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Tong Yong-il
Tong may refer to: Chinese *Tang Dynasty, a dynasty in Chinese history when transliterated from Cantonese *Tong (organization), a type of social organization found in Chinese immigrant communities *''tong'', pronunciation of several Chinese characters *See: **The Chinese surnames Tang (唐 and 湯/汤) transliterated based on Cantonese **The Chinese surnames (佟, 童 and 仝) transliterated based on Mandarin People *Tong (surname), a Gan Chinese of Zhang, (张), (莊), Cantonese of Tang (滕), (鄧), Beijing Chinese of Tung (佟) *Tong Dizhou (1902–1979) *Tong Fei (born 1961) *Tong Guan (1054–1126) *Tong Jian (born 1979) *Amy Tong (born 1977), American judoka *Anote Tong (born 1952) *Bao Tong (born 1932), Director of the Office of Political Reform of the CPC Central Committee and the Policy Secretary of Zhao Ziyang *Grace Tong (born 1942) *Jacqueline Tong (born 1951) *Kaity Tong (born 1947) *Kelvin Tong *Kent Tong (born 1958) *Lim Goh Tong (1918–2007), Malaysian Chinese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tang Dynasty
The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an Zhou dynasty (690–705), interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Historians generally regard the Tang as a high point in Chinese civilization, and a Golden age (metaphor), golden age of cosmopolitan culture. Tang territory, acquired through the military campaigns of its early rulers, rivaled that of the Han dynasty. The House of Li, Lǐ family () founded the dynasty, seizing power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire and inaugurating a period of progress and stability in the first half of the dynasty's rule. The dynasty was formally interrupted during 690–705 when Empress Wu Zetian seized the throne, proclaiming the Zhou dynasty (690–705), Wu Zhou dynasty and becoming the only legitimate Chinese empress regnant. The devast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent Tong
Kent Tong (; born 29 September 1958) is a Hong Kong actor. He was a popular TVB actor during the 1980s, nicknamed "Prince" and one of the "Five Tiger Generals" of TVB. Early life Kent Tong was born to and grew up in a poor family in Hong Kong. His father was a fisherman who always caught seafood to feed his family. All 12 members of his family lived in a small-sized living room that was only 30 square meters. After graduating from high school, he worked on a salary of around 500 Hong Kong dollars per month. Career In 1979, Kent Tong received actor training from the TVB Artist Training Class, and proceeded to act for TVB. Although he has appeared in over a dozen movies, he is mostly known for his work in TVB television series, such as Duen Yu in ''Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils'' (1982) and Yin Ching in ''The Unyielding Master Lim'' (1986). Tong often undertook roles of princes and villains in TVB dramas. During the 1980s, Kent Tong, along with Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Andy Lau, Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tong Wen
Tong Wen (; born 1 February 1983 in Tianjin) is a PR China, Chinese judoka. Born in Tianjin, she began training in Judo when she was 13. In the 2008 Summer Olympics she won the gold medal. She also won gold medals at the world championships of 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011 as well as a bronze medal in 2001. On May 10, 2010, she was banned for two years by the International Judo Federation because of Clenbuterol doping and was required to give back her gold medal from the World Championships of 2009. Tong subsequently contested the ban and took her case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport which ruled that a doping violation could not be proved and found, in her favor, ordering that she be reinstated immediately with all rights. She returned to international competition in May 2011, winning gold at the Moscow Grand Slam. References External links * 1983 births Living people Judoka at the 2008 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Tong (actor)
Vincent Tong (born May 2, 1980) is a Canadian voice actor and voice director. His voice roles include Gene Khan / The Mandarin in '' Iron Man: Armored Adventures'', Toro in ''Sushi Pack'', Henry in '' Kid vs. Kat'', Garble, Flash Sentry, and Sandbar in '' My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic'', Daniel in ''Voltron Force'', Kai in ''Ninjago'' as well as Jestro in ''Nexo Knights''. He also voiced Euden in ''Dragalia Lost'' before being replaced by Victor Hunter. Filmography Anime * ''Beyblade Burst'' – Ukyo Ibuki * '' Death Note'' – Touta Matsuda, Field Reporter * ''Gin Tama'' – Sogo Okita * ''Hello Carbot'' – Blaster * ''Nana'' – Kinoshita * ''Slam Dunk'' – Tetsushi Shiozaki * ''The Story of Saiunkoku'' – Yushun Tei (Jun Yu), Guard #2 Animation * '' 16 Hudson'' - Sam, Mr. Wu, MC * ''Bob the Builder (2015 TV series)'' – Muck (US), Brandon (US) * '' Chip and Potato'' – Mr. Badger-Fox, Mr. Buffalo, Pa Fant, Roy Razzle, Ray Razzle * ''Chuck's Choice'' – Joey Adonis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tong Yabgu
Tong Yabghu Qaghan (r. 618–628 or 630) (also known as T'ung Yabghu, Tong Yabghu Khagan, and Tong Yabğu, Traditional Chinese 統葉護可汗, Simplified Chinese: 统叶护可汗, pinyin ''Tǒng Yèhù Kěhán'', Wade-Giles: ''T'ung Yeh-hu K'o-han''; guideline, to unite, to command, to govern". Karakhanid scholar Mahmud al-Kashgari, writing in the 11th century, glossed ''toŋa'' in Middle Turkic as basically meaning tiger. Gerard Clauson argues against Kashgari and states that ''toŋa'' means vaguely "hero, outstanding warrior". Reign Tong Yabghu maintained close relations with the Tang Dynasty of China, and may have married into the Imperial family. The Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang visited the western Göktürk capital Suyab in modern Kyrgyzstan and left a description of the khagan. Scholars believe the khagan described by Xuanzang was Tong Yabghu.Christian 260. Gao and La Vaissière argue that the khagan Xuanzang met was his son Si Yabghu, rather than Tong Yabghu.Gao 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Tong
Stanley Tong () is a Hong Kong film director, producer, stunt choreographer, screenwriter, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Early life Stanley Tong was born on April 7, 1960 in Hong Kong, and he completed his education in Hong Kong and Canada. Film career Encouraged by his brother-in-law in Hong Kong, who was a filmmaker, Tong started his film career there in 1979 by working behind the scenes in films. In 1991, Tong directed his first film, the self-funded '' Stone Age Warriors'' (魔域飛龍). The film received critical acclaim from some famous film critics, which attracted the attention of Golden Harvest. Tong was then invited to join the company as a film director. Tong is very well known for his action movies. Working closely with Jackie Chan, Stanley directed some very popular movies in the 1990s. Their first collaboration, '' Police Story 3: Super Cop'' (警察故事3：超级警察) (1992), broke box office records in many Asian countries and received a nomination fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Tong
Simon Tong (born 9 July 1972) is an English guitarist and keyboardist who was a member of the Verve between 1996 and 1999. He has played with Damon Albarn on tour with his bands Blur and Gorillaz, and as a member of the Good, the Bad & the Queen. He ranks in BBC's "The Axe Factor" as the 40th greatest guitarist of the last 30 years. Tong grew up in English town Skelmersdale, the subject of his most recent release, ''Prospect of Skelmersdale'' with his project The Magnetic North. Career The Verve; 1996–1999 From 1996 to 1999, Simon was a guitarist and keyboardist for The Verve. He was brought in to replace lead guitarist Nick McCabe after the band's first short-lived split, but remained with them when McCabe returned. Their third album was 1997's highly acclaimed ''Urban Hymns''. He played on many of their hits from that time such as "The Drugs Don't Work", "Bittersweet Symphony" and "Sonnet". The Verve disbanded in 1999 and later reformed in 2007, this time without Tong, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shen Tong
Shen Tong (Simplified Chinese: 沈彤; Hanyu Pinyin: Shěn Tóng) (born 1968) is an American impact investor, activist, and writer. He founded business accelerators FoodFutureCo in 2015 and Food-X in 2014, the latter of which is recognized by Fast Company as one of "The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies of 2015 in Food". He was a Chinese dissident who was exiled as one of the student leaders in the democracy movement at Tiananmen Square in 1989. Shen was one of the People of the Year in Newsweek 1989, and he became a media, software, social entrepreneur, and investor in the late 1990s. He serves on the board of Food Tank. Personal background Shen Tong was born in 1968, in Beijing. He studied at Peking University from 1986 to 1989, and was one of the student leaders during the 1989 protest in Tiananmen Square. He lives in New York City along with his three children. His father and sister Shen Qing both went to Peking University, and his mother is a medical doctor. Busines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronny Tong
Ronny Tong Ka-wah, SC KC (; born 28 August 1950 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong Senior Counsel and politician. He is a current non-official member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong. He co-founded the Civic Party and was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, representing the New Territories East constituency from 2004 until he quit the party and resigned from the legislature on 22 June 2015, following the historic vote on Hong Kong electoral reform a few days earlier, having switched his political alignment from pro-democracy to pro-Beijing Hong Kong political group Path of Democracy, of which he is currently the convener. Education and legal career Tong was born in Hong Kong in 1950. His ancestral hometown is Xinhui, Guangdong province. He attended Queen's College, Hong Kong and studied law at the University of Hong Kong, where he graduated top of his class and with first-class honours. He then further received his Bachelor of Civil Law degree from St Edmund H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rona Tong
Rona Iris McCarthy (née Tong, 22 August 1916 – 31 January 2016) was a New Zealand track and field athlete who won a bronze medal at the 1938 British Empire Games. Early life and family Born in Hastings on 22 August 1916, McCarthy was the daughter of funeral director Charles Oswald Tong and Florence Susannah Tong (née Jarden). She was educated at Hastings High School and then worked in the dressmaking trade. On 7 November 1939 she married Leslie James McCarthy at St Matthew's Church, Hastings, and the couple went on to have one daughter. Athletics She won the New Zealand national 80 yards hurdles title in 1937, and went on to represent her country in the same event at the British Empire Games in Sydney the following year. She finished third in the final, 0.1 seconds behind the winner, Barbara Burke from South Africa. Competing in the 100 yards sprint at the same games, McCarthy finished last in her heat and did not progress. Other sports McCarthy represented Hawke's Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Tong
Peter Michael Tong, (born 30 July 1960) is an English disc jockey who works for BBC Radio 1. He is the host of programmes such as ''Essential Mix'' and ''Essential Selection'' on the radio service, which can be heard through Internet radio streams, for his record label FFRR Records and for his own performances at nightclubs and music festivals. Tong has also worked as a record producer and is regarded as the "global ambassador for electronic music." The phrase "It's all gone Pete Tong", where the name is used as rhyming slang for "a bit wrong", was reputedly coined by Paul Oakenfold in late 1987 in an article about acid house called "Bermondsey Goes Balearic" for Terry Farley and Pete Heller's ''Boys Own'' fanzine. ''It's All Gone Pete Tong'' is also the title of a 2004 film which portrays a fictional DJ's experiences as he realizes he is becoming deaf. Tong appears briefly in the film. It is also the name Tong has adopted for his club night at the nightclub Pacha in Ibiza and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Tong
Michael Tong Man-lung ( Chinese: 唐文龍; Cantonese Romanization: Tong Man Lung (Tang Wen Long); born 17 November 1969) is a Hong Kong actor. Filmography TV series *'' Return of the Cuckoo'' (2000) *''The Kung Fu Master'' (2000) *'' Healing Hands 2'' (2000) *''Armed Reaction II'' (2000) *'' In a Realm of Success'' (2001) *'' Family Man'' (2002) *'' Trust of a Lifetime'' (2002) *''Perish in the Name of Love'' (2003)'' *''The 'W' Files'' (2003) *''Riches and Stitches'' (2003) *'' Healing Hands 3'' (2004) *''Hard Fate'' (2004) *''To Catch the Uncatchable'' (2004) *''The Biter Bitten'' (2006) *''Flaming Butterfly'' (2008) ( ATV) *''Heart and Greed'' (2017) Films *''Hero of City'' (2001) *'' Troublesome Night 18'' (2003) *'' Seamy Side of Life II - Crying Stars'' (2003) *'' Unplugging Nightmare'' (2004) *''Magic Kitchen'' (2004) *''Man of Tai Chi'' (2013) *''Firestorm'' (2013) *'' To Love Somebody'' (2014) *''Tomb Robber'' (2014) *'' Be Together'' (2015) *'' Scary Road Is Fun'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
