All articles starting with G

Gu Jiegang

Gu Jiegang (顾颉刚, 1893–1980), original name Songkun, was a Chinese historian, folklorist, and historical geographer who led the Gushi bian movement questioning China's earliest historical records.

Gu Jingzhou

Gu Jingzhou (顾景舟, 1915–1996) was a Chinese potter from Yixing, Jiangsu, regarded as one of the outstanding makers of zisha teapots of the twentieth century.

Oct 20, 2026

Gu Jun (顾俊), born 1975 in Wuxi, China, is a badminton player who with Ge Fei won Olympic women's doubles gold at Atlanta 1996, China's first badminton gold, and Sydney 2000, the sport's first double Olympic champion.

Gu Kaizhi

Gu Kaizhi (顧愷之, c. 345–406) was an Eastern Jin dynasty painter from Wuxi who founded the theory of conveying spirit through painted form in Chinese figure painting.

Oct 10, 2026

Gu Lin

Gu Lin (顾临, courtesy name Zidun) was a Northern Song scholar-official from Kuaiji, today's Shaoxing, expert in the Confucian classics and philological exegesis who rose to Hanlin Academician.

Oct 21, 2026

GU Psc

GU Psc (GU Piscium), young M3 red dwarf ~155 light-years away in Pisces, AB Doradus Moving Group member; hosts GU Psc b, a 9-13 Jupiter-mass directly imaged gas giant at a record-wide 2000 AU orbit, discovered 2014 at Gemini.

Gu Qing

Gu Qing (顾清, 1460–1528) was a Ming dynasty official, Hanlin academician, and poet from Songjiang Huating who rose to Minister of Rites and refused to join the eunuch Liu Jin's faction.

Gu Taiqing

Gu Taiqing (顾太清, 1799–1877) was a Manchu poet of the Qing dynasty, regarded as its leading woman ci poet and paired with Nalan Xingde in a famous saying.

Gu Weijun

Gu Weijun (顾维钧), also known as Wellington Koo, was a senior diplomat of the Republic of China who served the Beiyang and Nationalist governments and signed the UN Charter for China in 1945.

Gu Wenda

Gu Wenda (谷文达), born 1955 in Shanghai, is a Chinese contemporary artist of the 85 New Wave known for invented unreadable characters and his United Nations hair monuments.

Gu Xiancheng

Gu Xiancheng (顾宪成, 1550–1612) was a Ming dynasty official and Neo-Confucian scholar from Wuxi who served the Wanli Emperor, was stripped of office, and rebuilt the Donglin Academy, whose lectures grew into the Donglin party.

Gu Yangqian

Gu Yangqian (顾养谦, 1537–1604) was a Ming dynasty official who served as Grand Coordinator of Liaodong and Supreme Commander of Ji-Liao, warning the court about Nurhaci.

Gu Yanwu

Gu Yanwu (顾炎武, 1613–1682) was a Chinese scholar of the Ming–Qing transition who refused office under the Qing and was enshrined in the Confucian temple in 1908.

Gu Yong

Gu Yong (顾雍, 168–243), courtesy name Yuantan, was a chancellor of Eastern Wu under Sun Quan, serving nineteen years, longer than any other Wu chancellor.

Oct 21, 2026

Gu Yong Jo

Gu Yong Jo (Koo Yong-Jo), born 1955, North Korean boxer; won bantamweight gold at Montreal 1976, North Korea's first Olympic boxing gold, and competed in featherweight at Moscow 1980.

Oct 10, 2026

Gu Yuncheng

Gu Yuncheng (顾允成, 1554–1607) was a Confucian scholar and official from Wuxi who, with his elder brother Gu Xiancheng, rebuilt and lectured at the Donglin Academy, and is counted among the Eight Gentlemen of Donglin.

Gu Zhenguan

Gu Zhenguan (1637–1714) was a Qing dynasty ci poet from Wuxi, Jiangsu, best known for two Jinlüqu poems to his exiled friend Wu Zhaoqian and for his friendship with Nalan Xingde.

Oct 3, 2026

Gu Zhou

Gu Zhou (孤舟, alternate title 与敌共眠) is a 2024 Chinese spy drama set in 1941 Japanese-occupied Suzhou, directed by Lin Lisheng, starring Zeng Shunxi and Zhang Songwen, 36 episodes premiered August 6, 2024 on three satellite channels and iQIYI.

Gu Zhutong

Gu Zhutong (顾祝同) was a general of the Republic of China who served Chiang Kai-shek, commanded the Third War Area against Japan, and directed the 1941 New Fourth Army Incident.

Sep 19, 2026

Gu'abba

Gu'abba, also written Guabba, was a port town of the Lagash city-state in southern Mesopotamia, known from over 400 Ur III administrative texts of about 2100–2000 BC.

Sep 19, 2026

Gu'edena

Gu'edena (Gu-edinna), meaning "edge of the plains," was the fertile cultivated border plain between Lagash and Umma, the prize of their Early Dynastic boundary conflict.

Gua sha (刮痧)

Gua sha (刮痧), also called coining, cao gio, or kerokan, is a traditional East Asian therapy that press-strokes lubricated skin with a smooth-edged tool to raise petechiae lasting 2-5 days; trial evidence for pain relief remains low-certainty.

GuacaMol

GuacaMol is an open-source benchmark suite for evaluating generative models in de novo molecular design, proposed by BenevolentAI researchers and published in the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling in 2019.

Guacamole

Guacamole (Nahuatl ahuacamolli, avocado sauce) is a Mexican mashed-avocado sauce with tomato, onion, cilantro and chile, of pre-Hispanic Aztec origin, traditionally made in a molcajete and now a global Super Bowl staple.

Guacanagaríx

Guacanagaríx was a Taíno cacique who ruled the chiefdom of Marién on northern Hispaniola and was the first indigenous leader to befriend Christopher Columbus, in 1492.

Oct 21, 2026

Guacara

Guacara is a city of about 199,000 people in Carabobo state, Venezuela, seat of Guacara Municipality on the Lake Valencia basin. Founded as San Agustín de Guacara in 1694, it is an industrial city known for petroglyphs and a tropical monsoon climate.

Guadalajara

Guadalajara is the capital of Jalisco, Mexico, and the country's second largest city, known for its UNESCO Creative City of Media Arts status and cultural history.