Sentence examples for yue from inspiring English sources

Yue appeared loyal, but its gifts of craftsmen and timber tempted Fuchai to build palaces and towers even though the extravagance ensnared him in debt.

In Vietnam alone, Cantonese (Yue) speakers (who went there as soldiers and railroad workers) number nearly 1 million.

Yue (consisting of Zhejiang and Fujian) was quasi-independent during the Han dynasty (206 bce–220 ce).

During the latter part of the Spring and Autumn (Chunqiu) period (770 476 bce) one of the feudal states within the China area was the kingdom of Yue, located south of Hangzhou Bay; it included what is now Fujian province.

This discussion takes advantage of a pun in classical and written Chinese: the words "le" ("enjoyment") and "yue" ("music") sounded the same, and were written with the same character.

An early work is entitled "Disquisition on Music" (Yue lun), in which he discusses along Confucian lines the function of music in bringing about harmony.

Qian was the only child of an aristocratic Hangzhou family whose recorded lineage of more than a thousand years has been traced to Qian Liu (852 932), the founder of the Wu-Yue kingdom.

During the Ten Kingdoms (Shiguo) period (907 960), Hangzhou was the capital of the state of Wu-Yue.

Kan Yue-Sai, the female founder of an eponymous cosmetics firm and a former broadcast journalist, started with $150 in her pocket and is now recognised by 95% of the population as the woman who introduced lipstick to China.

Like many of her neighbours, Fang Yue-ling, a farmer, was confident such high-profile promises would presage more assistance.In this section The burning bush Changing the guard in Kabul?

But a walk-out by workers at factories owned by a Taiwanese company, Yue Yuen, the world's largest maker of branded sports shoes, including big names such as Nike and Reebok, has been remarkable for its scale and duration.