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

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

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.

Yale University scholar, Wang Fangyu, was a major collector of Bada Shanren paintings from the 1960s until his death in 1997.

Wang Dao seems to have been a collector of famous recluses, perhaps out of a desire to project an image of virtuous authority.

* 1989 – Wang Hao, Chinese race walker

Allied with a number of Chinese Communists and advised by Soviet agent Mikhail Borodin, Wang declared the National Government as having moved to Wuhan.

The Japanese, controlling the puppet-state of Manchukuo and much of China's eastern seaboard, appointed Wang Jingwei as a Quisling-ruler of the occupied Chinese territories around Nanjing.

Wang named himself President of the Executive Yuan and Chairman of the National Government ( not the same ' National Government ' as Chiang's ), and led a surprisingly large minority of anti-Chiang / anti-Communist Chinese against his old comrades.

* 1983 – Wang Hao, Chinese table tennis player

* 1959 – Wang Lijun, Chinese police officer

* 1920 – An Wang, Chinese computer pioneer ( d. 1990 )

* 1937 – Wang Xuan, Chinese scientist ( d. 2006 )

Wang Yangming, a Ming Chinese neo-Confucian philosopher, official, educationist, calligraphist and general, held that objects do not exist entirely apart from the mind because the mind shapes them.

* 1978 – Wang Liqin, Chinese table tennis player

* 1977 – Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player

Attempts were made to establish a puppet Chinese government, under Nationalist defector Wang Ching-wei, but this also proved unsuccessful.

Chinese thinkers of the early common era said to be materialists include Yang Xiong ( 53 BCE – 18 CE ) and Wang Chong ( 27 – c.

* 1940 – Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei.

He then lived for three years in China, where he studied under Luo Changpei at Peking University and under Wang Li at Lingnan University, before returning to take a PhD in Chinese Linguistics at Cambridge under the supervision of Gustav Hallam and then J. R. Firth.

* 1949 – Wang Wanxing, Chinese dissident

* 1978 – Wang Nan, Chinese table tennis player

** Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player

* Although pioneered earlier in Korea and by the Chinese official Wang Zhen ( with tin ), bronze metal movable type printing is created in China by Hua Sui in 1490.

* Wang Yun, Chinese playwright, poet

* Wooden movable type printing invented by the Chinese governmental minister Wang Zhen in 1298.

* 1069 – 1076: with the support of Emperor Shenzong of Song, Chancellor Wang Anshi of the Chinese Song Dynasty introduces the ' New Policies ', including the Baojia system of societal organization and militias, low-cost loans for farmers, taxes instead of corvée labor, government monopolies on tea, salt, and wine, reforming the land survey system, and eliminating the poetry requirement in the imperial examination system to gain bureaucrats of a more practical bent.

* 1093: when the Chinese Empress Dowager Gao dies, the conservative faction that had followed Sima Guang is ousted from court, the liberal reforms of Wang Anshi reinstated, and Emperor Zhezong of Song halted all negotiations with the Tanguts of the Western Xia, resuming in armed conflict with them.

* Wang Anshi, Song Chinese chancellor