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Qian Xuan
Qian Xuan (钱选) was a Chinese painter and poet of Wuxing who refused to serve the Mongol Yuan court and became a leading early Yuan literati painter.
Qian Xuesen (钱学森)
Qian Xuesen, also known as Hsue-Shen Tsien (钱学森), was a Chinese aerodynamicist who co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and, after his 1955 deportation, led China's missile and space programs.
Qian Yiben
Qian Yiben (钱一本, 1539–1610) was a Ming dynasty censor and Neo-Confucian scholar from Wujin, remembered for blunt memorials against grand secretary Shen Shixing and for co-leading the Donglin academy.
Qian Yuanguan
Qian Yuanguan (钱元瓘, 887–941) was king of Wu Yue, one of the Ten Kingdoms of tenth-century China, reigning from 932 until his death in 941.
Qian Zhao
Qian Zhao (牵招), courtesy name Zijing, was a Cao Wei general and frontier governor who managed the Wuhuan and Xianbei tribes as Grand Administrator of Yanmen.
Qian Zhimin (criminal)
Qian Zhimin (钱志敏), alias Yadi Zhang, Chinese fraudster born 1978 who ran the Lantian Gerui Ponzi scheme (2014-2017, 128,000 victims), fled to the UK, and was jailed 11 years 8 months in 2025 over the UK's largest bitcoin seizure.
Qian Zhiya
Qian Zhiya (钱治亚), known in English as Jenny Qian, is a Chinese business executive who co-founded Luckin Coffee in 2017 and served as its first CEO until 2020.
Qian Zhongshu
Qian Zhongshu (钱锺书, 1910–1998) was a Chinese scholar, novelist, and literary critic, best known for the novel Fortress Besieged and the study Guan Zhui Bian.
Qianbao Network
Qianbao Network (钱宝网, Qbao.com) was a Nanjing-based Chinese investment platform promising 20% to 60% returns that collapsed in 2017 as a Ponzi-style fraud by founder Zhang Xiaolei.
Qianbei power station
Qianbei power station (黔北发电厂) is a coal-fired power plant in Jinsha, Bijie, Guizhou, China, built in two stages in the late 1990s and early 2000s with at least 1,200 megawatts of capacity.
Qiandong power station
Qiandong power station is an operating 1,200 MW coal-fired power station in Zhenyuan, Guizhou, China, whose two 600 MW units sell their electricity to the neighboring Hunan Grid.
Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture
Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (黔东南苗族侗族自治州) is an autonomous prefecture in southeastern Guizhou, China, seated at Kaili, established 1956, with 1 city and 15 counties, about 3.74 million residents, mostly Miao and Dong, and 415 national traditional villages.
Qianfan (千帆)
Qianfan (千帆), known as Thousand Sails or G60 Starlink, is a Chinese low Earth orbit satellite broadband constellation, launched since 2024 and planned at over 10,000 satellites.
Qianfan Xingzuo
Qianfan Xingzuo (千帆星座), also known as Spacesail or G60, is a Chinese low Earth orbit broadband megaconstellation operated by Shanghai Spacecom as a competitor to Starlink.
Qianfang Technology (北京千方科技股份有限公司)
Qianfang Technology, also known as China Transinfo Technology, is a Beijing-based intelligent transportation company founded in 2000, listed in Shenzhen and active in Beijing's autonomous driving demonstration zone.
Qianfu Lun
Qianfu Lun (潜夫论, Essays of a Recluse) is a collection of 36 political and philosophical essays by the Eastern Han thinker Wang Fu, written under Emperor Huan.
Qiang Fu (environmental scientist)
Qiang Fu is an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington known for correcting satellite temperature records and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2024.
Qiang Lin
Qiang Lin is an American-based physicist at the University of Rochester working on integrated quantum photonics and lithium niobate photonics, who received a 2015 PECASE award.
Qiang Lu
Qiang Lu (吕强) is a Chinese biopharmaceutical executive who co-founded GenFleet Therapeutics and chairs the Shanghai company behind fulzerasib, China's first approved KRAS G12C inhibitor.
Qiang rebellions
The Qiang rebellions (羌乱) were recurring uprisings of the Qiang peoples of the western frontier against Han dynasty rule, from the Western Han into the late Eastern Han.
Qiang Xu
Qiang Xu (徐强) is a chemist working on metal–organic framework catalysts for energy, Chair Professor at SUSTech in Shenzhen since 2020 after a career at Japan's AIST.
Qiang Yu
Qiang Yu is a Singapore-based cancer biologist who leads the Laboratory of Precision Cancer Medicine at A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore, known for discovering DZNep.
Qiang Zhou
Qiang Zhou is a molecular biologist and Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology at UC Berkeley, known for work on P-TEFb and HIV transcription.
Qiangen San
茜根散 (Qiangen San), "Madder Root Powder," a classic TCM hemostatic formula; Jingyue Quanshu version (茜根, 黄芩, 阿胶, 侧柏叶, 生地黄, 甘草) for yin-deficiency nosebleed; listed in China's 2023 Ancient Classic Famous Formula Catalog, second batch.
Qiangfang
Qiangfang (羌方) was a polity west of the Shang royal domain, known from late Shang oracle-bone inscriptions for alternating warfare and submission with the Shang kings.
Qiangfei Xia
Qiangfei Xia is an electrical engineer and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst known for memristor research, neuromorphic computing, and co-founding the AI accelerator startup TetraMem.
Qiangjun Zhou
Qiangjun Zhou is a structural biologist and assistant professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, known for atomic-resolution structures of the SNARE, synaptotagmin, and complexin complexes.
Qiangtang terrane
The Qiangtang terrane is a continental block in northern central Tibet, bounded by the Jinsha and Bangong-Nujiang suture zones, that drifted north from Gondwana as part of the Cimmerian continent.
Qiangtou Ma Shang
Qiangtou Ma Shang (墙头马上) is a four-act Yuan zaju play by Bai Pu in which Li Qianjin and Pei Shaojun fall in love across a garden wall and elope.
Qianjiang, Hubei
Qianjiang (潜江), Hubei, a province-directly-administered city on the Jianghan Plain: home of the Jianghan Oilfield, birthplace of China's rice-crayfish co-culture and the 'Hometown of Chinese Crawfish', and hometown of playwright Cao Yu; 2025 GDP 101.45 billion yuan.