Society and history

Chryscapital

ChrysCapital, formerly Chrysalis Capital, is an India-focused private equity firm founded in 1999 by Ashish Dhawan and Raj Kondur, which closed its tenth fund at $2.2 billion in 2025.

Chrysippus

Chrysippus of Soli (Χρύσιππος), c. 280–207/206 BC, Greek Stoic philosopher and third head of the Stoa; systematized Stoicism, founded Stoic propositional logic, and defended compatibilism.

Chrysippus of Elis

Chrysippus (Χρύσιππος), bastard son of Pelops of Pisa in Elis, abducted by Laius of Thebes and murdered by his family; his death launched the curse of the Pelopid house and Euripides' lost play.

Chrysobull of Alexios I to Venice

The chrysobull of Alexios I to Venice (χρυσόβουλλον) was a Byzantine gold-sealed charter granting Venice trading rights in return for naval aid against the Normans.

Chrystia Freeland

Chrystia Freeland is a Canadian politician and former journalist who served as deputy prime minister and, from 2020 to 2024, Canada's first female finance minister.

Chu (楚) was a southern Zhou-era feudal state, one of the strongest powers of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, whose rulers held the title of King. Known for lacquerware, silk, chime bells, and royal tombs like Wuwangdun, it was absorbed by Qin after 278 BC.

Chu Ci

Chu Ci (楚辞, Verses of Chu) is an anthology of poetry from the Warring States land of Chu, the second poetry collection in Chinese history after the Shi Jing.

Chu Clan of Henan

The Chu Clan of Henan (河南褚氏) was an aristocratic Chinese lineage of the Southern dynasties, seated at Yangdi and led by the statesman Chu Yuan.

Chu destroys Huang and Ying

Chu destroys Huang and Ying refers to the Spring and Autumn period destruction of Huang by Chu in 648 BC, after Huang withheld tribute and Qi's rescue never came.

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Chử Đồng Tử

Chử Đồng Tử (褚童子) is one of the Four Immortals of Vietnamese folk religion, a legendary poor fisherman of the Hùng Vương era who ascended to heaven.

Chữ Nôm (喃)

Chữ Nôm (喃字, 𡨸喃) is Vietnam's demotic logographic script built from modified Chinese characters, used from about the 11th century until the early 20th century, then replaced by Romanized quốc ngữ; fewer than 100 scholars can read it today.

Chu sanzang jiji

Chu sanzang jiji (出三藏記集), also called the Sengyou lu, is a fifteen-juan catalog of Buddhist scriptures compiled by the Liang monk Sengyou, the earliest to survive.

Chu Silk Manuscript

The Chu Silk Manuscript (楚帛書) is a late Warring States silk divination and cosmological text, looted in 1942 from a Chu tomb at Zidanku near Changsha.

Chu Suiliang

Chu Suiliang (褚遂良), courtesy name Dengshan, was a Tang dynasty chancellor and calligrapher, one of the four great early Tang calligraphers, who died in exile after opposing Empress Wu's installation.

Chu Van An

Chu Van An (Chu Văn An, 1292–1370) was a Vietnamese Confucian scholar and teacher who headed the imperial academy Quoc Tu Giam under the Tran dynasty.

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Chu Yin

Chu Yin (储殷, born 1977 in Changchun) is a Chinese political scholar who left his professorship at the University of International Relations in 2021 to work in self-media.

Chu Ying

Chu Ying (褚英) was the eldest son of Nurhaci and a Jurchen commander who led campaigns against the Ula, won honors, and died imprisoned at 36 after cursing his father.

Chu Yuan

Chu Yuan (褚渊, 435–482) was a leading statesman of the Liu-Song and Southern Qi dynasties, serving as regent for the last Song emperor before backing the Qi founding.

Chu–Han Contention

Chu–Han Contention (楚漢戰爭), 206–202 BC civil war after the Qin collapse: Liu Bang of Han defeated Xiang Yu of Western Chu via Han Xin's campaigns, the Hong Canal truce, and Gaixia, founding the Han dynasty.

Chu's annexation of Lu

Chu's annexation of Lu (楚灭鲁) was the destruction of the state of Lu by Chu late in the Warring States period, after which the last Lu ruler was made a commoner.

Chu's conquest of Yue

Chu's conquest of Yue (楚灭越) was the destruction of the kingdom of Yue by Chu during the Warring States period, traditionally dated to King Wei's reign and by modern scholars to 306 BC.

Chu's county (xian) system

Chu's county (xian) system (楚国县制) was the Spring and Autumn practice of annexing conquered states as counties headed by king-appointed xian gong, the earliest county system in Chinese history.

Chu's destruction of Chen and Cai and relocation of Xu

Chu's destruction of Chen and Cai and relocation of Xu (楚灭陈蔡与迁许) was a Spring and Autumn period conquest in which the southern state of Chu destroyed Chen and Cai.

Chu's destruction of Chen and move to Shouchun

Chu's destruction of Chen and move to Shouchun (楚迁寿春) was the relocation of the Chu capital from Chen to Shouchun, renamed Ying, in 241 BC.

Chu's destruction of Deng, Shen and the southern small states

Chu's destruction of Deng, Shen and the southern small states (楚灭申邓随诸役) were Spring and Autumn period campaigns in which Chu destroyed Shen and Xi and defeated Deng.

Chu's siege of Song and the covenant of Hua Yuan

Chu's siege of Song and the covenant of Hua Yuan (楚围宋与华元之盟) was a siege of Song by Chu, ended in 595 BC by Hua Yuan's night visit to the Chu commander.

Chuah Joon Huang

Chuah Joon Huang (蔡润煌), Malaysian engineer: Cambridge PhD, Intel and Freescale IC designer, Universiti Malaya associate professor heading VLSI and Image Processing research, now President/CEO of Southern University College and BEM board member.

Chuang Army

The Chuang Army (闯军) was the rebel army led by Li Zicheng, which rose from near destruction in 1638 to take Beijing in 1644, ending the Ming dynasty.

Chuangxiang Biotech (创响生物) (ImageneBio)

Chuangxiang Biotech (创响生物), known in English as Inmagene Biopharmaceuticals, is an immunology biotech founded by Jonathan Jian Wang in 2019 to develop the anti-OX40 antibody olevaprubart.