• 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Wonjong of Goryeo (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...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    Lee Chong Wei DB, DCSM, PJN, DSPN, AMN, OLY (Chinese: 李宗伟; pinyin: Lǐ Zōngwěi; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lí Chong-úi; born 21 October 1982) is a Malaysian former professional...
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  • evaporating and rising to form clouds goes back much farther than Wang Chong. Wang Chong wrote: As to this coming of rain from the mountains, some hold that...
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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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    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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    (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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  • November 2015, the Chinese-language premiere was directed and translated by Wang Chong in Beijing. He used 13 on stage cameras to conceptualize the play into...
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  • Wang Chongrong (王重榮) (died July 6, 887), formally the Prince of Langye (瑯琊王), was a warlord of the late Chinese Tang dynasty who controlled Hezhong Circuit...
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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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  • 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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    tea Wang Chong (王充), Chinese philosopher during Han Dynasty Wang Chongyang (王重陽/王重阳), a Song Dynasty Taoist and founder of Quanzhen School Wang Chuzhi...
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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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