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Shigir Idol
Shigir Idol (Шигирский идол): an Early Mesolithic larch sculpture from a Urals peat bog, found 1894, dated c. 11,500 years old, the world's oldest known monumental wooden sculpture, displayed in Yekaterinburg.
Shigisan Engi Emaki
Shigisan Engi Emaki (信貴山縁起絵巻) is a set of three twelfth-century Japanese narrative handscrolls depicting miracles of the ascetic Myōren, held at Chōgosonshi-ji temple on Mount Shigi in Nara Prefecture.
Shigong An
Shigong An (施公案, Cases of Master Shi) is a Chinese novel of 1798 combining court-case and chivalric fiction, following judge Shi Shilun and the hero Huang Tianbao.
Shigui
Shigui (士珪), known as Zhu'an, was a Song-dynasty Chan Buddhist monk of the Linji school's Yangqi line who exchanged 110 verse-commentaries with Dahui Zonggao and was praised by Dogen.
Shih Choon Fong
Shih Choon Fong is a Singaporean fracture mechanics researcher, president of the National University of Singapore from 2000 to 2008 and founding president of KAUST from 2008 to 2013.
Shih Tzu
Shih Tzu (獅子狗, lion dog): Tibetan-origin toy companion breed developed in imperial China, 8-11 inches tall, 9-16 pounds, long double coat; AKC-recognized 1969; UK life expectancy 11.05 years.
Shih-Fu Chang
Shih-Fu Chang (张世富) is a Taiwanese-American computer scientist and electrical engineer known for computer vision and multimedia retrieval, Dean of Columbia Engineering since 2022 and a National Academy of Engineering member.
Shih-Kao (An Shigao)
An Shigao, also known as Shih-Kao, was a Parthian Buddhist monk who at Luoyang from about 148 CE became the earliest known translator of Buddhist texts into Chinese.
Shih-Ying Lee
Shih-Ying Lee (李诗颖) was a Chinese-born American mechanical engineer and longtime MIT professor, an expert in process control and instrumentation who co-founded Dynisco and Setra Systems.
Shih-Yuan Liu
Shih-Yuan Liu is a synthetic chemist who has been a full professor of chemistry at Boston College since 2013, known for developing azaborines, boron-nitrogen analogs of benzene.
Shih‐I Chu
Shih-I Chu (朱时宜) was a Taiwanese atomic, molecular, and optical physicist, Watkins Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas and a 2006 Academia Sinica academician.
Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Abd al-Qadir
Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Abd al-Qadir (Arab Faqih) was a 16th-century Yemeni scholar who wrote the Futuh al-Habasha, the main account of Ahmad Gran's war.
Shihab al-Din Talish
Shihab al-Din Talish (شہاب الدین تلش) was a 17th-century Persian chronicler of Mughal Bengal, original name Ibn Muhammad Wali Ahmad, known for the Fathiya-i Ibriyya on Mir Jumla's Assam campaign.
Shihab Din Ishbili Lakhmi
Shihab al-Din al-Ishbili al-Lakhmi, known as Ibn Farh (ابن فرح), was a Shafi'i hadith scholar from Seville who settled in Damascus and wrote the first poem on hadith methodology.
Shihab dynasty
The Shihab dynasty (آل شهاب) was a family of emirs that ruled the Emirate of Mount Lebanon from 1697 until the emirate was abolished in 1842.
Shihab-ud-Din Shah Mir
Shihab-ud-Din Shah Mir, known before his accession as Shirashamik, was a sultan of Kashmir of the Shah Mir dynasty who reigned from 1354 and expanded the kingdom.
Shihabi emirate of Mount Lebanon
The Shihabi emirate of Mount Lebanon (إمارة الشهابيين) was a princely state under Ottoman suzerainty ruled by the Shihab family from 1697 to 1842, reaching its height under Emir Bashir II.
Shihan Stele
The Shihan Stele, or Stele of Shihan, is a basalt relief of a spear-carrying warrior from Moab in Jordan, found in 1851 and held in the Louvre.
Shihang Intelligence (世航智能)
Shihang Intelligence (世航智能), also known as Seahi Robotics, is a Chinese marine robotics startup founded in 2023 in Suzhou, known for full-ocean-depth underwater robots and a record RMB 1 billion Series A in 2026.
Shiheng-2 power station
Shiheng-2 power station (国电石横发电厂) is an operating coal-fired power station in Shiheng, Feicheng, Shandong, China, with six subcritical bituminous-coal units totaling 1,920 MW, opened between 1987 and 2008.
Shihezi
Shihezi (石河子) is a county-level city in northern Xinjiang directly administered by the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, run jointly with the 8th Division. Founded by Wang Zhen's troops in 1950 on Gobi desert, it is known as the first military-reclamation city, about 94% Han, with 44% green coverage.
Shihlin Electric
Shihlin Electric & Engineering Corporation (SEEC) is a Taiwanese heavy electrical equipment manufacturer founded in 1955 and headquartered in Taipei, listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange since 1969.
Shihua
Shihua (詩話), or "poetry talks," is a Chinese genre of informal prose criticism of poetry in short entries, founded by Ouyang Xiu in the eleventh century.
Shihui Group
Shihui Group, also known as Nice Tuan, was a Chinese community group buying platform founded in 2018 that sold fresh groceries via WeChat and shut down in 2022.
Shiina esterification
Shiina esterification is a mild method for forming esters and lactones from nearly equimolar carboxylic acids and alcohols, using the dehydrating reagent MNBA with a DMAP catalyst.
Shiing-Shen Chern
Shiing-Shen Chern (陈省身) was a Chinese differential geometer known for Chern classes and Chern–Simons theory, a Berkeley professor who founded mathematics institutes on both sides of the Pacific.
Shiitake
Shiitake (椎茸, Lentinula edodes) is an East Asian edible wood-decaying mushroom, the world's most-produced cultivated species at 26% of global output, grown on hardwood logs or sawdust bags.
Shiitake-fermented pea and rice protein
Shiitake-fermented pea and rice protein (PureTaste protein), a MycoTechnology novel food: 65/35 pea-rice protein concentrate fermented with Lentinula edodes mycelium, ≥75% protein, GRAS in the US (GRN 848) and positively assessed by EFSA and FSA/FSS.
Shijiazhuang (石家庄)
Shijiazhuang (石家庄) is the capital of Hebei Province, China, a railway-hub industrial city of 11.2 million. Key facts: 2025 GDP 865.17 billion yuan, provincial seat since 1968, metropolitan circle approved 2025.
Shijie
Shijie (石碣镇) is a town in northern Dongguan, Guangdong, on the Dongjiang River bordering Guangzhou's Zengcheng District. Known as the first China Famous Town of Electronic Information Industry, a major vegetable supplier to Hong Kong, and the hometown of Ming general Yuan Chonghuan.