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Chiang Ching (dancer)
Chiang Ching (; born ), occasionally spelled as Jiang Qing, birth name Jiang Duqing, is a Chinese Americans, Chinese-born American dancer and film actress based in New York City, New York, United States, and Sweden. With an Ancestral home (Chinese), ancestral root in Puning, Guangdong, she was born in Beijing and attended primary school in Shanghai. She was selected to study ballet and folk dance at the Beijing Dance Academy, Beijing Dance School. Shortly before graduation, during a visit to British Hong Kong, Hong Kong to see her parents, she was detained by her father and subsequently joined the Southern Experimental Theatre of Shaw Brothers Studio. She rose to fame in Taiwan as the lead actress in director Li Han-hsiang's film ''Seven Fairies'' (1963). She won the Best Leading Actress of the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards, Golden Horse Awards in 1967 due to her performance in the film ''How Many Enchanting Nights'' (1966), adapted from Chiung Yao's novel. In 1966, she m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jiāng (surname 江)
Jiang (, also romanized Chiang, Kong, Kang) is a Chinese surname, accounting for 0.26% of the Han Chinese population. It is the 52nd most common Chinese surname and is the 141st surname listed in the Hundred Family Surnames poem, contained in the line 江童顏郭 ( Jiāng, Tóng, Yán, Guō). It is the 75th most common surname in China (2007), and the 25th most common surname in Taiwan (2010). Origins After Boyi helped Yu the Great bring flood control to near yellow river, Yu's son and successor Qi of Xia offered Boyi's son, Xuanzhong, the position of Lord of Jiangdi ( - modern Jiangling County in Hubei Province). Boyi's descendants ruled the area as kings of an autonomous "River Kingdom" () during the Shang dynasty and Western Zhou dynasty, with its capital city near today's Zhengyang County, Henan Province. During the Spring and Autumn period, the kingdom was often under attack from the neighboring states of Chu, Song, and Qi, each of which was larger than the "Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
