astronomy

Or Hsieh

Or Hsieh is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Or Hsieh rather than just read about it. In short: Or Hsieh or Hsieh Er (Chinese: 謝娥; January 1918 – 1995) was a Taiwanese physician, educator and politician. The first female surgeon from Taiwan, she was also one of the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.

Key takeaways

Or Hsieh belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Or Hsieh to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Or Hsieh from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Or Hsieh or Hsieh Er (Chinese: 謝娥; January 1918 – 1995) was a Taiwanese physician, educator and politician. The first female surgeon from Taiwan, she was also one of the first group of women elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1948.

Biography Hsieh was born in 1918 in Báng-kah, the second of four children of Hsieh Quan, who owned a restaurant. She attended Laosong Public School and Taihoku Prefectural Taihoku Third Girls' High School. She graduated in April 1935 as the third-best student in her class, after which she attended Tokyo Women's Medical College, graduating with honours in April 1940. She subsequently became the first Taiwanese woman to work as a surgeon, joining St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo. She returned to Taiwan in 1943, becoming an assistant professor in the medical department of the Taipei Imperial University. While working at the university, Hsieh began reading the works of Lu Xun, Ba Jin and Lao She. She began discussing anti-Japanese action with a group of five others in a temple in Xizhi. However, they were arrested in 1944 and Hsieh was imprisoned and tortured. She was given the option of release as long as she co-operated with the Japanese authorities, but refused. She remained in prison until the end of World War II. After her release in September 1945, she opened the a surgical hospital in Taiping in November, providing free treatment for the poor. In 1945 she joined the Kuomintang and set up the Taipei Women's Association. In March 1946 she was elected to Taipei City Council, becoming its only female member. She was a member of Taipei City Party Affairs Planning Committee between August and October 1946. She was a representative of Taiwan at the 1946 Constituent Assembly that drew up the Constitution of the Republic of China. Her surgical practice was destroyed following the February 28 incident after she made a radio broadcast downplaying the violence. Hsieh contested the 1948 elections to the Legislative Yuan, becoming one of the first group of women elected to the Chinese legislature, and the candidate with the sixth-most votes. However, she steadily withdrew from legislative activities, and left Taiwan the following year, initially for France, before settling in the United States. She received a doctorate in public medicine from Columbia University, subsequently working at Oregon State Hospital and the New York State Department of Health, where she was deputy director. She returned to Taiwan in 1991 and died in 1995.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Or Hsieh

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Or Hsieh claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Or Hsieh before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Or Hsieh ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Or Hsieh

In research: Or Hsieh appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Or Hsieh in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Or Hsieh is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1918 births, 1995 deaths, 20th-century Chinese women politicians, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Or Hsieh outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Or Hsieh in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Or Hsieh means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Or Hsieh out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Or Hsieh in simple terms?

Why does Or Hsieh matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Or Hsieh?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Or Hsieh.