ch'en

Example Sentences

• "Later CH'EN Ch'eng obtained permission for YEH to reside with him in En-shih, Hupeh on the personal responsibility of CH'EN; but soon after YEH and his family arrived CH'EN Ch'eng's new command in western Yunnan made it impossible for CH'EN himself to reside at En-shih. Thereupon CH'EN suggested to CHANG Fa-k'uei, a friend of YEH's, that the latter move with his family to Kwangsi."
• "Many Hakka on the Pingtung plain who bear the surname Ch’en and trace their origins to Chiaying chou in Kwangtung are genealogically divided into several hu, or sublineages. Most of Tatieh's Ch’en belong to a sublineage known as Nan-shan, or “South Mountain.” As in the case of Hsü, Nan-shan Ch’en living in various villages were united by the creation of two ancestral trusts with headquarters in Chutien township."
• "In the course of this ‘Second Anti-Rightist Campaign’ (Erh-tz’u fan-yu), Ch’en Yün’s authority was considerably restricted, and the Vice-Premier and Secretary General of the State Council, Hsi Chung-hsün (member of the CC), was dismissed."
• "P’eng P’ai was able to return to Hai-feng county on the heels of the Eastern Expedition at the end of February 1925 and to revive his shattered movement there. Membership grew rapidly to a reported 70,000, with 12,000 in neighbouring Lu-feng county, but Ch’en Chiung-ming’s troops recovered these counties in the summer and again the movement was driven underground."
• "The leaders of the local faction carve out their own bailiwicks along administrative subdivisions. In Lingya District, for example, there are three large families, the Wangs, the Ch’ens and the Fangs. The Wang family consists of former Mayor Wang Yu-yun and his brothers. The Ch'en family is run by Ch'en Ch'i-ch'uan, and the Fang family is represented by Fang Ch'i-jung, currently an LY delegate and formerly a great landlord in Lingya District."
• "The second is a hagiographic account of the Ch’üan-chen hierarchy from the original patriarchs down to the four generations preceding Ch’en: (1) Sung Te-fang 宋德方 (1183-1247) of Mien-yang 沔陽 (Hupeh), disciple of both Ma Yü and Ch’iu Ch’u-chi, and the editor-in-chief of the 1244 Canon; (2) Li Chüeh 李珏 of Ch’ung-ch’ing 崇慶^([sic – meaning 重慶]) (Szechwan); (3) Chang Mo 張謨 of Jao-chou 饒州 (Kiangsi); and (4) Chao Yu-ch’in 趙友欽, who instructed Ch’en at Heng-yang 衡陽 (Hunan) in 1329."