General articles: Arts and culture
124,020 articles
Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina
Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina (魔女の旅々, Majo no Tabitabi) is a Japanese episodic fantasy light novel by Jougi Shiraishi and Azure, self-published on Kindle in 2014, published by GA Novel since 2016, adapted into a 2020 TV anime by C2C and a manga, with a new anime film announced in 2026.
Wanderlust (2012 film)
Wanderlust is a 2012 American comedy film directed by David Wain, starring Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston as a Manhattan couple who join a rural commune.
Wanderlust (British TV series)
Wanderlust (2018 BBC One/Netflix drama), Nick Payne's first TV series adapted from his 2010 Royal Court play; Toni Collette and Steven Mackintosh play a couple experimenting with non-monogamy after a cycling accident; six episodes, set in Manchester.
Wando
Wando was the stage name of Vanderley Alves dos Reis, a Brazilian singer and composer of brega-romântico music, best known for the 1988 hit "Fogo e paixão".
Wandrers Nachtlied
Wandrers Nachtlied ("Wanderer's Nightsong") is the shared title of two short poems by Goethe: an eight-line plea for peace from 1776 and a famous evening poem of 1780.
Wanfeng Fuguli
晚风拂故里 (Evening Breeze Brushes the Old Hometown) is a 2025 Chinese modern comeback (逆袭) short drama on Douyin, written by 曾悟空, starring 祥笕, and complete at 66 short episodes.
Wang Anyi
Wang Anyi (王安忆, born 1954) is a Chinese novelist, essayist, and Fudan University professor whose Shanghai fiction, especially The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, won the Mao Dun Literature Prize.
Wang Bao
Wang Bao (王褒), or Ziyuan (子渊), was a Western Han fu poet from Sichuan. He is renowned for the Dongxiao Fu, the first fully preserved musical-instrument fu.
Wang Bu
Wang Bu (王步, 1898–1968), courtesy name Renyuan, was a Chinese ceramic artist of Jingdezhen known as the "King of Blue-and-White" who specialized in underglaze blue-and-white porcelain painting.
Wang Chen-ho
Wang Chen-ho (王禎和, 1940–1990) was a Taiwanese novelist from Hualien known for comic stories of small-town people, written in a mix of Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien, English, and Japanese.
Wang Chung (band)
Wang Chung (originally Huang Chung, from Chinese huáng zhōng, 'yellow bell') are an English new wave band of Jack Hues and Nick Feldman, known for 'Everybody Have Fun Tonight' (US No. 2, 1986), 'Dance Hall Days', and the To Live and Die in L.A. soundtrack; active again since 2012.
Wang Dingjun
Wang Dingjun (王鼎钧, born April 1925) is a Chinese-language essayist from Linyi, Shandong, regarded as a leading figure of modern Chinese prose and a master of the memoir.
Wang Dingjun's Memoirs
Wang Dingjun's Memoirs (王鼎鈞回憶錄四部曲) is a four-volume autobiographical series by Taiwanese essayist Wang Dingjun, spanning the War of Resistance, the Chinese Civil War, and his thirty years in Taiwan.
Wang Duanshu
Wang Duanshu (王端淑) was a Chinese poet, painter, critic, and anthologist of the Ming–Qing transition, known for compiling one of the largest pre-modern anthologies of women's poetry.
Wang Dulu
Wang Dulu (王度庐, pen name of Wang Baoxiang, 1909–1977) was a Beijing-born Manchu wuxia novelist, one of the Republican-era Northern School masters, whose five-part Crane-Iron Series written in Qingdao 1938–1944 includes Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, later adapted by Ang Lee.
Wang Fanzhi
Wang Fanzhi (王梵志) is the name attached to a corpus of about 390 plain, vernacular five-character poems of the Tang dynasty, preserved mainly in Dunhuang manuscripts.
Wang Feng (汪峰) (singer)
Wang Feng (汪峰), born 1971 in Beijing, is a mainland Chinese rock singer-songwriter trained in violin at the Central Conservatory of Music. He led the band鲍家街43号 before going solo with Warner in 2000, known for《春天里》《飞得更高》《怒放的生命》, and mainstream rock.
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 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 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 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 Kai (王凯) (actor)
Wang Kai (王凯), born 1982 in Wuhan, is a mainland Chinese actor and Central Academy of Drama graduate, distinct from the voice actor and the NCPA tenor of the same name, known for Nirvana in Fire, The Disguiser, and Like a Flowing River.
Wang Leehom (王力宏)
Wang Leehom (王力宏), born 1976 in Rochester, New York, is a Taiwanese-American Mandopop singer, producer, actor, and director. Debut 1995; Chinked-out fusion creator; 2021 divorce controversy; comeback tour "The Best Place" with 57 sold-out shows.
Wang Linchuan Ji
Linchuan Ji (临川集), also called Wang Linchuan Ji, is the collected works of the Northern Song reformer and writer Wang Anshi, in 100 juan of poetry and prose.
Wang Pan
Wang Pan (王磐, c. 1470 to c. 1530) was a Ming dynasty sanqu poet, painter, and physician from Gaoyou, Jiangsu, known for the satirical song Chao Tianzi: On the Trumpet.
Wang Pengyun
Wang Pengyun (王鵬運, 1848 or 1849 – 1904) was a Qing dynasty ci poet and official from Lingui, Guangxi, remembered as the leading late-Qing ci master.
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 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 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 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.