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Example sentences for: cheng
How can you use “cheng” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Near the south entrance, in the Round City (Tuan Cheng), is a large ceremonial vessel of green jade presented in 1265 to Kublai Khan, who built a palace here and entertained Marco Polo on these lake shores in the 13th century.
You can get a glimpse into that past at Lei Cheng Uk Museum’s 1,600-year-old burial vault on the mainland just north of Kowloon (see page 38).
Off the beaten path in Sham Shui Po, west of the junction of Nathan Road and Boundary Street, is the Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb and Museum on Tonkin Road (open Monday–Wednesday and Friday–Saturday 10am–6pm, Sunday 1–6pm; closed Thursday).
Each book tells roughly the same tale: A corrupt society imprisons the narrator for a minor offense (marijuana possession in Cleaver's case, juvenile delinquency in Abbott's, capitalist roadism in Cheng's).
The best modern prison memoirs-- The Autobiography of Malcolm X , Jack Henry Abbott's In the Belly of the Beast , Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice , and Nien Cheng's Life and Death in Shanghai --are stories about an agony that yields redemption.