Zhou not only joined the KMT, but actually helped organize the founding of the Nationalist Party European branch in November 1923.

The king's prestige legitimized the military leaders of the states, and helped mobilize collective defense of Zhou territory against " barbarians.

Though he emphasized Gija's independence from King Wu of Zhou, Yi believed that Kija's teachings helped Korea to reach the same level of civilization as China.

Wang, grateful to his aunt Grand Empress Dowager Wang ( who, however, resented him for deceiving her and usurping the throne ), continued to honor her as empress dowager, but also gave her an additional title of Wangmu ( 王母 ), the same title carried by the mother of King Wen of Zhou, implying that she was also his mother and had helped establish a new dynasty.

At the time Yuan just got out of the city gate, Dong thought about sending men after him, but Zhou Bi, Wu Qiong and He Yong secretly helped Yuan by convincing Dong to let him go.

Duke Huan was succeeded by his son Duke Wu, who helped King Ping of Zhou establish the Eastern Zhou Dynasty in Luoyang, and his feudal state of Zheng was also moved east to present-day Henan.

* 2 Duke Wu of Zheng ( 鄭武公 / 郑武公 ) ( 771 – 744 BCE ), son of Duke Huan, helped establish the Eastern Zhou Dynasty

11th century BC ), also known as Taigong, was an ancient Chinese military strategist who helped King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou overthrow the Shang Dynasty.

Zhou Tong helped Wu Song up and began to teach him swordplay under the moon.

The Shu was mentioned in Shiji as one of the allies of King Wu of Zhou who helped defeated the Shang in 1046BC at the Battle of Muye.

In early 1952, Zhou Enlai led a team to draft the first Five-Year Plan which included Chen, Bo Yibo, Li Fuchun and General Nie Rongzhen.

Zhou, Chen and Li presented the draft to Soviet experts in Moscow, who rejected it.

The government of the People's Republic of China sponsored the Xia Shang Zhou Chronology Project, a multidisciplinary project that sought to give better estimates for dates prior to 841 BC, but the project's draft report, published in 2000, has been criticized by various scholars.

At the time, Jiang Qing and associates held effective control of mass media and the party's propaganda network, while Zhou and Deng held control of most government organs.

The transition would be an opportunity for Bo to join the highest echelon of national leadership, likely as a replacement for ally Zhou Yongkang, secretary of the Central Political and Legislative Committee, serving as the head of the party's security apparatus.

In May 2012 the Financial Times reported that Zhou had relinquished the operational control of the party's Political and Legal Affairs Commission to Minister of Public Security Meng Jianzhu due to his support for former Chinese politician Bo Xilai, and had lost his right to select his successor when he retires from the Politburo Standing Committee in fall 2012.

The system of Chinese astrology was elaborated during the Zhou dynasty ( 1046 – 256 BC ) and flourished during the Han Dynasty ( 2nd century BC to 2nd century AD ), during which all the familiar elements of traditional Chinese culture – the Yin-Yang philosophy, theory of the 5 elements, Heaven and Earth, Confucian morality – were brought together to formalise the philosophical principles of Chinese medicine and divination, astrology and alchemy.

* Baphuon Style ( 1050 – 1080 ): Baphuon, the massive temple mountain of King Udayadityavarman II was apparently the temple that most impressed the Chinese traveller Zhou Daguan, who visited Angkor toward the end of the 13th century.

The Zhou Dynasty was the longest-lasting dynasty in Chinese history, from 1066 BC to approximately 256 BC.

The situation was aggravated by the invasion of other peoples from the northwest, such as the Qin, forcing the Zhou to move their capital east to Luoyang.

Though there remained a nominal Zhou king until 256 BC, he was largely a figurehead and held little real power.

When the Shang were overthrown by the Zhou, a new political, religious and philosophical concept was introduced called the " Mandate of Heaven ".

This mandate was said to be taken when rulers became unworthy of their position and provided a shrewd justification for Zhou rule.

Although tradition holds that in the Zhou, the year began on the new moon which preceded the winter solstice, the Spring and Autumn Annals seem to indicate that ( in Lu at least ) the Yin calendar ( the calendar used in Shang dynasty, with years beginning on the first new moon after the winter solstice ) was in use until the middle of the 7th century, and that the beginning of the year was shifted back one month around 650 BC.

According to tradition, it was written around the 6th century BC by the sage Laozi ( or Lao Tzu, " Old Master "), a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court, by whose name the text is known in China.

BIND was written by Douglas Terry, Mark Painter, David Riggle and Songnian Zhou in the early 1980s at the University of California, Berkeley as a result of a DARPA grant.

According to Book of Zhou and History of Northern Dynasties, Ashina was a branch of Xiongnus and according to Book of Sui and Tongdian, they were " mixed Barbarians " ( 雜胡 / 杂胡, Pinyin: zá hú, Wade-Giles: tsa hu ) from Pingliang.

Iven was also suspected of being a friend of Mao Zedong and especially Zhou Enlai.

Philosopher Laozi was keeper of books in the earliest library in China, which belonged to the Imperial Zhou dynasty.

Mao was removed from his important positions and replaced by individuals ( including Zhou Enlai ) who appeared loyal to the orthodox line advocated by Moscow and represented within the CPC by a group known as the 28 Bolsheviks.

It was during this, year-long journey that Mao emerged as the top Communist leader, aided by the Zunyi Conference and the defection of Zhou Enlai to Mao's side.

Although divination with the I Ching is thought to have originated prior to the Shang Dynasty, it was not until King Wu of Zhou ( 1046 – 1043 BC ) that it took its present form.

In China, by the time of the Zhou Dynasty ship technologies such as stern mounted rudders were developed, and by the Han Dynasty, a well kept naval fleet was an integral part of the military.

Zhou later argued that as the boundary was undemarcated and had never been defined by treaty between any Chinese or Indian government, the Indian government could not unilaterally define Aksai Chin's borders.

This was also the case in the Spring and Autumn Period in ancient China, when the Eastern Zhou Dynasty were nominal rulers.

The shi ( 尸 ; " corpse, personator ") was a Zhou Dynasty ( 1045 BCE-256 BCE ) sacrificial representative of a dead relative.

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

* Empress Yuan Leshang, an empress of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in China, later became a Buddhist nun who lived as a recluse, dying at an unknown date ( yet was still alive during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang, which ended in 649 )

Marquis Yi was from the State of Chu during the Warring States phase of the Zhou Dynasty.

Lastly, the Congress elected a new Politburo with Mao Zedong, Lin Biao, Chen Boda, Zhou Enlai, and Kang Sheng as the members of the new Politburo Standing Committee.

At the end of the Congress, Zhou was elected to the Party's Central Committee, again heading the military department.

During the Sixth Congress, Zhou was elected Director of the Central Committee Organization Department.

The Congress elected Kang as one of the five members of the Politburo Standing Committee, along with Mao, Lin Biao, Zhou Enlai and Chen Boda.

* Honghao Zhou ( 周宏灏 ), Tongji Class 1962, elected in 2005.

* Ji Zhou ( 周济 ), HIT Class 1980, elected in 1999, Former Minister of Education of China.