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  • Xun Wang , 51 years old, is a former managing director of the subsidiary.

    Ex-PPG Worker Charged With Illegal Exports Joan Solsman 2011

  • Ge Xun, a naturalized American citizen who has lived in the U.S. for decades, recently traveled to China to attend his mother's funeral.

    How China Treats Americans 2012

  • It's not spoiling any surprises to list the 10 words that the author has chosen in order to describe his homeland: people , leader , reading , writing , revolution , disparity , grassroots , copycat , bamboozle and Lu Xun an influential early 20th-century writer.

    Cultural Lexicon Melanie Kirkpatrick 2011

  • His only indulgence was a large library, most of which was eventually carted off to Beijing, which has its own Lu Xun Museum.

    Mao's 'First-Rate Sage' 2010

  • Nearby sits the Lu Xun Final Residence, another official shrine that's well worth a visit.

    Mao's 'First-Rate Sage' 2010

  • Under the leadership of Pang Xun, these soldiers left their posts and marched back to their hometowns. 91 Many peasants joined this long march.

    Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

  • The Lu Xun Park greets visitors with a long list of things they can't do: "Visitors are not supposed to tease, scare, or capture bird, cricket, fish and shrimp or cicada except those for commercial purposes."

    Mao's 'First-Rate Sage' 2010

  • Simultaneously, Nanzhao likely tightened its suzerainty of the Pyu polity because Xun-ge-quan, the son of Yi-mou-xun, assigned himself a new title, biaoxin, "the king of Pyu."

    Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE) 2008

  • Confucius is the Latinized name of a Chinese political figure, educator and social philosopher who lived from 551 to 479 BC and whose thoughts, together with elaborations by Mencius and Xun Zi, were developed into a system of philosophy known as Confucianism.

    Confucianism and the Impact of Sociopathy, Part I 2009

  • “Your mother had listed her parents, Xun Chen and Ismene Zavos, as her next of kin on her initial Starfleet application, and failed to update that information following their deaths three years ago.”

    Star Trek: TNG: Losing the Peace William Leisner 2009

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