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Sung Shu Chien
Sung Shu Chien (also romanized as Qian Chongshu; ; 11 November 1883 – 28 December 1965) was a Chinese botanist and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Biography Chien was born on 11 November, 1883 to a family of intellectuals in Haining County, Zhejiang Province. In 1904, he was awarded the title of Xiucai in the last imperial examination held by the Qing Dynasty. In 1905, he was admitted to Nan Yang Public School (the antecedent of Xi'an Jiaotong University and Shanghai Jiaotong University). In 1909, he was sent to the Tangshan Road Mining School (now known as Southwest Jiaotong University) to study. In 1910, he entered the preparatory school of Tsinghua University as a publicly-funded student and went to the United States to study in the same year. He first studied agronomy in the College of Science at the University of Illinois. A year later, he transferred to the University of Illinois College of Natural Sciences, majoring in botany, and graduated in July 1914 wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qian (surname)
Qian (; Shanghainese: ), also spelt Chin, Chien, Tsien, or Zee in Wu Chinese, is a common Chinese family name. The name literally means "money". Qian is listed at the second place in the Song Dynasty text ''Hundred Family Surnames'', in the line 趙錢孫李 (Zhao (surname) , Zhao, Qian, Sun (surname), Sun, Li (surname 李), Li). As the royal surname of the kingdom of Wuyue, Qian was regarded as second only to Zhao, the imperial surname of the Song. As of 2008, Qian is the 96th most common surname in China, shared by 2.2 million people, with the province with the most people sharing the name being Jiangsu, an area formerly within the Wuyue kingdom. Origins According to the Song dynasty book, ''Tongzhi (encyclopedia), Tongzhi'', the Qian surname is descended from Zhuanxu, one of the legendary Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, Five Emperors, via Pengzu, the founder of the Peng kingdom in modern-day Jiangsu during the Shang dynasty. A Zhou dynasty official, Fu, was a descendant of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
