All articles starting with Q

Qismat

Qismat (2018) is a Punjabi romantic drama, Jagdeep Sidhu's directorial debut, starring Ammy Virk as Shiva and Sargun Mehta as Bani. Inspired by Virk's 2017 song, it grossed about 28 crore worldwide and spawned Qismat 2 (2021).

Oct 10, 2026

Qisong

Qisong (契嵩, 1007–1072) was a Northern Song Chan Buddhist monk of the Yunmen lineage, known for polemical defenses of Chan lineage and of Buddhism against Confucian critics.

Oct 3, 2026

Qissa (क़िस्सा)

Qissa (क़िस्सा), full title Qissa: The Tale of a Lonely Ghost, is Anup Singh's 2013 Punjabi-language film starring Irrfan Khan as a Partition refugee who raises his daughter as a son; a four-country co-production premiered at Toronto 2013.

Qissa Puran Bhagat

Kissa Puran Bhagat is a Punjabi qissa about prince Puran Bhagat of Sialkot, falsely accused by his stepmother and rescued from a well by Gorakhnath.

Qissa-goi

Qissa-goi (قصہ گوئی), also qissa-khvani, is the Urdu and Persianate art of oral storytelling, performed by professional tellers called dastangos before private parties, courts, and public gatherings.

Qissa-ye Amir Hamza

Qissa-ye Amir Hamza, also known as Dastan-e Amir Hamza or Hamza-nama, is a Persian and Urdu prose romance in which Hamza, the Prophet's uncle, becomes a legendary world-conquering hero.

Qit'a

Qit'a (Persian qetʿe, قطعه) is a poem form in classical Arabic and Persian poetry, rhymed like a ghazal but without a fully rhymed opening couplet.

Oct 21, 2026

Qitaihe

Qitaihe (七台河市) is a prefecture-level coal city in eastern Heilongjiang, China; a designated resource-exhausted city and major coking coal base, also famed as a short track speed skating champion training hub.

Oct 15, 2026

Qitaihe power station

Qitaihe power station, also known as Datang Qitaihe power station, is a 1,900 MW coal-fired power plant in Qitaihe, Heilongjiang, China, owned by Datang International.

Qitan Technology (成都齐碳科技有限公司)

Qitan Technology (成都齐碳科技有限公司) is a Chinese biotechnology company founded in 2016 in Chengdu, Sichuan, that makes nanopore gene sequencers and was first in China to commercialize one.

Qitian Technology

Qitian Technology (齐碳科技), legally Chengdu Qitan Technology Ltd., is a Chinese nanopore gene-sequencing company founded in 2016 in Chengdu, whose QNome-3841 was China's first commercially available domestic nanopore sequencer.

Oct 21, 2026

Qiu Bo

Qiu Bo (邱波), Chinese platform diver born 1993, three-time world 10m champion 2011-2015 and 2012 Olympic silver medalist, but never Olympic gold, sixth at Rio 2016.

Qiu Bojun

Qiu Bojun (求伯君), also known as Bojun Qiu, is a Chinese software entrepreneur who founded Kingsoft in 1988 and wrote the WPS word processor, earning the label "China's First Programmer".

Sep 20, 2026

Qiu Cheng Wei

Qiu Cheng Wei, published as Cheng-Wei Qiu, is a Singapore-based optical scientist and Provost's Chair Professor at the National University of Singapore, known for optical tractor beams and the 2023 President's Science Award.

Qiu Chuji

Qiu Chuji (丘处机, 1148–1227) was a Quanzhen Daoist priest, a disciple of Wang Chongyang, who journeyed to meet Genghis Khan in 1222 and urged restraint in killing.

Qiu Fengjia

Qiu Fengjia (丘逢甲, 1864–1912) was a Taiwanese poet, educator, and Qing dynasty official who resisted the 1895 cession of Taiwan and later founded new-style schools in Guangdong.

Qiu Guogen

Qiu Guogen (裘国根, born 1969 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang) is a Chinese investor who founded and chairs Shanghai-based Chongyang Investment, one of China's earliest private fund managers to exceed RMB 10 billion in assets.

Qiu Guolu

Qiu Guolu (邱国鹭) is a Chinese value investor, founder and CEO of Gao Yi Asset Management, one of China's largest private securities fund managers, and author of The Simplest Thing in Investing.

Qiu He

Qiu He (丘和) was a Sui and early Tang official from Luoyang, Henan, known for governing Jiaozhi leniently and ending his career as a duke under Emperor Gaozu.

Qiu Huiming

Qiu Huiming (裘慧明) is a Chinese quantitative investor who founded Shanghai Minghong Investment in Shanghai in April 2014 after roughly thirteen years on Wall Street.

Oct 20, 2026

Qiu Jian

Qiu Jian (邱健), Chinese rifle shooter born 1975 in Huaian, Jiangsu; won upset gold in men's 50 m rifle three positions at Beijing 2008 with 1,272.5 after Matt Emmons's final-shot 4.4; also 2002 Busan Asian Games team medalist.

Qiu Jin

Qiu Jin (秋瑾, 1875–1907) was a Qing-dynasty revolutionary, feminist writer, and educator who founded the journal Chinese Women's News and was executed in 1907 for plotting an uprising.

Qiu Jin ji

Qiu Jin ji is the standard modern compilation of the poetry, ci lyrics, prose, and letters of Qiu Jin (1875–1907), the Chinese revolutionary and poet known as the "Woman Knight of Jianhu."

Qiu Jun

Qiu Jun (丘濬, 1420–1495) was a Ming dynasty official and scholar from Hainan who rose to Grand Secretary and wrote the statecraft compendium Daxue yanyi bu.

Qiu Lianen

Qiu Lianen (邱联恩, 1812–1859) was a Qing dynasty military officer from Tong'an, Fujian, who fought Nian and Taiping rebels in Henan and was killed in battle in 1859.

Qiu Miaojin

Qiu Miaojin (邱妙津, 1969–1995) was a Taiwanese novelist, a foundational figure of queer Sinophone literature, best known for Notes of a Crocodile and Last Words from Montmartre.

Qiu Shiliang

Qiu Shiliang (仇士良, 779 to 841) was a Tang dynasty eunuch who commanded the Shence armies, dominated Emperors Wenzong and Wuzong, and installed Wuzong on the throne.

Qiu Ying

Qiu Ying (仇英) was a Ming dynasty Chinese painter of humble origins, one of the Four Masters of Ming, known for blue-green landscapes and fine figure painting.

Sep 21, 2026

Qiufu Ma

Qiufu Ma (马秋富) is a Chinese neurobiologist known for identifying neurogenin, mapping spinal pain circuits, and establishing a neuroanatomical basis for electroacupuncture; he joined Westlake University in 2022.