Sentence examples for qian from inspiring English sources

After all, local officials appeared to have a motive for killing Mr Qian.

Although he is so deeply unpopular at home that he will soon step down after barely a year in office, Mr Mori is nevertheless being whisked over, at American insistence, so that he can visit the White House ahead of Mr Qian.

In the second half of the Tang dynasty, the Chinese devised a system known as fei qian, or flying money.

He cites ancient ­China's premier historian, Sima Qian, who recorded a remarkable building programme pursued by China's first ruling dynasty, the Qin: "Whenever Qin conquered one of its rivals, it would commission replicas of its ­palaces and halls and reconstruct them on the slope north of the capital.

Another possibility, says Bates Gill of the Brookings Institution in Washington, is that Mr Qian will politely be told that if China continues the build-up on its side of the Taiwan Strait, America will consider itself free to supply Taiwan with Aegis.How serious a threat?China's figures for defence spending seriously underestimate the reality.

Such neural networks can recognise simple patterns, even when presented with incomplete data.To test their neural network's pattern-recognition powers, Dr Qian made up a game to identify one out of four scientists.

According to Bai Chong'en and Qian Zhengjie of Tsinghua University, the corporate saving rate rose from 16% of GDP in 1997 to about 23% in 2004, where it has remained.Higher consumer spending will increase demand for services, such as housing, retailing and haircuts, which consumers favour, and which cannot be traded across borders.

Among the best sources for Wang's life are the Nianpu, written by Wang's disciple Qian Dehong (1496 1574), found in the Wang Wencheng Gong Quanshu, and the Wang Wencheng Chuanben, by Mao Qiling (1623 1716).

He will be entertained by Qian Qichen, the deputy prime minister overseeing Taiwanese matters.About a third of the members of Taiwan's 225-strong legislative yuan have now visited China since Mr Chen's inauguration in May.

Far more telling is the publication this year of a sympathetic and subtle account of life in America, written by the son of the foreign minister, Qian Qichen.

When George III's ambassador, Lord Macartney, headed a 700-strong trade mission to China in 1793 to sell advanced western telescopes, barometers and airguns, Emperor Qian Long told him that China had not "the slightest need of your manufactures".And so it has proved.