hsiu

Then I learned that under the Chinese system a great many students enter the examinations, and those who secure their degree are called hsiu tsai; a year or two later these are examined again, and those who pass are given the degree of chü jen; once more these latter are examined and the successful candidates are called chin shih, and are then ready for official position.

Court Life In China 1909

Then I learned that under the Chinese system a great many students enter the examinations, and those who secure their degree are called hsiu tsai; a year or two later these are examined again, and those who pass are given the degree of chu jen; once more these latter are examined and the successful candidates are called chin shih, and are then ready for official position.

Court Life in China Isaac Taylor Headland 1900

There were some five hundred monks to compete, and among them one, extraordinarily gifted, whom all expected to win: his name Shen-hsiu.

Oh, the Irony! - The Panda's Thumb 2005

The nun Ching-hsiu (no. 52) was also a devotee of Pindola.

Lives of the Nuns 1972

Ch'en Tu-hsiu who put himself strongly behind the students, was more radical than other contributors but at first favoured Western democracy and Western science; he was influenced mainly by John Dewey who was guest professor in Peking in 1919-20.

A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

Peking became the first centre of this movement, and Ch'en Tu-hsiu, then dean of the College of Letters, from 1920 on became one of its leaders.

A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949

[406] Sept./Oct. month he approached the [Yellow] River, and, going southwards, he encamped at Hsiao-hsiu-wu, intending to engage in battle again.

The History of the Former Han Dynasty 1938

The elder brother, Ching-hsiu, seeing the case put in the hands of the upright Pao Lao-yeh, and knowing his brother to be guilty of homicide, advised him to put the woman to death, in order to cut off all sources of information and so to prevent further proceedings.

Myths and Legends of China 1909

Ching-hsiu, terrified, dared not refuse to accept the charge, but on the pretext that the woman had not placed herself respectfully by the side of the official chair, and thus had not left a way clear for the passage of his retinue, he had her beaten with iron-spiked whips, and she was cast away for dead in a neighbouring lane.

Myths and Legends of China 1909

The latter immediately had Ts'ao Ching-hsiu arrested, cangued, and fettered.

Myths and Legends of China 1909