1. Run Run Shaw

    Sir Run Run Shaw <small>CBE</small>, GBM (Chinese name: 邵逸夫, originally named 邵仁楞; born October 4, 1907) is a Hong Kong media mogul.

  2. Jennifer 8. Lee

    Jennifer 8. Lee is a "New York Times" reporter for the Metro section. She spells her middle name "8." (with both the digit and the period) on paper, but on her New York driver's license, it is spelled as "Eight". She is considered a master of the "conceptual scoop". Many Chinese and Japanese names contain numbers written in characters.

  3. Gary Locke

    well im a down to earth guy who loves life.

  4. Qin Kanying

    :"This is a Chinese name; the family name is Qin." Qin Kanying (b. 1974) is a Chinese chess player with an ELO rating of 2471 in 2004. She is a FIDE Woman Grandmaster.

  5. Sun Lu-T'Ang

    Sun Lu-t'ang was a renowned master of Chinese Neijia (internal) martial arts and was the progenitor of the syncretic art of Sun style Tai Chi Chuan (孫家). He was also considered an accomplished Neo-Confucian and Taoist scholar (especially in the I Ching), and was a distinguished contributor to the theory of internal martial arts through his many published works.

  6. Song Jiaoren

    Song Jiaoren (5 April 1882–22 March 1913) was a Chinese revolutionary and political leader. :Given name at birth: Lian (鍊 Liàn) :Courtesy name: Dunchu (鈍初 Dùnchū) In 1905, together with Sun Yat-sen, Song helped found and was a leading activist in the Tongmenghui, which was an organization dedicated to the overthrow of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the formation of a republic. After the declaration of the Republic of China, …

  7. Thomas Francis Wade

    Sir Thomas Francis Wade was a London-born British diplomat and sinologist who produced a syllabary in 1859 that was later amended, extended and converted into the Wade-Giles Romanization for Mandarin Chinese by Herbert Giles in 1892. His Chinese name was Wei Tuoma

  8. Huai Su

    Huai Su, courtesy name Cangzhen (藏真), was a Buddhist monk and calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, famous for his cursive calligraphy. Less than 10 pieces of his works have survived. He was born in modern Changsha, Hunan. Not much is known of his early life. His secular surname might be Qian (錢), and he might be a nephew of the poet Qian Qi (錢起). He became a monk in his childhood, apparently out of poverty.

  9. Feng Boyi

    Feng Boyi (fl. c. 2000; "Feng" romanizes his Chinese surname, 馮 or, simplified, 冯) is an eminent independent art curator and critic in China. He has been assistant editor of the China Artists' Association newsletter "Artist's Communication" since 1988. He has also edited and published numerous catalogues and papers on art and established the Artists' Alliance, a major online forum for contemporary art in China.

  10. Elizabeth Scurfield

    Elizabeth Scurfield is the author of the McGraw Hill published book Teach Yourself Chinese. Within the book is the following biographical information: <blockquote&gt; "Elizabeth Scurfield graduated with a First Class Honours degree in Chinese from the "School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She has over 30 years' experience "of teaching Chinese to beginners successfully.

  11. Murray Murray Maclehose Baron MacLehose of Beoch

    Crawford Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch KT, GBE, KCMG, KCVO, PC, HonLLD, MA</small>; (Chinese name: 麥理浩 ; October 16, 1917 - May 27, 2000) was the 25th Governor of Hong Kong, from 1971 to 1982

  12. Ulrich Hermann Kiefer

    Master the Human/Business puzzle -solving those... Humanity in Management is a challenge to modern organizations/companies: Inflated consumptions lead to situations, where we can't recognize the tricky paths towards a 'costiveness is cool' mentality, which won't pay off any research & development costs: thus, inventions are devaluated by know-how exports; abusing free-of-charge downloads or by corrupt hacking practices in insufficiently unprotected management information systems MIS (宋可富).