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Long (surname 龍)
LongThe approximate English pronunciation of the surname in Mandarin is . is the pinyin Romanization of Chinese, romanization of a few Chinese surname, Chinese surnames. It includes / , which means "dragon" in Chinese, ranking number 80 on the list of common Chinese surnames in 2006, up from 108 in 1990. Another name transcribed as Long is , which is very rare in contemporary China. In Hong Kong, these names are romanized as Lung. In Wade-Giles it is also romanized as Lung. Notable people * Long Ju (), military general who served Xiang Yu during the Chu–Han Contention (died 203 BC) * Long Qingquan (), China, Chinese weightlifter * Long Yan, (; born 1973) Chinese former synchronized swimmer who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics * Long Yun (; 1884–1962), governor and warlord of the Chinese province of Yunnan * James Lung Wai-man (), chairman of the Southern Democratic Alliance in Hong Kong * Lung Ying-tai (; born 1952), Taiwanese essayist and cultural critic * Long Lehao (; ...
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Dragon
A dragon is a Magic (supernatural), magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but European dragon, dragons in Western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as winged, horned, and capable of breathing fire. Chinese dragon, Dragons in eastern cultures are usually depicted as wingless, four-legged, Snake, serpentine creatures with above-average intelligence. Commonalities between dragons' traits are often a hybridization of Reptile, reptilian, mammalian, and Bird, avian features. Etymology The word ''dragon'' entered the English language in the early 13th century from Old French , which, in turn, comes from Latin (genitive ), meaning "huge serpent, dragon", from , (genitive , ) "serpent".
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James Lung Wai-man
James Lung Wai-man () is the chairman of the Southern Democratic Alliance, a political organisation in Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor .... In mid-May 2019, he was arrested on suspicion of production of child pornography and indecent assault. He was accused of fondling and taking videos of two victims, then aged three and six. In 2020, Lung pleaded guilty to seven offences and was sentenced to 32 months in prison. Notes Hong Kong politicians Living people 1974 births Hong Kong politicians convicted of crimes {{HongKong-politician-stub ...
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Long Daoyi
Long Daoyi (, born 6 March 2003) is a Chinese athlete who competes in diving. He won two medals at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships, winning gold in the 3m synchro springboard and bronze in the 3m springboard. At the 2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ..., he won a gold medal with Wang Zongyuan in the 3m synchro event. International awards References External links * 2003 births Living people People from Qiandongnan Sportspeople from Guizhou 21st-century Chinese sportsmen Chinese male divers World Aquatics Championships medalists in diving Divers at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic divers for China Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in diving Olympic gold medalists for China {{PRChina-acrobatics-d ...
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Anders Ljungstedt
Anders Ljungstedt (; 23 March 1759 – 10 November 1835) was a Swedish merchant and historian. Early career Ljungstedt was born to a poor family in Linköping and attended Uppsala University for a time, but was forced to withdraw for lack of funds. In 1784, he went to Russia, where he worked as a teacher for ten years. Following his return to Sweden, he obtained employment in the Swedish government and served as Russian interpreter for king Gustav IV Adolf during his journey to Russia. Career in Macau Ljungstedt was later hired by the Swedish East India Company, but after it folded, he moved to Macau, where he resided for the rest of his life working as a merchant. The King of Sweden later made him a Knight of the Order of Vasa, and in 1820 he was also appointed Sweden's first consul general in China. Ljungstedt took great interest in the history of Macau and he is famous for being the first Westerner to refute the Portuguese claim that the Ming dynasty had formally ceded sov ...
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Chinese Academy Of Sciences
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS; ) is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China. It is the world's largest research organization, with 106 research institutes, 2 universities, 71,300 full-time employees, and 79 thousand graduate students. The Chinese Academy of Sciences has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republic of China (1912–49), Republican era and was formerly also known by that name until the 1980s. The academy functions as the national scientific think tank and academic governing body, providing advisory and appraisal services on issues stemming from the national economy, Social change, social development, and science and technology progress. It is headquartered in Beijing, with affiliate institutes throughout China. It has also created hundreds of commercial enterprises, Lenovo being one of the most famous. The academy also runs the University of Scienc ...
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Nankai University
Nankai University is a public university in Tianjin, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Construction. Nankai University was established in 1919 as the private Nankai School by Yan Xiu and Zhang Boling. During the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937 to 1945, Nankai University, Peking University and Tsinghua University merged and formed the National Changsha Provisional University, which later moved to Kunming and was renamed the National Southwestern Associated University (西南联大). On December 25, 2000, the State Ministry of Education signed an agreement with Tianjin Municipal Government to jointly establish and develop Nankai University. Nankai's alumni and faculty include the first Premier of the People's Republic of China Zhou Enlai, mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern and Nobel laureates Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee. History 1919–1937 The univers ...
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Mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematical model, models, and mathematics#Calculus and analysis, change. History One of the earliest known mathematicians was Thales of Miletus (); he has been hailed as the first true mathematician and the first known individual to whom a mathematical discovery has been attributed. He is credited with the first use of deductive reasoning applied to geometry, by deriving four corollaries to Thales's theorem. The number of known mathematicians grew when Pythagoras of Samos () established the Pythagorean school, whose doctrine it was that mathematics ruled the universe and whose motto was "All is number". It was the Pythagoreans who coined the term "mathematics", and with whom the study of mathematics for its own sake begins. The first woman math ...
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Long Yiming
Long Yiming (born October 1948) is a Chinese researcher, mathematician, and professor at Nankai University. He is a fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on symplectic geometry, nonlinear functional analysis, celestial mechanics, the variation method, and the Hamiltonian system. He is a distinguished professor of the Changjiang Scholars Program and the Director-General of the Chinese Mathematical Society. Education Between 1978 and 1981, he was a student at Nankai University, where he obtained a master's degree. Between August 1983 and December 1987, he was a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Uni ..., where he received a doctorate degree in mathematics. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Long, Yiming ...
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Diversity Council Australia
Diversity Council Australia (DCA), formerly the Council for Equal Employment Opportunity, is an independent not-for-profit peak body for the promotion of diversity and inclusion in the workplace, funded mainly by membership fees, sponsorships and services to business/employers. It undertakes research, holds events, and shares its knowledge and resources. In 2023 DCA, along with the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion, Community Business (Asia), and Diversity Works New Zealand, launched the Global Inclusion & Diversity Alliance (GIDA). , Catherine Hunter is CEO, while Sunita Gloster chairs the board of the organisation. History In July 1984 the Commonwealth Government ran a one-year pilot program looking affirmative action, with 28 companies and three tertiary institutions participating. It was administered by the Office of the Status of Women, under Senator Susan Ryan, and the Business Council of Australia (BCA) was also involved. Upon completion of the pilot, BCA, ...
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Ming Long
The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming was the last imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Han people, the majority ethnic group in China. Although the primary capital of Beijing fell in 1644 to a rebellion led by Li Zicheng (who established the short-lived Shun dynasty), numerous rump state, rump regimes ruled by remnants of the House of Zhu, Ming imperial family, collectively called the Southern Ming, survived until 1662. The Ming dynasty's founder, the Hongwu Emperor (1368–1398), attempted to create a society of self-sufficient rural communities ordered in a rigid, immobile system that would guarantee and support a permanent class of soldiers for his dynasty: the empire's standing army exceeded one million troops and the naval history of China, navy's dockyards in Nanjing were the largest in the world. H ...
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Manyuan Long
Manyuan Long () is a China-born American evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Long pioneered the studies of origination and evolution of new genes and received many awards including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US and Canada and the Ray Wu Award. The Long lab website is https://manyuanlonglab.uchicago.edu/ Early life and education Manyuan Long was born and grew up in a family of an ethnic minority group from the mountainous area of southwestern China, the Miao (also called Hmong). In the late stage of the political turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, after middle school, Long was exiled as " Sent-down youth" to a poor mountainous area in southern Sichuan. Long studied in Sichuan Agricultural university and earned a baccalaureate in agronomy in 1982 and a master's degree in plant genetics and breeding in 1985, mentored by Zhiren Gao, a population geneticist trained by C.C. LI. In 1987, Long was admitted into the genetics graduate pro ...
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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 its establishment, CAE has provided consultancy to the State on key programs, planning, guidelines, and policies at the request of government ministries and commissions. In response to requests from central and local government ministries, the academy has mobilized its members to conduct surveys, offer strategic opinions, and make proposals. These projects have been instrumental in enhancing member participation in the State's major decision-making processes. Additionally, members have regularly and actively contributed their insights and suggestions based on their experience, perspectives, and awareness of international engineering science a ...
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