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  CHINKIANG - LoveToKnow Article on CHINKIANG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Nearly all the troops on either side had been conveyed to the scene of war by sea, though the decisive contest for sea supremacy was still to be fought.
The Chinese admiral Ting with the Northern Squadron (which alone took part in the war) had hitherto remained inactive in Wei-hai-wei, and on the other side Vice-Admiral Ito's fleet had not directly interfered with the hostile transports which were reinforcing the troops on the Yalu.
Ting advanced in a long irregular line abreast; the battleships in the centre, the lighter vessels on the wings.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CH/CHINKIANG.htm   (936 words)

  
 Battle of Yalu River (1894) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ting Yuen opened fire on the Japanese when the range between the vessels was about 6000 yards (5,500m).
When the German Navy took the Ting Yuen out for gun trials in 1883 (Ting Yuen had been built in Germany) they noted that the main armament should not be fired on an ahead bearing.
Admiral Ting Ju ch'ang became a casualty of the battle from the opening shot of his own vessel, along with a number of officers also present on the bridge.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Yalu_River_(1894)   (1362 words)

  
 Ting Yuen -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The ship was the flagship of Admiral (additional info and facts about Ting Ju ch'ang) Ting Ju ch'ang, who unfortunately became a casualty of the battle when the Ting Yuen fired its opening shot.
The Ting Yuen was 7670 tons loaded and had a speed of 14.5 (Any of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object) knots.
At 10 knots (19 km/h), Ting Yuen had a range of around 4,500 (A unit of length used in navigation; equivalent to the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude; 1,852 meters) nautical miles.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Ti/Ting_Yuen.htm   (197 words)

  
 Ting Yuen - TheBestLinks.com - December 28, Germany, Japan, Krupp, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Ting Yuen was the Chinese flagship at the Battle of the Yalu River, which took place on September 17, 1894, between the Japanese and Chinese.
Ting Yuen was built by AG Vulcan, in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland).
The Ting Yuen was 7670 tons loaded and had a speed of 14.5 knots.
www.thebestlinks.com /Ting_Yuen.html   (269 words)

  
 The Battle of the Yalu, 17 September 1894
The Tsi Yuen sustained heavy damage and the Kwang Yi was unscathed, but neither of the ship's captains had any stomach for the fight; before long they had turned tail and were fleeing back towards the shelter of Asan harbor, with the Yoshino and Akitsushima in pursuit.
Ting recognized that the smoke signaled the imminent arrival of a large enemy fleet, which left him in something of a dilemma.
The cruiser Tsi Yuen, survivor of the brush with Togo's Flying Squadron at Asan, was the first ship to be hit, and, true to form, she broke away from the line and ran for the sanctuary of Port Arthur.
www.russojapanesewar.com /yalu1894.html   (4725 words)

  
 WEI-HAI-WEI
So far as can be gathered, Ting had found his boats a nuisance, and was in terror of the Japanese boats being allowed in, in mistake for Chinese boats.
Its result, however, is well known, the battleship Ting Yuen was hit in the stern and sank in the mud, where she lay with her upper works above water and guns still firing.
Ting surrendered on condition that the lives of his men were spared, but he and his principal officers committed suicide.
www.russojapanesewar.com /wei-hai-wei.html   (1262 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | 'There was nothing else to see'
Yuen's interviewees look back with the same cheery nostalgia which characterises the endless British TV shows about pop music and sitcoms of the 1970s.
Yuen's sin, in the eyes of her critics, is that she has made a cheerful, upbeat film that skates over the horrors of one of the most tragic episodes in recent Chinese history.
Yuen claims that some of her interviewees told her that the Cultural Revolution was "quite fun".
film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,1429847,00.html   (996 words)

  
 Over ons - [Scarabeefilms.nl]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Yan Ting Yuen was born in Hong Kong.
This is the story of one of those hardworking families in a Chinese restaurant somewhere in the world: in a provincial town in the Netherlands, and it seems that this life was richer than you might have imagined.
Yuen's second film is called YANG BAN XI - THE 8 MODEL WORKS, and is about the model operas directed and supervised by Jiang Qing during Mao's Cultural Revolution in China.
www.scarabeefilms.com /about.php/3?LanguageID=2   (220 words)

  
 1894YaluBattle
Then the Ping Yuen and Kwang Ping, with the two torpedo-boats that had been inside the Yalu River at the beginning of the engagement, came up and headed for her, and her amiable intentions toward the burning vessels were frustrated.
As the sun was setting the Ting Yuen, with the battered Chen Yuen, the Lai Yuen (still desperately fighting the flames that threatened to devour her), the Ching Yuen, Ping Yuen, and Kwang Ping, set course for Port Arthur.
When the Chen Yuen was desperately on fire in the forecastle, and a call was made for volunteers to accompany an officer to extinguish it, although the gunfire from three Japanese ships was sweeping the place in question, men responded heartily, and went to what seemed to them almost certain death.
www.navyandmarine.org /ondeck/1894YaluBattle.htm   (7096 words)

  
 Shu shan (Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain)
Yuen Biao plays Ting Ming Chi, a scout for the West Zu clan, who is in a war with the East Zu.
The three main camps of good are the Swordsmen, Ting-Yin and Ting Ming Chi, the Monks, Hsiao-Yu and Yi-Chen and the Sorceress's The Countess and her main bodyguard.
The film opens with Yuen Biao as a Canadian fencing champion who has a freak accident and is transported to ancient China where he descends in to the fantasy world of Zu.
www.metalasylum.com /ragingbull/movies/zu.html   (1953 words)

  
 Chen Yuen - TheBestLinks.com - Germany, Japan, Krupp, Nautical mile, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Chen Yuen was the Chinese flagship at the Battle of the Yalu River, which took place on 17 September 1894, between the Japanese and Chinese.
The hull was laid down in March 1882 with the vessel launched on 28 November 1882 and sea trials commencing in March 1884.
The Chen Yuen was 7670 tons loaded and had a speed of 15.4 knots.
www.thebestlinks.com /Chen_Yuen.html   (232 words)

  
 Dingyuan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Because of corruption, lack of funding and incompetence, by the time of the First Sino-Japanese War the Imperial Japanese Navy was able to outmaneuver the Beiyang Navy.
Dingyuan served as Admiral Ting Ju ch'ang's flagship at the Battle of the Yalu River on September 17, 1894.
On February 5, 1895, the Dingyuan was seriously damaged after being hit by a Japanese torpedo and later cannon fire.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ting_Yuen   (548 words)

  
 The Battle of the Yalu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Whilst chasing the Tsi Yuen the Japanese squadron chanced upon the chartered British merchantman the Kowshing that was ferrying Chinese troops to Asan.
It consists of two 2nd class battleships the Ting Yuen (flag) and her sister the Chen Yuen; five cruisers Ching Yuen, Chih Yuen, Tsi Yuen and Tshao Yang; two lightly armed and ill protected revenue cruisers of the Canton flotilla the Kwang kai and K'wang Ping and two torpedo boats.
Admiral Ting got the transports safely into the shallow mouth of the Yalu River, when the Japanese fleet were spotted steaming towards his position at about 10 o'clock on the morning of the 17th.
home.freeuk.net /henridecat/yalu/yalu.htm   (2679 words)

  
 Fluorescent neoglycolipids: Improved probes for oligosaccharide ligand discovery -- Stoll et al. 267 (6): 1795 -- FEBS ...
Yuen, C.-T., Lawson, A.M., Chai, W., Larkin, M., Stoll, M.S., Stuart, A.C., Sullivan, F.X., Ahern, T.J. and Feizi, T. (1992) Novel sulfated ligands for the cell adhesion molecule E-selectin revealed by the neoglycolipid technology among O-linked oligosaccharides on an ovarian cystadenoma glycoprotein.
Chai, W., Yuen, C.T., Kogelberg, H., Carruthers, R.A., Margolis, R.U., Feizi, T. and Lawson, A.M. (1999) High prevalence of 2-mono- and 2, 6-di-substituted Manol-terminating sequences among O-glycans released from brain glycopeptides by reductive alkaline hydrolysis.
Solis, D., Feizi, T., Yuen, C.T., Lawson, A.M., Harrison, R.A. and Loveless, R.W. (1994) Differential recognition by conglutinin and mannan-binding protein of N-glycans presented on neoglycolipids and glycoproteins with special reference to complement glycoprotein C3 and ribonuclease B. Biol.
content.febsjournal.org /cgi/content/full/267/6/1795   (4155 words)

  
 DIF I EPISODE SUMMARIES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Jessie was the one who switched the backpack, so she gives it back because Dai Yung won't arrest Wong Tse Yuen Ting.
Ting tells Jessie to meet her at the Butterfly Valley.
At the place, the it is barren and Ting shoots Jessie in the arm and Wai On in the leg.
www.dif123.com /dif1.html   (2347 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Despite the film's very specific title, writer-director Yan-ting Yuen, who moved from Hong Kong to the Netherlands at age 6, makes it clear early on that this isn't going to be a regular docu.
She remained unrepentant to the end, claiming she'd simply been "Mao's loyal dog" and was now a convenient scapegoat for the whole Cultural Revolution experiment.
Yuen tracks down a scriptwriter, Jin Yongqin, who worked on the film version of "Tiger Mountain," shearing the three-hour stage original down to a two-hour movie.
www.variety.com /index.asp?layout=sundance2005&nav=reviews&content=reviews&reviewid=VE1117926561   (784 words)

  
 Battle of the Yalu River - Japan & China's Naval Battle
The Japanese advanced on the Chinese with the flying squadron leading in line astern formation with the dispatch vessels off to the port of the second squadron (where the flagship was).
Ting Yuen opened fire on the Japanese when the range between the vessels was about 6000 yards (5,500 meters).
The Japanese fast cruisers veered to port and were then dispatched by Ito to go to the assistance of the Hiyei, Saikyo and Akagi which had been unable to keep up with the main line and had then been engaged by the left-hand vessels of the Chinese line.
www.japan-101.com /history/battle_of_yalu_river.htm   (1291 words)

  
 Ting Yuen - China-related Topics TI-TL - China-Related Topics
The Ting Yuen was the Chinese flagship at the Battle of the Yalu River (1894)Battle of the Yalu River, which took place on September 17, 1894, between the Japanese and ChinaChinese.
The Ting Yuen was 7670 tons loaded and had a speed of 14.5 knot_(nautical)knots.
At 10 knots (19andnbsp;km/h), Ting Yuen had a range of around 4,500 nautical miles.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Ting_Yuen   (302 words)

  
 Taiwan: Hero (Zhong Hua Er Nu) 1998
Wan Ting only hoped that he would tell everyone that he loved her but he didn't have the courage to.
Wan Ting visualized that he hugged her and that he will tell everyone that he will not marry Rong Rong because he only loved Wan Ting.
Wan Ting kills the man who murdered her parents and she is taken to be beheaded.
www.spcnet.tv /taiwan_hero.shtml   (1715 words)

  
 On The Run [Deltamac] DVD | dir.: Alfred Cheung Kin-Ting | cast: Yuen Biao, Pat Ha (Man Jik), Charlie Chin (Chiang ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Yuen Biao is a police officer whose ex-wife has an affair with the wrong man and pays with her life.
When the police conspiracy is uncovered, Yuen Biao is accused of the murder and ends up teaming with the assassin.
Yuen Biao, Pat Ha (Man Jik), Charlie Chin (Chiang Lin), Idy Chan (Yuk Lin), Lee Heung Kam, Lo Lieh, Yuen Wah, Phillip Ko Fei, Alex To Tak-Wai, Lam Laap Saam, Bowie Lam (Bo Yi), Cheung Choi Mei, Baau Hei Ming, Peter Ngor Chi-Kwan, Poon Jan Wai.
www.hkflix.com /xq/asp/filmID.527303/aid.006349/qx/details.htm   (673 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ting Fung said, he deliberately gained over ten ounds to play Monk Tang and even sacrificed his abdominal muscles because he felt monks should have a round chin.
Yuen Qiu is a Hong Kong Film Award Best Actress nominee for KUNG FU HUSTLE (GONG FU), thus when On Jai chatted with her he congratulated her in advance.
Cheung Yuen Ting said, "This musical wants to display Chinese 'film' history but achievements and glory that 'film people' have created within the 100 years." Music director Lee Chung Sing waas obviously humble when talking about this show.
www.geocities.com /tokyo/towers/2038/050317.txt   (16679 words)

  
 Leon's Gossip Corner
The Mabel Cheung Yuen Ting directed new film Bo Lei ji Sing (Lit: City of Glass) on the night of the 25th shot on location at the Ho Tung building at the Hong Kong University.
Both Cheung Yuen Ting and Alex Law Kai Yui were HKU alumni, thus they hoped to leave a bit of memory before the building is demolished.
Since it was the first time Cheung Yuen Ting worked with a pop star, she was scared by the number of fans.
dawn.leonfamily.com /leonnews/leongossip2.htm   (914 words)

  
 Hong Kong Digital #136a: In The Line Of Duty
Honest Seattle dock worker Luk Wan-ting (Sunny Yuen Yat-chor) accidentally gets himself involved in America's drug wars, when he stumbles into a shootout and is erroneously blamed for the death of a DEA operative.
Richard Yuen's score is derivative of the music John Carpenter created for his sci-fi actioner, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK.
Liu Kai-chi, Yuen Shun-yee, John Salvitti, Cho Wing (in a dual role), and Eddie Maher co-star.
www.dighkmovies.com /v3/136/136a.html   (689 words)

  
 THE CHINESE FLAGSHIP "TING YUAN", 1881-1895
Reputed to be the largest and most powerful ironclad battleship in the Far East, Ting Yuan was naturally the vowed target of destruction for the Japanese navy whose naval war songs repeatedly alluded to her.
In the torpedo boat raids at night on 4-5 February, four Chinese warships were hit.
The torpedo that sealed the fate of Ting Yuan was a product of L. Schwartzkopff & Co. of Berlin, Germany.
www.ualberta.ca /~chor/tingyuan.htm   (428 words)

  
 1978 -- movies -- rob larsen's drunkenfist.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
All three are high watermarks for their respective directors, Yuen Wo-Ping, Lau Kar-Leung and Chang Cheh.
This movie is the grandfather of all kung fu comedies (and there are a lot of them.) This film's mixture of Jackie's patented doofiness and blistering martial arts action practically wrote the blueprint for Jackie's international stardom.
Martial ability aside, Yuen's real gift to the film is his performance.
www.drunkenfist.com /movies/HongKong/1978.htm   (880 words)

  
 Fluff from November 28th, 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
With Anita Yuen Wing-Yi (left) and her boyfriend Yau Siu-Chi by her side (centre), Charlie Yeung Choi-Lei continued her assualt on the Hong Kong business world by holding the grand opening of her new production company yesterday.
Its first project will be the information programme WHAZZZUP featuring Anita Yuen (right) as the host.
Yuen will be traveling to many points around the world showing audiences "what's up."
www.hkentreview.com /2000/november/1128/1128.html   (1248 words)

  
 Film Info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The revolutionary model opera--propagandist musicals that were virtually the only filmed entertainment for a generation of Communist Chinese--was the brainchild of Madame Mao Jiang Qing Min, the failed actress and first lady of the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward.
Director Yan Ting Yuen takes a reverent tack toward those who performed in the Yang Ban Xi, and an irreverent, playful attitude toward the operas themselves.
Her cast will burst into song and dance at the most unexpected moment, giving the film a joyfulness and sense of humor missing from virtually any other account of the Maoist Chinese era.
festival.sundance.org /2005/filmguide/popup.aspx?film=4118   (213 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: DVD: In The Line Of Duty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The film opens with straight arrow American longshoreman Luk Wan-ting (Yuen Yat-chor) stumbling into a police raid, in which he gets blamed for a DEA agent's death.
The plot is not original-basically its the good guys vs the bad guys with one or two twists in the movie.
Yuen Woo Ping is both director and fight choreagrapher.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000V46DG   (1027 words)

  
 Soong Sisters, The (5/1997)
I'd like to see a Director's Cut of this film), Mabel Cheung Yuen Ting continues to impress with her masterful manipulation of the audience's emotions, especially during the sisters' childhood.
After that, though, I didn't really feel the sisters were all that close after they returned from America so when their relationship cracked I didn't know what to feel.
Michelle Khan (Yeung Chi King) is stuck with a fairly meatless role and didn't do much until the end of the film, which was probably one of the best put together ending sequences I have seen lately.
www.cco.caltech.edu /~hding/HKcinema/Soong_Sisters.html   (557 words)

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