liu

• “Curiously, the word works as both dysphemism and euphemism: Americans were repelled in 1940 at the fictional account of lynching called The Ox-Bow Incident, but when Chinese Communist officials want to minimize what Westerners call “the massacre at Tiananmen Square,” they call that crushing of studentled protest “the incident of June 4, 1989” in Chinese, liu si, “six four”.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

• “Yi ba liu., ~" 1 recall the Chinese words from one of Kwan's bedtime stories.”

  the secret sense

• “ALEGRIA nebe ita hetan iha tinan 10 liu ba ne ALEGRIA ida BOOT tebes ba ita timor oan hotu (mas iha 21,5%triste).”

  Global Voices in English » East Timor: “Happy Day” of freedom vote

• “Mesmo too agora ALEGRIA ida ne ita sei sente nafatin maibe, durante tinan 10 nia laran ne susar no terus sedauk sés husi ita (caso boot liu mak iha tinan 2006).”

  Global Voices in English » East Timor: “Happy Day” of freedom vote

• “Ita hotu expressa ita nia alegria ida ne liu husi haklalak, hakilar, hananu e tanis.”

  Global Voices in English » East Timor: “Happy Day” of freedom vote

• “April 16th, 2010 2: 15 pm ET the republicans wants an all white america so i am sorry for you mr liu. jeff jackson, alabama”

  Obama judicial nominee faces tough Senate scrutiny

• “The general principle of the project boiled down to one sentence, that is, lands east of the Lancang River were suitable for direct administration, while lands west to the Lancang River were suitable for native chieftainship (jiangnei yi liu bu yi yu, jiangwai yitu bu yi liu).”

  Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

• ““Oh, just some Mu shu rou and a few Hei jiao niu liu.””

  Simon & Schuster: THE FORBIDDEN GAME

• “Sam Walton may have enthralled Wall Street for decades, but Americans may someday be reading in their economics books about Fung Pak-liu and Li To-ming, the founders of Li & Fung, who began trading in porcelain and silk in Guangzhou, in the deep water port of Hong Kong, but ended up in the heartland of America.”

  Al Norman: Save Money, Shop Fung-Mart: Where Wal-Mart Goes To Shop

• “Contact you dream? you listen? spoken word? yang wan-li | master liu painted a portrait of me in my old age and asked me to write a poem about the picture”

  yang wan-li | master liu painted a portrait of me in my old age and asked me to write a poem about the picture « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground

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