We continue the intriguing story of the heroes from China who saved a priceless heritage from extinction and became the historic English-Chinese Dictionary of Anglo-American Law. China’s forgotten luminaries Mr. Sheng Zhenwei: Author and dean of Soochow University Sheng Zhenwei (1900-1997), the first Chinese dean of Soochow University and later the law school dean, authored ...
It all began in 1993. Xue Bo graduated from the China University of Political Science and Law. One day, while searching for information on international law, he and his classmates suddenly realized that there was no applicable English-Chinese Anglo-American Law Dictionary. Anglo-American law most often refers to a region in the Americas where English is the ...
In a chaotic era where everything good has been turned on its head, there are bound to be many absurd stories. A 12-year-old child, still in primary school, was accused and sentenced as a “child rightist” by the Communist Party of China (CCP) during their notorious “anti-rightist” rampage. He was thrown in prison for several ...
On August 24, 2022, Kazuo Inamori, a renowned Japanese entrepreneur, passed away at his home in Kyoto, Japan, at the age of 90. He founded the Kyocera Corporation, a Japanese multinational ceramics and electronics manufacturer, and the KDDI Corporation, a Japanese telecommunications operator. Kazuo Inamori was one of Japan’s leading entrepreneurs following World War II. ...
In the ninth year of Emperor Kangxi’s reign, the highly ranked court scholar Sun Qizhan, who served as an attendant and secretary beside the Emperor, recorded some character traits he had observed about Emperor Kangxi. Emperor Kangxi’s character traits Modest and diligent, respects Heaven, and loves the people Emperor Kangxi pondered: “How can I surpass ...
Victory in battle, it is said, can only materialize if the three favorable factors of time, place, and people meet simultaneously. In Chinese history, there have been several battles in which defeat was inevitable, but suddenly, from nowhere, powerful winds arose that changed the course of history. Particularly in decisive battles with a vast disparity ...
Hong Kong democracy activist Agnes Chow Ting, who had disappeared from public view for two years, suddenly came out of seclusion and wrote a lengthy post on Instagram. In her new post of December 3, 2023, Ting recounted her journey over the past few years, which she described as being filled with fear and anxiety. ...
Since October 21, 2022, Eternal Spring (长春), the first Chinese-language film representing Canada in the race for the Best International Feature Film at the 2023 Oscars, began screening in over 70 AMC theaters across more than 40 cities in the United States. In the Greater Washington, D.C. area, the film was showcased simultaneously for three ...
At the end of 1946, Wang Mingzhen returned to China and was later hired as a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Physics at Yunnan University. Soon, she met Zha Liangzhao, the dean of Kunming Normal College. Dean Zha had a proud protégé named Yu Qizhong from the Yu family’s famous “Four Youths” in ...
Wang Mingzhen was a Chinese theoretical physicist and a professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. As one of the first few Chinese female students studying science abroad, she was best known for her work on stochastic processes and Brownian motion with theoretical physicist George Uhlenbeck. Following the Armistice Agreement signed between Korea and the United States, in September 1955, Wang Mingzhen, ...
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