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Jiang Xueming

Jiang Xueming (蒋学明), born 1961, is a Chinese semiconductor entrepreneur and former Jiangsu textile magnate who founded the Shanghai memory chip designer Dosilicon in 2014.

Jiang Xueqin (蒋学勤)

Jiang Xueqin (蒋学勤), born in 1976, is a Chinese-Canadian educator and writer known for experimental school reform in China's elite high schools and the Predictive History YouTube channel.

Jiang Yan

Jiang Yan (江淹) was a Southern dynasties writer and official who served the Liu Song, Southern Qi, and Liang courts and inspired the idiom for exhausted talent.

Jiang Ying

Jiang Ying (姜英), born 1963 in Rongcheng, Shandong, Chinese women's volleyball main attacker; 1984 Olympic gold and 1988 bronze medalist, 1982/1986 world champion; later coached in Australia, including the Australian national women's team (2005-2006).

Jiang Yueguang

Jiang Yueguang (姜曰广), courtesy name Juzhi, was a Ming official from Xinjian, Jiangxi, who became Minister of Rites and Grand Secretary under the Hongguang regime, dying in 1649.

Jiang Yuyuan

Jiang Yuyuan (江钰源), Chinese artistic gymnast born 1991 in Liuzhou, Guangxi; 2008 Olympic team gold champion, 2010 World all-around silver medalist, later team captain; subject of a three-birth-year age dispute.

Jiang Zemin (江泽民)

Jiang Zemin (江泽民), 1926–2022, Chinese engineer-politician, CCP general secretary 1989–2002, PRC president 1993–2003, CMC chairman to 2004; author of the Three Represents, WTO accession in 2001, succeeded by Hu Jintao.

Jiang Zemin Hong Kong journalist incident

The Jiang Zemin Hong Kong journalist incident (2000): the Chinese president's angry rebuke of Hong Kong reporters over Tung Chee-hwa's second term, the "too simple, sometimes naïve" remark, and the Willy Lam resignation.

Jiang Zhi

Jiang Zhi (蒋智) is a Chinese life-sciences entrepreneur who co-founded genomic sequencing company Novogene in Beijing in 2011 and has led the diagnostics firm GensKey since 2018.

Jiang Zhongyi

Jiang Zhongyi (江忠义) was a Qing dynasty military commander from Xinning, Hunan, who fought the Taiping for twelve years and rose to acting governor of Guizhou.

Jiang Zhongyuan

Jiang Zhongyuan (江忠源) was a Qing official from Hunan who raised the first Hunan volunteer force against the Taiping rebels and died defending Luzhou in 1853.

Jiang Ziya

Jiang Ziya (姜子牙), also Lü Shang or Jiang Taigong, is the Shang–Zhou era strategist who helped King Wu topple the Shang and founded Qi; pseudepigraphic Six Secret Teachings and Ming novel Fengshen Yanyi made him a legend.

Jiang Ziya (姜子牙) (film)

Jiang Ziya (姜子牙), also JIANG ZIYA: Legend of Deification, is a 2020 Chinese 3D animated film by Cheng Teng and Li Wei for Enlight's Coloroom, second in its mythology series after Ne Zha; released October 1, 2020, it earned 15.82亿 yuan but split critics with its adult-oriented story.

Jiang-Chu hui zou bianfa sanzhe (Three joint memorials on reform by Liu Kunyi and Zhang Zhidong)

The Jiang-Chu hui zou bianfa sanzhe (江楚会奏变法三折) are three reform memorials submitted to the Qing throne in 1901, drafted by Zhang Zhidong and signed by Liu Kunyi, with 27 measures.

Jiangbei Four Garrisons

The Jiangbei Four Garrisons (江北四镇) were four Southern Ming army commands on the north bank of the Yangtze, set up in 1644 to shield Nanjing.

Jiangbiao zhuan

Jiangbiao zhuan (江表傳) is a lost Three Kingdoms history of the Wu state, compiled by the Western Jin scholar Yu Pu and known through over 110 quoted fragments.

Jiangbing fa (System of Fixed Generals)

Jiangbing fa, also called zhijiang fa, was a Northern Song military reform under Emperor Shenzong in the early 1070s that placed imperial guard troops under fixed regional generals.

Jiangdu jili (Rites of Jiangdu)

Jiangdu jili (江都集礼, Rites of Jiangdu) is a lost Sui dynasty compilation of ritual scholarship, edited by Pan Hui under Yang Guang, Prince of Jin, around 600.

Jianghong Rao

Jianghong Rao is a Chinese-American chemical biologist and Professor of Radiology at Stanford University, known for molecular imaging probes and copper-depleting nanoparticles against triple-negative breast cancer.

Jianghu (江湖)

Jianghu (江湖), literally "rivers and lakes", is the Chinese concept of a social world outside official life, from Zhuangzi's hermits to the martial society of wuxia fiction by Jin Yong, also called gangho in Korean.

Jianghua Micro (江化微)

Jianghua Micro (江化微) is a Chinese manufacturer of wet electronic chemicals for semiconductor and display manufacturing, based in Jiangyin, Jiangsu, and listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange since 2017.

Jiangji Distillery

Jiangji Distillery (江记酒庄) is a Chinese sorghum baijiu distillery in Baisha town, Chongqing, operating as the production base of the Jiangxiaobai liquor brand; it received a 1-billion-yuan state-backed investment in 2022.

Jiangji Distillery (重庆江记酒庄有限公司)

Jiangji Distillery (重庆江记酒庄有限公司) is a Chinese sorghum baijiu distillery in Baisha, Jiangjin District, Chongqing, founded in 2005 as the brewing base of the youth-oriented Jiangxiaobai liquor brand.

Jiangling Motors (江铃汽车)

Jiangling Motors (江铃汽车), formally Jiangling Motors Corporation, Ltd., is a Chinese automaker based in Nanchang, Jiangxi, that builds JMC-brand trucks and Ford-brand vehicles, with Ford holding a 32 percent stake.

Jiangling power station

Jiangling power station (江陵发电厂) is a coal-fired power station of at least 1,980 MW in Majiazhai Town, Jingzhou, Hubei, China, built in two phases by China Huadian and Hubei Energy Group.

Jianglong Zhang

Jianglong Zhang is an atmospheric scientist at the University of North Dakota known for satellite aerosol remote sensing and forecasting, and a 2008 Presidential Early Career Award recipient.

Jiangmen

Jiangmen Shi (江门市), a prefecture-level city in Guangdong's Pearl River Delta west bank, known as China's 'Hometown of Overseas Chinese' with 5.3 million diaspora in 145 countries, home of Kaiping Diaolou World Heritage, GDP 429.4 billion yuan in 2025.

Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory

The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) is a large liquid scintillator neutrino detector 700 meters underground in Jiangmen, China, built to determine the neutrino mass ordering.

Jiangnan Arsenal

The Jiangnan Arsenal (江南制造局), also rendered Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, was a Qing dynasty state arsenal and shipyard in Shanghai that made guns, steel, and China's first machine-built warships.

Jiangnan Arsenal Translation Department

The Jiangnan Arsenal Translation Department (江南制造局翻译馆) was the Qing government's book-translation bureau in Shanghai, founded on Xu Shou's proposal, translating Western science and military works; 44 of his element names remain in use.