Usage of the term " Miao " in Chinese documents dates back to the Shi Ji ( 1st century BC ) and the Zhan Guo Ce ( late Western Han Dynasty ).

Among the major writers of the period were Guo Moruo ( 郭沫若 ) ( 1892 – 1978 ), a poet, historian, essayist, and critic ; Mao Dun ( 茅盾 ) ( 1896 – 1981 ), the first of the novelists to emerge from the " League of Left-Wing Writers " and one whose work reflected the revolutionary struggle and disillusionment of the late 1920s ; satirist and novelist Lao She ( 老舍 ) ( 1899 – 1966 ); and Ba Jin ( 巴金 ) ( 1904 – 2005 ), a novelist whose work was influenced by Ivan Turgenev and other Russian writers.

Zhang Guo Lao " decanting " his horse ; Japanese painting, late 19th-early 20th century

During the late years of the era, in an attempt to drain Qin's resources with an expensive construction project, the state of Han sent the civil engineer Zheng Guo to Qin to persuade them into building a canal.

Guo Jia ( 170 – 207 ) was a strategist and advisor to the warlord Cao Cao during the late Han Dynasty period of Chinese history.

His sons have continued to teach their father's Taijiquan, including his first son, the late Yang Zhenming ( 1910 – 1985 ) ( a. k. a. Yang Shaozhong, Yang Shao-Chung, Yeung Shao-Chung ; 楊守中 ), who brought Yang-style t ' ai chi ch ' uan to Hong Kong, his second son Yang Zhenji ( born 1921, current head of the family ), his third son, Yang Zhenduo ( 楊振鐸 ; born 1926 ), living in Shanxi Province, who is widely considered the most prominent of the Yang family T ' ai chi ch ' uan instructors living today, and his fourth son, Yang Zhen Guo, born in 1928, and living in Hebei Province, Handan City.

Guo faces the arduous task of raising the orphaned son of his late sworn brother, Yang Kang, and guiding him on the path of goodness.

Among the major writers of the period were Guo Moruo ( 1892 – 1978 ), a poet, historian, essayist, and critic ; Mao Dun ( 1896 – 1981 ), the first of the novelists to emerge from the League of Left-Wing Writers and one whose work reflected the revolutionary struggle and disillusionment of the late 1920s ; and Ba Jin ( 1904 – 2005 ), a novelist whose work was influenced by Ivan Turgenev and other Russian writers.

Guo Si ( died 197 ), also known as Guo Duo ( 郭多 ), was a general serving under the warlord Dong Zhuo during the late Han Dynasty period of Chinese history.

In this novel, set in the late Song Dynasty, Yang Guo inherits Dugu's Heavy Sword Technique.

No active armed opposition has emerged in other parts of Chad, although Kette Moise, following senior postings at the Ministry of Interior, mounted a smallscale local operation near Moundou which was quickly and violently suppressed by government forces in late 2000.

In the Argentine Navy, the rank of commodore was created in the late 1990s, and is usually, but not always, issued to senior captains holding rear-admirals ' positions.

In late September 2009, Obama senior advisor David Axelrod and Roger Ailes met in secret to attempt to smooth out tensions between the two camps.

In April 1939, when Ribbentrop announced at a secret meeting of the Foreign Office's senior staff that Germany was ending talks with the Poles and was instead going to destroy Poland in an operation late that year, the news was greeted joyfully by those present.

Today the Prime Minister ( First Lord of the Treasury ), the Chancellor of the Exchequer ( responsible for The Budget ) and other senior members of the Cabinet sit on the Treasury bench and present policies in much the same way Ministers did late in the 17th century.

* Hara Masatane ( 原 昌胤 ?, 1531 – 1575 ), a senior retainer of the Takeda clan during the late Sengoku period

He made his senior debut against St Kilda in 1992 at Waverley Park, as a late replacement for former captain Terry Daniher.

The Star Beast is a 1954 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about a high school senior who discovers that his late father's extraterrestrial pet is more than it appears to be.

In late August 1939, Raeder told other senior officers that the danger of a war with Britain and France was extremely remote, and at most Germany had to fear only sanctions if the invasion of Poland went ahead.

He left Europe probably in late July 1924, returning to China as one of the most senior Chinese Communist Party members in Europe.

One of Ulverston's lesser known sons is the late Bryan Martin, senior BBC Radio 4 Newsreader and Presenter of the 70s and 80s, whose dulcet tones on the " Today " programme announced to the country the death of Elvis Presley in 1977 and broke the news of the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980.

The author of a continuation of Dionysius's Computus, writing in 616, described Dionysius as a " most learned abbot of the city of Rome ", and the Venerable Bede accorded him the honorific abbas, which could be applied to any monk, especially a senior and respected monk, and does not necessarily imply that Dionysius ever headed a monastery ; indeed, Dionysius's friend Cassiodorus stated in Institutiones that he was still only a monk late in life.

In July 2011, Abdul Qadeer Khan, the key figure in Pakistan's nuclear weapons development, allegedly claimed that North Korea had gained access to Pakistan's nuclear technology in the late 1990s by paying bribes to Pakistan's senior military officials, a claim Pakistan's senior officials disputed.

Its annual events include a banjo festival in late May, the national senior pro rodeo in June, and a fall festival in October.

On June 26, 2000, the television show 48 Hours did an investigative report of five murders of senior citizens occurring in an 18-month period between late 1997 and early 1999.

After being condemned in the late 1980s, it was renovated and expanded to include a branch of the Salt Lake County Library System as well as an auditorium, senior center and several other facilities.

The founding Letters Patent were amended by succeeding monarchs on a number of occasions, such as by James I ( 1613 ) and most notably by Charles I ( who established the Board-then the Provost and seven senior Fellows-and reduced the panel of Visitors in size ) and supplemented as late as the reign of Queen Victoria ( and later still amended by the Oireachtas in 2000 ).

During the late 1950s, the majority of senior English clubs equipped their grounds with floodlights.

By the late 1930s Lynch was a dual player with the Cork senior hurling and senior football teams.

Unlike many Party members active in the 1930s and 1940s who later became senior Chinese leaders, Zhao joined the Party too late to have participated in the Long March of 1934 – 1935.

Napoleon conferencing with his senior Generals late on 5 July, after the first day of battle.

Nine has posted journalists overseas to cover major European stories following the closure of its European bureau in late 2008, with the last European correspondent, James Talia, being redesignated to his former role as a senior Melbourne Nine News journalist.

Wim Vandekerckhove, senior lecturer at the University of Greenwich, points out that in the late 20th century there sprung forth the notion of a bidirectional loyalty between employees and their employer.

The first was the late 7th century Deuteronomistic reform of official Judean religion under king Josiah, who banned many elements of the old polytheistic cult from the Temple, and the sudden collapse of Assyria and the rise of Babylon to take its place ; the second was exile of the royal court, the priests and other members of the ruling elite following the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem c. 586 BCE.

In late 1905 Balfour had requested of Charles Dreyfus, his Jewish constituency representative, that he arrange a meeting with Weizmann, during which Weizmann asked for official British support for Zionism ; they were to meet again on this issue in 1914.

During a rise of " retro " games in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Steve Jackson Games entered negotiations with Dennis Sustare and Scott Robinson, the current owners of the Bunnies & Burrows copyright, to publish an official GURPS supplement.

In a key game late in the 2005 season, Steve Smith was ejected for touching an official.

However, the pharaoh's real-life influence and prestige could differ from that depicted in official writings and depictions, and beginning in the late New Kingdom his religious importance declined drastically.

After the execution, the Queen ordered Bacon to write the official government account of the trial, which was later published as A DECLARATION of the Practices and Treasons attempted and committed by Robert late Earle of Essex and his Complices, against her Majestie and her Kingdoms ... after Bacon's first draft was heavily edited by the Queen and her ministers.

His first official mission was to Romagna in late 1350.

The Old Hungarian script, the so-called " Rovás alphabet " The country switched to using the Latin language and alphabet under king Stephen I of Hungary ( reigned: 997-1038 ), and as late as 1844, Latin remained the official language of Hungary.

In collaboration with the late Chaim Potok, Kushner co-edited Etz Hayim: A Torah Commentary, the new official Torah commentary of the Conservative movement, which was jointly published in 2001 by the Rabbinical Assembly and the Jewish Publication Society.

A former Intel official reported that the Itanium business had become profitable for Intel in late 2009.

The pseudonym was successfully maintained until the late 1970s, partly because, although " Tiptree " was widely known to be a pseudonym, it was generally understood that its use was intended to protect the professional reputation of an intelligence community official.

In late summer 1943, the SIS provided the GRU with an official report of the activities of German agents in Bulgaria and Romania, soon to be invaded by the Red Army.

In the late 19th-and early 20th centuries, although some boundary agreements were signed between Great Britain, Afghanistan and Russia over the northern borders of Kashmir, China never accepted these agreements, and the official Chinese position did not change with the communist revolution in 1949.

Tax reforms also have begun, and the barter and official exchange rates were unified in late 1991.

This text contains a number of laws, dated to the 8th century BC kingdom of Judah, a time when a minority Yahwist faction was actively attacking mainstream polytheism, succeeding in establishing official monolatry of the God of Israel under Josiah by the late 7th century BC.

After the current government of Hamid Karzai took over in late 2001, there has been significant progress toward revitalization of the national military, with two official branches established.

Stone stelae, votive offerings, or ones probably commemmorating victories and showing feasts, are also found from temples, which unlike more official ones lack inscriptions that would explain them ; the fragmentary Stele of the Vultures is an early example of the inscribed type, and the Assyrian Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III a large and solid late one.

However, in the late 1980s some official statements indicated that the party intended to reduce its appointment authority, particularly in the area of economic management, in line with Mikhail Gorbachev's reform efforts.

The language in turn became the status language chosen by the Navarrese kings, nobility and upper classes for official and trade purposes in the period stretching from the early 13th century to late 14th century.

One very striking evidence of the superiority of the royal courts over the feudal and popular courts in the matter of official skill is the fact that, until comparatively late in history, the royal courts alone kept written records of their proceedings.

Paramount Pictures executives approached The Next Generation producer Rick Berman in late 1992 about creating a feature film, four months before the official announcement.

As part of the official " Roadmap for the End of Transition ", a political process which provides clear benchmarks leading toward the establishment of permanent democratic institutions in Somalia by late August 2012, Somali government officials met in the northeastern town of Garowe in February 2012 to discuss post-transition arrangements.

As part of the official " Roadmap for the End of Transition ", a political process which provides clear benchmarks leading toward the establishment of permanent democratic institutions in Somalia by late August 2012, Somali government officials met in the northeastern town of Garowe in February 2012 to discuss post-transition arrangements.

“ This guy was our ultimate nightmare ,” an American intelligence official told the Times in late 2001.

It was not until the late 1930s that the British started to use the McMahon Line on official maps of the region.