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Jidaigeki (時代劇)
Jidaigeki (時代劇), also called magemono, is Japanese period drama set before the 1868 Meiji Restoration, spanning film, TV, and stage, founded by Makino Shōzō in 1908, peaking at about 170 films a year in the 1950s, and later a TV staple.
Jidaimono
Jidaimono (時代物, "period pieces") are the historical plays of kabuki and the Japanese puppet theater, set in samurai and court society of eras before the Edo period, in contrast with the contemporary-life sewamono.
Jidava
Jidava (Jidova) was a Roman fort on the Limes Transalutanus near Câmpulung-Muscel, Romania, garrisoned by cohors I Flavia Commagenorum and destroyed by the Carpi in 245 AD.
Jiddu Krishnamurti (జిద్దు కృష్ణమూర్తి)
Jiddu Krishnamurti (జిద్దు కృష్ణమూర్తి), 1895–1986, Indian philosopher and lecturer, once head of the Theosophical Order of the Star in the East as the expected World Teacher, who broke with Theosophy in 1929 and taught on thought, conditioning, and choiceless awareness.
Jide Odunsi
Jide Odunsi is a British-born Nigerian entrepreneur who co-founded and co-leads Moove, the mobility-fintech company launched in Lagos in 2020 that finances vehicles for ride-hailing drivers.
Jidenna
Jidenna (Jidenna Theodore Mobisson, born 1985) is a Nigerian-American rapper-singer behind the 2015 double-platinum, Grammy-nominated hit "Classic Man," albums The Chief and 85 to Africa, and a "swank" Afrobeat-hip-hop style.
Jidō bungaku
Jidō bungaku (児童文学) is the Japanese term for children's literature, covering dōwa, boys' and girls' novels, children's songs, poetry, and plays since the Meiji era.
Jidoka
Jidoka (自働化), often translated as autonomation, is a Toyota Production System principle in which machines detect abnormalities and stop, and workers can halt the line.
Jie He
Jie He (赫捷) is a Chinese thoracic surgeon and oncologist who directs the National Cancer Center of China and was elected to the US National Academy of Medicine in 2025.
Jie Shan
Jie Shan is an experimental condensed matter physicist, Walter S. Carpenter Professor at Cornell University, known for work on two-dimensional materials and moiré quantum matter, and a Max Planck Institute director since 2024.
Jie Shen
Jie Shen (沈捷, born 1959) is a Chinese numerical analyst known for spectral-Galerkin methods for partial differential equations and the scalar auxiliary variable approach for gradient flows.
Jie Sun
Jie Sun is an immunologist and Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia who studies how the immune system causes and then repairs lung injury after viral infections like influenza and COVID-19.
Jie Wu
Jie Wu is a professor of chemistry at the National University of Singapore who develops light-driven methods converting feedstocks into medicinal molecules and founded the NUS spin-off PhloSyn.
Jie Xiao
Jie Xiao is a battery materials scientist, a Battelle Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory since 2022 and, since 2024, Boeing Martin Professor at the University of Washington.
Jie Xisi
Jie Xisi (揭傒斯) was a Chinese poet, prose writer, calligrapher, and historian of the mid-Yuan dynasty, ranked among the four great Yuan poets and four great prose writers.
Jie Xue
Jie Xue is a Chinese-American electronics packaging engineer, Vice President of Technology and Quality at Cisco Systems, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
Jie Yin
Jie Yin is an American-based mechanical engineer and professor at North Carolina State University who works on soft robots, mechanical metamaterials, and kirigami-based reconfigurable structures.
Jie Yuan
Jie Yuan (解元), courtesy name Shanchang, was a Song dynasty general who rose from the ranks to serve under Han Shizhong against the Jin, dying in 1142.
Jie Zheng
Jie Zheng is a materials chemist and Distinguished Chair at the University of Texas at Dallas, known for showing that the kidney filters gold nanoclusters atom by atom.
Jie Zitui
Jie Zitui (介子推) was a follower of the Jin prince Chong'er during his nineteen years of exile, honored when Duke Wen named Mount Mian for him.
Jiebo Luo
Jiebo Luo is the Hopeman Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester, known for computer vision and multimedia research and a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and AAAI.
Jiedushi (military governors)
The jiedushi (节度使) were the regional military governors of China's Tang dynasty, commanders who held military, administrative, and fiscal power over large circuits.
Jiehua
Jiehua (界画), or ruled-line painting, is a genre of traditional Chinese painting in which a straightedge guides the brush to render palaces, boats, and carts precisely.
Jielong-1
Jielong-1 (捷龙一号, Smart Dragon-1, SD-1) is a Chinese four-stage solid-propellant launch vehicle developed by China Rocket Co. for small satellites; it flew once, in 2019, placing three satellites into orbit from Jiuquan.
Jielong-3
Jielong-3 (捷龙三号, "Smart Dragon-3", also listed as CZ-11A) is a Chinese four-stage solid-fuel small-lift launch vehicle that first flew from a sea platform in December 2022, carrying 14 satellites.
Jiemian News (界面新闻) (company)
Jiemian News (界面新闻) is a Shanghai-based digital financial and business news outlet founded in September 2014 under state-owned Shanghai United Media Group, raising over RMB 1.1 billion.
Jien
Jien (慈円) was a Japanese Tendai Buddhist monk of the early Kamakura period who served four times as Tendai zasu and wrote the historical work Gukanshō about 1220.
Jieping Zhu
Jieping Zhu (朱杰平) is a Chinese-born organic chemist and professor at EPFL in Switzerland since 2010, known for total synthesis of natural products and multicomponent reactions.
Jiexiu
Jiexiu (介休市) is a county-level city in central Shanxi province, China, administered by Jinzhong. Its name comes from Jie Zitui, who withdrew to Mount Mian there in 636 BC.
Jieyang
Jieyang (揭阳) is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Guangdong, China, approved in 1991, administering Rongcheng, Jiedong, Jiexi, Huilai, and Puning; a 2,200-year-old Chaoshan cultural center and major overseas-Chinese hometown.