Ch'ing
Americannoun
adjective
Example Sentences
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“Chiang Ch’ing was an actress before she met Mao,” she said recently.
From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2011
At one point during her recollections, Chiang Ch'ing reached for a gold-brocaded box and drew from it a delicately carved sandalwood fan.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But at the opening of a display of Ch'ing dynasty costumes at New York's Metropolitan Museum, she revealed more than an acquired palate.
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By talking to an outsider, and showing that outsider intimate details of her private life, Chiang Ch'ing put on the record all the ammunition her enemies would ever need to destroy her.
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The ruling powers in Ch'ing, however, showed no disposition to employ even a man possessing such marked characteristics, and before long he removed to Ch'in, where he remained a year.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by Rudd, John
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