Sentence examples for qiu from inspiring English sources
A hundred years later the Kushan chief Kujula Kadphises (Qiu Jiuque) secured the political unification of the Yuezhi kingdom under himself.
The text deems this process "seeking" (qiu), a term used elsewhere to explicate deliberation (see the section on epistemology below).
Diane Wei Liang has enjoyed success in this field, but the most prolific contributor is Shanghai-born Qiu Xiaolong, who now lives in St Louis, Missouri.Mr Qiu's Inspector Chen series takes place in modern, urban China, a gritty world that is far removed from the flowing robes and austere settings of Imperial China, until recently a more popular choice for Chinese fiction.
This week Qiu Baixing, a deputy minister of construction, said historical architecture and cultural sites were being "devastated" by rapid urban construction.
Their numbers included Chiang Kai-shek, the author Lu Xun, and the female revolutionary martyr Qiu Jin.
But the slumlords are making an easy living.Breaking the usual taboo, Qiu Baoxing, a deputy minister of construction, admitted in a magazine article in May that many villages within cities had become "Chinese-style slums".
This is almost a matter of national pride, even chauvinism: "As a rapidly rising major power, it is unacceptable that China does not have its own theory," wrote Qiu Yanping, a senior Communist Party man, in an article in 2009.So attempts to apply precepts devised by ancient Chinese philosophers to the modern world are in vogue.
This last sect came to the favourable attention of the Mongols, who had taken over in the North, and its second patriarch, Qiu Changqun, was invited into Central Asia to preach to Genghis Khan.
The youngest artist, Qiu Ting, born in 1971, chose a misty Northern Song landscape from the museum's great Chinese holdings and made his own version of it.
Seated in his pristine office overlooking the port of Piraeus, Captain Fu Cheng Qiu sums up the magnitude of China's interest in Greece.
But things are also improving here, argues Benjamin Qiu of Innovation Works, a combination of start-up incubator and venture-capital firm based in Beijing.
