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.

From the beginning of the Zhou dynasty in 1045 BC to the time of the First Emperor, rulers of the Chinese states were titled Wang (), a term that originally meant " big man " but later came to mean " chief " or " king ".

The complex of three Wang towers in Lowell, which originally cost $ 60 million to build and housed 4, 500 workers in over a million square feet ( 100, 000 m < sup > 2 </ sup >) of office space, was foreclosed and sold at auction in 1994 for $ 525, 000.

Wang had a surplus stock of 20, 000 Amphenol 36-pin micro ribbon connectors that were originally used for one of their early calculators.

** Zhenzhi ( 增秩 ), originally a female servant, family name unknown, mother of Wang Kuang

** Huaineng ( 懷能 ), originally a female servant, family name unknown, mother of Wang Xin and a daughter of Wang's ( her name is not part of Unicode and therefore unavailable online )

** Kaiming ( 開明 ), originally a female servant, family name unknown, mother of Wang Jie

The Wang Theatre was originally known as the Metropolitan Theatre when it opened in 1925.

The Tang and Wang families were originally of non Muslim Han chinese extraction, but by the 1900s some branches of the families became Muslim by " intermarriage or conversion " while other branches of the families remained non Muslim.

The traditional lineage of the system begins with master Wang Zhenyuan in the late nineteenth-century ; but the style was originally formed at the Shaolin Henan Temple before being transferred to Wang.

* Youngest Son — Wang Lung originally intended for this son to be in charge of the farm whilst his other two sons were educated, but he became arrogant and ran away to become a soldier.

The giving of a military command to Wang Yu oddly drew a reaction from Wang Gong and Yin — as Wang Yu's command included four commanderies originally under the command of Yu Kai ( 庾楷 ), who became angry and managed to persuade Wang Gong and Yin that Sima Daozi's intention was to act against them as well.

The project was deemed to be too large by the Town of Hempstead Supervisor Kate Murray, who made a counter-proposal that was about half the size of what Wang had originally intended.

Although Liu Xin was originally a loyal partisan of Wang Mang, after Wang's troops suffered defeat on July 7, 23 at the Battle of Kunyang, Liu Xin plotted with others to overthrow Wang Mang.

Wang Shiwei, originally named Wang Sidao ( Chinese: 王思禱 ), was born in Guangzhou ( 光州 ， now Huangchuan County潢川 ) in Henan Province, China on March 12, 1906.

The city focuses on the south side of Wang River, although the old parts of the city had been originally developed in the north side of it.

MailMerge was originally the name of a utility supplied with MultiMate an early word processing product for the IBM PC, patterned after Wang word processors.

Liu Bang and his successors originally thought that creating principalities for members of the royal family would strengthen the royal house and strengthen their hand against the kings ( Yixing Wang ).

This Is Spinal Tap and other mockumentary films of director Christopher Guest are created with a mix of scripted and unscripted material and Blue in the Face is a 1995 comedy directed by Wayne Wang and Paul Auster created in part by the improvisations filmed during the production of their movie Smoke.

As part of his efforts to bring Japan into Barbarossa, on 1 July 1941, Ribbentrop had Germany break off diplomatic relations with Chiang Kai-shek and instead recognized the Japanese-puppet government of Wang Jingwei as China's legitimate government.

The PRC's UN Ambassador, Wang Yingfan ( Chinese 王英凡 ), has stated multiple times in the UN general committee: " Taiwan is an inseparable part of China's territory since antiquity " and " both the 1943 Cairo Declaration and the 1945 Potsdam Declaration have reaffirmed in unequivocal terms China's sovereignty over Taiwan as a matter of international law.

In the 1970s, Lowell became part of the Massachusetts Miracle, being the headquarters of Wang Laboratories.

Wang took part in a conference hosted by Yan to draft a new constitution, and was to serve as the Prime Minister under Yan, who would be President.

The VS group within Getronics, located in one of the original Wang facilities in Tewksbury, Mass., is now part of Compucom and continues to support the VS OS and system software in cooperation with TransVirtual Systems, owners of the Wang VS virtualization technology that makes the New VS possible.

Chen, Wang, and Davis suggest that the later stagnation was due, in part, to a system of periodic redistribution that encouraged over-exploitation rather than capital investment in future productivity.

He was born in Fuyuanshui Village, Hua County ( now part of Huadu District Guangzhou ), Guangdong to Hong Jingyang and Madam Wang.

Wang refers to the account of King Wu's victory over the Shang Dynasty in the Chinese Book of Songs as the " Weniad " ( a name that parallels The Iliad ), seeing it as part of a greater narrative discourse in China that extols the virtues of wén over more military interests.

In 16 BC, another of Wang Mang's uncles, Wang Shang ( 王商 ) the Marquess of Chengdu, submitted a petition to divide part of his march ) and to create Wang Mang a marquess.

Due to scheduling conflicts, Jerry Yan did not appear ; his part was played by Kingone Wang.

It should be said that Wang Anshi played no part in this actions against Su, for he had retired from public life in 1076 and established a cordial relationship with Su Shi.

* In the Later Three Kingdoms period of Korean history, Wang Geon ( later Taejo of Goryeo Dynasty ) occupied the Naju area, which was then part of Later Baekje Kingdom and came to become large base of his political support.

Wang Yangming's school of thought ( Ōyōmei-gaku in Japanese ) also provided, in part, an ideological basis for some samurai who sought to pursue action based on intuition rather than scholasticism.

The soundtrack album captures his singing of the part of Mr. Wang, the family patriarch.

Under the encouragement of the generals Yang Hu and Wang Jun and the strategist Zhang Hua, however, Emperor Wu, while sending a number of generals to combat the Xianbei and the Qiang, prepared the southern and eastern border regions for war against Eastern Wu throughout this part of his reign.

Dong Zhuo was assassinated in 192 by his foster son Lü Bu as part of a plot orchestrated by Interior Minister Wang Yun.

The provincial governor Wang Gong ( 王恭 ), whom Emperor Xiaowu entrusted with the armies of the northeastern part of the empire, considered starting a rebellion to overthrow Wang Guobao and Wang Xu.