| | - Wang Shifu
- leading dramatist of the Yuan dynasty (1206-1368), which saw the flowering of Chinese drama. [1 Related Articles]
- Wang Shimin
- (from the article "Wang Hui") probably the paramount member of the group of Chinese painters known as the Four Wangs (including Wang Shimin, 1592-1680, Wang Jian, 1598-1677, and Wang Yuanqi, 1642-1715), who represented the so-called "orthodox school" of painting in the Ming and early Qing ...
- Wang Shizhen
- (from the article "China") ...different Tang and Song exemplars. No Ming practitioner of traditional poetry has won special esteem, though Ming literati churned out poetry in prodigious quantities. The historians Song Lian and Wang Shizhen and the philosopher-statesman Wang Yangming were among the dynasty's ...
- Wang Shouye
- (from the article "China") ...and commerce. In addition to having dismissed 44,738 corrupt members from the party in 2005, the central government hit hard on corruption in the military. For example, the deputy chief of the navy, Wang Shouye, who kept five mistresses, received ...
- Wang Shuwen
- (from the article "China") ...Command was given to eunuchs considered loyal to the throne. The death of Dezong in 805 was followed by the brief reign of Shunzong, an invalid monarch whose court was dominated by the clique of Wang Shuwen and Wang Pei. ...
- Wang Tao
- one of the pioneers of modern journalism in China and early leader of the movement to reform traditional Chinese institutions along Western lines.
- Wang Wei
- one of the most famous men of arts and letters during the Tang dynasty, one of the golden ages of Chinese cultural history. Wang is popularly known as a model of humanistic education as expressed in poetry, music, and painting. ... [4 Related Articles]
- Wang Xianzhi
- (from the article "calligraphy") The greatest exponents of Chinese calligraphy were Wang Xizhi and his son Wang Zianzhi in the 4th century. Few of their original works have survived, but a number of their writings were engraved on stone tablets and woodblocks, and rubbings ...
- Wang Xiaotong
- Chinese mathematician who made important advances in the solution of problems involving cubic equations.
- Wang Xizhi
- the most celebrated of Chinese calligraphers. [6 Related Articles]
- Wang Yangming
- Chinese scholar-official whose idealistic interpretation of neo-Confucianism influenced philosophical thinking in East Asia for centuries. Though his career in government was rather unstable, his suppression of rebellions brought a century of peace to his region. His philosophical doctrines, emphasizing understanding ... [7 Related Articles]
- Wang Yinglin
- (from the article "encyclopaedia") ...was in 118 volumes. One of the richest and most important of all Chinese encyclopaedias, the Yuhai ("Sea of Jade"), was compiled about 1267 by the renowned Song scholar Wang Yinglin (1223-92) and was reprinted in 240 volumes in 1738.
- Wang Yuanqi
- (from the article "Wang Hui") probably the paramount member of the group of Chinese painters known as the Four Wangs (including Wang Shimin, 1592-1680, Wang Jian, 1598-1677, and Wang Yuanqi, 1642-1715), who represented the so-called "orthodox school" of painting in the Ming and early Qing ...
- Wang Yung-ching
- Taiwanese industrialist was founder and chairman of the Formosa Plastics Group, Taiwan's largest manufacturing conglomerate. Wang established the group's flagship business, the Formosa Plastics Corp., in 1954 and built the company into one of the world's largest suppliers of polyvinyl ...
- Wang Zhen
- Chinese eunuch who monopolized power during the first reign of the Ming emperor Yingzong (reigned as Zhengtong; 1435-49). [3 Related Articles]
- Wang Zhen
- Chinese politician and military leader (b. 1908, Liuyang [Liu-yang] county, Hunan province, China--d. March 12, 1993, Guangzhou [Canton], Guangdong [Kwangtung], China), was an uncompromising hard-liner who used his position as vice president (1988-93) of China to promote Maoism. He supported ...
- Wang Zhengjun
- (from the article "Wang Mang") Wang Mang was born into a distinguished Chinese family. Three years earlier, his father's half sister Wang Zhengjun had become the empress with the accession of the Yuandi emperor. Upon the death of her husband, she was given the traditional ...
- Wang Zhi
- (from the article "China") ...the empire enjoyed stability, tranquillity, and prosperity. But state administration began to suffer when weak emperors were exploitatively dominated by favoured eunuchs: Wang Zhen in the 1440s, Wang Zhi in the 1470s and '80s, and Liu Jin from 1505 to ...
- Wang, An
- Chinese-born American executive and electronics engineer who founded Wang Laboratories.
- Wang, Nina
- Chinese businesswoman became Asia's richest woman after she inherited the estate of her husband, Teddy Wang, the founder of Chinachem Group, a private property firm, and built it into a multinational empire. After her husband was kidnapped in 1990 ...
- Wang, Vera
- (from the article "Fashions") ...store became a retail destination where high-profile personalities-notably actresses Sarah Jessica Parker, Kirsten Dunst, and Nicole Kidman; film director Sofia Coppola; and fashion designer Vera Wang-could be spotted shopping. In June Wang was named Womenswear Designer of the Year by ...
- wang-tsin
- (from the article "cereal processing") Alcoholic drinks, such as sake in Japan and wang-tsin in China, are made from rice with the aid of fungi. The hull or husk of paddy, of little value as animal feed because of a high silicon content that is ...
- Wanganui
- city ("district") and port, southwestern North Island, New Zealand, near the mouth of the Wanganui River. The site lies within a tract bought by the New Zealand Company in 1840. The company established a settlement in 1841 and named it ...
- Wanganui River
- river in central North Island, New Zealand. It rises on the western slopes of Mount Ngauruhoe and flows northwest to Taumarunui and then south to empty into the Tasman Sea at South Taranaki Bight. Draining a basin of 2,850 square ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wangaratta
- city, northern Victoria, Australia. It lies at the confluence of the Ovens and King rivers, northeast of Melbourne. The site was first settled in 1837 by a sheepherder, George Faithfull, and was proclaimed a town in 1845. Its name is ...
- Wangchenggang
- (from the article "China") ...Shiji, a comprehensive history written during the 1st century BC, and much ingenuity has been devoted to identifying certain Late Neolithic fortified sites-such as Wangchenggang ("Mound of the Royal City") in north-central Henan and Dengxiafeng in Xia ...
- Wangchuk, Jigme Dorji
- (from the article "Bhutan") ...days by mule could be made in just a few hours by car along a winding mountain road from the border town of Phuntsholing. The governmental structure also changed radically. Reforms initiated by King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk (reigned 1952-72) in ...
- Wangchuk, Jigme Khesar Namgyal
- (from the article "Bhutan") Area: 38,394 sq km (14,824 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 658,000 (excluding more than 100,000 refugees in Nepal) | Capital: Thimphu | Head of state: Druk Gyalpo (King) Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk | Head of government: Prime Ministers ...
- Wangchuk, Jigme Singye
- (from the article "Bhutan") Area: 38,394 sq km (14,824 sq mi) | Population (2006 est.): 790,000 (excluding more than 100,000 refugees in Nepal) | Capital: Thimphu | Head of state: Druk Gyalpo (King) Jigme Singye Wangchuk and, from December 14, Jigme Khesar Namgyal ...
- Wangchuk, Khandu
- (from the article "Bhutan") ...Head of state: Druk Gyalpo (King) Jigme Singye Wangchuk and, from December 14, Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk | Head of government: Prime Ministers Lyonpo Sangay Ngedup and, from September 7, Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk |
- Wangchuk, Lyonpo Khandu
- (from the article "Bhutan") ...(2007 est.): 658,000 (excluding more than 100,000 refugees in Nepal) | Capital: Thimphu | Head of state: Druk Gyalpo (King) Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk | Head of government: Prime Ministers Lyonpo Khandu Wangchuk and, from July 31, Lyonpo Kinzang Dorji ...
- Wangchuk, Ugyen
- (from the article "Bhutan") ...raja had died and the deb raja had withdrawn into a life of contemplation, the then-strongest penlop, Ugyen Wangchuk of Tongsa, was "elected" by a council of lamas, abbots, councillors, and laymen to be ...
- wangdao
- (from the article "Confucianism") ...of the state as scholars not by becoming bureaucratic functionaries but by assuming the responsibility of teaching the ruling minority humane government (renzheng) and the kingly way (wangdao). In dealing with feudal lords, Mencius conducted himself not merely as a ...
- Wanger, Walter
- (from the article "1948: Other Winners") ...and Johnny Green for Easter ParadeSong: "Buttons and Bows" from The Paleface; music and lyrics by Ray Evans and Jay LivingstonHonorary Awards: Sid Grauman and Adolph Zukor; Walter Wanger for Joan of Arc; Ivan Jandl for The Search; Monsieur Vincent ...
- Wangfujing Dajie
- (from the article "Beijing") ...major shopping centres. Since 1990, however, Western-style shopping malls and department stores have been established in various parts of the city. One of the most vibrant retail areas is along Wangfujing Dajie, which is a few streets east of the ...
- Wanghia, Treaty of
- (from the article "Unequal Treaty") Over the next few years China concluded a series of similar treaties with other powers; the most important treaties were the Treaty of Wanghia with the United States and the Treaty of Whampoa with France (both 1844). Each additional treaty ...
- Wani
- (from the article "calligraphy") ...in China. There is no definite record of when the Japanese began to use Chinese words-called kanji in Japanese. It is known that a Korean scribe named Wani brought some Chinese books of Confucian classics, such as ...
- waniugo
- (from the article "art, African") ...around, is said to remind initiates of human imperfection. Animal-head masks usually combine characteristics of several creatures-hyena, warthog, and antelope. A type of animal mask called waniugo has a cup for a magical substance on top; these masks blow sparks ...
- Wanjiru, Samuel
- (from the article "Track and Field Sports (Athletics)") ...serious marathon, Gebrselassie earned his 24th world record by slashing 29 seconds from the standard set by Kenyan Paul Tergat on the same course in 2003. Twice, in February and March, Kenya's Samuel Wanjiru improved on Gebrselassie's former half-marathon record. ...
- Wanka
- (from the article "Andean peoples") ...Inca overlords, frequently more is known about the pre-Inca occupants than about Cuzco rule. Inca power was broken and decapitated within 40 years of 1532. The ethnic groups, many of which (like the Wanka or the Canari) sided with Europeans ...
- Wankel engine
- (from the article "Wankel engine") type of internal-combustion rotary engine distinguished by an orbiting triangular rotor that functions as a piston. See gasoline engine.ILLUSTRATIONbasic formFour types of gasoline engines.<
- Wankel, Felix
- German engineer and inventor of the Wankel rotary engine. The Wankel engine is distinguished by the presence of an orbiting rotor in the shape of a curved equilateral triangle that does the work done by the moving pistons in other ...
- Wanli
- reign name (nianhao) of the emperor of China from 1572 to 1620, during the latter portion of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644). [2 Related Articles]
- Wannier exciton
- (from the article "crystal") ...and hole separate in space, and each wanders away. The Swiss-American scientist Gregory Hugh Wannier first suggested that the electron and hole could bind together weakly. This bound state, called a Wannier exciton, does exist; the hole has a positive ...
- Wanns, Sadall a h
- Syrian playwright, producer, and critic (b. 1941, Hosain al-Bahr [near Tartus], Syria--d. May 15, 1997, Damascus, Syria), was widely regarded as one of the leading innovators in Arab drama. He reportedly invented masrah at-tasyis, or "political theatre," largely in response ... [1 Related Articles]
- Wannsee Conference
- meeting of Nazi officials on January 20, 1942, in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to plan the "final solution" (Endlosung) to the so-called "Jewish question" (Judenfrage). On July 31, 1941, Nazi leader Reichsmarschall Hermann ... [2 Related Articles]
- Wansbeck
- district, administrative and historic county of Northumberland, northern England, along the North Sea in the southeastern part of the county. Wansbeck spans a narrow coastal plain edging the Northumberland uplands to the west. Its three principal towns (Ashington, Bedlington, and ...
- Wantage
- town (parish), Vale of White Horse district, administrative county of Oxfordshire, historic county of Berkshire, England. It is an old market town and the birthplace of the Anglo-Saxon king Alfred the Great (871-899), whose statue stands in the marketplace. The ...
- Wantzel, Pierre Laurent
- (from the article "mathematics") ...planar means certain solid constructions (like the cube duplication and angle trisection). These results were established only by algebraists in the 19th century (notably by the French mathematician Pierre Laurent Wantzel in 1837).
- Wanzhou
- former city, northeastern Chongqing shi (municipality), central China. It has been a district of Chongqing since the municipality was established in 1997. The district is an important port along the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang), being situated at ...
- wapentake
- an administrative division of the English counties of York, Lincoln, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, and Rutland, first clearly referred to in 962/963 and corresponding to the "hundred" in other parts of England. The term wapentake is of Scandinavian origin and meant ... [1 Related Articles]
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