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Zhuo
Zhuo () is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized Cho in Wade–Giles, Cheuk or Cherk or Chak in Cantonese, and Toh or Tok in Teochew and Hokkien. Zhuo is listed 277th in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. As of 2008, it is the 224th most common surname in China, shared by 360,000 people. Notable people * Zhuo Wenjun (2nd century BC), celebrated poet, wife of Sima Xiangru * Zhuo Jing ( 卓敬; died 1402), Ming dynasty minister, executed for refusing to serve the Yongle Emperor * Zhuo Bingtian ( 卓秉恬; 1782–1855), Qing dynasty Minister of Defense * Toh Ah Boon or Zhuo Yawen (1860–1932), Malayan businessman * Zhuo Lin (1916–2009), wife of Deng Xiaoping * Toh Kian Chui (卓键水) (1927-2000), Singaporean philanthropist * Zhuo Renxi (1931–2019), chemist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences * Alfred Y. Cho or Zhuo Yihe (born 1937), Chinese-American electrical engineer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhuo Jing
Zhuo () is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized Cho in Wade–Giles, Cheuk or Cherk or Chak in Cantonese, and Toh or Tok in Teochew and Hokkien. Zhuo is listed 277th in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. As of 2008, it is the 224th most common surname in China, shared by 360,000 people. Notable people * Zhuo Wenjun (2nd century BC), celebrated poet, wife of Sima Xiangru * Zhuo Jing ( 卓敬; died 1402), Ming dynasty minister, executed for refusing to serve the Yongle Emperor * Zhuo Bingtian ( 卓秉恬; 1782–1855), Qing dynasty Minister of Defense * Toh Ah Boon or Zhuo Yawen (1860–1932), Malayan businessman * Zhuo Lin (1916–2009), wife of Deng Xiaoping * Toh Kian Chui (卓键水) (1927-2000), Singaporean philanthropist * Zhuo Renxi (1931–2019), chemist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences * Alfred Y. Cho or Zhuo Yihe (born 1937), Chinese-American electrical engineer * Pats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhuo Bingtian
Zhuo () is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized Cho in Wade–Giles, Cheuk or Cherk or Chak in Cantonese, and Toh or Tok in Teochew and Hokkien. Zhuo is listed 277th in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. As of 2008, it is the 224th most common surname in China, shared by 360,000 people. Notable people * Zhuo Wenjun (2nd century BC), celebrated poet, wife of Sima Xiangru * Zhuo Jing ( 卓敬; died 1402), Ming dynasty minister, executed for refusing to serve the Yongle Emperor * Zhuo Bingtian ( 卓秉恬; 1782–1855), Qing dynasty Minister of Defense * Toh Ah Boon or Zhuo Yawen (1860–1932), Malayan businessman * Zhuo Lin (1916–2009), wife of Deng Xiaoping * Toh Kian Chui (卓键水) (1927-2000), Singaporean philanthropist * Zhuo Renxi (1931–2019), chemist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences * Alfred Y. Cho or Zhuo Yihe (born 1937), Chinese-American electrical engineer * Pats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhuo Wenjun
Zhuo Wenjun (; fl. 2nd century BC) was a Chinese poet of the Western Han dynasty. As a young widow, she eloped with the poet Sima Xiangru. The poem ''Baitou Yin'' (白頭吟, White-Haired Lament) which complains at the inconstancy of male love, is attributed to her. Biography Zhuo Wenjun was a lady from the Zhuo family of the Sichuan province, and her father was Zhuo Wangsun. She had the best education, highlighting music and poetry. Married at sixteen, she was soon widowed and returned to her parents. Sima Xiangru, a famous poet and musician, during a stay in Chengdu, was invited to their home by the Zhuos. Zhuo Wenjun fell in love with him when she saw him play the guqin and did not hesitate to run away with him. Angry, her father denied her any support. Finding herself in poverty because her new husband's family was not rich, Zhuo Wenjun opened a wine shop. Ashamed that his daughter was a simple innkeeper, her father relented and gave them money and servants. Emperor Wu le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhuo Renxi
Zhuo Renxi (; 12 February 1931 – 6 August 2019) was a Chinese chemist who specialized in biomaterial research. He served as professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry of Wuhan University. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of Biomaterials Science and Engineering. Early life and education Zhuo was born on 12 February 1931 in Xiamen, Fujian, Republic of China. After graduating from the Department of Chemistry of Fudan University, he was assigned to teach at Wuhan University as an assistant professor. From 1957 to 1959, he furthered his studies at Nankai University, where he conducted research in organosilicon chemistry under the guidance of Soviet experts. After returning to Wuhan University, he was promoted to lecturer in 1960, associate professor in 1978, and full professor in 1982. From 1983 to 1984, he was a visiting scholar at Yale University in the United States. He later served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry of Wuhan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sima Xiangru
Sima Xiangru ( , ; c. 179117BC) was a Chinese musician, poet, and politician who lived during the Western Han dynasty. Sima is a significant figure in the history of Classical Chinese poetry, and is generally regarded as the greatest of all composers of Chinese ''fu'' rhapsodies. His poetry includes his invention or at least development of the ''fu'' form, applying new metrical rhythms to the lines of poetry, which he mixed with lines of prose, and provided with several of what would in ensuing centuries become among a group of common set topics for this genre. Sima Xiangru was also versatile enough to write in the ''Chu ci'' style, while it was enjoying a renaissance, and he also wrote lyrics in what would become known as the ''yuefu'' formal style. Early life and career Sima Xiangru was born in the commandery of Shu (now Sichuan Province) in the early 2nd century BC. His birth year is generally given as 179BC, but other sources give it variously as 172, 171, or 169BC. Mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhuo Lin
Zhuo Lin (April 6, 1916 – July 29, 2009) was the third and last wife of Deng Xiaoping, former Paramount leader of China. Biography Born Pu Qiongying () in Xuanwei, Yunnan province, she was the daughter of an industrialist who manufactured Yunnan ham. She attended Peking University, then moved to the Chinese Communist Party base in Yan'an, changed her name to Zhuo Lin, and then joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1938. In 1939 she married Deng in front of Mao Zedong's cave dwelling in Yan'an. They had five children - three daughters (Deng Lin, Deng Nan, Deng Rong) and two sons (Deng Pufang, Deng Zhifang). She died on July 29, 2009, aged 93, in Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 .... References External linksObituary {{DEFAULTSORT:Zhuo, Lin 1916 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping (22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997) was a Chinese revolutionary leader, military commander and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from December 1978 to November 1989. After CCP chairman Mao Zedong's death in 1976, Deng gradually rose to supreme power and led China through a series of far-reaching market-economy reforms earning him the reputation as the "Architect of Modern China". He contributed to China becoming the world's second largest economy by GDP nominal in 2010. Born in the province of Sichuan in the Qing dynasty, Deng studied and worked in France in the 1920s, where he became a follower of Marxism–Leninism and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1924. In early 1926, Deng travelled to Moscow to study Communist doctrines and became a political commissar for the Red Army upon returning to China. In late 1929, Deng led local Red Army uprisings in Guangxi. In 1931, he was demoted within the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhuo Changren
The hijacking of CAAC Flight 296, a Hawker Siddeley Trident 2E aircraft, took place on May 5, 1983. Flight 296 of China Civil Aviation Airlines (CAAC), a scheduled domestic passenger flight from to Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, was hijacked by six Chinese nationals and was forced to land at Camp Page, a US military base in Chuncheon, South Korea.Song Chengyou. History of Sino-Korean Relations - Modern Volume. Beijing: Social Science Press. January 2014. . At the time of the incident, China and South Korea did not have diplomatic relations. The incident contributed to the first official non-adversarial contact between China and South Korea before the establishment of diplomatic relations, which was a turning point in the relationship between the two sides. In the following series of incidents, the mutual hostility between China and South Korea in the process of handling or reporting began to fade, and the goodwill component increased greatly, laying a foundation for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Family Surnames
The ''Hundred Family Surnames'' (), commonly known as ''Bai Jia Xing'', also translated as ''Hundreds of Chinese Surnames'', is a classic Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames. An unknown author compiled the book during the Song dynasty (960–1279).K. S. Tom. 989(1989). Echoes from Old China: Life, Legends and Lore of the Middle Kingdom p. 12. University of Hawaii Press. . The book lists 507 surnames. Of these, 441 are single-character surnames and 66 are double-character surnames. About 800 names have been derived from the original ones. In the dynasties following the Song, the 13th-century ''Three Character Classic'', the ''Hundred Family Surnames'', and the 6th-century ''Thousand Character Classic'' came to be known as ''San Bai Qian'' (Three, Hundred, Thousand), from the first character in their titles. They served as instructional books for children, becoming the almost universal introductory literary texts for students (almost exclusively boys) from elite b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patsy Toh
Patsy Toh (; born 1940) is a Chinese-born pianist living in London, England. She has taught at the Royal Academy of Music since 1975, and became a Fellow in 1995. Early life Toh was born in Shanghai, China, in 1940 of a family from Xiamen, the family returned to Gulangyu Island shortly after her birth. In 1948 at the age of 8, she won first prize in the Hong Kong Music Competition and in 1952 at the age of 12 went to Westonbirt School, a boarding school in England. www.argief.litnet.co.za. Retrieved 26 March 2012. Education At 13, Toh passed 8th Grade and entered the |
Toh Ah Boon
Dato' Toh Ah Boon (; 1860 – 1 April 1932) was a Chinese community leader, and one of the biggest landlords in Johor Bahru of his time. He was honored by Late Johor Sultan the SPMJ Dato and DPMJ Dato. Early life Toh was the son of Toh Kim Swee, who died when he was still a child. He lived with his uncle who have a provision shop on Arab Street, Singapore. When he was 15 years old, he accompanied his uncle to Johor Bahru as his uncle started his business as a contractor. Career After his uncle died, he took over the business. Toh was successful in his business as he invested in the landed property and also purchased a granite quarry at Pulau Nanas to supply granite to the Johor Government and the contractors of the public works in Singapore and Johor, which included the Mole in Singapore Harbour. He was also involved in tapioca and rubber planting at Gunung Pulai and Jalan Skudai area. He retired in 1915 and his business was taken over and managed by his sons Toh Gim Seng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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