jiang

Example Sentences

• "Taiwan Friends of Tibet (TFOT) yesterday criticized former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman Wu Poh-hsiung (吳伯雄) for inviting Sichuan Province Governor Jiang Jufeng (蔣巨峰) to Taiwan, saying that Jiang was responsible for the repression and killing of Tibetan protesters during demonstrations in the province."
• "Third Master might be a bit of a bore, but Mr. Yee surrounds him with so many surreal landscapes and witty action sequences — a combination of computers, wires and limber spines — that you’ll hardly notice. Jiang Mengjie is spunky and sweet as a prostitute with a magpie’s eye for gold and a connoisseur’s eye for Third Master."
• "Jiang Yanyong, a military surgeon heralded within China for exposing Beijing’s hush-up of the SARS epidemic in 2003 but who was later detained and silenced after using his renown to seek justice for the government’s Tiananmen Square crackdown, died March 11 in Beijing. He was 91. His death was reported in the Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post and by Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia, who told Western news agencies that Dr. Jiang died of pneumonia at a military hospital."
• "Disagreement over whether to execute Mao Tse-tung's widow, Jiang Qing, has forced postponement of a special court's verdict in her trial along with others accused of misdeeds during the Cultural Revolution, according to reliable sources."
• "Jiang Tianyong, 46, was arrested after working with the country’s detained human rights lawyers, questioning whether they were being tortured, speaking to foreign media and encouraging the public to protest on their behalf. Mr Jiang made the confession in a court in the southern city of Changsha and said he regretted his acts and pleaded for the chance to return to his family."
• "His father, Jiang Shijun, was an accountant in an electric power company and then a manager of a ferry company. His mother, Wu Yueqing, came from a farming family. Two of his uncles were activists in the Communist movement against the Nationalist government, and after one was killed in a skirmish in 1939, the young Mr. Jiang was designated the successor of the uncle’s family."