Meanings
plural Changchiens
- A surname from Mandarin.
Year Zero stars Maureen Sebastian and Louis Ozawa Changchien in the Second Stage Theatre 2010 Uptown Series presentation.
2010 May 26, Ernio Hernandez, “Cambodian-American Teen Seeks Change in Second Stage Uptown's Year Zero”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Playbill3 more examples
Louis Ozawa Changchien is a Japanese American actor who is casted as Hanzo, one of the people abducted by Predators who must fight for his life in the alien's hunting field on an alien planet.
2010 January 8, “Interview with Actor Louis Ozawa Changchien on Upcoming Film "Predators"”, in GIGAZINEThe play begins even before the audience members sit down; they first walk through an exhibit that culminates with a full-size art installation piece (the Play Company requested that details not be revealed here). Then a Chinese artist named Lin Bo (played by Louis Ozawa Changchien) enters and recounts how he was jailed for dissidence.
2016 August 18, Diep Tran, “Truth, Lies and Chinese Art Inspire ‘a Puzzle Box of a Play’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2016, TheaterChen lastly visited 100-year-old former martial artist Changchien Chan Ching-yeh (張簡詹清葉) in Daliao District (大寮).
2021 October 10, Fang Chih-hsien, Kayleigh Madjar, “Kaohsiung centenarians receive visit from mayor”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2021, Taiwan News, page 3
Origin
- Mandarin張簡 /张简
- EnglishChangchien
Borrowed from Mandarin 張簡 /张简 (Zhāngjiǎn) Wade–Giles romanization: Chang¹-chien³.
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