Sentence examples for hsien from inspiring English sources
I-lan, shih (municipality) and seat of I-lan hsien (county), northeastern Taiwan, the centre of the only sizable alluvial basin on the island's mountainous eastern coast.
P'eng-hu P'eng-hu Islandsu also spelled Penghu, Chinese (Wade-Giles romanization) P'eng-hu Ch'ün-tao or P'eng-hu Lieh-tao, (Pinyin) Penghu Qundao or Penghu Liedao, conventional Pespelleds, archiPenghu and hsien (Chinese of Taiwan.
Returned to China in 1945, the islands were made a chen (township) under Taiwan and, in 1950, became a hsien of Taiwan province.
By then, Singapore's prime minister for seven years had been Lee Hsien Loong, his son.
Hua Hsien, the flower goddesses of the Taoists, have traditionally been represented carrying flower-filled baskets.
They look at examples by Mi Wan-chung and Kung Hsien.
Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, also called Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Grove, Pinyin romanization Zhulinqixian, Wade-Giles romanization Chu-lin ch'i-hsien, a group of Chinese scholars and poets of the mid-3rd century ad who banded together to escape from the hypocrisy and danger of the political world of government officialdom to a life of drinking wine and writing verse in the country.
Mainland literature occasionally appears in Taiwanese periodicals, while firsthand experiences and observations by mainland émigrés and overseas Chinese, such as the collection of stories Yin hsien-chang (1976; The Execution of Mayor Yin) by Ch'en Jo-hsi, are given broad exposure.
Sanxian, ( Chinese: "three strings") Wade Giles romanization san-hsien also called xianzi, any of a group of long-necked, fretless Chinese lutes.
July 17, 1831 China August 22, 1861 Jehol, China Xianfeng, Wade-Giles romanization Hsien-feng, personal name (xingming) Yizhu, temple name (miaohao) Wenzong, posthumous name (shi) Xiandi (born July 17 , 1831 Beijing, China died Aug. 22, 1861, Rehe [Jehol; now Chengde, Hebei province]) reign name (nianhao) of the seventh emperor of the Qing (Manchu) dynasty (1644 1911/12) of China.
The second is The Assassin from the great Taiwanese auteur Hou Hsiao-hsien, whose best director award for The Assassin honours a film-maker who has a hard-won reputation for brilliance and for artistry; the purest artistry, perhaps, to be rewarded at Cannes this year.
