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Liao Hui

Liao Hui (廖辉) is a retired Chinese weightlifter who won gold in the 69 kg class at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and held world records.

Liao military system

The Liao military system (遼軍制) was the military institution of the Liao dynasty, recorded in the History of Liao and covering recruitment, organization, and command.

Liao Ping

Liao Ping (廖平) was a Chinese classical scholar of the late Qing dynasty and early Republic, born in 1851, whose reinterpretation of the Confucian classics influenced Kang Youwei.

Liao Qiuyun (廖秋云), Chinese weightlifter born 1995 in Yongzhou, Hunan; women's 55 kg. Silver at Tokyo 2020 (223 kg total); 2019 world champion; held 55 kg clean & jerk (129 kg) and total (227 kg) world records 2019–2023.

Liao tribal armies and the ordo system

The Liao tribal armies and ordo system (遼部族軍與斡魯朵制) comprised the Liao dynasty's tribal armies of about 70,000 troops and the palace-guard ordo each emperor created on accession.

Oct 22, 2026

Liao Yan

Liao Yan (廖燕, 1644–1705) was a Chinese prose writer, playwright, and thinker of the early Qing dynasty who attacked the eight-legged examination essay and Neo-Confucian orthodoxy.

Liao Yongan

Liao Yongan (廖永安, 1320–1366) was a naval commander of the late Yuan dynasty who brought a fleet from Chao Lake to Zhu Yuanzhang, later the founding Ming emperor.

Sep 25, 2026

Liao Yongzhong

Liao Yongzhong (廖永忠) was a Ming naval commander, younger brother of Liao Yong'an, who conquered Guangdong and Guangxi and forced the Xia state in Sichuan to surrender.

Liao Zhongkai

Liao Zhongkai (廖仲恺), 1877 to 1925, was a Chinese revolutionary who led the Kuomintang left and organized its 1924 reorganization before his assassination in 1925.

Liao–Xia War of 1044

The Liao–Xia War of 1044 (遼夏戰爭) was a war in which Emperor Xingzong of Liao invaded Western Xia, won an early battle, then suffered a heavy defeat.

Liaocheng

Liaocheng, or Liaocheng Shi, is a prefecture-level city in western Shandong, China, at the junction of Shandong, Hebei, and Henan, prospering on the Grand Canal in Ming and Qing times.

Liaocheng Zhonghua power station

The Liaocheng Zhonghua power station is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power station in Liaocheng, Shandong, China, with two 600 MW units commissioned in 2002 and 2003.

Oct 22, 2026

Liaodong campaign of 1388

The Liaodong campaign of 1388 (고려 요동 정벌) was a Goryeo military expedition against Ming-held Liaodong that turned back at Wihwa Island, and its commander Yi Seong-gye used the army to depose King U.

Sep 25, 2026

Liaodong Levy

The Liaodong Levy (辽饷) was a Ming dynasty levy enacted in 1618 to fund the war in Liaodong, supervised from Tianjin by a specially created Vice Minister of Revenue.

Liaodong Peninsula

The Liaodong Peninsula (辽东半岛) is one of China's three major peninsulas, in southern Liaoning Province, home to the ports of Dalian and Lushun and ceded briefly to Japan in 1895.

Liaohe Oil Field

Liaohe Oil Field (辽河油田) is a PetroChina oil field in Panjin, Liaoning, China's largest onshore heavy oil production base, producing about 10 million tons in 2024.

Liaoning

Liaoning (辽宁) is a coastal province of Northeast China with capital Shenyang, 14 prefecture-level cities, about 41.55 million people, a heavy-industry base, 2025 GDP of 3,318.29 billion yuan up 3.7%, and six ports on the Bohai and Yellow seas.

Liaoning Gas Pipeline Network

The Liaoning Gas Pipeline Network is the natural gas pipeline system serving Liaoning Province in northeast China, with trunk lines from Qinhuangdao and Dalian to Shenyang.

Liaoning Qingyuan hydroelectric plant

The Liaoning Qingyuan hydroelectric plant is a 1,800 MW pumped-storage station in Fushun, Liaoning, China, fully operating since January 2025 and the largest in Northeast China.

Liaoshen Campaign

The Liaoshen Campaign (辽沈战役) was a decisive 1948 campaign of the Chinese Civil War in which the People's Liberation Army destroyed about 472,000 Nationalist troops in Liaoning.

Liaoyang (辽阳)

Liaoyang (辽阳), formerly known as Xiangping, is a prefecture-level city in China's Liaoning province and is described as the oldest city in Northeast China, with over 2,300 years of history.

Liaoyang Branch Secretariat (Liaoyang Province)

The Liaoyang Branch Secretariat (遼陽行省) was a Yuan dynasty province founded in 1287, governing Manchuria, managing the eastern Mongol princes, and supervising Goryeo, with its seat later moved to Yizhou.

Liaozhong

Liaozhong (辽中区) is a district of Shenyang, Liaoning, China, on the Liao River plain; a county from 1906 until 2016, it is Shenyang's largest district by area, a national commodity grain base known for Liaozhong rice.

Liaquat Ali Khan (لیاقت علی خان)

Liaquat Ali Khan (لیاقت علی خان, 1895–1951), Shaheed-e-Millat, Pakistan's first prime minister 1947–1951, Muslim League honorary secretary 1936–47, mover of the 1949 Objectives Resolution, assassinated at Rawalpindi's Company Bagh on 16 October 1951.

Liar (TV series)

Liar is a 2017-2020 British psychological thriller by Harry and Jack Williams (Two Brothers Pictures) for ITV and SundanceTV, starring Joanne Froggatt and Ioan Gruffudd in a he-said, she-said rape allegation drama over two series.

Liar Game (ライアーゲーム)

Liar Game (ライアーゲーム), also known as LIAR GAME, is a psychological suspense manga by Shinobu Kaitani serialized in Weekly Young Jump 2005–2015 in 19 volumes, following honest student Nao Kanzaki and swindler Shinichi Akiyama in a money-swindling tournament, with drama, films, a 2014 Korean remake, and a 2026 Madhouse TV anime.