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Wang Rong (Western Jin statesman)
Wang Rong (王戎) was a Western Jin statesman, one of the Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Grove, who served as Minister Over the Masses under Emperors Wu and Hui.
Wang Ruixu
Wang Ruixu (王锐旭), born 1990 in Shantou, Guangdong, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded JoiWay in 2013 as a student, creating the part-time and flexible-jobs platform Jianzhimao (兼职猫).
Wang San-ak
Wang San-ak (왕산악) is the Goguryeo court official whom the Samguk sagi credits with adapting a Chinese seven-string zither into the geomungo, though some scholars doubt he existed.
Wang Sengbian
Wang Sengbian (王僧辩) was a general and statesman of the Liang dynasty who destroyed Hou Jing's rebellion, then controlled the court until Chen Baxian killed him in 555.
Wang Shao
Wang Shao (王韶, 1030–1081, courtesy name Zichun) was a Song dynasty statesman and general who recovered the Xihe region and brought the Hehuang Tibetan and Qiang tribes under Song rule.
Wang Shen
Wang Shen (王诜, ca. 1036 – after 1093) was a Northern Song dynasty landscape painter, poet, and collector, known for Misty River and Layered Peaks.
Wang Shenzhi
Wang Shenzhi, courtesy name Xin Tong (王审知, 862–925), was the founder-ruler of Min, one of the Ten Kingdoms. He governed Fujian from Fuzhou from 897 and was enfeoffed Prince of Min by the Later Liang.
Wang Shenzhi's founding of Min
Wang Shenzhi's founding of Min (王审知建闽) was the 909 enfeoffment of Wang Shenzhi as Prince of Min, marking the start of the kingdom of Min at Fuzhou.
Wang Shi (businessman)
Wang Shi (王石), born 1951, is the founder of China Vanke, the Shenzhen property developer that became the world's largest home builder, and its chairman until 2017.
Wang Shichong
Wang Shichong (王世充) was a Sui dynasty official and general who defeated the rebel Li Mi at Yanshi, then usurped the throne at Luoyang as emperor of Zheng.
Wang Shichong's seizure of Luoyang
Wang Shichong's seizure of Luoyang (王世充专政) was the takeover of the Sui court at Luoyang by the general Wang Shichong, who founded the short-lived state of Zheng.
Wang Shifu
Wang Shifu (王實甫), given name Dexin, was a Yuan dynasty playwright from Dadu, present-day Beijing, whose five-book Romance of the Western Chamber is the most celebrated work of zaju drama.
Wang Shihong
Wang Shihong (王世宏) is a Chinese fund manager who served as a managing director at Shanghai Gao Yi Asset Management from 2015 until his reported 2020 departure.
Wang Shimin
Wang Shimin (王时敏, 1592–1680) was a Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher of Taicang, Jiangsu, eldest of the Four Wangs who led the Orthodox school of early Qing painting.
Wang Shipeng
Wang Shipeng (王十朋, 1112–1171) was a Song dynasty statesman, scholar, and poet from Yueqing, Zhejiang, who placed first in the 1157 palace examination and governed four southern prefectures.
Wang Shiquan
Wang Shiquan (王世全, born 1988) is a Chinese robotics entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Flexiv, a Shanghai maker of adaptive industrial robots, and of Noematrix.
Wang Shixian
Wang Shixian (汪世显, 1195–1243) was a Jin dynasty commander at Gongchang who surrendered to the Mongols in 1235 and founded a hereditary Wang family that ruled Longyou for centuries.
Wang Shixiang
Wang Shixiang (王世襄, courtesy name Chang'an, 1914–2009) was a Chinese connoisseur, collector, and expert on cultural relics whose systematic studies of Ming-style furniture and lacquerware founded new fields of scholarship.
Wang Shizhen (Ming dynasty official and historian)
Wang Shizhen (王世贞, 1526–1590) was a Ming dynasty official, historian, and writer, the dominant arbiter of Chinese letters after Li Panlong's death and one of the era's most important historians.
Wang Shizhen (Qing and Republican Beiyang officer)
Wang Shizhen (王士珍, 1861–1930) was a Qing and early Republican Beiyang general from Zhengding, Zhili, who rose through Yuan Shikai's new army and was Army Minister in the final Qing cabinet.
Wang Shizhen (Qing dynasty poet and official)
Wang Shizhen, also known as Wang Yishang (王士祯), was a Qing dynasty poet and official who rose to Minister of Justice and founded the shenyun school of poetry.
Wang Shouren
Wang Shouren, better known as Wang Yangming (王阳明), was a Chinese Neo-Confucian philosopher, statesman, and general of 1472 to 1529, ranked with Confucius and Mencius, who taught the unity of knowledge and action.
Wang Shouren's suppression of the southern Jiangxi bandits
Wang Shouren's suppression of the southern Jiangxi bandits (王守仁平南赣) was a Ming dynasty campaign in which Grand Coordinator Wang Shouren destroyed entrenched bandit strongholds on the Jiangxi border.
Wang Shouyi
Wang Shouyi (王守义) was a Henan-born Hui entrepreneur who founded the Wang Shouyi Shisanxiang seasoning company in Zhumadian in 1984 with 100 yuan of capital and a per-packet profit of eight fen.
Wang Shouyi Shisanxiang
Wang Shouyi Shisanxiang (王守义十三香) is a Chinese condiment maker founded in 1984 by Wang Shouyi in Zhumadian, Henan, known for its Thirteen Spices seasoning powder.
Wang Shu
Wang Shu (王树, born 1955) is a Chinese venture capitalist who was a founding partner of IDG's pioneering China funds from 1996, investing early in Tencent and Kingdee Software.
Wang Shumin
Wang Shumin (王淑敏), born 1964, is a Chinese-born American materials chemist who founded Anji Microelectronics in Shanghai in 2004, China's leading producer of CMP polishing slurries.
Wang Shun
Wang Shun (王舜) was a Western Han official, cousin of Wang Mang, who served as one of his closest confidants during his rise to the throne.
Wang Shuo
Wang Shuo (王朔, born 1958) is a Chinese novelist and screenwriter whose comic, colloquial fiction about disaffected Beijing youth, labeled "hooligan literature," made him famous and controversial.
Wang Shusheng
Wang Shusheng (王树森; 1917–1989), courtesy name Shaozhi, was a Chinese jade carver from Beijing, one of the "Four Talents of Northern Jade" and leader of the "86 Project."