Ch'ien Lung

(Pinyin) Kien Lung

[chyen loong]

noun

1. Kao Tsung, 1711–99, Chinese emperor of the Ch'ing dynasty 1736–96.

Ch'ien-lung

/ tʃɪˈænˈlɒŋ /

noun

1. a variant transliteration of the Chinese name for Qian Long

Example Sentences

The xenophobia that in 1793 led the Emperor Ch'ien Lung to consider British Ambassador Lord Macartney a "Red barbarian bearing tribute," is still very much alive in China.

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Sixty years have passed since Gustaf made his first purchase: a hexagonal famille rose dish of the Ch'ien Lung period.

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Then came the present dynasty of Manchu Tatars, of whom the same tale must be told, in spite of two highly-cultured emperors, K‘ang Hsi and Ch‘ien Lung, both of them poets and one of them author of a collection containing no fewer than 33,950 pieces, most of which, it must be said, are but four-line stanzas, of no literary value whatever.

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In the year 1772 the enlightened Emperor Ch'ien Lung, who then sat upon the throne, gave orders that a descriptive Catalogue should be prepared of the books in the Imperial Library.

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Ch'ien Lung, Emperor, catalogue enterprise, 69.

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