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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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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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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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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Han dynasty (section Wang Mang's reign and civil war)
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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Wang Chong (王翀; born 8 January 1982) is an avant-garde theatre director and translator. His works have been performed in over 20 countries on 6 continents...
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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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(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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also alluded to in the works of the secular and naturalistic philosopher Wang Chong, who denied the existence of an afterlife and of ghosts, but claimed objects...
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Retrieved 2019-09-17. Liang, Zhi‐Qiang; Chen, Wei‐Tao; Wang, Deng‐Qiang; Zhang, Shu‐Huan; Wang, Chong‐Rui; He, Shun‐Ping; Wu, Yuan‐An; He, Ping; Xie, Jiang;...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Gwangjong of Goryeo (redirect from Wang So)
Sinmyeongsunseong of the Chungju Yu clan, who also gave birth to princes Wang T'ae, Wang Yo, Wang Chŏng, Jeungtong, as well as the princesses, Princess Nakrang and...
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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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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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the 3rd century AD. The origins of the "Wang Bi" version have greater verification than either of the above. Wang Bi (226–249 AD) was a Three Kingdoms-period...
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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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could assume human form is presented in works such as the Lunheng by Wang Chong (27–91). As these traditions developed, the fox's capacity for transformation...
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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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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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The Lunheng, written by Han dynasty writer, scientist, and philosopher Wang Chong (27 – c. 100 AD) stated in chapter 52: "This instrument resembles a spoon...
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of logic in China as spanning between the lifetimes of Confucius and Wang Chong – i.e. from c. 550 BC until c. AD 100. This largely coincides with the...
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Liu Bang was ascribed a magical birth, and later a divine ancestry. When Wang Mang took power at the end of the western Han, he used the acceptance of...
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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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Wang Zhongyu is the atonal pinyin romanization of various Chinese names and may refer to: Wang Zhongyu (painter) (fl. 14th century), Chinese painter under...
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