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Jin conquest of Liao

The Jin conquest of Liao (金灭辽之战) was the war in which the Jurchen-led Jin dynasty destroyed the Khitan Liao dynasty, ending with Emperor Tianzuodi's capture on 26 March 1125.

Sep 25, 2026

Jin Conquest of the Liao Five Capitals

The Jin conquest of the Liao Five Capitals (金灭辽五京之战) was the Jurchen Jin dynasty's capture of the Liao dynasty's five capitals in the 1120s, ending with Emperor Tianzuo's capture in 1125.

Jin Court Coup of 1213 (Hushahu)

The Jin Court Coup of 1213 (胡沙虎之变) was a coup in which the Jin general Hushahu killed Emperor Weishao at Zhongdu amid the Mongol invasion.

Jin creates three armies and the rise of the six ministerial clans

Jin creates three armies and the rise of the six ministerial clans (晋作三军与六卿专政) describes Duke Wen's three-army reform, which gave six hereditary clans power until three partitioned Jin in 453 BC.

Jin dynasty (晋) (266–420)

Jin dynasty (晋, 266–420): Sima family dynasty reunifying China in 280 after the Three Kingdoms; Western Jin fell in 316, Eastern Jin ruled from Jiankang until Liu Yu's 420 usurpation.

Jin dynasty (金朝, Jurchen Jin, Great Jin, 1115–1234): conquest state founded by Wanyan Aguda that overthrew the Khitan Liao, seized northern Song China in 1127, ruled from Huining, Zhongdu (Beijing), and Kaifeng, and fell to the Mongols in 1234.

Jin establishes six armies

Jin establishes six armies (晋作六军) was the 588 BC expansion of the state of Jin's army from three to six, raising six new commanders to qing.

Jin frontier fortifications (Border trenches)

The Jin frontier fortifications, known in Chinese as the Border trenches (金界壕), are the trenches and earthen walls the Jin dynasty built from 1123 against steppe forces.

Jin Fu

Jin Fu (靳辅, 1633–1692) was a Qing official under the Kangxi Emperor who served as Director-General of River Conservation, rebuilding the Yellow River and cutting the Zhonghe canal.

Oct 21, 2026

Jin Gap Yong

Jin Gap Yong (진갑용, Kab-Yong Jin), born 1974, South Korean catcher; 2008 Beijing Olympic baseball gold medalist, 1996 Olympian, Samsung Lions KBO catcher with seven Korean Series titles.

Jin Goo (진구)

Jin Goo (진구) is a South Korean actor, born 1980 in Seoul, who debuted as Lee Byung-hun's younger self in All In (2003), won Grand Bell and Blue Dragon Best Supporting Actor for Mother (2009), and starred in Descendants of the Sun (2016).

Jin Ha

Jin Ha, South Korean-born American actor born 1990 in Seoul; Broadway's M. Butterfly (Song Liling) and Aaron Burr in Hamilton; Solomon Baek in Pachinko; 2023 Spirit and Peabody awards.

Jin Ho Bang

Jin Ho Bang (방진호) is a South Korean chemist and professor at Hanyang University known for using ultrasound to synthesize nanostructured materials and for quantum-dot-sensitized solar cells.

Oct 22, 2026

Jin Hou Su bells

The Jin Hou Su bells (晋侯苏钟) are a set of sixteen Western Zhou bronze chime bells from the tomb of Marquis Su of Jin at Tianma-Qucun, Shanxi, bearing a 355-character campaign inscription.

Jin Hyuck Heo

Jin Hyuck Heo is a materials scientist working on perovskite solar cells and LEDs, known for a 2015 hysteresis-less perovskite solar cell paper and a Distinguished Professor at Tianjin University since March 2026.

Jin Jian

Jin Jian (金简) was a Qing dynasty official of the Qianlong reign who rose to Minister of Works and Minister of Personnel and helped compile the Siku Quanshu.

Jin Jiang

Jin Jiang (蒋进) is a molecular biologist and professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, known for defining how PKA and GSK3 regulate the Hedgehog pathway.

Jin Kazama

Jin Kazama (風間仁) is the protagonist of Bandai Namco's Tekken fighting game series, debuting in Tekken 3. Son of Kazuya Mishima and Jun Kazama, he bears the Devil Gene, fights with karate, and purifies it as Angel Jin in Tekken 8 (2024).

Jin Kon Kim

Jin Kon Kim (김진곤) is a Korean polymer scientist and Professor Emeritus at POSTECH known for block copolymer self-assembly, mesoporous materials, and more than 300 papers.

Sep 19, 2026

Jin Leqin

Jin Leqin (金乐亲) is a Chinese businessman and OPPO co-founder who led the company's industrial design center and served as senior vice president until stepping back in 2021.

Sep 19, 2026

Jin Liangshun

Jin Liangshun (金良顺), born in 1954 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, is a Chinese businessman who chaired Jinggong Group until all 11 of its bonds defaulted in 2019.

Jin Mao Tower (金茂大厦)

Jin Mao Tower (金茂大厦), also known as Jinmao Building, is a 420.5-meter, 88-story skyscraper in Pudong, Shanghai, completed in 1999 and then the tallest building in China.

Jin Meng

Jin Meng, also cited as Meng Jin, is a vertebrate paleontologist who curates fossil mammals at the American Museum of Natural History and studies Mesozoic mammal evolution.

Jin Military Organization: Zhongjun and Waijun

The Jin military organization (晋中军外军与宿卫制) split the Jin dynasty's forces into the zhongjun, the court-controlled central army at the capital, and the waijun commanded in the provinces, weakening under the Eastern Jin.

Jin Nong

Jin Nong (金农, 1687–1763) was a Qing dynasty poet, calligrapher, and painter known for his "lacquer script" and as one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou.

Jin Ping Mei (金瓶梅)

Jin Ping Mei (金瓶梅), or The Plum in the Golden Vase, is a late 16th-century Chinese novel of manners. It is known for its explicit sexual descriptions and realistic depiction of Ming society.

Jin Ritual Code

The Jin Ritual Code (晋礼) is the state ritual code of China's Western Jin dynasty, compiled by Xun Yi and organized under the five ritual categories.

Jin salt monopoly

The Jin salt monopoly (金盐法) was the Jin dynasty's state control over salt production and sale, ranked first among its ten government monopolies and run through a certificate-and-permit system.