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Ai (surname)
Ai 葉 is the Mandarin/Taiwanese pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname in Chinese character definition of leaf. It is listed 334th in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. As of 2008, it is the 215th mostly common surname in Taiwan, shared by 400,000 people. Notable people *Ai Nanying ( 艾南英; 1583–1646), Ming dynasty essayist *Ai Nengqi ( 艾能奇; died 1647), rebel general and adopted son of Zhang Xianzhong *Ai Yuanzheng ( 艾元征; 1624–1676), Qing dynasty Minister of Justice * Ai Ai ( 艾靉; 1906–1982), Republic of China lieutenant general, Deputy Minister of Defense * Ai Qing (艾青; 1910–1996), pen name of poet Jiang Zhenghan *Ai Siqi (艾思奇; 1910–1966), pen name of Mongol-Chinese philosopher Li Shengxuan * Ai Xia (艾霞; 1912–1934), silent film actress * Ai Xing (艾兴; 1924–2008), mechanical engineer, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering *Ai Zhisheng ( 艾知生; 1928–1997), Minister of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Chinese
Old Chinese, also called Archaic Chinese in older works, is the oldest attested stage of Chinese, and the ancestor of all modern varieties of Chinese. The earliest examples of Chinese are divinatory inscriptions on oracle bones from around 1250 BC, in the late Shang dynasty. Bronze inscriptions became plentiful during the following Zhou dynasty. The latter part of the Zhou period saw a flowering of literature, including classical works such as the '' Analects'', the '' Mencius'', and the '' Zuo zhuan''. These works served as models for Literary Chinese (or Classical Chinese), which remained the written standard until the early twentieth century, thus preserving the vocabulary and grammar of late Old Chinese. Old Chinese was written with several early forms of Chinese characters, including Oracle Bone, Bronze, and Seal scripts. Throughout the Old Chinese period, there was a close correspondence between a character and a monosyllabic and monomorphemic word. Although the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qing Dynasty
The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speaking ethnic group who unified other Jurchen tribes to form a new "Manchu" ethnic identity. The dynasty was officially proclaimed in 1636 in Manchuria (modern-day Northeast China and Outer Manchuria). It seized control of Beijing in 1644, then later expanded its rule over the whole of China proper and Taiwan, and finally expanded into Inner Asia. The dynasty lasted until 1912 when it was overthrown in the Xinhai Revolution. In orthodox Chinese historiography, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the Ming dynasty and succeeded by the Republic of China. The multiethnic Qing dynasty lasted for almost three centuries and assembled the territorial base for modern China. It was the largest imperial dynasty in the history of China and in 1790 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Xuan
Ai Xuan () (born November 11, 1947) is a Chinese painter. In 1967, he graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts Preparatory School. Since 1980, Ai has had six of his paintings featured in the national exhibition. He has also won several awards including: in 1981, a second-class National Youth Arts Award for his oil painting "wholesale"; a Sichuan outstanding works Prize; and, in 1986, a second Asian art award for his oil painting "snow" . In 1987, Ai spent a year in the United States, visiting academics at Oklahoma City University. While there he was able to meet with several famous artists, and hosted his own personal exhibition. Ai also travelled to Great Britain to participate in the auction organised to raise funds for renovation of the Great Wall of China. He teaches at Beijing Painting Institute. Ai is currently based in Beijing and is a member of the China Artists Association. Family He is the son of the late Chinese poet Ai Qing, as well as the half-brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Allan
Sarah Allan (; born 1945) is an American paleographer and scholar of ancient China. She was a Burlington Northern Foundation Professor of Asian Studies in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures at Dartmouth College; she is currently affiliated to the University of California, Berkeley. She is Chair for the Society for the Study of Early China and Editor of Early China. Previously, she was Senior Lecturer in Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She is best known for her interdisciplinary approach to the mythological and philosophical systems of early Chinese civilization. Biography Allan received a B.A. degree in 1966 from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in 1969 and 1974 respectively from the University of California, Berkeley. At UCLA, she studied archaeology with Richard C. Rudolph and took a course in Chinese art history with J. Leroy Davidson, and she studied ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Weiren
Ai Weiren (; 1932 – 29 June 2018) was a lieutenant general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He fought in the Chinese Civil War and the Korean War, and served as Deputy Political Commissar of the Chengdu Military Region and of the Shenyang Military Region. Biography Ai was born in Haicheng, Liaoning Province. He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army in March 1948 and joined the Chinese Communist Party in May 1949. He fought in the Liaoshen Campaign, Western Hubei Campaign, and the Southwest Campaign during the Chinese Civil War, as well as the Korean War after the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Ai rose through the ranks and served as Deputy Political Commissar of the Chengdu Military Region and of the Shenyang Military Region, He was awarded the rank of major general in 1988, and was promoted to lieutenant general in 1990. He was a member of the 13th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, and a member of the 14th Central Commission fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Zhisheng
Ai Zhisheng (; December 1928 – 20 July 1997) was a Chinese politician who served as from 1985 to 1994. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 8th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He was an alternate member of the 12th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 13th and 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. Biography Ai was born in Hanyang County (now Hanyang District of Wuhan), Hubei, in December 1928. In 1946, he enrolled at Tsinghua University, where he majored in the Department of Civil Engineering. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1948. After graduation, he stayed and worked at the university, and eventually becoming deputy party secretary in 1960. In 1966, the Cultural Revolution broke out, he was removed from office and effectively sidelined. He was sent to the May Seventh Cadre Schools to do farm works. He was reinstated as deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee of Tsinghua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Academy Of Engineering
The Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE, ) is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for engineering. It was established in 1994 and is an institution of the State Council of China. The CAE and the Chinese Academy of Sciences are often referred to together as the "Two Academies". Its current president is Li Xiaohong. Since the establishment of CAE, entrusted by the relevant ministries and commissions, the Academy has offered consultancy to the State on major programs, planning, guidelines, and policies. With the incitation by various ministries of the central government as well as local governments, the Academy has organized its members to make surveys on the forefront, and to put forward strategic opinions and proposals. These entrusted projects have played an important role in maximizing the participation of the members in the macro decision-making of the State. In the meantime, the members, based on their own experiences and perspectives accumulated in a lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Xing
Ai Xing (; 24 August 1924 – 7 April 2018) was a Chinese mechanical engineer and educator who specialized in high-speed machining (HSM) and tool materials. He was a longtime professor at Shandong University and its predecessor Shandong University of Technology, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Biography Ai Xing was born 24 August 1924 in Dongxiang, Jiangxi, Republic of China. After graduating from Xiamen University in 1948 with a bachelor of engineering degree, he was hired by the university as a faculty member. In September 1953, he moved to the Shandong University of Technology (), where he taught as a lecturer, associate professor, and then professor for the next 47 years. After the university was merged into Shandong University in July 2000, he became a professor of the School of Engineering of Shandong University. Ai specialized in high-speed machining and tool materials. He developed six types of ceramics machining tools, three of which were t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Xia
Ai Xia (; 29 November 1912 – 15 February 1934) was a Chinese left-wing silent film actress and screenwriter. She committed suicide in 1934, the first Chinese actor to have done so. Her suicide inspired Cai Chusheng's classic film ''New Women'' starring Ruan Lingyu, who also killed herself soon after the release of the film. Life and career Ai Xia was born Yan Yinan () on November 29, 1912 in Tianjin to a large middle-class family. She attended university. After graduating, she fell in love with her cousin and had a child. Her family disapproved of the relationship, resulting in her lover leaving. In 1928, she was in an arranged marriage but, as a personal protest, left home for Shanghai to pursue a career in film. Ai Xia started her career as a stage actor with the South China Theater Society (''Nanguo jushe''), founded by Tian Han, before joining the Leftists Dramatists League (''Zuoyi juzuojia lianmeng''). She was introduced to Mingxing (Star) Film Company in 1932. She wro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Siqi
Ài Sīqí () is the pen name of Li Shengxuan (李生萱, 2 March 1910 – 22 March 1966), a Yunnan Mongol Chinese philosopher and author. He was born in Tengchong, Yunnan, later traveling to Hong Kong, where he studied English and French at a Protestant school and was exposed to Sun Yat-sen’s '' Three Principles of the People'' and Marxism. He read a great deal of Marxism, including the '' Communist Manifesto'', in Japanese translation. This reading is the root of Ai’s most important works, '' Dialectical Materialism and Historical Materialism'' (歷史唯物主義與辯証唯物主義) and ''Philosophy for the Masses'' (大眾哲學)(1948). He was a delegate to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd National People's Congress. In the small tourist town of Heshun in Tengchong County, in western Yunnan Province, China, there is a small museum dedicated to Ai. It is based in his former house, where he lived for two years. It contains pictures, personal items and a statue of him in the y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ai Qing
Aì Qīng (, March 27, 1910 – May 5, 1996), born Jiang Zhenghan () and styled Jiang Haicheng (), is regarded by some as one of the finest modern Chinese poets. He was known under his pen names Linbi (), Ke'a () and Ejia (). Life Ai Qing was born in Fantianjiang village (), Jinhua county, in eastern China's Zhejiang province. After entering Hangzhou Xihu Art School in 1928, on the advice of principal Lin Fengmian, he went abroad and studied in Paris the following spring. From 1929 to 1932 while studying in France, besides learning art of Renoir and Van Gogh, the philosophy of Kant and Hegel, he also studied modern poets such as Mayakovsky and was especially influenced by Belgian poet Verhaeren. After returning to Shanghai, China in May 1932, he joined China Left Wing Artist Association, and was arrested in July for opposing the Kuomintang. During his imprisonment, Ai Qing translated Verhaeren's poems and wrote his first book ''Dayanhe—My Nanny'' (), "Reed Flute" (), and "P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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