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  • Thus it is related that long ago the town of Tsuen-cheu-fu, the outlines of which are like those of a carp, frequently fell a prey to the depredations of the neighbouring city of Yung-chun, which is shaped like a fishing-net, until the inhabitants of the former town conceived the plan of erecting two tall pagodas in their midst.

    Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic. § 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic 1922

  • Thus it is related that long ago the town of Tsuen-cheu-fu, the outlines of which are like those of a carp, frequently fell a prey to the depredations of the neighbouring city of Yung-chun, which is shaped like a fishing-net, until the inhabitants of the former town conceived the plan of erecting two tall pagodas in their midst.

    The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

  • Thus it is related that long ago the town of Tsuen-cheu-fu, the outlines of which are like those of a carp, frequently fell a prey to the depredations of the neighbouring city of Yung-chun, which is shaped like a fishing-net, until the inhabitants of the former town conceived the plan of erecting two tall pagodas in their midst.

    The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

  • Thus it is related that long ago the town of Tsuen-cheu-fu, the outlines of which are like those of a carp, frequently fell a prey to the depredations of the neighbouring city of Yung-chun, which is shaped like a fishing-net, until the inhabitants of the former town conceived the plan of erecting two tall pagodas in their midst.

    The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion 1583

  • The three defendants – Chang Yao-ming, Chen Ming-tsun and Hsu Su - chun (female) – set up a sect several years ago in Pingtung County in south Taiwan, the Liberty Times said.

    Taiwan: Three sect leaders sentenced for inciting incest 2009

  • Wu-chun Feng, a supercomputing expert and professor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, told the NYT: What is scary about this is that the US dominance in high-performance computing is at risk.

    China's Tianhe-1A takes supercomputer crown from US Tania Branigan in Beijing 2010

  • No doubt there will be other incidental discoveries on my next working trip to London, but I shall long remember this as the summer of Sèvres, of Chu Teh-chun — and, incidentally, of the 11ème Cie. des sapeurs-pompiers.

    Sèvres 2009

  • These are the result of a remarkably happy collaboration between the Sèvres factory and the 89-year-old Chinese painter Chu Teh-chun (Zhu Dequn) — the kind of cross-cultural exchange in which the visionary French seem to specialize.

    Sèvres 2009

  • He studies and teaches wing chun kung fu in Minneapolis and trains in Chen style tai chi.

    Collaboration in the Stygian Swamp | The Stiletto Gang The Stiletto Gang 2008

  • “Jin hua chun yang” pronounced jeen hwah chwun yahng means the whole body transforms to pure yang, which is to meld with Yuan Shen.

    Tao II Dr. 2010

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