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刘晓波

liú xiǎo bō

Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), Beijing writer and human rights activist, organizer of petition Charter 2008 零八憲章|零八宪章[Ling2 ba1 Xian4 zhang1], Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2010

刘表

liú biǎo

Liu Biao (142-208), warlord

刘云山

liú yún shān

Liu Yunshan (1947-), PRC politician, background in journalism in Inner Mongolia, head of the Central Propaganda Department 2002-2012

刘宋

liú sòng

Song of the Southern dynasties 南朝宋 (420-479), with capital at Nanjing

刘伯温

liú bó wēn

Liu Bowen (1311-1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1], with a reputation as a military genius, also called Liu Ji 劉基|刘基[Liu2 Ji1]

刘备

liú bèi

Liu Bei (161-223), warlord at the end of the Han dynasty and founder of the Han kingdom of Shu 蜀漢|蜀汉 (c. 200-263), later the Shu Han dynasty

刘光第

liú guāng dì

Liu Guangdi (1859-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子[Wu4 xu1 Liu4 jun1 zi5] of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898

刘公岛

liú gōng dǎo

Liugong island in the Yellow sea

刘剑峰

liú jiàn fēng

Liu Jianfeng (1936-), second governor of Hainan

刘厚总

liú hòu zǒng

Liu Houzong (1904-1949), originally Hunan guerilla leader, rewarded by Chiang Kaishek for killing Xiang Ying 項英|项英[Xiang4 Ying1] during the 1941 New Fourth Army incident 皖南事變|皖南事变[Wan3 nan2 Shi4 bian4]

刘向

liú xiàng

Liu Xiang (77-6 BC), Han Dynasty scholar and author

刘天华

liú tiān huá

Liu Tianhua (1895-1932), Chinese musician and composer