See Hsu on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2011 December 29, “Shanping Forest Ecological Science Park”, in Taiwan Forestry Research Institute, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2023:",
"text": "In 1953, station director Cheng Tsung-yuan used timber from trees blown down in high winds to construct a hexagonal hall that would represent Liouguei. It was named Tsu Ching Hall, after Hsu Ching-chong, first agriculture director of the Taiwanese provincial government.",
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"ref": "2025 August 4, Chen Ching-fang, Kay Liu, “Historian Hsu Cho-yun dies at 94”, in Focus Taiwan, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2025, Culture:",
"text": "Historian Hsu Cho-yun (許倬雲), a correspondence research fellow at Academia Sinica's Institute of History and Philology, has died in the United States at 94, Taiwan's top research institution confirmed in a statement Monday.\nHsu's death Sunday (U.S. time) was also confirmed by the Tang Prize Foundation in Taipei, which in 2024 honored the historian as a laureate in Sinology.",
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"word": "Hsu"
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