Sentence examples for xiao from inspiring English sources

One child was sold to a rich family in Singapore, where he was nicknamed xiao shao ye (little master) and had nurses and maids to dote on him.

Wholesome food, unwholesome profits A great British bounder Beijing rules Activate the money star Three degrees of trial separation Wrong number ReprintsThe main target of this strategy, known as zhua da fang xiao ("manage the large and let go the small"), are China's 118,000 industrial SOEs, which make up the bulk of state firms.

Plus, xiao means "little" in Chinese, which is hardly appropriate any more.

The Mohists themselves clearly did not consider this a consequence of their position, which they repeatedly indicated was compatible with filial devotion (xiao).

Directed by Xiao Feng and set in 1943, the film explores the plight of the people of Chongqing as they are bombed by the Japanese.

Then there's the story of 23-year-old Xiao Feng in China, whose obsession with role-playing games apparently led his father to hire "online assassins" to kill his avatar repeatedly, so he'd give up and get a job.

I'm not looking for any job – I want to take some time to find one that suits me," Xiao was quoted as saying.

As he fingered the only photographs he has of his son, dressed on his third birthday as a soldier of the People's Liberation Army, the unhappy father quietly recounted what he was doing to try to find Xiao Guiyang.

They opened a stall in the Red Side vegetable market, rented a single room with one stone bed and a stove, and raised a son, whom they nicknamed Xiao Guiyang, "Little Guiyang", in honour of the town that had given them a break.Two years ago Mr Wang was caught outside the market sprinkling water over his vegetables to make them look fresher.

A number of Chinese will achieve Xiao Kang Dengg's target for an average yearly income of $1,000 per head by 2000) early and will form a new breed of consumers with higher disposable income.

This month the chief justice, Xiao Yang, said China might one day like to abolish capital punishment altogether.