In AD 9, the usurper Wang Mang claimed that the Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the Han dynasty and the rise of his own, and he founded the short-lived Xin (" New ") Dynasty.

Wang Mang started an extensive program of land and other economic reforms, including the outlawing of slavery and land nationalization and redistribution.

Wang Mang was eventually killed in Weiyang Palace by an enraged peasant mob in AD 23.

" Wang Mang, the restoration of the Han dynasty, and Later Han.

Emperor Wang Mang abolished slave trading ( although not slavery ) in China in 9 CE.

His grandfather, Zhang Kan, had been governor of a commandery, and one of the leaders who supported the restoration of the Han Dynasty by Emperor Guangwu ( r. 25 – 57 ), following the death of the usurper Wang Mang and his short-lived Xin Dynasty ( AD 9 – 23 ).

China continued to be dominated by the Han Dynasty, despite a 14-year interruption by the Xin dynasty under Wang Mang.

* 8 – 23: Wang Mang temporarily overthrew the Han dynasty of China.

* Wang Mang

* Wang Mang, Usurper Emperor of the short-lived Xin Dynasty in China r. 9 – 23

* Wang Mang founds the short-lived Xin Dynasty in China ( until 25 ).

Wang Mang names his wife Empress Wang ( Xin Dynasty ) and his son Wang Lin Crown Prince and heir to the throne.

* Emperor Ping of Han China begins his reign and Wang Mang is re-instated as regent by Grand Empress Dowager Wang.

* Wang Mang foils a plot by his son, Wang Yu, his brother-in-law, Lu Kuan, and the Wei clan to oust him from the regent's position.

* Emperor Ping of Han marries Empress Wang ( Ping ), daughter of Wang Mang, cementing his influence.

* Wang Mang is given the title " Superior Duke "

* Wang Mang, the power behind the throne, is granted the " Nine Awards of Imperial Favor " — a set of ceremonial robes, sceptres, weapons and privileges bestowed only on those in the most intimate relationship with the emperor.

This is a further sign of the rising power of Wang Mang.

* February 3 – The boy emperor, Ping Di dies of unexpected causes at age 14 ; Wang Mang alone selects the new emperor, the Ruzi Ying, age 2, starting the Jushe era of the Han Dynasty.

* The imperial Liu clan suspect the intentions of Wang Mang and foment agrarian rebellions during the course of Ruzi Ying's reign.

The film was based on the fourth novel in a pentalogy, known in China as the Crane Iron Pentalogy, by wuxia novelist Wang Dulu.

There was court intrigue between the political rivals of the Reformers and Conservatives, led by the chancellors Wang Anshi and Sima Guang, respectively.

Only during the Ming Dynasty was the School of Mind revived by Wang Shouren, whose influence is equal to that of Zhu Xi.

Although Wang succeeded Sun as Chairman of the National Government, Chiang's relatively low position in the party's internal hierarchy was bolstered by his military backing and adept political maneuvering following the Zhongshan Warship Incident.

The NRA branched into three divisions: to the west was Wang Jingwei, who led a column to take Wuhan ; Bai Chongxi's column went east to take Shanghai ; Chiang himself led in the middle route, planning to take Nanjing before pressing ahead to capture Beijing.

Wang Jingwei's National Government was weak militarily, and was soon ended by Chiang with the support of a local warlord, ( Li Zongren of Guangxi ).

* Wang the Perverted from the film Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders ( or as he's known for most of the film, " Evil Presence ") was brought back from the dead with many cybernetic body parts including a hand that spontaneously flips the bird due to a malfunction

Wang Bi (, 226 – 249 AD ) was a famous Three Kingdoms period philosopher and commentator on the Tao Te Ching ( tr.

There were many great encyclopedists throughout Chinese history, including the scientist and statesman Shen Kuo ( 1031 – 1095 ) with his Dream Pool Essays of 1088, the statesman, inventor, and agronomist Wang Zhen ( active 1290 – 1333 ) with his Nong Shu of 1313, and the written Tiangong Kaiwu of Song Yingxing ( 1587 – 1666 ), the latter of whom was termed the " Diderot of China " by British historian Joseph Needham.

" Wang reports that Gödel's wife, Adele, two days after Gödel's death, told Wang that " Gödel, although he did not go to church, was religious and read the Bible in bed every Sunday morning.

Inoculation was reportedly not widely practised in China until the reign of the Longqing Emperor ( r. 1567 – 1572 ) during the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 – 1644 ), as written by Yu Tianchi in his Shadou jijie ( 痧痘集解 ) of 1727, which he alleges was based on Wang Zhangren's Douzhen jinjing lu ( 痘疹金鏡錄 ) of 1579.

In addition, Ribbentrop hoped that recognizing Wang would be seen as a coup which might add to the prestige of the pro-German Japanese Foreign Minister Yōsuke Matsuoka, who was opposed to opening American-Japanese talks.

In August 1921, Mao founded the Self-Study University, through which readers could gain access to Marxist and other revolutionary literature, and which was housed in the premises of the Society for the Study of Wang Fuzhi ( Chuan-shan Hsüeh-she ).

MultiMate's greatest advantage — and its mandate from Connecticut Mutual — was that it allowed companies to easily replace dedicated Wang Word Processor workstations with PCs, with an order of magnitude reduction in cost.

The user interface, although different from Wang's, was close enough to allow a Wang user to rapidly switch over without much retraining.

While the Wang WP keyboard was different from the original PC keyboard, MultiMate compensated by providing a large plastic template that clipped on the PC keyboard, and stick-on labels for the fronts of the PC keys.

( A company legend was that the MultiMate user manual was written first, by an experienced Wang WP manager, then the programmers were told to write software to match it, which is how the Wang WP was created.

Although a successor was appointed as Dong Zhou Hui Wang, traditionally in Chinese history this is considered the end of the Zhou Dynasty.

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For his role in the Pacific War, Wang has been considered a traitor by most post-World War II Chinese historians in both Taiwan and mainland China.

Zhu Xi is considered as the biggest master of Song where Neo-Confucianism and Wang Yangming is the one of Ming's.

The nationalists look for news of people whom they considered to be traitors to China, such as the incident with Grace Wang from Duke University, a Chinese girl who allegedly tried to appease to both sides during the debate about Tibet before the 2008 Summer Olympics.

After private discussion with other senior leaders, Peng considered the prestige of Mao and the unity of the Party and agreed to make a self-criticism, which was publicly reviewed at the conference, in which he admitted that he had made " severe mistakes " associated with his " rightist viewpoint ", that he had been a follower of Li Lisan and Wang Ming, and in which he openly implicated his supporters in his " mistakes ".

In 1 AD, after bribing the distant Yueshang Tribes ( probably in modern southern Vietnam ) to submit offerings of an albino pheasant ( considered a rare sign of divine favor ), Wang was successful in having his followers persuade Grand Empress Dowager Wang to create him the Duke of Anhan ( 安漢公 ) -- even though the Han nobility system did not include dukes and no duke had ever been created in Han history up to that point — to let his title parallel that of the Duke of Zhou.

However, then, in an act of false modesty intended to create the opposite result, he petitioned Grand Empress Dowager Wang that his daughter not be considered — and then started a petition drive by the people to have his daughter be selected as empress.

In the winter of 5, Wang submitted pepper wine ( considered in those days to be capable of chasing away evil spirits ) to the 13-year-old emperor, but had the wine spiked with poison.

He sent his cousin Wang Yi ( 王邑 ) and his prime minister Wang Xun ( 王尋 ) with what he considered to be overwhelming force, some 430, 000 men, intending to crush the newly reconstituted Han regime.

As a title of nobility, Ba Wang, hegemon, recognized overlordship of several subordinate kings while refraining from claiming the title of emperor within the imperium of the Chinese subcontinent, such as its borders were considered from era to era.

Sovereigns styled Ba Wang, hegemon, asserted official overlordship of several subordinate kings while refraining from claiming the title of emperor within the imperium of the Chinese subcontinent, such as its borders were considered from era to era, as in the case of Xiang Yu who styled himself Xīchǔ Bàwáng, Western Chu Hegemon, appointing subordinate generals from his campaigns of conquest, including defeated ones, as Wang, kings of states within his hegemony.

In certain places, Shan Wang, the mountain god, is considered to represent the supreme god.

Only when summoned to court was Wang Zhaojun ’ s beauty revealed and the emperor considered retracting his decision to give her to the Xiongnu.

He sent his cousin Wang Yi ( 王邑 ) and his prime minister Wang Xun ( 王尋 ) with what he considered to be overwhelming force, some 430, 000 men, intending to crush the newly constituted Han regime.

The people of Chang ' an had previously been offended by Emperor Gengshi's officials, who did not appreciate their rising up against Wang Mang but in fact considered them traitors.

Wang, aware that Emperor Gengshi was becoming a major threat, sent his cousin Wang Yi ( 王邑 ) and his prime minister Wang Xun ( 王尋 ) with what he considered to be overwhelming force, some 430, 000 men, intending to crush the newly constituted Han regime.