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Yuan Qu Xuan

Yuan Qu Xuan (元曲选), also known as Yuanren Baizhong Qu, is an anthology of 100 Yuan zaju plays compiled by the late Ming editor Zang Maoxun and printed in 1615–1616.

Yuan Shao

Yuan Shao (袁绍), courtesy name Benchu, was a leading warlord of the late Eastern Han dynasty who led the coalition against Dong Zhuo and ruled north of the Yellow River.

Yuan Shikai (袁世凯)

Yuan Shikai (袁世凯, 1859–1916), also romanized Yuan Shih-k'ai, was a Qing general and first president of the Republic of China who built the Beiyang Army, brokered the 1912 abdication, and died after his failed 1915–16 monarchy bid.

Yuan Shikai coinage

Yuan Shikai coinage, known in Chinese as 袁大头 ("big head"), is the silver coinage of Republican China first issued in 1914 bearing President Yuan Shikai's portrait.

Yuan Shikai's attempt to restore the monarchy

Yuan Shikai's attempt to restore the monarchy (袁世凯称帝) was Yuan Shikai's 1915 campaign to replace the Chinese republic with a monarchy under himself as emperor.

Yuan Shu

Yuan Shu (袁術, Gonglu, died 199), Eastern Han warlord, cousin and rival of Yuan Shao; held Nanyang and Shouchun, declared himself emperor of the Zhong dynasty in 197, was defeated by Cao Cao and died in 199.

Yuan Shu's Imperial Declaration

Yuan Shu's Imperial Declaration (袁術稱帝) was the warlord Yuan Shu's proclamation of himself as emperor at Shouchun in 197, under the style Zhongjia, near the end of the Han dynasty.

Yuan Shuai

Yuan Shuai (袁帅) is a Chinese video-game producer who co-founded Shanghai mobile game developer Lilith Games in 2013 with two Nanjing University classmates, and serves as Chief Product Officer.

Yuan Shuji

Yuan Shuji (袁恕己) was a Tang dynasty official and chancellor from Dongguang, Cangzhou, one of five ministers who overthrew the Wu Zhou regime and restored the Tang in 705.

Yuan T. Lee

Yuan T. Lee (李遠哲), born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1936, is a chemist who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, developed crossed molecular beams, and led Academia Sinica.

Yuan Wei (Eastern Han official)

Yuan Wei (袁隗), courtesy name Ciyang, was an Eastern Han official who twice served as Situ under Emperor Ling and was executed by Dong Zhuo in 190.

Yuan Wei (Ming dynasty Grand Secretary)

Yuan Wei (袁炜, 1508–1565) was a Ming dynasty official who rose from Hanlin compiler to Grand Secretary under the Jiajing Emperor, chiefly through his Daoist ritual prayers.

Yuan Xie

Yuan Xie (袁燮, 1144–1224) was a Southern Song official, educator, and Neo-Confucian philosopher of the Lu Jiuyuan school who rose to Vice Minister of Rites and was twice driven from office in factional struggles.

Yuan Xinyue

Yuan Xinyue (袁心玥), Chinese middle blocker born 1996 in Chongqing; 2016 Olympic volleyball gold medalist, three-time Olympian (2016, 2020, 2024), and captain of the China women's national volleyball team from 2022.

Yuan Xiu

Yuan Xiu (源休) was a Tang dynasty official from Linzhang, Xiangzhou, who served as envoy to the Uyghurs and became chief planner of Zhu Ci's 783 rebellion.

Yuan Yang

Yuan Yang is a materials scientist and associate professor at Columbia University known for lithium-metal battery electrolytes and a semi-liquid battery for grid energy storage.

Yuan Ying

Yuan Ying, recorded in the histories as Du Yuanying (杜元颖), was a Tang dynasty official who rose to chief minister in 821 and was exiled after Nanzhao attacked Chengdu.

Yuan Yue

Yuan Yue (袁岳, born 1965) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the market research firm Zero and chairs Dataway Horizon, a data analytics company listed in Shenzhen.

Yuan Zai

Yuan Zai (元载) was a Tang dynasty chancellor who dominated Emperor Daizong's court, engineered the eunuch Yu Chao'en's death in 770, and was forced to commit suicide in 777.

Yuan zaju (Yuan drama)

Yuan zaju, also called Yuan drama or northern drama (元杂剧), is the sung drama that matured under China's Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), often called the golden age of Chinese drama.

Yuan Zhen (Tang dynasty general and chancellor)

Yuan Zhen (元振) was the courtesy name of Guo Zhen, a Tang dynasty general and chancellor, born in 656, who served as envoy to Tibet and reached the chancellorship under Emperor Ruizong.

Yuan Zhen (Tang dynasty poet-official)

Yuan Zhen (元稹, 779–831) was a Tang dynasty poet-official who served briefly as grand councilor and, with Bai Juyi, created the Yuanhe style of poetry.

Yuan-Cheng Fung

Yuan-Cheng Fung (冯元桢), known as "Bert", was a Chinese-born engineer called the father of biomechanics who left Caltech in 1966 to found bioengineering at UC San Diego.

Yuan'an

Yuan'an (元安), known as Luopu Yuanan or Lepu Yuanan, was a Chinese Chan (Zen) monk of the late Tang dynasty who trained under Linji Yixuan and became the Dharma heir of Jiashan Shanhui.

Yuan'an Pumped Storage Power Station

The Yuan'an Pumped Storage Power Station is a 1,200 MW pumped-storage hydroelectric station under construction in Hualinsi Town, Yuan'an County, Yichang, Hubei, China, approved in 2022 at a cost of 8.199 billion yuan.

Yuanba Gas Field

The Yuanba Gas Field (元坝气田) is an ultra-deep, high-sulfur natural gas field in northeastern Sichuan, China, operated by Sinopec and discovered by Well Yuanba 1 in 2006.

Yuanbio Venture Capital (元生创投)

Yuanbio Venture Capital (元生创投), also known as bioVenture, is a Chinese healthcare venture capital firm founded in 2013 in Suzhou's bioBay, investing in biotech, medical devices, and diagnostics.

Yuanchuan Wei

Yuanchuan Wei (元川微) is a Chinese semiconductor startup founded in 2025. It designs LPU+ AI inference chips for Transformer and MoE models, with tape-out planned for 2027.

Yuanding Zhineng

元鼎智能 (Shenzhen Yuanding Innovation Technology Co.) is a Chinese company selling cordless robotic pool cleaners under the Aiper brand, founded in Shenzhen in 2015 by 汪洋.

Yuanfeng Reforms

The Yuanfeng Reforms (元丰改制) were a reorganization of the Northern Song central bureaucracy under Emperor Shenzong in 1080 to 1082, replacing nominal office titles with salary ranks and restoring the Three Departments and Six Ministries.