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A 2010 study by Baiju Shah & al data-mined the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario for a particularly Chinese-Canadian name list. Ignoring potentially non-Chinese spellings such as Lee (49,898 total), [24]: Table 1 they found that the most common Chinese names in Ontario were: [24]
Hundred Family Surnames poem written in Chinese characters and Phagspa script, from Shilin Guangji written by Chen Yuanjing in the Yuan dynasty. The Hundred Family Surnames (Chinese: 百家姓), commonly known as Bai Jia Xing, [1] also translated as Hundreds of Chinese Surnames, [2] is a classic Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames.
The song rose during the last years of the Second Sino-Japanese War and continued to be popular after the Communist victory in 1949. It is the signature song of the important revolutionary singer Wang Kun , and Cui Jian , widely regarded as the "father of Chinese rock," created a rock version of the song in 1987. [ 2 ]
Shen Jian (born 1975), Chinese gymnast; Shi Jian (sailor), a Chinese sailor and yacht racer; Shi Jian, the Mandarin name of Shih Kien; Shi Jianqiao, the murderer of warlord Sun Chuanfang; Song Jian (born 1931), Chinese aerospace engineer, demographer, and politician; Su Jian (died 903), official of the Chinese Tang Dynasty
Jian Yong (簡雍) (fl. 180s–210s), counselor of Liu Bei in the Late Eastern Han dynasty; Jianzhi (簡之), courtesy name of Yao Silian (姚思廉; died 637), official of the Chinese dynasties Sui dynasty and Tang dynasty; Sir Yuet-keung Kan GBE JP (Chinese: 簡悅強, 1913–2012), Hong Kong banker, politician and lawyer
In the written records of Chinese history, the first time the character Song was used as a surname appeared in the early stage of the Zhou dynasty.One of the children of the last emperor of the Shang dynasty, Weizi Qi (微子启), was a duke from the state named Song, who descended from his ancestor Xie (契) whose name was derived from the surname Zi (子).
Derrick Hoh Wei Jian (born 17 September 1985) is a Singaporean singer and songwriter who is active in the Chinese Mandopop scene. He gained nationwide recognition after emerging as the second runner up in Channel U 's Project SuperStar in 2005.
On 6 September 2018, A-Mei was invited to sing her latest single "If Only" with one of the world's leading tenors, Andrea Bocelli, at the Celebrity Fight Night charity gala in Italy in 3 languages: Italian, English and Chinese. The song was released digitally in mid-September and was included on Bocelli's Sì album, which was released on 26 ...