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Yu'an District
Yu'an District is a district in Anhui under the jurisdiction of Lu'an. Its population is 930,000 and its area is 1526 square kilometers. The government of Yu'an District is located at Yunlu Street. Juchao District has jurisdiction over 4 subdistrict, 12 towns and 7 townships. ..
Yuan
Yuan can refer to the following: Yuan is the basic unit of currency in ChinaYuan Dynasty (元朝), occasionally called the Mongol Dynasty, of ChinaYuan, one of several Chinese family names; 袁, 元, 苑, 原, 源, 爰 in Mandarin; 阮, 垣, 玄 in Cantonese.Thai Yuan, a people of Northern Thailand..
Yuan-Cheng Fung
Yuan-Cheng Bert Fung (born 1919) is a modern scientist, regarded as the "Father of Bioengineering" and the "Founder of Biomechanics". He was born in Jiangsu Province, China in 1919. He earned a Bachelor's degree in 1941 and a Master's degree in 1943 from the National Central University of China, an..
Yuan-shi tian-zun
Yuan-shi tian-zun (}; }), also known as the Celestial Venerable of the Primordial Beginning, is one of the highest deities of religious Taoism. He is one of the pure ones, the so-called San-qing and resides in the Heaven of Jade Purity. It is believed that he came to being at the beginning of the..
Yuan-ti
The yuan-ti are a fictional species of monstrous humanoid snake-men in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. They usually have a chaotic evil alignment. In some campaign settings, the yuan-ti are descended from evil human cultists who mixed their bloodlines with those of serpents. They have f..
Yuanchang Zheng
Yuanchang Zheng is a model in Taiwan and a popular actor in China. ..
Yuanda Zhu
Yuanda Zhu (Zhu Yuan Da) is the owner of Five Stars Corp. a fictional company in the SEGA/FREE/Action/Adventure/Video game series, Shenmue 2. Yuanda Zhu is owner of a trading company called Five Stars Corp, but they went bankrupt some time ago. Yuanda Zhu also wrote a book on martial arts called T..
Yuanfen
This page contains Chinese text. Without proper [Enabling East Asian charactersrendering support], you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Chinese characters. Yuan (缘) or Yuanfen (缘份; pinyin: yuan2 fen4) is a Buddhist-related Chinese con..
Yuanjia'ao
Yuanjia'ao (袁家嶴) is a village in Fenghua municipality, Zhejiang province, China. Situated at approx. 280m above sea level, in the Tiantai mountains, its main products are bamboo and timber. The village is traditionally considered the ancestral home of the Yuans of the greater Ningbo, who have ..
Yuanjiang
For the river of the same name, see Yuan River. Yuanjiang City (沅江, pinyin: Yuánjiāng) is a county-level city of Yiyang, Hunan province, in China. ..
Yuanlin, Changhua
Yuanlin (員林) is an urban township in central Changhua County, Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. Yuanlin has been assarted since the time of Yong-Zheng of the Ching Dynasty(1723-1735). It was well-developed about the 16th year of Qian-Long. People in the early periods cut down the fores..
Yuanmousaurus
Yuanmousaurus was a sauropod dinosaur (possibly related to Euhelopus) from the Middle Jurassic period of China. It is known from inclomplete remains, but probably reached about 17 meters (56 ft) in length. ..
Yuanmou Man
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Yuanshan, Yilan
Yuanshan (員山) is a rural township in the western part of Yilan County, Taiwan Province of the Republic of China. Area: 111.91 km²Population: 32,833 people (2004) ..
Yuanshen Sports Centre Stadium
Yuanshen Sports Centre Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Shanghai, China. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 20,000. ..
Yuantang dialect
Yuantang dialect is language game spoken by Hakka speakers at Yuantang, a village in southern China. Local speaker use it to obscure the conversation from outsiders. Rules History There is no solid evidence for the original of Yuantang dialect. But it is believed to be an invention of a local int..
Yuanwang
The Yuanwang-class (远望; meaning "Long View") are used for tracking and support of satellite and intercontinental ballistic missiles by the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The detailed specifications of the ships are not released by the PLAN. They..
Yuanwu Keqin
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Yuanyang
This article is about a town in China. For the a drink popular in Hong Kong, see Yuanyang (drink). Yuanyang is also the Chinese name of Mandarin Duck. Rice terraces just outside of Yuanyang. (November, 2004) Yuanyang (Chinese: 元阳; pinyin: Yuányáng) is a Hani minority settlement atop a m..
Yuanyang (drink)
Yuanyang (Traditional Chinese: }), or Yuenyeung, is a popular kind of beverage in Hong Kong, which is a mixture of Hong Kong-style milk tea and coffee. It was originally served at dai pai dongs and cha chaan tengs, but is now available at many restaurants. It can be served hot or cold. Yuanyang, ..
Yuan (surname)
[Featured articles ] [Yuan] ([Media helphelp]·[info]) (袁) is a Chinese surname ranked 37th in China by population.Chinese surnames pronounced "yuan" which still exist include: 袁, 元, 渊, 圆, 源, 遠, 苑, 原, 院, 冤, 垣. Of..
Yuan (Tales of Symphonia)
Yuan (Prounounced Ewen) is a fictional character from the role playing game, Tales of Symphonia, by Namco. History Yuan is one of the heroes of the Ancient Kharlan War from over 4,000 years ago. Like his friend, Mithos, he was a half-elf. He was also engaged to Mithos's older sister, Martel. The th..
Yuan An
A stele erected in 119, with key dates in Yuan An's public life. Yuan An 袁安 (styled Shaogong 邵公, died 9 April 92) was a prominent scholar, administrator and statesman at the Han Dynasty courts of Emperor Zhang and Emperor He. He is regarded as the founder of the powerful Yuan clan of R..
Yuan Ang
Yuan Ang (袁盎) (d. 148 BC) was a Han Dynasty minister who served Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing. His biography appears in the Shi Ji, and a parallel one is in Han Shu. He was assassinated in 148 BC when his suggestions irritated Emperor Jing's powerful brother Liu Wu (劉武), the Prince of Liang,..
Yuan Baohua
Yuan Baohua (袁宝华) is a Chinese educationalist and academic in the field of management. From 1985 to 1991 he was President of Renmin University. Yuan was born in January 1916 in Nanzhao county, Henan province. He entered Beijing University in 1934 to study mathematics, later transferring to ge..
Yuan Baojing
Yuan Baojing (袁寶璟) (1966 – March 17, 2006) was the president of the Jianhao Group and Beijing's wealthiest multi-millionaire. In March 2006, he and two accomplices were sentenced to death by a Liaoyang court for the October 2003 murder of Wang Xing, a hitman he had hired to kill a rival ..
Yuan Can
Yuan Can (袁粲) (420-477), né Yuan Minsun (袁愍孫), courtesy name Jingqian (景倩), was a high level official of the Chinese dynasty Liu Song, who near the end of the dynasty made a futile attempt to prevent the general Xiao Daocheng from gaining sufficient power to take the throne. Content..
Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi
Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi are two Chinese performance artists, based in Britain, who work together and specialise in art intervention. They have enacted (unofficial) events at the Venice Biennale and the Turner Prize, where in 1999 they jumped onto Tracey Emin's My Bed. Contents 1 Life2&n..
Yuan Chang
Yuan Chang is a virologist and pathologist who co-discovered Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV). Dr. Chang received an MD from the University of Utah College of Medicine. In 1994, she co-discovered KSHV, also called human herpesvirus-8 (HHV-8) working with her husband Patrick S. Moore a..
Yuan Chen
This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Yuan Chen (779 - 831) was a Chinese poet.Yuan Chen was an abbot of the Jade ..
Yuan Cheng
Yuan Cheng(程远), Ph.D., is an Magnetic Resonance Imaging Physicist at ONI Medical Systems, Inc. located in Wilmington Massachusetts, USA. While a graduate student at MIT, he and David Cory developed a method which uses Nuclear Magnetic Resonance as a multiple scattering method to study anisotropy..
Yuan Chonghuan
Yuan Chonghuan (袁崇煥; style name: Yuansu 元素 and Ziru 自如; born June 6, 1584, died 22 September 1630) was a famed patriot and military commander of the Ming Dynasty who battled the Manchus in Liaoning. Born in Dongguan, Guangdong he passed the imperial examinations in 1619 and was appoi..
Yuan class submarine
Yuan class submarine is the newest diesel-electric submarine in the People's Liberation Army Navy (as of 2006). The boat is the first conventional submarine to have a teardrop hull. This class was first launched at Wuhan Shipyard and is the successor of the Type 039 Song class. The class is repor..
Yuan Dehui
Yuan Dehui (袁德輝) was a Chinese imperial interpreter. He is best known for translating sections of Emerich de Vattel's Le droit des gens ("The Law of Nations"). A native of Sichuan, Yuan Dehui studied Latin at the Roman Catholic School in Penang. Later he studied also at the Anglo-Chinese Coll..
Yuan Dynasty
History of China 3 Sovereigns & 5 Emperors Xia Dynasty Shang Dynasty Western Zhou Zhou Spring & Autumn Eastern Zhou Warring States Qin Dynasty Western Han Han Xin Eastern Han Three Kingdoms Western Jin Jin Sixteen Kingdoms Eastern Jin Southern & North..
Yuan Dynasty family tree
The following is the Yuan dynasty family tree. Chinggis Khan founded the Mongol Empire (yeke mongghul ulus), and his grandson Khubilai Khan, who inherited the grand-khanship, named his domain Dai-ön yeke mongghul ulus. Although Toghun Temür Khan lost China in 1368, the dynasty was survived in Mon..
Yuan Guiren
Yuan Guiren (袁贵仁) is a Chinese academic and current Vice-minister of Education in the People's Republic of China. ..
Yuan He
Yuan He (源賀) (403-479), né Tufa Poqiang (禿髮破羌), formally Prince Xuan of Longxi (隴西宣王), was a high level official of the Chinese/Xianbei dynasty Northern Wei. He was a son of Southern Liang's last prince Tufa Rutan, and after Southern Liang's destruction he fled to Northern Wei ..
Yuan Hong
This article is about the Jin Dynasty (265-420) official. For the Northern Wei emperor, see Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei. Yuan Hong (; Wade-Giles: Yüan Hung, 328-376), his courtesy name is Yanbo, was a scholar, historian and politician from the Eastern Jin. He was born in Zhoukou, Henan, and s..
Yuan Hongbing
Yuan Hongbing (Chinese: 袁红冰; 1953- ) is an ethnic Mongolian jurist, novelist, and dissident from China. Yuan was born in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. He graduated from Beijing University with a masters degree in criminal procedure in 1986 and went on to head the School of Criminal Procedural law ..
Yuan Hongdao
Yuan Hongdao (1568 - 1610) was a Chinese poet of the Ming Dynasty, and one of the Three Yuan Brothers. At the age of 24 he took the 'jinshi exam and took an official position. However he quit out of boredom after a year and in 1593 went traveling. His travels resulted in his publishing a poetry co..
Yuan Huan
Yuan Huan was an official of the Later Han. During the 190s, he served Liu Bei, Yuan Shu and Lü Bu. After the fall of Lü Bu in 198, Yuan joined Cao Cao as an advisor. He was involved in a number of policy decisions, including the administration of tuntian. In the 210s Yuan was given the appointmen..
Yuan Jue
Yuan Jue (1266-1327) was a Yuan dynasty scholar. ..
Yuan Kay-shan
Yuan Kay-shan (Chinese: 阮奇山; pinyin: Ruǎn Qí Shān; Yale Cantonese: Yun1 Kei4 Saan1; also transliterated "Yuen Kay-San") was a student of Fok Bo-Chuen (霍保全; pinyin: Huò Bǎoquán; Yale Cantonese: Fok3 Bou2 Chyun4; also transliterated "Kwok Bo-Chuen") in the discipline of Wing Chun. He..
Yuan Longping
Yuan Longping (Chinese: 袁隆平, born September 7, 1930) is a Chinese agricultural scientist and educator, known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s. His "hybrid rice" has since been grown in dozens of countries in Africa, America, and Asia —providing a robust food so..
Yuan Mei
Yuan Mei (袁枚, 1716 - 1797) was a well-known poet, scholar and artist of the Qing Dynasty. Yuan Mei was born in Qiantang (錢塘, in modern Hangzhou), Zhejiang province. He achieved the degree of jinshi at a young age and entered the Hanlin Academy (翰林院). After a succession of various mino..
Yuan Meng
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Yuan. Yuan Meng (born May 9, 1986) is a professional tennis player from the People's Republic of China. By early March 2006, she had won two ITF singles titles and one ITF doubles title, and stood on the threshold of the World's Top 100-ranked women's te..
Yuan Muzhi
Yuan Muzhi (simplified Chinese: 袁牧之) (born March 3, 1909, died January 30, 1978) was an actor and director from the Republic of China and later of the People's Republic of China. As an actor, Yuan became extremely popular and took on the nickname "man with a thousand faces." Yuan was most fa..
Yuan Renlin
Yuan Renlin (袁仁林), styled Zhenqian (振千) was a Qing dynasty linguist. He was from Sanyuan county, Shaanxi province, and lived in the early 18th century. Yuan is best known for his work Xu zi shuo (虚字说), a 68-page study of grammatical particles. The work is full of careful and origina..
Yuan River
For the town of the same name, see Yuanjiang. The Yuan River / Yuanjiang (沅江 or 沅水) is one of the four largest rivers in Hunan province in southeast-central China, and is a tributary of Yangtze River. It is 537 miles (864 km) long and rises in Guizhou province in the Miao Mountains near Tu..
Yuan Shansong
Yuan Shansong (袁山松), sometimes called Yuan Song (袁崧 or 袁嵩), was an official of the Jin Dynasty. He was known as an accomplished poet, lyricist and also as an historian. Yuan also produced one of the first landscape essays, later to become a popular form in Chinese literature. Much of h..
Yuan Shao
Portrait of Yuan Shao in a Qing Dynasty edition of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms Names Simplified Chinese: 袁绍 Traditional Chinese: 袁紹 Pinyin: Yuán Shào Wade-Giles: Yuan Shao Zi: Benchu (本初) Yuan Shao (? – 202) was a major warlord occupying the north of ancient ..
Yuan Shikai
Yuan Shikai (Courtesy Weiting 慰亭; Pseudonym: Rong'an 容庵 Traditional Chinese: 袁世凱; Simplified Chinese: 袁世凯; Hanyu Pinyin: Yuán Shìkǎi; Wade-Giles: Yüan Shih-k'ai) (September 16, 1859Laing, Ellen Johnston. (2004) Selling Happiness, University of Hawaii Press. p. 92. ISBN 0-..
Yuan Shoufang
Yuan Shoufang (袁守芳), born March 1939, is a General and Director of the General Political Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. ..
Yuan Shu
This article is about the warlord during the Eastern Han Dynasty. A more recent Yuan Shu exists (1911-1987), who is a Communist revolutionary and the creator of the Chinese government's intelligence system. Yuan Shu (袁術/袁术; style name Gonglu 公路) (? – 199) was a major warlord of the..
Yuan Shu Chi
Women's Archery Bronze 2004 Women's team Yuan Shu Chi (Chinese: 袁叔琪, pinyin: Yuán Shúqí, Wade-Giles: Yüan Shu-ch'i) (born 9 November 1984) is an athlete from the Republic of China. She competes in archery. Yuan represented the Republic of China (as Chin..
Yuan T. Lee
Yuan Tseh Lee Taiwanese chemist and Nobel laureate Born November 19, 1936 Hsinchu City , Taiwan Yuan Tseh Lee (Chinese: 李遠哲 pinyin: Lǐ Yuǎnzhé, Wade-Giles: Li³ Yüan³-che²; pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lí Oán-tiat) (born November 19, 1936) is a famous chemist. He was the fir..
Yuan Tan
Yuan Tan as depicted in the 84-episode TV serial Romance of the Three Kingdoms Names Simplified Chinese: 袁谭 Traditional Chinese: 袁譚 Pinyin: Yuán Tán Wade-Giles: Yuan T'an Zi: Xiansi (顯思) Yuán Tán (}; }) (? – 205) was the eldest son of the warlord Yuan Shao and se..
Yuan Taotu
Yuan Taotu 轅濤塗 (died c. 625 BC, posthumous title "Xuanzhong" 宣仲) was a nobleman and diplomat of the Spring and Autumn state of Chen. He is regarded as the ancestor of those surnamed Yuan (袁). Yuan Taotu was a distant relative of the Chen royal family, wit..
Yuan Tian
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Yuan Weimin
Yuan Weimin is a Chinese sports administrator and civil servant. He is currently Executive President of the Beijing Organising Committee for the 2008 Summer Olympics. ..
Yuan Weishi
Yuan Weishi (Chinese: 袁伟时), is a Professor of Philosophy at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, China. He was born in Xingning, Guangdong, in December 1931. In the January 2006 issue of Bingdian (冰点: "Freezing Point"), Yuan published an article entitled ["Modernisation and history te..
Yuan Wencai
Yuan Wencai (袁文才; also Yuan Xuansan 袁選三) was a bandit chieftain who operated in the mountainous area of Jinggangshan in Jiangxi province, China, from 1924. He collaborated with the Communists and in particular Mao Zedong during their formative period in the Jiangxi Soviet. Yuan was born..
Yuan Xi
Yuán Xī (}; })was the second son of the warlord Yuán Shào and a military general under his father during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era in ancient China. After he was defeated in battle against Cáo Cāo, he fled to Liaodong with his younger brother Yuán Shàng and was betr..
Yuan Yao
Yuan Yao a minister of the Three Kingdoms Period who was the son to the famed general Yuan Shu. After the enthronement of Yuan Shu, Yao became the Crown Prince. Following the death of Yuan Shu he then relied on that of Liu Xun. When Sun Ce followed in his attack on Lu Jiang, he received his protecti..
Yuan Yida
Yuan Yida (Chinese: 袁义达, Yuan Yida) is a researcher from the Institute of Genetic and Developmental Biology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is the leading authority on Chinese surnames in mainland China, and has been working on statistical studies of surname distribution in the People's..
Yuan Yin
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Yuan You
Yuan You (Chinese: 遠遊; Pinyin: Yuǎn Yòu; English: Far-off Journey) is a poem attributed to Qu Yuan and published in the Chu Ci (楚辭 Songs of Chu, sometimes Songs of the South). ..
Yuan Ze University
Yuan Ze University (元智大學) is a university located in Taiwan. YZU was founded in 1986. The university is situated on the northern part of the island. The university is located half an hour away from Chiang Kai-Shek International Airport. External links [Official YZ..
Yuan Zhen
Yuan Zhen (元稹) (779 to 831), styled 微之, was an important Chinese writer and poet in the middle Tang Dynasty. He lived in Luoyang and briefly held ministerial rank. He was a member of Po Chu-i's literary circle and was a key figure in the ancient literature revival. He was one of Bai Juyi's..
Yuan Zhongyi
Yuan Zhongyi (袁仲一) is a Chinese archaeologist. He is best known for his work in the excavation and preservation of the Terracotta Army in Xi'an, China. ..
Yuasa
offers a wide range of lead acid automobile and motorcycle batteries that meet internationally accepted standards of quality and safety. Yuasa formed a joint-venture company with General Battery Corporation in 1976. Yuasa manufactured its first battery in 1979, producing standard conventional and Y..
Yuasa, Wakayama
Yuasa (湯浅町; -cho) is a town located in Arida District, Wakayama, Japan. As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 15,020 and a density of 722.12 persons per km². The total area is 20.80 km². External link [Official town website] (in Japanese) ..
Yuat languages
The Yuat languages are an independent family of a dozen Papuan languages in the classification of Malcolm Ross, that had been part of Stephen Würm's Sepik-Ramu proposal. However, there is no lexical or morphological evidence that the families are related. Contents 1 Classification2 Pr..
Yu Asakawa
, born April 20, 1975, is a popular voice actress (seiyū) in Japan. She is also a singer, both solo and with the Hinata Girls. Asakawa is currently affiliated with Arts Vision. Notable Roles Sheris - [[Record of Lodoss Wars: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight]]Priss S. Asagiri - Bubblegum Crisis To..
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