Athens Olympics. * Niu Junfeng (牛骏峰), Chinese actor. * Niu Jin (牛金), general during the late Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period. * Niu Lijie (牛丽杰), former Chinese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchu
The Manchus (; ) are a Tungusic East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized ethnic minority in China and the people from whom Manchuria derives its name. The Later Jin (1616–1636) and Qing (1636–1912) dynasties of China were established and ruled by the Manchus, who are descended from the Jurchen people who earlier established the Jin dynasty (1115–1234) in northern China. Manchus form the largest branch of the Tungusic peoples and are distributed throughout China, forming the fourth largest ethnic group in the country. They can be found in 31 Chinese provincial regions. Among them, Liaoning has the largest population and Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia and Beijing have over 100,000 Manchu residents. About half of the population live in Liaoning and one-fifth in Hebei. There are a number of Manchu autonomous counties in China, such as Xinbin, Xiuyan, Qinglong, Fengning, Yitong, Qingyuan, Weichang, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niu Weiyu
Niu Weiyu (; January 1927 – 3 June 2020) was a Chinese photojournalist whose career started in the 1940s with coverage of the Chinese Communist Party's wartime experiences and continued after 1949. She is praised for her photographs of ordinary workers and ethnic groups, and as one of the few women in photography, she specialized in female images. Niu was a member of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese Photographers Association. Her husband, Gao Fan (1922-2004) was also a wartime and post-1949 photographer.Lin QiA life in pictures" China Daily (June 13, 2017) Life and career Niu Weiyu was born in Tanghe, Henan in January 1927. In 1945, Niu entered Counter-Japanese Military and Political University, and in 1947 became an officer in the Political Department of the Liberated Area. She became a photographer attached to the Eighth Route Army, then turned to news photography for North China Pictorial and other journals. After 1949, she became head of the Xinhua News Ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niu Lizhi
Niu Lizhi (born 1966) is a Chinese surgeon who specializes in minimally invasive cryosurgery for cancers. In 1996, he graduated from the Fourth Military Medical University with a doctoral degree in Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery. Lizhi is the president of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital and vice president of the International Society of Cryosurgery. He is the supervisor of the master's degree course in Jinan University. He focuses on the treatment of pancreatic cancer, liver cancer, lung cancer, renal cancer, thyroid cancer, peritoneal cancer and other solid tumors. Niu Lizhi and his team have performed nearly ten thousand cases of cryosurgery. Lizhi's patients aged from four-year-old child to 94-year-old senior, ranking from Minister, celebrities, to ordinary people and patients with rare diseases like Huang Chuncai Huang Chuncai () (born 29 December 1977) is a Chinese man who became notable for being "China's Elephant man". He has an extreme case of neurofibromatosis, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niu Chiao
Niu Chiao was an obscure Chinese writer and poet of the 9th century CE. Reputedly, he wrote more than 30 books on a variety of topics. Some of his writings are collected in "Ling Kuai Lu" (about A.D. 879). Chiao short story "The Story of the Foxes", also known as ''Wang-sen and his fox brother'', appears on the anthology book '' The Book of Fantasy''. References Further reading *"Some Aspects of the Conflicts of Religion in China during the Six Dynasties and T'ang Periods". E. Edwards. '' Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies'', University of London, Vol. 7, No. 4 (1935), pp. 799–808 External links The Story of the Foxes full text in Chinese and English. {{China-writer-stub 9th-century Chinese poets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhisheng Niu
Zhisheng Niu () is a professor in the electrical engineering department of Tsinghua University. He became a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers in 2007. In addition, he was named Fellow of the IEEE Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc) in 2012 "for contributions to collaborative radio resource management in wireless networks". He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), appointed 2007. He holds a BS degree in Communication from Beijing Jiaotong University, (1985), a M.S., in Information Engineering, from Toyohashi University of Technology Toyohashi University of Technology (豊橋技術科学大学; ''Toyohashi Gijutsu Kagaku Daigaku''), often abbreviated to Toyohashi Tech, or TUT, is a national engineering university located in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan. Distinguished for the upp ..., Toyohashi, Japan (1989) and a Ph.D from the same department (1992). From 2009-13, he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuh-Line Niou
Yuh-Line Niou ( , born July 15, 1983) is a Taiwanese-American politician who served as a member of the New York State Assembly for the 65th district. The Lower Manhattan district, which is heavily Democratic and over 40% Asian American, includes Chinatown, the Financial District, Battery Park City, and the Lower East Side. Niou is the first Asian American elected to the State Assembly for the district. She was a candidate for Congress in New York's newly redrawn 10th congressional district in 2022. Early life and education Niou was born in Taipei, Taiwan, the eldest of three children, and emigrated to the U.S. with her parents when she was six months old. Her mother worked as a registered nurse and hospital administrator while her father worked as a materials science engineer. They were both from Taoyuan, Taiwan. Her father received a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology and worked as a senior research scientist at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Niu Huiqing
Thomas Niu Huiqing (; 18 September 1895 - 28 February 1973) was a Chinese Catholic priest and bishops of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Funing and Yanggu. Biography Niu was born in Xinhe County, Hebei, on September 18, 1895, during the late Qing dynasty (1644–1911). He was ordained a priest on September 30, 1923. On January 12, 1943, he was appointed Apostolic vicariate of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Yanggu in Shandong, and ordained titular bishop on April 4 of that year. When Yanggu became diocese in 1946, he became its first ordained bishop. He left Yanggu during the Chinese Civil War and went to Funing in Fujian in 1948. Later he was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chiayi in Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niu Zhuang
Niu Zhuang (, born 26 June 1994) is a Chinese former professional snooker player. Career Niu first received attention in world snooker when he entered APTC Event 2 in 2012, reaching the last 16 and defeating established professionals Mark King (4–0) and future World Champion Stuart Bingham (4–3). He reached the same stage at the 2015 Xuzhou Open where he was defeated by Alfie Burden. His most notable result was defeating Matthew Selt Matthew Selt (born 7 March 1985) is an English professional snooker player originally from Romford, east London and now living in Chelmsford, Essex. He qualified for the professional tour by finishing seventh on the Pontin's International Open ... 4–1 in the last 64. He achieved a two-year world snooker tour card in May 2017 due to his performances on the Chinese professional tour. Performance and rankings timeline ;Notes References External links Niu Zhuangat ''worldsnooker.com''Niu Zhuang at ''CueTracker.net: Snooker Result ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niu Zhizhong
Niu Zhizhong (; born March 1955) a former officer in the People's Armed Police of China. At the height of his career, he served as deputy commander of the People's Armed Police. He was an alternate member of the 18th CPC Central Committee. He was expelled from the Communist Party in 2016. Biography Niu was born in Laoting County, Hebei in March 1955. He joined the People's Liberation Army in December 1970. He worked in the 38th Army for a long time. In 1996, he was transferred to the People's Armed Police. He then continued working in the People's Armed Police, holding positions as division commander of the 4th Division, chief commander of Tibet Armed Police Corps, and chief commander of Guangdong Armed Police Corps. In 2007 he became deputy chief of staff of the People's Armed Police, rising to chief of staff in 2009. In 2015 he was promoted to deputy commander of the People's Armed Police. Niu became an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niu Zhiyuan
Niu Zhiyuan (born 13 December 1973) is a Chinese sport shooter who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 .... References 1973 births Living people Chinese male sport shooters Running target shooters Olympic shooters for China Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for China Olympic medalists in shooting Shooters at the 2002 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in shooting World record holders in shooting Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for China Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Sport shooters from Beijing 21st-century Chinese people {{PRChina-sportshooting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niu Yingzhen
Niu Yingzhen () was a poet in Imperial China who lived during the 8th century. It was claimed that Niu was able to learn different texts within her dreams. Niu wrote over 100 works and showed talent with composing rhapsodies and odes. Personal life Niu was born sometime during the 8th century in present-day Henan. When she was 13 years old, Niu was already well-read in Buddhist sutras and Confucian literature. According to her biography, Niu was able to learn different texts by dreaming that she ate the actual copies, giving her the ability to discuss literature and philosophy with long-deceased male scholars in her dreams. She was questioned about her dreams when she woke up, to which Niu's response was that she did not know how it happened. Despite this, Niu was able to accurately answer any questions that were asked about texts that she had discussed within her dreams. Niu was also well-versed in the '' Zuo Zhuan'', which details the political history of China from 721 B.C. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
