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...another speech, titled "Quest for Political Voice," the former Lieutenant Governor of Delaware S.B. (Shien-Bai) Woo proposed a plan to give the Chinese-American community more substantive political power...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CSA Hosts Conference | 10/13/1998 | See Source »

...other Universities, however, spending capshave not proven a hindrance to electionprocedures. At Columbia University, for example,candidates' spending is limited to the cost of 4008x11 posters, according to Shien Chiou '96, headof the College's Elections Commissions...

Author: By Hallie Z. Levine, | Title: Council Confirms Elections Change | 5/4/1995 | See Source »

...Revolutionary Party spokesman, introduced to us as a "man in charge of a number of functions under the Revolutionary Committee of Canton," was Liu Shou-Shien, the party's general secretary. He didn't speak English so we conversed through the Chinese interpreters...

Author: By Ronald W. Wade, | Title: Learning From Liu Shou-Shieu | 2/8/1974 | See Source »

...gave no details of the agreement, which, it said, was signed by deputy Premier Li Shien-nien of China and Deputy Premier Le Thanh Nghi of North Vietnam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: South Vietnamese Drive Slowed Down in Laos | 2/16/1971 | See Source »

...Young Sage was once a young rip. A precocious child, he knew 800 characters of Wen Li before he was three, had earned the nickname Shien-seng (the master) by the time he was five. In his teens Hu became disillusioned, turned to gloomy poetry and carousing, awoke one morning in jail for assaulting a cop while soused. Looking at his scratched face in a mirror, Hu recalled a proverb ("Heaven intended this material surely for some use"), vowed to win a Boxer Indemnity scholarship to the U.S. He did, and went to Cornell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Young Sage | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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