Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river of northeast China flowing through Liaoning province to the northern arm of the Bohai Sea. From its longest tributary it is about 1,300 km (800 mi) long.
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- noun the dynasty that ruled much of Manchuria and northeastern China from 947 to 1125
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Examples
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Carol Liao is a partner and managing director in BCG Greater China and a core member of the consumer practice.
China's Baby-Care Craze Hubert Hsu 2010
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At present we are working with the local historians and museum people in Liao Yuan to further research the story of the former camp and the 32 men who were interned there – all of whom were in Taiwan for more than two years prior to their arrival in December 1944.
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Recently I received word that the Chinese government in Liao Yuan, Liaoning Province is planning to preserve the buildings and erect a memorial on the site of the former Hsi An Senior Officers’ POW Camp there.
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We also made a presentation to gov’t. officials in Liao Yuan – formerly called Hsi An - which was the site of the POW camp where the high-ranking senior officers and the governors of all the East Asian colonies were kept in the last months of the war, to erect some kind of memorial to those men as well.
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The striking power of his empire, which from 937 onward was officially called the Liao empire, grew steadily, because the old tribal league of the Kitan was transformed into a centrally commanded military organization.
A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949
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There were frequent clashes, but no real effort was made to destroy the Kitan, whose dynasty was now called "Liao".
A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949
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The current atmosphere "is the most tense for the past 20 years," says banned Chinese writer Liao Yiwu.
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Not only did Mr. Liao write one of Mr. Siems's favorite books, "The Corpse Walker," but he was scheduled to be an opening-night guest at the World Voices Festival.
Mightier Than the Sword Anna Louie Sussman 2011
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Mr. Liao has said that the latter restriction was imposed to prevent him from traveling to New York to attend next week's PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature.
Mightier Than the Sword Anna Louie Sussman 2011
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"If even he has gone inside,' then many others are in danger too," says Liao, 53, who served a four-year jail term in the 1990s for his criticism of the government.
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