Word: hsien
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...eastern collection, scholarly amateur Orientalist Matier stopped short before a piece of heavily carved jade, five inches square. Looking at its two imperial dragons, its authentic yellow tassels and its archaic characters, he was suddenly certain that he had found the long lost Imperial Seal of China's Hsien Feng...
...sold the seal to Seattle's Museum in 1935, had forgotten where they acquired it. But if it is truly the lost seal (as Chinese Consul Kiang Yi-seng and the Museum's Director, Dr. Richard E. Fuller, believe it to be because of the references to Hsien Feng deciphered from its characters), chances are that it came to the U.S. some time after the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. During that chaotic period hoodlums and allied soldiers had ample opportunity to plunder the fabulous riches of Tzu Hsi's Imperial Palaces at Peking...
Chang emphasized the importance of the rising local governments in the Hsien, which correspond to our countries. "The development of local government has been remarkably rapid during the war," he asserted. "Appreciable progress has been made also in mass education and agricultural and industrial cooperatives, and all this development of local self- government may well be considered the most significant reform carried out by the Chinese Government in recent years...
What was going-on? Who gave a civilian permission to carry a gun? The man explained that he was an official of the local hsien (county government). He was bringing three army conscripts to fill the hsien's quota...
...tall and talented tennist, he looks older than his 42 years. He stresses discipline and English composition in a special Calvert up-&-down script. Brown is proud that Calvert has helped make life bearable for U.S. children in crowded Jap concentration camps like that in Shantung's Wei-hsien. The Calvert method was used there for six months by Rochester's Mrs. Frederick G. Scovel, wife of a medical missionary. Repatriated on the Gripsholm last winter, she wrote...