Pei Xuan is a fictional character in the Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

Pei Xuan is from Jingzhao ( near present-day Xi ' an ) and he serves as a magistrate there.

Pei Xuan is framed for insubordination to the governor and imprisoned.

The bandits attack the guards and free Pei Xuan.

Pei Xuan is grateful to the bandits and he joins them.

Pei Xuan is appointed as the chief military judge of Liangshan after the Grand Assembly.

During the Wang Qing campaign, Pei Xuan, Xiao Rang and Jin Dajian are captured by the enemy general Liang Yong.

Pei Xuan is one of the few lucky survivors after the Fang La campaign.

Deng Fei, Pei Xuan and Meng Kang disguise themselves as soldiers and travel to Liangshan.

They pass by Yinma River and meet the bandits there led by Pei Xuan, Deng Fei and Meng Kang.

He returns to Yinma River together with Pei Xuan.

During the Wang Qing campaign, Xiao Rang, Jin Dajian and Pei Xuan are captured by the enemy general Liang Yong.

During the Wang Qing campaign, Jin Dajian, Xiao Rang and Pei Xuan sneak into the enemy city of Jingnan to conduct an espionage mission but they are captured by the enemy general Liang Yong.

He meets Deng Fei and Pei Xuan later and they become the leaders of a group of bandits at Yinma River.

Among the early projects on which Pei took the lead were the L ' Enfant Plaza Hotel in Washington, DC and the Green Building at MIT.

Ieoh Ming Pei was born on April 26, 1917 to Tsuyee Pei and Lien Kwun, and the family moved to Hong Kong one year later.

The younger Pei, drawn more to music and other cultural forms than to his father's domain of banking, explored art on his own.

The city's global architectural flavors had a profound influence on Pei, from the Bund waterfront area to the Park Hotel, built in 1934.

Pei said that " Bing Crosby's films in particular had a tremendous influence on my choosing the United States instead of England to pursue my education.

Once he arrived, however, the dean of the architecture school commented on his eye for design and convinced Pei to return to his original major.

MIT's architecture faculty was also focused on the Beaux-Arts school, and Pei found himself uninspired by the work.

The US realized that its bombs used against the stone buildings of Europe would be ineffective against Japanese cities, mostly constructed from wood and paper ; Pei was assigned to work on incendiary bombs.

Their iconoclastic focus on modern architecture appealed to Pei, and he worked closely with both men.

In 1952 Pei and his team began work on a series of projects in Denver, Colorado.

They took on the Kips Bay residential area on the east side of Manhattan, where Pei set up Kips Bay Towers, two large long towers of apartments with recessed windows ( to provide shade and privacy ) in a neat grid, adorned with rows of trees.

The challenge of coordinating these projects took an artistic toll on Pei.

Eventually, Kennedy chose Pei to design the library, based on two considerations.

" Ultimately, however, Kennedy made her choice based on her personal connection with Pei.

Working with his associate Theodore Musho, Pei developed a design centered on a building with a top much wider than the bottom ; the facade leans at an angle of 34 degrees.

Cobb worked in Australia and Pei took on jobs in Singapore, Iran, and Kuwait.

Although it was a difficult time for everyone involved, Pei later reflected with patience on the experience.

Inspiration struck Pei in 1968, when he scrawled a rough diagram of two triangles on a scrap of paper.

After visiting his ancestral home in Suzhou, Pei created a design based on the simple but nuanced techniques of traditional residential Chinese buildings.

Pei was also meticulous about the arrangement of items in the garden behind the hotel ; he even insisted on transporting of rocks from a location in southwest China to suit the natural aesthetic.

These difficulties took an emotional and physical strain on the Pei family.

As the Fragrant Hill project was nearing completion, Pei began working on the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, although his associate James Freed served as lead designer.

The opening of the Louvre Pyramid coincided with four other projects on which Pei had been working, prompting architecture critic Paul Goldberger to declare 1989 " the year of Pei " in The New York Times.

Pei also drew inspiration from the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings of the Ancient Pueblo Peoples ; he wanted the buildings to exist in harmony with their natural surroundings.

While Pei and Musho were coordinating the Dallas project, their associate Henry Cobb had taken the helm for a commission in Boston.

John Hancock Insurance chairman Robert Slater hired I. M. Pei & Partners to design a building that could overshadow the Prudential Tower, erected by their rival.

LOF countersued Hancock for defamation, accusing Pei's firm of poor use of their materials ; I. M. Pei & Partners sued LOF in return.

During the inauguration ceremonies, however, neither Freed nor Pei was recognized for their role in the project.

Pei decided that a pyramid was " most compatible " with the other structures at the Louvre, complementing their roofs ' faceted planes.

Pei had difficulty working with German government officials on the project ; their utilitarian approach clashed with his passion for aesthetics.

Pei visited the site in Shiga Prefecture, and during their conversations convinced Koyama to expand her collection.

Just as Yu Fan predicted, however, the venture would end in failure — as Zhou He and Pei Qian, on their way back, were intercepted by Wei forces and killed.

The play is also loosely based on news reports of the relationship between a French diplomat, Bernard Boursicot, and Shi Pei Pu, a male Chinese opera singer who purportedly convinced Boursicot that he was a woman throughout their twenty-year relationship.

To flee from enemies, her father Lü Wen ( 呂文 ) brought their family to Pei County, settled there, and became a close friend of the county magistrate.

Over the next few years, Cao Mao gradually established a circle of people around him, including Sima Zhao's cousin Sima Wang, Wang Shen ( 王沈 ), Pei Xiu, and Zhong Hui, all of whom were known for their literary talent.

Pei, see themselves primarily as artists, with some secondary responsibility to make their buildings functional for clients and / or users.

Barbara Goldsmith was a Founding Editor of New York magazine and the author of the widely-imitated series, “ The Creative Environment ,” in which she interviewed such subjects as Marcel Breuer, I. M. Pei, George Balanchine, and Pablo Picasso about their creative process.

The middle plan was to spread false information that Liu Bei was returning to Jing Province, then lure Liu Zhang's generals Yang Huai and Gao Pei away from their positions, kill them and take over their castles and armies, and finally advance towards Chengdu.

Liu Bei rallied his troops to turn against Liu Zhang and killed Yang Huai and Gao Pei, on charges of showing disrespect towards him, and took over command of their armies.

Two more cousins, Hsu Chien and Ah Pei, go to Hsiao Mi's house to ask about their brothers.

Meanwhile, Li Yuan's second son, by his wife Duchess Dou ( who had died earlier ), Li Shimin, was with him in Taiyuan, and was secretly planning rebellion against Sui rule with Pei Ji the head of the household at Emperor Yang's secondary palace nearby and Liu Wenjing the Jinyang County ( 晉陽, i. e., Taiyuan ) magistrate, but at first did not reveal their plans to Li Yuan.

Around the new year 733, Emperor Xuanzong removed then-chancellors Xiao Song and Han Xiu from their chancellor positions, and named Pei Yaoqing and Zhang to replace them — ordering Zhang to end his period of mourning, which was to last for three years, early, making him Zhongshu Shilang but with the chancellor de facto designation of Tong Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhanshi ( 同中書門下平章事 ).

Mario Andrew Pei ( 1901 – 1978 ) was an Italian-American linguist and polyglot, who wrote a number of popular books known for their accessibility to readers who lack a professional background in linguistics.

Supporters of Nationalist China openly slaughtered prisoners who refused to go to Taiwan, while Communist sympathizers hung one of their own in secret for betraying the identity of Commissar Pei to the Americans during an interrogation session.

While the rite of Naming was once reserved for the high priests of the Pei ' an religion, modern Pei ' an worldscapers tend to think of their relationships with the gods much more in terms of mental constructs, and Sandow is a confirmed agnostic as far as the objective existence of the gods is concerned.

The Wei brothers, along with a number of their associates — including the former chancellor Li Shizhi, Wei Bin ( 韋斌 ), Wei Jian's nephew Li Quan ( 李琄 ) the Prince of Xue, Pei Kuan ( 裴寬 ), and Li Qiwu ( 李齊物 ), were all demoted.