370 examples of wu in sentences

About B.C. 100, Su Wu, one of China's famous diplomatists, was sent on an embassy to the Grand Khan of Tartary.

Its resistance was quickly overcome; and putting to death the entire garrison of twenty-five thousand Manchus, they announced their intention to make it the capital of their empire, as Hung Wu had done when he drove out the Mongols and restored freedom to the Chinese race.

Summit of power 4 The reign of the empress Wu: Buddhism and capitalism 5 Second blossoming of T'ang culture 6 Revolt of a military governor 7

From V. Griessmaier: Sammlung Baron Eduard von der Heydt, Vienna 1936, illustration No. 6. 4 Hunting scene: detail from the reliefs in the tombs at Wu-liang-tz'u. From a print in the author's possession.

6 Sun Ch'üan, ruler of Wu.

Finally, about 1028 B.C., the Chou ruler, named Wu Wang ("the martial king"), crossed his eastern frontier and pushed into central Honan.

Wu Wang forced a passage across the Yellow River and annihilated the Shang army.

The "Duke of Chou", brother of the first ruler, Wu Wang, later regent during the minority of Wu Wang's son, and certainly one of the most influential persons of this time, was the alleged creator of the book Chou-li which contains a detailed table of the bureaucracy of the country.

The "Duke of Chou", brother of the first ruler, Wu Wang, later regent during the minority of Wu Wang's son, and certainly one of the most influential persons of this time, was the alleged creator of the book Chou-li which contains a detailed table of the bureaucracy of the country.

Three of these attained special importance(1) Ch'u, in the neighbourhood of the present Chungking and Hankow; (2) Wu, near the present Nanking; and (3) Yüeh, near the present Hangchow.

In 704 B.C. the feudal prince of Wu proclaimed himself "Wang".

This meant that Wu broke away from the old Chou religion of Heaven, according to which there could be only one ruler (wang) in the world.

This is the main element of Lao Tz[)u]'s doctrine, the doctrine of wu-wei, "passive achievement".

Tsou Yen's basic ideas had their root in earlier Chinese speculations: the doctrine that all that exists is to be explained by the positive, creative, or the negative, passive action (Yang and Yin) of the five elements, wood, fire, earth, metal, and water (Wu hsing).

[Illustration: 4 Hunting scene: detail from the reliefs in the tombs at Wu-liang-tz'u.

SEE WU, CH'ÊNG-ÊN. WALEY, ARTHUR. Monkey.

SEE WU, CH'ÊNG-ÊN. WALKER, EDWARD EVERETT.

The wisdon of Wu Ming Fu.

SEE Wu Ming Fu.

SEE Wu Ming Fu.

Wu and Lu and Li, by Evelyn Young.

These very qualities of tact and polish, combined with dignity and agreeable manners, made Mr. Burlingame popular with the courtly Chinese officials, and when he was about to return to his own country some of the Wai-Wu-Pu (Foreign Office)

As if the cares of treaty making and Customs supervision, coupled with the responsibility of being unofficial adviser to the Wai-Wu-Pu, were not enough for one man, the I.G., at the request of the Chinese, undertook to supervise China's part in the international exhibitions of Europe.

I can well remember seeing the famous Wu Ting Fang, whose alert manner made him a general favourite.

"I have hung scrolls in my bedroom," Wu Ting Fang went on to explain, "with these sentences written upon them in English and in Chinese: 'I am young, I am healthy, I am cheerful.'

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