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Jiahua Capital
Jiahua Capital (加华资本, English name Harvest Capital) is a Beijing-based growth investor founded in 2007 by Song Xiangqian, managing over 30 billion RMB and known for its Eastroc Beverage investment.
Jiajing Emperor
The Jiajing Emperor (嘉靖帝), born Zhu Houcong, was the eleventh emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1521 to 1566 after the childless Zhengde emperor died.
Jiajing reform separating the sacrifices to Heaven and Earth
The Jiajing reform separating the sacrifices to Heaven and Earth (嘉靖分祀天地) was a Ming ritual reorganization of 1530, in which the Jiajing emperor split the combined sacrifice into separate rites.
Jiali Gao
Jiali Gao, born 1962, is a Chinese American theoretical and computational chemist who holds the L. I. Smith Professorship at the University of Minnesota and pioneered QM/MM methods for enzyme catalysis.
Jialing
Jialing (嘉陵江), major left-bank tributary of the upper Yangtze, ~1,120 km through Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Chongqing; largest Yangtze tributary by area (~160,000 km²), joins Yangtze at Chaotianmen, Chongqing; heavily dammed, moderate hydrologic alteration since 1985.
Jialing Ci
Jialing Ci is the collected ci lyrics of early Qing poet Chen Weisong (1625–1682), the largest surviving personal ci collection of the early Qing at 1,629 lyrics.
Jiaming Tian
Jiaming Tian (Tian Jiaming), born 2001, is a Chinese ISSF sport shooter in 50 m rifle three positions and prone. He holds the 50 m Rifle 3 Positions Men qualification world record of 598 from the 2025 Doha World Cup Final and has Asian Games bronze.
Jiamusi (佳木斯)
Jiamusi (佳木斯, Jiāmùsī) is Heilongjiang's easternmost prefecture-level city, on the Sanjiang Plain bordering Russia (382 km, 7 Class I ports). 2.159 million people; grain, Russia trade, and rail hub economy.
Jian
The jian (剑), also called the Chinese longsword, is a straight, double-edged sword that was China's main battlefield blade until cavalry favored the single-edged dao during the Han dynasty.
Jian Bing Man (煎饼侠)
Jian Bing Man (煎饼侠, Jian Bing Xia) is a 2015 Chinese comedy, Da Peng's directorial debut spun off from the web series Diors Man; it earned 1.159 billion yuan on an 18-million-yuan investment, setting Chinese 2D box-office records.
Jian Feng
Jian Feng Ma (馬建鋒) is a Japan-based plant nutritionist and professor at Okayama University, known for identifying the first silicon transporters in higher plants and breeding low-cadmium rice.
Jian Ghomeshi
Jian Ghomeshi is a Canadian former broadcaster and musician who hosted CBC Radio's talk show Q from 2007 until his 2014 dismissal.
Jian Ma
Jian Ma is a computational biologist, professor, and interim department head at Carnegie Mellon University who develops biologically grounded AI for studying the 3D folding of the genome inside cell nuclei.
Jian Payandeh
Jian Payandeh is a structural biologist known for determining atomic structures of voltage-gated sodium channels, including the pain target Nav1.7 and the sodium leak channel NALCN.
Jian Ping Gong
Jian Ping Gong (龔 剣萍) is a polymer scientist at Hokkaido University known for inventing double-network hydrogels and winning the 2023 APS Polymer Physics Prize.
Jian ware
Jian ware (jianzhan; Japanese tenmoku) is a black-glazed stoneware tea bowl made at the Jian kilns in Shuiji, Jianyang, Fujian, China, and prized above all other tea bowls in Song-dynasty China (960–1279).
Jian Yang (molecular biologist, Columbia University)
Jian Yang (杨建) is a molecular biologist known for work on voltage-gated calcium and cyclic nucleotide-gated ion channels, long a professor at Columbia University until 2024.
Jian Yang (molecular biologist, The University of Queensland)
Jian Yang (杨剑) is a Chinese statistical geneticist at Westlake University, known for developing GCTA and showing that missing heritability comes from many tiny variant effects.
Jian Yong
Jian Yong (简雍), courtesy name Xianhe, was an adviser and envoy of the late Han dynasty who served Liu Bei from youth and persuaded Liu Zhang to surrender Chengdu.
Jian-Ping Dai (戴建平)
Jian-Ping Dai (戴建平) was a Chinese radiologist and neurointerventional pioneer who led Beijing Tiantan Hospital from 1993 to 2008 and was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2012.
Jian-Sheng Wang
Jian-Sheng Wang, born 1960 in China, is a Singaporean computational physicist at the National University of Singapore known for co-developing the Swendsen–Wang cluster algorithm and pioneering replica Monte Carlo methods.
Jian‐Feng Nie
Jian-Feng Nie is an Australian materials scientist, a professor at Monash University since 1995, known for atomic-scale electron microscopy of magnesium alloys and stronger biodegradable zinc implants.
Jian‐Ren Shen
Jian-Ren Shen (沈建仁), born 1961, is a Japanese-based structural biologist at Okayama University who determined the 1.9 Å crystal structure of oxygen-evolving photosystem II and won the Gregori Aminoff Prize.
Jian'an poetry
Jian'an poetry (建安诗歌) is Chinese poetry of the Jian'an era (196–220), centered on Cao Cao's court at Ye and counted among China's literary golden ages.
Jianai (Simplove) Yogurt (简爱)
Jianai (Simplove) Yogurt (简爱) is a premium chilled yogurt brand of Pucheng Dairy, founded in Guangzhou in 2014 by former Mengniu executive Xia Haitong and known for its additive-free formula.
Jianan Li
Jianan Li (Li Jian'an) is a Chinese rehabilitation-medicine physician at Nanjing Medical University, elected a Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine in 2014.
Jianbi power station
Jianbi power station (国电谏壁发电厂, Guodian Jianbi Power Plant) is a coal-fired power station in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China, founded in 1959 on the Yangtze River, with over 2,660 MW operating capacity.
Jianbing (satellite)
Jianbing (尖兵, "vanguard") is the military designator for China's reconnaissance satellites, announced publicly as the recoverable FSW series from 1975 and, since 2006, the Yaogan remote sensing series.
Jianchuan Museum Cluster
Jianchuan Museum Cluster (建川博物馆聚落), China's largest private museum complex, founded by Fan Jianchuan in Anren, Dayi County, Chengdu, Sichuan; over 10 million artifacts, 33 open halls, National First-Class Museum, 5A scenic area.
Jiandao
Jiandao (Gando, 간도, 間島) is the Korean-settled territory north of the Tumen River in Yanbian, Jilin, China, assigned to China by the 1909 Sino-Japanese Gando Convention and still disputed in Korean scholarship.