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  • No matter how small the village may be, it has a local mandarin, called the mai-chieh.

    Zhou Daguan-A Record of Cambodia-Siam Society Review by Milton Osborne | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context 2010

  • Lu Ting-chieh, secretary general at the Taiwan Financial Supervisory Commission, said Friday that the regulator hadn't banned private-equity funds from bidding on their own.

    Taiwan Presses Private Equity, Local Firms: Team Up for AIG Bids 2009

  • Inspired by indigo, "the color of travel", "by the seductive dance of color and scent as dusk sets on water", and by the atmospheric mi chieh mi loup hour of twilight, L'Eau Par Kenzo Eau Indigo Pour Homme is a "night-time" sequel to L'Eau Par Kenzo Pour Homme.

    L'Eau Par Kenzo Eau Indigo Pour Homme Marina Geigert 2009

  • Inspired by indigo, "the color of travel", "by the seductive dance of color and scent as dusk sets on water", and by the atmospheric mi chieh mi loup hour of twilight, L'Eau Par Kenzo Eau Indigo Pour Homme is a "night-time" sequel to L'Eau Par Kenzo Pour Homme.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Marina Geigert 2009

  • The foreign Buddhist monk T'an-mo-chieh-to set up a ceremonial dais [on which Ching-chien and her disciples were to accept all of the monastic rules for women as found in the newly translated text].

    Lives of the Nuns 1972

  • Whereas the Chi-su-chieh-yi censures the common morals, the Lun-hêng = Disquisitions tests and criticises the common errors and superstitions, the former being more ethical, the latter speculative.

    Lunheng 1962

  • Probably Wang Ch ` ung has treated them more in detail in his lost work, the Chi-su-chieh-yi "Censures on Morals."

    Lunheng 1962

  • Chang Shou-chieh [omission: Chinese characters] quotes seven times from HSWC; only three of his quotations are in our text, and of them one was used by Hsü Kuang [omission: Chinese characters] in an earlier passage. 17

    Han Shih Wai Chuan 1952

  • Yü Yüeh interprets the phrase as "being anxious to go to a place" [omission: Chinese characters], treating [omission: Chinese characters] as an inversion of chieh-chiao.

    Han Shih Wai Chuan 1952

  • Shou-chieh of the T ` ang dynasty, and appears in the T ` AI P ` ING YU

    The Art of War 6th cent. B.C. Sunzi

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