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Pu (Chinese Surname)
Pu is the Pinyin transcription of a number of distinct Chinese surnames, including: *, meaning "reed" or "rush". According to the '' Lushi'', this character was adopted as a surname during the Xia Dynasty by the Youhu clan ( 有扈氏) due to the rushes which grew in their family gardens. It is the 269th character in the ''Hundred Family Surnames''. *. This is a toponymic surname, from the Pu River (浦江) in Shandong. According to the '' Xingshi Kaolue'' (姓氏考略), descendants of Jiang Ziya who lived on the banks of the Pu River changed their surname from Jiang to Pu. It is the 318th character in the ''Hundred Family Surnames''. *. This is also a toponymic surname, from the Pu River (濮水) in Henan; it was also used to write the name of a vassal state of the State of Qi. People with this surname spread out from there to Puyang and Hua Counties in Henan. It is the 309th character in the ''Hundred Family Surnames''. *; meaning ''Celtis sinensis'' (a kind of tree). This is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin (), often shortened to just pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Mandarin Chinese in China, and to some extent, in Singapore and Malaysia. It is often used to teach Mandarin, normally written in Chinese form, to learners already familiar with the Latin alphabet. The system includes four diacritics denoting tones, but pinyin without tone marks is used to spell Chinese names and words in languages written in the Latin script, and is also used in certain computer input methods to enter Chinese characters. The word ' () literally means "Han language" (i.e. Chinese language), while ' () means "spelled sounds". The pinyin system was developed in the 1950s by a group of Chinese linguists including Zhou Youguang and was based on earlier forms of romanizations of Chinese. It was published by the Chinese Government in 1958 and revised several times. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) adopted pinyin as an international standard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puyang County
Puyang County () is a county in the northeast of Henan province, China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Puyang. Administrative divisions As 2012, this county is divided to 8 towns and 12 townships. ;Towns ;Townships Education Puyang County No. 3 Experimental School, as of 2017, had 1,704 students, and 62 teachers. The average class size was 71 students per class. Many parents from rural areas send their children to this school because their local schools had closed. Yuan Suwen and Li Rongde wrote in ''Caixin Caixin Media () is a Chinese news website based in Beijing known for investigative journalism. Caixin means "New Fortune" in Chinese. Structure The founder and publisher is Hu Shuli, a former Knight Fellow in journalism at Stanford University ...'' that it "is considered one of the few good schools in the area." In March 2017 a stampede occurred at the school, injuring 22 children and killing one. References County-level division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pu Wei
Pu Wei (; born August 20, 1980 in Shanghai) is a retired female Chinese football (soccer) player. A veteran of three World Cup tournaments and three Olympics, Pu Wei competed in USA 1999, USA 2003, China 2007, Sydney 2000 Olympics, Athens 2004 Olympics, and Beijing 2008; as China did not qualify for Germany 2011 World Cup and London 2012 Olympics. Until 2013, Pu was the captain of China women's national football team. She retired after a friendly with North Korea on February 15, 2014. Olympics and World Cup Pu Wei finished fifth with the Chinese team at Sydney 2000 Olympics, playing all three matches. Four years later she finished ninth with the Chinese team at Atlanta 2004 Olympics, playing two matches. At Beijing 2008 Olympics, USA 2003 and China 2007 World Cup tournaments, she reached the quarter-finals with her Chinese team. Her best performance, as a member of China women's national team, is reaching the final of USA 1999 women's world cup, losing in penalty-shoot- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pu Jun Jin
"Kevin" Pu Jun Jin (; born 17 June 1984) is a Chinese racing driver currently competing in the TCR Asia Series. Having previously competed in the Asian Formula Renault Series, Asian Le Mans Series and European Le Mans Series amongst others. Racing career Pu began his career in 2011 in karting. In 2012 he switched to the Volkswagen Scirocco R Cup China. He raced in the Formula Masters China championship from 2013–14, at the same time he also competed in the Asian Le Mans Series finishing 2nd in the LMP2 championship standings in 2014. In 2014 he also in raced in the Asian Formula Renault Series, he finished the season 4th in the championship standings. In 2015 he switched to the European Le Mans Series finishing 10th in the championship standings that year. In October 2015 it was announced that he would race in the TCR Asia Series & TCR International Series The TCR International Series was an international touring car championship. The championship was promoted by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai-jen Poo
Ai-jen Poo (, ; born 1974) is an American labor activist. She is the president of the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She is also the director of Caring Across Generations, a national coalition of 200 advocacy organizations working to transform the long-term care system in the US, with a focus on the needs of aging Americans, people with disabilities, and their caregivers. She is a 2014 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award. In February 2015, the New Press released her book, ''The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America''. She has been mentioned as a potential future Secretary of Labor under a Democratic administration. Biography Ai-jen Poo's Taiwanese-American parents instilled her with strong " social justice values". Her father Mu-ming Poo is a neuroscientist and one-time political activist who emigrated from Taiwan in the 1970s. Her mother Wen-jen Hwu has a PhD in chemistry as well as an MD, and was an oncologist at two of the top ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pu Zhongjie
Pu Zhongjie (; born January 16, 1963) is a Chinese businessman and entrepreneur. He founded the pharmaceutical company Lepu Group Co. Ltd. in 1998, and now serves as its Chairman, President, Technical director, Controller, and general manager. According to Hurun Report's China Rich List 2013, Pu has an estimated personal fortune of $370 million, and was the 849th richest person in China. Career In 1999, Pu founded Lepu Medical Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd. with joint funding by WP Medical Technologies Inc. and Luoyang Ship Material Research Institute. He is also the executive director of Beijing Target Medical Technologies Co. Ltd.; Lepu Medical Technology (Beijing) Co. Ltd.; Shanghai Shape Memory alloy Material Co. Ltd.; the director of the Chinese Society of Biotechnology (CSBT); vice president of the Interventional Engineering Committee of CSBT; and a member of the Changping CPPCC committee. Pu's net worth is c. ¥3.8 billion, mostly from appreciation in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pu Tze-chun
Pu Tze-chun () is a scholar of Public Management and a former admiral of the Republic of China Navy (ROCN) in Taiwan. He was graduated from I-Shou University, receiving a PhD in Public Management studies. He is the 11th Vice Minister of National Defense, taking office on May 2017. He stepped down in February 2018. Education Pu graduated from Republic of China Naval Academy in 1978 and Naval War College in the United States in 1997. Republic of China Armed Forces Speaking at Legislative Yuan as the Vice Chief of the General Staff (Executive) of the Republic of China Armed Forces The Republic of China Armed Forces (ROC Armed Forces) are the armed forces of the Republic of China (ROC), once based in mainland China and currently in its remaining jurisdictions which include the islands of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu ... in October 2015 regarding South China Sea territorial disputes, Pu said that the armed forces would defend the nation and also appeal to the internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mu-chou Poo
Mu-chou Poo (; born 1952) is a Taiwanese Egyptologist and scholar in Comparative Antiquity. Poo was born in Taiwan and obtained his undergraduate degree from National Taiwan University (1975). After receiving his PhD from Johns Hopkins University (1984), he became a research fellow at the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica Academia Sinica (AS, la, 1=Academia Sinica, 3=Chinese Academy; ), headquartered in Nangang, Taipei, is the national academy of Taiwan. Founded in Nanking, the academy supports research activities in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from ... (1983–2009). Currently, Poo teaches at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a professor of history. Bibliography Poo has published works in Chinese and English. Major works include: Books in English: * Wine and Wine Offering in the Religion of Ancient Egypt (London: Kegan Paul International, Egyptological Series, 1995). * In Search of Personal Welfare: A View of Ancient Chinese Religion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pu Tiansheng
Pu Tiansheng (or Pu Tian-shen, Chinese: 蒲添生, 1912.06.19~1996.05.31) was a well-known Taiwanese sculptor. He created Taiwan's first ever likeness of Sun Yat-sen, today on display in front of Taipei Zhongshan Hall. He was a pioneer of modern sculpture in Taiwan, founder of Taiwan's first bronze casting factory. Early life Born into a family of traditional painters in 1912, Pu Tiansheng's father Pu Ying ran the Wenjin picture framing shop on Chiayi's Mei Street (renamed Chengren St. after the war). Pu Tiansheng's talents in painting were directly influenced by his childhood environment. At the age of fourteen, his glue color painting ''Gamecock''（''鬥雞''）won first place at the Hsinchu Art Exhibition. In 1929, he joined the Chun-Meng Painting Society established by his neighbor Lin Yushan and Pan Chunyuan, a painter from Tainan. Members of the Chun-Meng Painting Society group were devoted to the study of Oriental painting, and included artists such as Zhu Futing and X ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pao Ming Pu
Pao Ming Pu (the form of his name he used in Western languages, although the Wade-Giles transliteration would be Pu Baoming; ; August 1910 – February 22, 1988), was a mathematician born in Jintang County, Sichuan, China.. He was a student of Charles Loewner and a pioneer of systolic geometry, having proved what is today called Pu's inequality for the real projective plane, following Loewner's proof of Loewner's torus inequality. He later worked in the area of fuzzy mathematics. He spent much of his career as professor and chairman of the department of mathematics at Sichuan University. Biography Pu received his Ph.D. at Syracuse University in 1950 under the supervision of Charles Loewner, resulting in the publication in 1952 of the seminal paper containing both Pu's inequality for the real projective plane and Loewner's torus inequality. .99 The listing at the Mathematics Genealogy Project indicates that his first name, according to Syracuse University records, wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pu Hua
Pú Huá (Wade–Giles: P'u Hua, traditional: 蒲華, simplified: 蒲华, pinyin: Pú Huá); c. 1834–1911 was a Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912). Information Pu was born in Jiaxing in the Zhejiang Zhejiang ( or , ; , also romanized as Chekiang) is an eastern, coastal province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable cities include Ningbo and Wenzhou. Zhejiang is bordered by Jiang ... province. His style name was 'Zuo Ying'. Pu painted landscapes and ink bamboo in an unconventional style of free and easy brush strokes. References 1830s births 1911 deaths Qing dynasty landscape painters Artists from Jiaxing Painters from Zhejiang {{China-painter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pu Songling
Pu Songling (, 5 June 1640 – 25 February 1715) was a Chinese writer during the Qing dynasty, best known as the author of '' Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio'' (''Liaozhai zhiyi''). Biography Pu was born into a poor merchant family from Zichuan (淄川, in Zibo, Shandong). At the age of 18, he received the Xiucai degree in the Imperial examination. It was not until he was 71 that he was awarded the '' Gongsheng'' ("tribute student") degree for his achievement in literature rather than for passing the Imperial examinations. He spent most of his life working as a private tutor, collecting the stories that were later published in '' Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio'' in 1740. Some critics attribute the Vernacular Chinese novel ''Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan'' ("Marriage Destinies to Awaken the World") to him. Translations of his work * ''Strange Tales from Liaozhai'' (tr. Sidney L. Sondergard). Jain Pub Co., 2008. . * ''Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio'' (tr. John Minford). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
