The Today's Chinese Version (TCV) is a recent translation of the Bible into modern Chinese by the United Bible Societies. The New Testament was first published in 1975, and the entire Bible was published in 1979. The Bible uses simple, easy to read Chinese, and avoids complex and specialist terminology. The New York Times, apparently unaware of the Studium Biblicum Version or the translation by Lü Chen Chung, hailed it as the first Mandarin translation of the Bible since 1919.
Like many Chinese, Sun Yat-sen used different names at different points in his life and he is known in Chinese under several of them. Names are not taken lightly in Chinese culture. This reverence goes as far back as Confucius and his insistence on "rectification of names."
Gamania Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. (Gamania) is a PC online game and digital entertainment corporation with its headquarters located in Taipei, Taiwan. It was the first Taiwanese online game brand to expand globally, with overseas branch offices publishing and developing digital entertainment contents in Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Beijing, and Hong Kong. It was also looking to set up branch offices in North America and Europe in 2010.
Yang Wenhui was a Chinese lay Buddhist reformer who has been called "The Father of the Modern Buddhist Renaissance". His courtesy name was Rénshān (仁山). He was a native of Shídài (石埭) county in Anhui province.
The Commercial Press is the first modern publishing organisation in China.
Bian Shoumin, courtesy name as Yi-gong (颐公) or Jian-seng (漸僧), sobriquet as Weijian Laoren, is a famed Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty. A native Shanyang, he was one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou" and famous for painting wild geese, which gains a name Bianyan.
Ceremonies of the 20th Golden Melody Awards were held at the Taipei Arena in Taipei, Taiwan on June 27, 2009.
Jack C.K. Teng, was a Chinese educator, writer, politician, diplomat and Olympic pioneer. He is best known as the Chairman of the Chinese National Olympic Committee during the 1960 Summer Olympics, the first time a Chinese athlete won an Olympic medal.
Zhonghua Book Company (simplified Chinese: 中华书局有限公司; traditional Chinese: 中華書局有限公司; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Shūjú Yoǔxìan Gōngsī), formerly spelled Chunghwa or Chung-hua Shu-chü, and sometimes translated as Zhonghua Publishing House, are Chinese publishing houses that focuses on the humanities, especially classical Chinese works. Currently it has split into a few separate companies. The main headquarters is in Beijing, while Chung Hwa Book (Hong Kong) is headquartered in Hong Kong. The Taiwan branch is headquartered in Taipei.
Sino United Publishing (Holdings) Limited is Hong Kong's largest integrated publishing group, formed in 1988 from the integration of some of the historic publishing agencies. Its business includes publishing, distribution, retail, printing, RFID packaging design, art business, cultural exchanges. It has subsidiaries and affiliated agencies throughout Hong Kong and Macao, mainland China, Singapore, Malaysia, as well as in North America, Europe etc.
Chinese traditional music includes various music genres which have been inherited for generations in China. Specifically, this term refers to the music genres originated in or before Qing dynasty. According to the appearance, the genres can be classified into instrumental ensemble, instrumental solo, theatre, shuochang, dance music and song. It is now the primary classification in both research and education, although some genres contain different forms of performance and thus do not belong to a single category. The genres could also be classified into literati music, folk music, religious music and palace music, according to their cultural connotations or purpose.
Xia Da is a Chinese manhua artist. She is best known for creating the comics Zi Bu Yu and Chang Ge Xing. Five million copies of her works have been sold as of 2018. Her art has been noted for its classical style, and has been met with positive reception in both China and Japan.
Catcher Technology Corporation, is an electronics casing manufacturing company founded on November 23, 1984. The company has since focused on making shells for electronics such as PC notebooks, cell phones, and cameras, using magnesium alloy die castings, aluminum alloys, zinc alloys, stainless steel or plastic. In 2004, Catcher Technology moved its headquarters from HaiChong Street to its current address, which was the original site of the headquarters of Taiwan Sugar Corporation YungKang Plant.
Thomas Hong-Chi Lee is a Taiwanese-American historian of Chinese education and related aspects of traditional Chinese culture. He has taught world history and early modern European intellectual history in the US, as well as in Taiwan and in China.
Sophie Chang is a Taiwanese philanthropist, author and painter. She is chairperson of the TSMC Charity Foundation, chairperson of the Weiyi Social Welfare Charity Foundation, director of the Dunan Foundation and director of the Modern Women's Foundation. Chang met with the Dalai Lama in 2007, and has shaped her work according to his teachings.
The Taichung Dreamers Academy is a Taiwanese basketball team based in Taichung, Taiwan. The team is composed of amateur and student players. They competed in various basketball tournaments.
Unity of Heaven and humanity is an ancient Chinese philosophical concept that is found common across all Chinese religions and philosophies. The basic idea is that societal phenomena such as physiology, ethics, and politics of humanity are direct reflections of Tian, "heaven" or "nature."
Dcard is an online social media and networking platform based in Taiwan. The platform was first created by Kytu Lin, then-sophomore at National Taiwan University, and other students in 2011 in its web version. Initially positioned as a networking service dedicated for college students, users of the service are presented with a ‘Friend of the Day’ profile card every midnight, which gave inspiration to the name ‘Dcard’ where the initial D is an abbreviation of ‘Destiny’.
Wang Guangyang, courtesy name Chaozong (朝宗), was a Chinese official who served as a chancellor during the reign of the Hongwu Emperor in the Ming dynasty.
