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Wang and insisted
When Wang looked to retire from actively running his company in 1986, he insisted upon handing over the corporate reins to his son Fred Wang.
Wang and Lian had some initial successes, but Wang insisted on having them keep fighting without resting, and the fatigued forces eventually collapsed.
On 9 April 2007, Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily reported that the Kung family insisted that Nina Wang wished to donate the largest portion of the billions estate to set up a charity fund for medical and education developments in mainland China.
Wang believed all CCP work should be carried out within the framework of the United Front ; Mao insisted CCP should maintain its independence from the United Front instead.
Wang insisted that urban revolution was preferable to rural revolution, despite the fact that China was actually a largely agricultural country.
Wang insisted that the words of previous sages should be treated critically, and that they were often contradictory or inconsistent.
In 1919 Wang became a teacher at a Presbyterian mission school in Baoding, a hundred miles south of the capital, but was dismissed in 1920 when he insisted on being baptized by immersion.

Wang and film
The film was based on the fourth novel in a pentalogy, known in China as the Crane Iron Pentalogy, by wuxia novelist Wang Dulu.
Originally written as a novel series by Wang Du Lu starting in the late 1930s, the film is adapted from the storyline of the fourth book in the series, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
* 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
Documentary diary ; an informal history of the British documentary film, 1928-1939, New York: Hill and Wang
** Wayne Wang, Hong Kong-born film director
In the film Sex and the City, Vera Wang was featured among the bridal gowns Carrie Bradshaw wore in her Vogue photo shoot.
In the film Bride Wars, Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson both wore custom-made Vera Wang gowns.
The film starred Paul Muni as Wang Lung.
Chan Is Missing is a 1982 film directed by Wayne Wang, which tells the story of two taxi drivers searching the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown for the man who ran off with their money.
* The Kiss ( 1992 film ), a film with a score by Nathan Wang
Wayne Wang ( born January 12, 1949 ) is an American film director.
When he was 17, he moved to the United States with the intention of studying towards eventually entering medical school, but Wang changed his mind and ended up in the arts, studying film and television at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland.
At the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, Wang premiered two feature films, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Princess of Nebraska, as well as appearing in the Arthur Dong documentary film Hollywood Chinese.
The book was adapted into a 2011 film directed by Wayne Wang.
Chon Wang travels to New York City to find his old partner Roy O ' Bannon ( Owen Wilson ), needing his share of the gold left over from the first film to buy his ticket.
* When Chon Wang is fighting the police in New York City, it is a blatant reference to the Keystone Cops of early silent film.
* The fight scene with the guards in Rathbone's library and treasure room, where Chon Wang used ancient Chinese vases to distract the guards, pays homage to Chan's previous film, Rush Hour.
The scene where Chon Wang and Roy fall off of the minute hand on Big Ben is a reference to Jackie Chan's earlier film Project A where Jackie Falls off the minute hand of a smaller clock tower, itself a reference to Harold Lloyd's famous clock-tower stunt from the 1923 film Safety Last!
Chan's character, " Chon Wang " is meant to sound like John Wayne, and the antagonist, Nathan Van Cleef, is an homage to Lee Van Cleef, who played in the 1976 kung-fu western film The Stranger and the Gunfighter, among other roles in major westerns.
The 2010 short film The Profile, by American film maker Ray Arthur Wang, is inspired by the Wen Ho Lee case.
These films ranged from graphic Category III-rated films such as The Untold Story and Dr. Lamb ( based on serial killers Wong Chi Hang and Lam Kor-wan respectively ) to more general audience fare such as the film Crime Story ( based on the kidnapping of businessman Teddy Wang Tei-huei ) which featured action star Jackie Chan.

Wang and only
By January 1944, Germany had diplomatic relations with only a handful of countries: Argentina, Ireland, Vichy France, the Salo Republic in Italy, Occupied Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Switzerland, the Holy See, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Thailand, Japan, and the Japanese puppet states of Manchukuo and the Wang Jingwei regime in China.
The stele does not list any such imperial dispensation as reward for the monks ' assistance during the campaign against Wang Shichong, only land and a water mill are granted.
* 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.
Fu Traing Wang and Chuan-Chin Hsiung proved in 1942 that there are only thirteen convex tangram configurations ( configurations such that a line segment drawn between any two points on the configuration's edge always pass through the configuration's interior, i. e., configurations with no recesses in the outline ).
This set of 13 Wang tiles will tile the plane but only aperiodic tiling | aperiodically.
But in 1966, Robert Berger proved that no such algorithm existed, by showing how to translate any Turing machine into a set of Wang tiles that tiles the plane if and only if the Turing machine does not halt.
Combining this with Wang's observation shows that there must exist a finite set of Wang tiles that tiles the plane, but only aperiodically.
Since Wang's government held authority only over territories under Japanese military occupation, there was a limited amount that officials loyal to Wang could do to ease the suffering of Chinese under Japanese occupation.
The mainland's communist government despised Wang not only for his collaboration with the Japanese, but also for his anti-communism, while the KMT downplayed his anti-communism and emphasised his collaboration and betrayal of Chiang Kai-shek.
About 70 % of all names were only one character long during the early Han and that rose beyond 98 % after the usurping Wang Mang banned all two-character names outright.
He created a second class of stock, class B, with higher dividends, but only one-tenth the voting power of class C. The public mostly bought class B shares ; the Wang family retained most of the class C shares.
The system was so costly, even in the context of a Wang Integrated Imaging System, that Freestyle was only affordable for highly specialized or very senior staff.
Wang would be only one of a large number of New England-based computer companies that would falter in the late 1980s and 1990s.
In 1999 Wang Global, by then back up to $ 3. 5 billion in annual revenues, was acquired by Getronics of The Netherlands, a $ 1. 5 billion network services company active only in parts of Europe and Australia.
Roy and Lin kiss, and Roy proposes that he and Wang go to Hollywood to get in on the ground floor with motion pictures ( motion picture, though, was only invented in 1894 and Hollywood only became a center of movie-making thirty years after the movie, another anachronism ).
Chinese national, Chun Yu Wang, in her 2009 book, Chicken Feathers and Garlic Skin: Diary of a Chinese Garment Factory Girl on Saipan ( as told to Walt F. J. Goodridge ), provides the only known first-hand account of factory work conditions and life in the barracks, and provides revealing insights from a Chinese perspective into the experience typical of many of the garment factory workers on Saipan.
Peng's body was quickly cremated, and his ashes were sent to Chengdu, identified only by a note that read: " No. 327 – Wang Chuan, from Chengdu.
The Chuci collection consists primarily of poems ascribed to Qu Yuan ( 329-299 BCE ) and his follower Song Yu, although in its present form the anthology dates to Wang I's 158 CE compilation and notes, which are the only historically reliable source of both the text and information regarding its composition.
He also entrusted the matters of changing Xianbei ceremonies and music to Han ceremonies to the official Wang Su ( 王肅 ), who had only recently defected from Southern Qi.
Wang was born into a distinguished family, but his father died when he was young and he held only minor posts until being made a marquess in 16 BC.
When Emperor Ping died as a child in AD 6, Wang Mang chose ( to his own advantage ) an infant successor, the Emperor Ruzi, who had only been born in AD 5.
Another thing that Wang Mang made himself known for was that he had only a wife, Lady Wang, and no concubines.
* In 13, under Emperor Wang Mang's rule, the Heavenly Stems were incorporated to number the years and replace the previous system which used only the Earthly Branches.

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