• Wang Chong (Chinese: 王充; pinyin: Wáng Chōng; Wade–Giles: Wang Ch'ung; 27 – c. 97 AD), courtesy name Zhongren (仲任), was a Chinese astronomer, meteorologist...
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  • Wang Chung may refer to: Wang Chung (band), an English new wave band Wang Chong (27–97 AD), or Wang Ch'ung in Wade–Giles, a Han dynasty Chinese philosopher...
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  • his Taoist beliefs. He held the Taoist beliefs themselves dogmatically. Wang Chong (王充) was the leading figure of the skeptic branch of the Confucianism...
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  • Wang Chong (fl. 250s–270s), courtesy name Youyuan, was an official and scholar of the state of Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms period of China. After the...
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    would ram the guilty, but spare the innocent. The account appears in Wang Chong, Lunheng (80 AD). In the same work (Lunheng), the legend is prefaced the...
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  • February 1315 – 30 January 1344, r. 1330–1332, 1340–1344), personal name Wang Chŏng (Korean: 왕정; Hanja: 王禎), was the 28th king of the Goryeo dynasty of Korea...
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  • Wang Chong (王翀; born 8 January 1982) is an avant-garde theatre director and translator. His works have been performed in 16 countries. Wang's Chinese...
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    it comes to rest pointing at the south." Within the text, the author Wang Chong describes the spoon as a phenomenon that he has personally observed. Although...
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    written by Yang Xiong (53 BC – 18 AD), Huan Tan (43 BC – 28 AD), Wang Chong (27–100 AD), and Wang Fu (78–163 AD) questioned whether human nature was innately...
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  • Zhen, denied the ideas of reincarnation and body-soul dualism. Huan Tan Wang Chong Ma Rong Shen Kuo Ximen Bao Feng Youlan (Fung Yu-Lan), rationalist who...
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    produced in Beijing, commissioned by Ibsen International and directed by Wang Chong, who had started the Chinese New Wave Theater Movement. The multimedia...
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    Jia Yi Jia Kui Jing Fang Kong Anguo Liu An Lu Jia Liu Xiang Ma Rong Wang Chong Wang Fu Xun Yue Yang Xiong Three Kingdoms Jin Northern and Southern Bao...
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  • Sunzi (fl. 3rd century) Tao Yuanming (365–427) Wang Bi (226–249) Wang Chong (27–97) Wang Xizhi (303–361) Wang Xianzhi (344–386) Wei Shou (506–572) Wei Shuo...
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  • Wonjong (5 April 1219 – 23 July 1274), personal name Wang Chŏng, was the 24th ruler of the Goryeo dynasty of Korea, reigning from 1260 to 1274. His rule...
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    Alfred Forke's 1907 rendering of Wang Chong's Lunheng (circa 80 CE), as discussed below. In his autobiography, Wang Chong mentions that, near the end of...
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  • Anicetus Andrew Wang Chong-yi (26 October 1919 – 20 April 2017) was a Chinese Roman Catholic bishop. He came from a Catholic family and attended the boys'...
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  • Zi as Gao Chong (voiced by Yang Mo), head of the Five Lakes Alliance and leader of Yue Yang Sect Zhang Jia Hang as Gao Chong (young) Wang Ruo Lin as...
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    1976, ISBN 0-295-95514-7. Pages 106-107. "Saints & Sages Part VI: 王重陽 Wang Chong Yang (1113-1170) – Purple Cloud". Retrieved 2020-08-04. Daoism Handbook...
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    (7 May 2021). "yinyang". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 3 May 2023. Wang, Robin R. "Yinyang (Yin-yang)". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Retrieved...
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  • Wang Chongyi may refer to: Anicetus Andrew Wang Chong-yi (1919–2017, 王充一; Wáng Chōngyī), Chinese Roman Catholic bishop Wang Chung-yi (born 1952, 王崇儀;...
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    Tong, "Those whom kings consider not their subjects" quote: "召公,文王子也。" Wang Chong, Lunheng, "Pneuma & Longevity"; quote: "邵公、周公之兄也" rough translation: "The...
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    during this century, mentioned first by the philosopher Wang Chong around AD 80. Wang Chong also accurately described the water cycle in meteorology...
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  • Raymond Wang Chong Lin (Chinese: 王宠林; May 12, 1921 – February 2, 2010) was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Zhaoxian, China....
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    1017/S1041610217001892. ISSN 1741-203X. PMID 28931444. Yuan, Qiuju; Wang, Chong-wen; Shi, Jun; Lin, Zhi-xiu (January 2017). "Effects of Ginkgo biloba...
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    Wang Fuzhi (Chinese: 王夫之; pinyin: Wáng Fūzhī; Wade–Giles: Wang2 Fu1-chih1; 1619–1692), courtesy name Ernong (而農), pseudonym Chuanshan (船山), was a Chinese...
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  • numerous English translations, is a wide-ranging Chinese classic text by Wang Chong (27 – c. 100). First published in 80, it contains critical essays on natural...
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  • Wang Lun fears Lin Chong, with his superior fighting skill, will usurp his position, so he tries to send him away with excuse and gifts. As Lin Chong...
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  • one-piece billet (for high-performance drag racers). Flywheel Zhang, Da Ke; Wang, Chong; Yang, Yi Chao; He, Han (January 2013). "The Layout Optimization for...
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  • Parmenides Plato Socrates Augustine of Hippo Origen of Alexandria Plotinus Wang Chong Al-Farabi Al-Ma'arri Avicenna Averroes Maimonides René Descartes Nicolas...
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  • king of Judea Petronius, Roman writer and suffect consul (d. AD 66) Wang Chong, Chinese astronomer and philosopher (d. AD 100) Publius Quinctilius Varus...
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