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Afong Moy was the first known female Chinese immigrant to the United States. [6] [7] In 1834, Moy was brought from her hometown of Guangzhou to New York City by traders Nathaniel and Frederick Carne, and exhibited as "The Chinese Lady".
Chinese Girl (often popularly known as The Green Lady) is a 1952 painting by Vladimir Tretchikoff. Mass-produced prints of the work in subsequent years were among the best-selling of the twentieth century. [ 1 ]
Xin Zhui (Chinese: 辛追; [ɕín ʈʂwéɪ]; c. 217 BC –169 or 168 BC), also known as Lady Dai or the Marquise of Dai, was a Chinese noblewoman.She was the wife of Li Cang (利蒼), the Marquis of Dai, and Chancellor of the Changsha Kingdom, during the Western Han dynasty of ancient China.
Vladimir Grigoryevich Tretchikoff (Владимир Григорьевич Третчиков, 26 December [O.S. 13 December] 1913, Petropavlovsk, Russian Empire, now Petropavl in Kazakhstan [1] – 26 August 2006, Cape Town, South Africa) was an artist whose painting Chinese Girl, popularly known as The Green Lady, is one of the best-selling art prints of the twentieth century.
Lady Xian (or Hsien, Chinese: 冼夫人; pinyin: Xiǎn Fūrén; Jyutping: sin2 fu1 jan4; Vietnamese: Tiển phu nhân; 512–602), also known as Lady of Qiao Guo (or Ch'iao Kuo; Chinese: 譙國夫人), born as Xian Zhen (冼珍), [1] was a hereditary chieftain of the Li people, [2] [3] born to the chieftain of the Xian tribe in Southern China, in what is now Guangdong during the Sui dynasty.
The Legend of Mulan: A Heroine of Ancient China, a bilingual Chinese/English children's picture book; Ode to Mulan The original poem in Chinese and English side-by-side translation. 'The Ballad of Mulan': A Rhyming Translation, Translation by Evan Mantyk; Hua Mu Lan—1939 film, directed by Richard Poh [Bu Wancang], with English subtitles
A 107-year-old Chinese woman has left social media users stunned after revealing a massive horn growing from her forehead.. The lady, Chen, has become a sensation on the Asian platform Douyin ...
One of the earliest references to qualities later associated with the canonical Four Great Beauties appears in the Zhuangzi.In one chapter, the women Mao Qiang and Lady Li are described as "great beauties" who "when fish see them they dart into the depths, when birds see them they soar into the skies, when deer see them they bolt away without looking back".