Tung yen ling biography

Hong Kong-Taiwanese actress

In this Chinese name, the family name is Jin.

Elaine Chin Yen-ling (Chinese: 金燕玲; pinyin: Jīn Yànlíng; born 15 December ), also known as Elaine Kam, is a Hong Kong–Taiwanese actress.

She began her career in Taiwan in before moving to Hong Kong in

She has been nominated eleven times in the Hong Kong Film Awards and won four for her supporting roles in Love Unto Waste (Chinese: 地下情) (), People's Hero (Chinese: 人民英雄) () and Port of Call (Chinese: 踏血尋梅) (). In , Jin earned her first Golden Horse Film Award, also in the supporting category, for her performance in Edward Yang's A Confucian Confusion (Chinese: 獨立時代) ().

Jin won the Golden Horse Award and the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film Mad World.

Personal life

Jin has been married twice, to Liang Tingbin (梁廷斌) in (divorced in ) and then with Robert Wong in (divorced in ).

Filmography

Film

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Chinese-American structural engineer

This article is about the Chinese American structural engineer. For the infrastructure firm he founded, see T. Y. Lin International.

Tung-Yen Lin (Chinese: 林同棪; pinyin: Lín Tóngyán; November 14, – November 15, ) was a Chinese-American structural engineer who was the pioneer of standardizing the use of prestressed concrete.

Biography

Born in Fuzhou, China, as the fourth of eleven children, he was raised in Beijing where his father was a justice of the ROC's Supreme Court. He did not begin formal schooling until age 11, and only so because his parents forged his birth year to be so that he would qualify. At only 14, entered Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College (now Southwest Jiaotong University), having earned the top score in math and the second best score overall in the college entrance exams for his entering class. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in and left for the United States, where he earned his master's degree in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in Lin's master's thesis was the first student thesis published by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Lin returned to China after graduation to work with the Chinese Ministry of Railways. Before too long he earned the reputation of being a "good engineer". This positioned him to become the chief bridge engineer of the Yunnan-Chongqing Railway and oversaw the design and construction of more than 1, bridges. He returned to UC Berkeley to join its faculty in , and began to research and develop the practice of prestressed concrete. He did not invent prestressed concrete, but he did develop it for practical use. The inventor of prestressed concrete is Eugene Freyssinet of France. Lin retired in to work full-time at T.Y. Lin International, a firm he founded in After selling that firm, he left it to found Lin Tung-Yen China on June 1, , which oversees engineering projects

Chen Lu-Huei, Chen Te-Sheng and Chen Yi-Ling, “Who Are the Rising Stars in the 18th CCP National Congress? A Study of Political Potential of Central Committee Alternate Members,” Mainland China Studies, Vol. 55, No. 1 (March ), pp.

Chen Yi-Ling,” Political Representative, Governance Efficiency, and Urban Stability: Local Governance Strategies in Urban China,” Soochow Journal of Political Science, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Oct. ), pp

Keng Shu and Chen Yi-Ling. “After Developmental State and   Post-Totalitarianism: China’s Fragmented States and Connected Societies.” Journal of Social Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Oct. ), pp.

Keng Shu, Chen Yi-Ling and Chen Lu-Huei. “The Political Consequences of   Limited Reforms: How Political Mobilization Reshapes the Pattern of Participation of Chinese Citizens.” Journal of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp.

Keng Shu and Chen Yi-Ling. “Communities Self-Governance and Prospects of Democracy in China: Modernization Theory or Regime Stabality?” Prospect Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jun. ), pp.

&#;LI Shuai-t'ai 李率泰 (T.&#;壽疇, 叔達), d. , Feb., native of T'ieh-ling, Liaotung, a member of the Chinese Plain Blue Banner, was the second son of Li Yung-fang [q.&#;v.]. His personal name was originally Yen-ling 延齡 but at the age of twelve (sui) he was presented at the court of Nurhaci [q.&#;v.] who conferred on him the name Shuai-t'ai. When he was sixteen (sui) he married the daughter of an imperial agnate. He accompanied Abahai [q.&#;v.] in the campaigns against Chahar, Korea, and Chin-chou; and in followed Dorgon [q.&#;v.] to Peking. He was active in the establishment of the Manchus in China, and took part in the fighting in the provinces of Chihli, Shantung and Honan (); Shensi and Kiangnan (); Chekiang (); Fukien (–48); and Shansi (). In May he was made a Grand Secretary but was discharged in August for trying to conceal a mistake in an edict. In addition to being fined, his hereditary rank was on this occasion lowered from a baron to that of Ch'i-tu-yü. However, early in he was, by special order, made a third class baron and later in the same year, on the recommendation of Hung Ch'êng-ch'ou [q.&#;v.], he was appointed governor-general of Kwangtung and Kwangsi where he fought against the Ch'ing general, Li Ting-kuo [q.&#;v.]. He received the title of Grand Tutor of the Heir Apparent and in was transferred to the post of governor-general of Fukien and Chekiang. Here he carried on vigorous campaigns against the Chêng Ch'êng-kung [q.&#;v.] faction, especially promoting the building of a navy adequate for &#;coastal defense. It was because of his fear that Chêng Chih-lung [q.&#;v.] would rejoin the Fukien rebels that the latter was not exiled to Ninguta.

In Li was raised to a baron of the first class. When the jurisdiction of Chekiang and Fukien was divided in , he continued as governor-general of Fukien. The next year he was recommended to be discha