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Wang Fuzhi
Wang Fuzhi (王夫之, 1619–1692) was a Chinese scholar and Ming loyalist of the early Qing dynasty, known as Master Chuanshan, who wrote several hundred juan of scholarship.
Wang Gai
Wang Gai (王概) was a Chinese landscape painter of the early Qing dynasty, best known as compiler of the Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting.
Wang Geon's coup against Gung Ye
Wang Geon's coup against Gung Ye was the June 918 palace revolution in which four Taebong generals deposed King Gung Ye and enthroned Wang Geon, founder of Goryeo.
Wang Gongchen
Wang Gongchen (王拱辰, 1012–1085), courtesy name Jun Kuang, was a Northern Song official who placed first in the 1030 palace examination and served for fifty-five years until his death in office in 1085.
Wang Gongquan
Wang Gongquan (王功权) is a Chinese venture capitalist who co-founded Vantone in 1991, worked at IDG, and led CDH Venture Partners, best known for a roughly 40-fold return on Qihoo 360.
Wang Guan
Wang Guan (王观), courtesy name Weitai, was a high minister of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, famed for incorruptibility and for resigning the office of Excellency of Works in 260.
Wang Guangyang
Wang Guangyang (汪广洋) was a Chinese statesman and poet of the early Ming dynasty who twice held the office of Right Grand Councilor and died in 1379.
Wang Guangyuan
Wang Guangyuan (王广渊), courtesy name Caishu, was a Song dynasty financial administrator and prefect whose lending proposal anticipated the Green Sprouts policy of Wang Anshi's reforms.
Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang
Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang (王贵与李香香) is a 1946 narrative poem by the Chinese poet Li Ji, telling of two young peasants whose love is fulfilled through the land revolution.
Wang Guo
Wang Guo (王国) was a Ming dynasty censor and provincial governor from Yaozhou who blocked appointments, impeached the eunuch Feng Bao, and saved nineteen censors from purge.
Wang Guocai
Wang Guocai (王国才, 1813–1857) was a Qing dynasty military officer from Yunnan who fought Hui and Taiping rebels, rose to provincial general-in-chief, and died in battle against Chen Yucheng at Huangmei in 1857.
Wang Guowei
Wang Guowei (王国维, 1877–1927) was a Chinese scholar from Haining, Zhejiang, a founder of modern oracle-bone and ancient-history studies who served the deposed emperor Pu Yi and drowned himself in Kunminghu in 1927.
Wang Hai
Wang Hai (王海) is a Chinese consumer-rights activist who became famous in 1995 by buying counterfeit Sony headphones in Beijing and winning punitive compensation, launching professional fake-busting.
Wang Hai Chao: Southeast's Beauty
Wang Hai Chao: Southeast's Beauty (望海潮) is a Song-dynasty ci poem by Liu Yong praising Hangzhou, traditionally sung at a banquet to win the prefect Sun He's recommendation.
Wang Haibin
Wang Haibin (汪海滨) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who co-founded the Guagua video community in 2005 and is chairman and CEO of the live-streaming company Zhejiang Juqi Technology.
Wang Han
Wang Han (王汉) was a Ming dynasty official from Yexian who fought bandits and Li Zicheng as governor of Henan and was killed at Yongcheng in 1643.
Wang Hao (olympedia 122301)
Wang Hao (汪皓), Chinese diver born 1992 in Tianjin; won women's synchronized platform gold at the 2012 London Olympics with Chen Ruolin, plus 2011 Shanghai Worlds and 2010 Asian Games synchronized platform titles. Distinct from the table tennis player Wang Hao (王皓).
Wang Hongde
Wang Hongde (王洪德), born 1936, is a Chinese engineer and entrepreneur who founded Beijing Jinghai Computer Development Company in 1983, one of the four founding firms of Zhongguancun's private technology cluster.
Wang Hongwen
Wang Hongwen (王洪文) was a Chinese factory worker who rose during the Cultural Revolution to become vice-chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the Gang of Four.
Wang Hongxu
Wang Hongxu (王鸿绪, 1645–1723) was a Qing official and historian who served the Kangxi Emperor as Minister of Revenue and compiled the biographical draft of the History of Ming.
Wang Hongyong
Wang Hongyong (王鸿勇) is a Chinese physicist-turned-quant investor who co-founded Shanghai Qilin Investment in 2015 with two university classmates and leads the firm, which manages over 28 billion yuan.
Wang Huadong
Wang Huadong (Huadong Wang) is a Chinese venture capitalist and Managing Partner at MPCi in Beijing, known as Momo's first investor and for backing Li Auto and METAX Tech.
Wang Hui
Wang Hui (王翚), courtesy name Shigu, was a Chinese landscape painter of the early Qing dynasty and one of the Four Wangs, best known for directing the Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour scrolls.
Wang Hui Gyeong
Wang Hui Gyeong (왕희경, Wang Hee-Kyung), born 1970, South Korean recurve archer. At Seoul 1988 she won women's team gold and individual silver, and set ranking-round Olympic records; world silver 1987, world team gold 1989.
Wang Huning
Wang Huning (王沪宁), born 1955 in Shanghai, is China's chief party ideologue: Fudan professor turned Central Policy Research Office director, author of America Against America, Politburo Standing Committee member since 2017, and CPPCC chairman since 2023.
Wang Ji's Luchuan campaigns
Wang Ji's Luchuan campaigns (王骥征麓川) were Ming dynasty military expeditions led by minister of war Wang Ji against the Tai polity of Luchuan and its ruler Si Renfa in southwestern Yunnan.
Wang Jian (BGI Group)
Wang Jian (汪建), born 1954 in Hunan, is a Chinese genomics entrepreneur and chairman of BGI Group, which he co-founded in 1999 for China's Human Genome Project work.
Wang Jian (王翦) (Qin)
Wang Jian (王翦, died after 221 BCE) was a Qin general of Pinyang who served the First Emperor, conquered Zhao and Yan, and destroyed Chu with a 600,000-man army after Li Xin's 200,000-man invasion failed; father of Wang Ben.
Wang Jian's demand for rewards to allay royal suspicion
Wang Jian's demand for rewards to allay royal suspicion (王翦请田宅) was a Warring States episode in which the Qin general Wang Jian asked for land to deflect King Zheng's suspicion.
Wang Jiangmin
Wang Jiangmin (王江民; 1951–2010) was a Chinese software entrepreneur who created the KV antivirus series and founded Beijing Jiangmin New Technology, a founding figure of China's antivirus industry.