Sentence examples for xun from inspiring English sources

When national pride is used to justify despotic government, what is the eventual cost to ordinary people Lu Xun, one of China's greatest writers at the time of the country's debasement in the early 20th century, complained that the Chinese act like slaves before strong people, and like masters in front of the weak.

Archaeological digs have uncovered globular clay vessel flutes (xun), tuned stone chimes (qing), and bronze bells (zhong), and the word gu, for drum, is found incised on Shang oracle bones (turtle shells and ox bones used by rulers for ritual divination and sacrifice to obtain the grace of their ancestors).

C. 300 BCE Zhao, China c. 230 BCE Lanling, China Xunzi, Wade-Giles romanization Hsün-tzu, also spelled Hsün-tze, original name Xun Kuang, honorary name Xun Qing (born c. 300, Zhao kingdom, China died c. 230 bce, Lanling, Chu kingdom, China) philosopher who was one of the three great Confucian philosophers of the classical period in China.

Their numbers included Chiang Kai-shek, the author Lu Xun, and the female revolutionary martyr Qiu Jin.

EIGHTY years ago Lu Xun, now enshrined as the father of modern Chinese literature, observed that when others needed help his countrymen seemed to be stricken by apathy.

Other points of attraction are the Longhua Pagoda of the Bei (Northern) Song dynasty, the Industrial Exhibition Hall, and the tomb and former residence of Lu Xun, a 20th-century revolutionary writer.

He was predeceased by four sisters, Zhu Tao-le, Zhu Shang-rou, Zhu Chuan-xun, and Zhu Chuan-rong, and by his granddaughter Lauren Tsai.

His original name was Xun Kuang, but he is commonly referred to as Xunzi (Master Xun), zi being an honorary suffix attached to the names of many philosophers.

At the end of this section, the river receives its major right- (south-) bank tributary, the Yu River, and is then called the Xun River.

The Yu River rises in southeastern Yunnan province and flows about 400 miles (750 km) eastward in Guangxi to the point at Guiping where it joins the Xian to form the Xun River.

A spokesman for the position that "words cannot fully express meaning" (yan bu jin yi) was Xun Can (ca. 212 240), who gained considerable notoriety for his claim that the classics were but the "chaff" of the sages' profound learning.