Tsze

THE NAME Confucius is the latinized form of the Chinese characters, K´ung Foo-tsze, meaning, “The master, K´ung. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Manchuria, Inner Mongolia and Shansi remained seething with bandits and rebel bands, and the still unoccupied valley of the Yang-tsze-kiang remained fighting with an increasing unity under the leadership of the reorganized Kuomintang. ❋ Herbert George (2006)

The Master having visited Nan-tsze, Tsze-lu was displeased, on which the Master swore, saying, “Wherein I have done improperly, may Heaven reject me, may Heaven reject me!” ❋ Confucius (2004)

He adopted Hwang-che for the style of his reign in 399, and the cyclical name of that year was Kang-tsze. ❋ Unknown (2003)

-- Left for Wosung, anchoring in the Yang-tsze, after a quick run of four days across the Yellow Sea. ❋ J. J. Smith (N/A)

"Well Cha," -- the Chinamen called me Cha-tsze and the boy had abbreviated it to Cha, -- "Akong says that he has a boat going up to the tea country to-morrow or next day, and wants me to go with him; may I?" ❋ Various (N/A)

Virtually buried in a raft of ethical tracts of the Middle Kingdom, all more or less repetitions of Lao-tsze's insistence on heaven's quiet way, ❋ Various (1915)

It takes its name from that of its founder, Lauo-tsze, or Lâo-tse, which lived in the sixth century before the Christian Era. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Hitherto every one has always believed that the Yang tsze Valley was par excellence the British sphere in China; and every one has always thought that that belief was enough. ❋ Bertram Lenox Simpson (1903)

Joss, or idol, of which Mr. Glasspoole speaks is the _San po shin_, which is spoken of in the work of Yuen tsze. ❋ Joseph Lewis French (1897)

[22] We know by the "History of the Chinese Pirates," that these "wasps of the ocean," to speak with _Yuen tsze yung lun_, were originally divided into six squadrons. ❋ Joseph Lewis French (1897)

In 1127, the feeble Chinese Emperor was seized and carried off, and by 1129 the whole of China north of the Yang-tsze was in the hands of the Nü-chêns. ❋ Herbert Allen Giles (1890)

Chinese general of the day; and the Nü-chêns had to accept the Yang-tsze as the dividing line between the two powers. ❋ Herbert Allen Giles (1890)

Coast regions nobly followed in their wake, and the Yang-tsze was won back by our armies. ❋ Herbert Allen Giles (1890)

Yang-tsze, and was slain by local militia in Hupeh. ❋ Herbert Allen Giles (1890)

In November, 1882, there was a very serious military riot in Hankow, on the opposite side of the Yang-tsze to Wuchang. ❋ Herbert Allen Giles (1890)

Brahms is the Lao-tsze of music, the great infant born with gray hair and with the slow smile of childhood. ❋ James Huneker (1890)

Hsiung Chêng-chi raised the standard of liberty on the Yang-tsze's banks; rising followed rising all over the empire, until the secret plot against the Regent was discovered, and the abortive insurrection in Canton startled the capital. ❋ Herbert Allen Giles (1890)

Nan-tsze forgot for a while her intrigues and debaucheries at the news of his arrival. ❋ Rossiter Johnson (1885)