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Niu (surname 牛)
Niu () is a Chinese family name. It was listed 310th on the Song dynasty list of the ''Hundred Family Surnames.'' It means "ox". According to a 2013 study it was the 103rd most common surname at the time, shared by 2.20 million people, or 0.150% of the total population, with the province with the most being Henan. Prominent people with family name 牛 * Consort Niu (牛昭容), a concubine said to be a power behind the throne after Tang emperor Shunzong suffered a stroke. * Niu Ben (牛犇), stage name of Chinese actor Zhang Xuejing. * Niu Fu (牛辅), general during the late Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms period. * Niu Guannan (牛冠男), Chinese water polo player. * Niu Huijun (牛惠君), international football referee. * Niu Jianfeng (牛剑锋), Chinese bronze medallist in table tennis at the 2004 Athens Olympics. * Niu Junfeng (牛骏峰), Chinese actor. * Niu Jin (牛金), general during the late Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms period. * Niu Lijie (牛丽杰), former Chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchu
The Manchus (; ) are a Tungusic peoples, Tungusic East Asian people, East Asian ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized Ethnic minorities in China, ethnic minority in China and the people from whom Manchuria derives its name. The Later Jin (1616–1636), Later Jin (1616–1636) and Qing dynasty, Qing (1636–1912) dynasties of China were established and ruled by the Manchus, who are descended from the Jurchen people who earlier established the Jin dynasty (1115–1234), Jin dynasty (1115–1234) in northern China. Manchus form the largest branch of the Tungusic peoples and are distributed throughout China, forming the fourth largest ethnic group in the country. They are found in 31 Chinese provincial regions. Among them, Liaoning has the largest population and Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia and Beijing have over 100,000 Manchu residents. About half of the population live in Liaoning and one-fifth in Hebei. There are a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niu Sengru
Niu Sengru (; 780 – January 27, 849Li Jue (Tang dynasty), Li Jue, ''Commemorative Text for the Spirit Tablet for the Deceased Chancellor, ''Taizi Shaoshi'', Posthumously-Honored ''Taiwei'', Lord Niu'', collected in ''All Tang Texts'' (全唐文)vol. 720), courtesy name Si'an (), posthumous name Duke Wenzhen of Qizhang (), was a prominent statesman, scholar, ''chuanqi (short story), chuanqi'' writer, and poet of China's Tang dynasty. Niu served multiple terms as a chancellor of the Tang dynasty, chancellor under Emperor Muzong of Tang, Emperor Muzong and the latter's sons Emperor Jingzong of Tang, Emperor Jingzong and Emperor Wenzong of Tang, Emperor Wenzong. Alternately in and out of imperial favor and high office amid turbulence in the imperial court, Niu also served as the Ministry of War (imperial China), minister of war and a jiedushi, provincial military governor. Traditional historians often considered him a leader of the eponymous "Niu faction" in the Niu-Li factional strugg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niu Lizhi
Niu Lizhi (born 1966) is a Chinese surgeon who specializes in minimally invasive cryosurgery for cancers. In 1996, he graduated from the Fourth Military Medical University with a doctoral degree in Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery. Lizhi is the president of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital and vice president of the International Society of Cryosurgery. He is the supervisor of the master's degree course in Jinan University. He focuses on the treatment of pancreatic cancer, liver cancer, lung cancer, renal cancer, thyroid cancer, peritoneal cancer and other solid tumors. Niu Lizhi and his team have performed nearly ten thousand cases of cryosurgery. Lizhi's patients aged from four-year-old child to 94-year-old senior, ranking from Minister, celebrities, to ordinary people and patients with rare diseases like Huang Chuncai Huang Chuncai ( zh, t=黃春才) (born 29 December 1977) is a Chinese man who became notable for being "China's Elephant man". He has an extreme case of neurofibrom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niu Chiao
Niu Chiao was an obscure Chinese writer and poet of the 9th century CE. Reputedly, he wrote more than 30 books on a variety of topics. Some of his writings are collected in "Ling Kuai Lu" (about A.D. 879). Chiao short story "The Story of the Foxes", also known as ''Wang-sen and his fox brother'', appears on the anthology book '' The Book of Fantasy''. References Further reading *"Some Aspects of the Conflicts of Religion in China during the Six Dynasties and T'ang Periods". E. Edwards. '' Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies'', University of London, Vol. 7, No. 4 (1935), pp. 799–808 External links The Story of the Foxes full text in Chinese and English. {{China-writer-stub 9th-century Chinese poets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhisheng Niu
Zhisheng Niu () is a professor in the electrical engineering department of Tsinghua University. He became a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers in 2007. In addition, he was named Fellow of the IEEE Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc) in 2012 "for contributions to collaborative radio resource management in wireless networks". He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), appointed 2007. He holds a BS degree in Communication from Beijing Jiaotong University, (1985), a M.S., in Information Engineering, from Toyohashi University of Technology Toyohashi University of Technology (豊橋技術科学大学; ''Toyohashi Gijutsu Kagaku Daigaku''), often abbreviated to Toyohashi Tech or TUT, is a national engineering university located in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan. Distinguished for the upp ..., Toyohashi, Japan (1989) and a Ph.D from the same department (1992). From 2009-13, he was edito ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuh-Line Niou
Yuh-Line Niou (; zh, t=牛毓琳, p=Niú Yùlín; born July 15, 1983) is an American politician who served as a member of the New York State Assembly for the 65th district. The Lower Manhattan district, which is heavily Democratic and over 40% Asian American, includes Chinatown, the Financial District, Battery Park City, and the Lower East Side. Niou is the first Asian American elected to the State Assembly for the district. She was a candidate for Congress in New York's newly redrawn 10th congressional district in 2022. Early life and education Niou was born in Taipei, Taiwan, the eldest of three children, and emigrated to the U.S. with her parents when she was six months old. She went to school in El Paso, Texas. Her mother worked as a registered nurse and hospital administrator while her father worked as a materials science engineer. They were both from Taoyuan, Taiwan. Her father received a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the Oregon Graduate Institute of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
