hsü

Example Sentences

• "For a general survey of thought during the Ch’ing dynasty (1644-1911) see Liang Ch’i-ch’ao, Intellectual Trends in the Ch’ing Period, translated from the Chinese by Immanuel C. Y. Hsü (Harvard University Press, 1959)."
• "Of the technical problems facing the young Chinese poets of the nineteen-twenties who were attempting to create a "New Verse" (新詩), none was greater than the problem of selection of suitable metres. And this fact is nowhere better exemplified than in the poetry of Hsü Chih-mo 徐志摩 (1896–1931), who during the prolific last decade of his life experimented with an almost infinite variety of forms and metres."
• "About 726 he married the grand-daughter of Hsü Yü-shih, who had been Chief Minister in 657, and lived for some years at the family residence of the Hsüs in An-lu, north of Hankow."
• "The party that visited China as a family group, a journey that resulted in “China Day by Day,” was larger than the Cohens' and needs some explanation. Co‐authors are Francis L. K. Hsu, professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, his daughter Eileen Hsü‐Balzer, at present working for a doctorate in anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, and Eileen's husband Richard (Dick) L. Balzer, Yale Law School graduate and writer."
• "When Hsü shot and killed the governor, Chʻiu Chin was implicated. Authorities claimed that she was simultaneously planning an uprising in Shao-hsing."
• "There then ensued what Immanuel Hsü has called ‘the Great policy debate in China: maritime defence vs frontier defence’—but which we may see as simply the latest episode in the long-running debate over Xinjiang that began with the conquest of Zungharia and Altishahr under the Qianlong emperor in the 1750s."