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x Bei Dao   Aug 2, 1949    
Bei Dao (simplified Chinese: 北岛; traditional Chinese: 北島; pinyin: Běi Dǎo; literally "Northern Island", born August 2, 1949) is the pseudonym of Chinese poet Zhao Zhenkai (趙振開). He was born in Beijing, his pseudonym was chosen because he came from...
x Guo Jingming Guo jingming Jun 6, 1983    
Guo Jingming (Chinese: 郭敬明) (born June 6, 1983) is a Chinese author. His books are popular among young people in China, and he was the second best-selling writer in China in 2005. Guo has published 5 books so far. Also he is now the editor of the...
x Lue Gim Gong Lue Gim Gong 1860 United States of America Horticulturalist
Lue Gim Gong (呂金功, pinyin: Lǚ Jīngōng) (1860 Canton, China - July 3, 1925 DeLand, Florida USA), was an American of Chinese descent and a horticulturalist. Known as "The Citrus Wizard," he is remembered for his contribution to the orange-growing...
x Li Shilong Li Shilong Aug 10, 1977    
Li Shilong (simplified Chinese: 李师龙; traditional Chinese: 李師龍; pinyin: Lǐ Shīlóng; born August 10, 1977) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. In 2002, he became China's 14th Grandmaster. At the 5-16 October 2005 5th Asian Chess Championship in Hyderabad,...
x Linji Japanese painting of Linji Yixuan (Jap. Rinzai Gigen).   China Philosopher
Línjì Yìxuán (臨済義玄; Wade-Giles: Lin-chi I-hsüan; Japanese: Rinzai Gigen) (died 866) was the founder of the Linji school of Chán Buddhism during Tang Dynasty China. Linji was born into a family named Xing (邢) in Caozhou (modern Heze in Shandong),...
x Gee Jon   1895    
Gee Jon (c. 1895 – February 8, 1924) was the first person in the United States to be executed by lethal gas, at Nevada State Prison on February 8, 1924. He was born in China, but spent most of his life in San Francisco's Chinatown. He was 29 when he...
x H. Bentley Glass   Jan 17, 1906 United States of America  
Hiram Bentley Glass (January 17, 1906 – January 16, 2005) was an American geneticist and noted columnist. Born in China to missionary parents, he attended college at Baylor University in Texas. He then furthered his education at the University of...
x Qin Kanying Qin Kanying Feb 2, 1974    
Qin Kanying (simplified Chinese: 秦侃滢; traditional Chinese: 秦侃瀅; pinyin: Qín Kǎnyìng; born February 2, 1974) is a Chinese chess player. She is a FIDE Woman Grandmaster. She is married to GM Peng Xiaomin, who is also her trainer. She won the Chinese...
x Li Jie   1981   Guitarist
Li Jie (Chinese: 李潔; pinyin: Lǐ Jié; b. 1981) is a Chinese classical guitar virtuosa. She began studying the classical guitar at the age of 11 (Chinese age) under Professor Chen Zhi (陳志). One year later, she appeared as a performer on the television...
x Andrew Lau   Apr 4, 1960   Cinematographer
Andrew Lau Wai-Keung (born 4 April 1960) is a Hong Kong cinematographer and filmmaker. Lau began his career in the 1980s and 1990s, serving as a cinematographer to filmmakers such as Ringo Lam, Wong Jing and Wong Kar-wai. In the 1990s, Lau decided...
Film director
x Kim Chan   1915 China  
Kim Chan (1915 – October 5, 2008), also known as Kim S. Chan, was a Chinese-American actor and producer. He was most notable for his role as The Ancient in Kung Fu: The Legend Continues. Chan was born in Guangdong Province, then under the government...
United States of America
x Fenggan   8 C.E.    
Fenggan (simplified Chinese: 丰干; traditional Chinese: 豐干; pinyin: Fēnggān; Wade-Giles: Fengkan; literally "Big Stick", fl. 9th century) was a Chinese Zen monk-poet lived in the Tang Dynasty, associated with Hanshan and Shide in the famed "Tiantai...
x Ma Yueh-liang Wu Ying-hua, Ma Yueh-liang 吳英華 , 馬岳樑 Aug 1, 1901    
Ma Yueh-liang (simplified Chinese: 马岳梁; traditional Chinese: 馬岳樑; pinyin: Mǎ Yuèliáng) (August 1, 1901 - March 13, 1998) was a famous Chinese teacher of Taijiquan. He was the senior disciple of Wu Chien-ch'uan, the founder of Wu style Taijiquan, and...
x Wu Ta-ch'i   1926    
Wu Ta-ch'i (simplified Chinese: 吴大齐; traditional Chinese: 吳大齊; pinyin: Wú Dàqí) (1926-1993) was the descendant of the famous Wu style T'ai Chi Ch'uan founders Wu Ch'uan-yu (1834-1902) and Wu Chien-ch'uan (1870-1942). He directed Wu style T'ai Chi Ch...
x He Man   2 C.E.    
He Man was a commander under the Yellow Turbans during the fall of the Han dynasty of China. After the decline of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, He Man's men, like other Yellow Turban remnants in Runan, allied themselves with Yuan Shu and Sun Jian in...
x Wu Shaobin   Feb 4, 1969    
Wu Shaobin (born February 4, 1969) is a Chinese Grandmaster chess player. He won the national Singaporean Chess Championship in 2003 and 2005. He is married to former Women's World Chess Champion Xie Jun. In 1998, he became China's 8th Grandmaster....
x Tung-shan   807 C.E.    
Liang-chieh of Tung-shan (807-869), often referred to simply as Tung-Shan or Dongshan Liangjie (Ch. 洞山良价), was a Ch'an (Zen) master of 9th century China. Along with his pupil Ts'ao-shan Pen-chi, he is best known for founding the Ts'ao-tung, or later...
x Ouyang Yu   1955 Australia Novelist
Ouyang Yu (born 1955) is a contemporary Chinese-Australian author, translator and academic. Ouyang Yu was born in the People's Republic of China, arriving in Australia in 1991 to study for a Ph. D. at La Trobe University which he completed in 1995....
Writer
x Ida Pruitt   1888 United States of America  
Ida Pruitt (1888 – 1985), bi-cultural social worker, author, speaker, interpreter and 20th century contributor to Sino-American understanding. Ida Pruitt was the daughter of North China Southern Baptist missionaries Anna Seward Pruitt and C.W....
x Blackie Ke Shou Liang   1953 China Actor
Blackie Ko Shou-Liang (Chinese: 柯受良; pinyin: Kē Shòu Liáng) was a famous Taiwanese film director, producer, stuntman and actor. In 1956, he moved to Taiwan with his family during the chaos of Mao Zedong's early communist reformations. His son is...
x Tan Wangsong   Dec 19, 1985 China  
Tan Wangsong (simplified Chinese: 谭望嵩; traditional Chinese: 譚望嵩; pinyin: Tán Wàngsōng; born December 19, 1985 in Chengdu, Sichuan) is a Chinese footballer who is a fullback for Tianjin Teda. Tan Wangsong would start his career with Sichuan Guancheng...
x Tom Y. Chan   Sep 25, 1884 United States of America Businessperson
Tom Young Chan (September 25, 1884 – September 3, 1944) was a Chinese American businessman and civic leader in Chicago. He was a leading supporte r of the Kuomintang in the United States, and helped raise money for both Sun Yat-sen and General...
x Zhu Yu   1970 China  
Zhu Yu (Chinese: 朱 昱) b. 1970 Zhu Yu was born in 1970, in Chengdu, in the Sichuan Province of China, and lives and works in Beijing. He is considered an important and unique artist of the Chinese contemporary art scene. Controversy on his works goes...
x Zhaozhou   778 C.E.    
Zhàozhōu Cōngshěn (Chinese: 趙州從諗; Wade-Giles: Chao-chou Ts'ung-shen; Japanese: Jōshū Jūshin) (778–897), was a Chán (Zen) Buddhist master especially known for his "paradoxical statements and strange deeds". Zhaozhou became ordained as a monk at an...
x Yuanwu Keqin   1063    
Yuanwu Keqin (圜悟克勤) (Wade-Giles: Yuan Wu K'e Ch'in; Japanese: Engo Kokugon) (1063 - 1135) was the Chinese Chan Buddhist monk who wrote commentaries on the one-hundred koans (kung an) compiled by Xuedou Zhongxian (Wade-Giles:Hsueh Tou Chung Hsien;...
x Teh Cheang Wan   Mar 3, 1928 Singapore Politician
Teh Cheang Wan (3 March 1928, China – 14 December 1986, Singapore) was an architect who was in charge of the Housing Development Board as Minister for National Development of Singapore. He served as the minister between 1979 to 1986. Teh was elected...
x Dongshan Shouchu        
Dongshan Shouchu (traditional Chinese: 洞山守初; Wade-Giles: Tung-shan Shou-ch'u; Japanese: Tozan Shusho) (died 900) was a Chinese Zen teacher and an heir to Yunmen Wenyan. Dongshan is the subject of Case 18 "Three Pounds of Flax" in the Mumonkan, a...
x Wumen   1183    
Wumen Huikai (Chinese: 無門慧開; Wade-Giles: Wu-men Hui-k'ai; Japanese: Mumon Ekai) (1183-1260) is a Song period Chán (Japanese: Zen) master most famous as the compiler of and commentator on the 48-koan collection The Gateless Gate (Japanese: Mumonkan)....
x Shi De Li   1965    
Shi Yongxin (Chinese: 释永信; Pinyin: Shì Yǒngxìn) is the current principal abbot of the Shaolin Temple. He is the thirteenth successor after Buddhist abbot Xue Ting Fu Yu. He is the chairman of Henan Province Buddhists Association, vice-chairman of...
x Mazu Daoyi   709 C.E.   Philosopher
Mazu Daoyi was a Ch'an Buddhist master in China during the Tang dynasty. In dharma-succession through Nanyue to the Sixth Patriarch, Mazu Daoyi contributed far-reaching insights and changes in teaching methods regarding the transmission of awareness...
x Shen Tong   1968    
Shen Tong (Simplified Chinese: 沈彤; Hanyu Pinyin: Shěn Tóng) is a Chinese dissident who was one of the student leaders in the democracy movement at Tiananmen Square in 1989 One of the People of the Year by Newsweek 1989, Shen Tong became a media and...
x Tang Junyi   Jan 17, 1909 China Philosopher
Tang Junyi (Chinese: 唐君毅; pinyin: Táng Jūnyì; Wade-Giles: T'ang Chüni, 17 January 1909—2 February 1978) was a Chinese philosopher, who was one of the leading exponents of New Confucianism. He was influenced by Plato and Hegel as well as by earlier...
x Dai Wangshu   Mar 5, 1905    
Dai Wangshu (Chinese: 戴望舒; pinyin: Dài Wàngshū) (also Tai Wang-shu or Tai Van-chou) (March 5, 1905—February 28, 1950) was a Chinese poet, essayist and translator active from the late 1920s to the end of the 1940s. A native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, he...
x Samuel Lamb   Oct 4, 1924    
Samuel Lamb or Lin Xiangao (simplified Chinese: 林献羔; traditional Chinese: 林獻羔; pinyin: Lín Xiàn-gāo; Wade-Giles: Lin2 Hsian4-Kao1, born October 4, 1924) is a Christian pastor in Guangzhou, China. He is a leader among Chinese house churches, and...
x Sengcan     China Monk
Jianzhi Sengcan (Chinese: 僧璨) (?-606) (Wade-Giles: Chien-chih Seng-ts'an; Japanese: Kanchi Sosan) is known as the Third Chinese Patriarch of Chán after Bodhidharma and thirtieth Patriarch after Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha. He is considered the Dharma...
x Puchen Wang Puchenwang Jan 20, 1990    
Wang Puchen (born January 20, 1990) is a New Zealand IM-titled chess master. He became the New Zealand Champion, Rapid Champion and Lightning Champion in January 2007 when he was 17. Wang was New Zealand Junior Champion at the age of 11, and a...
x Howe Yoon Chong HoweYoonChong 1923 Singapore Politician
Howe Yoon Chong (simplified Chinese: 侯永昌; pinyin: Hóu Yǒngchāng) (1923 – 21 August 2007) was a Minister in the Cabinet of Singapore and a Member of Parliament for Potong Pasir from 1979 to 1984. He was key in developing Singapore's infrastructural...
Chief Executive Officer
x William R. Richardson William R Mar 25, 1929 United States of America  
General William Rowland Richardson was a U.S. Army four star general and former Commander of the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command He was born in Taichow, Kiangsu, China, on March 25, 1929 to missionary parents. Richardson graduated...
x Fuyu Li   May 9, 1978    
Li Fuyu (born May 9, 1978) is a Chinese professional road bicycle racer for UCI Continental cycling team Trek-Marco Polo Cycling Team. Li rode with the team from 2005 to 2006, before switching to the Pro Tour Discovery Channel under coach Johan...
x Liu Wenzhe   Oct 7, 1940    
Liu Wenzhe (Chinese: 刘文哲; born October 7, 1940) is a retired International Master chess player and has been one of China's top chess trainers. He was the first Chinese chess master and China's first chess player to defeat a grandmaster. He has been...
x Yao Lee Yao Lee collection album titled after her hit song Rose, Rose, I Love You (瑰玫瑰我愛你) 1922 China Singer
Yao Lee, also credited as Yiu Lei and Miss Hue Lee, was a Chinese singer from the 1930s to the 1970s and sister of Yao Min. By the 1940s, she became one of the Seven great singing stars. Born in Shanghai, Yao began performing with a radio appearance...
x Wang Rui   Apr 18, 1978    
Wang Rui (Chinese: 王锐; born April 18, 1978 in Hebei Province) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. Wang has competed in the China national chess team in the Chess Olympiad once at the 33rd Chess Olympiad in 1998 (games played 3: +2, =0, -1), and once for...
x Wang Guangli   Nov 1966 China Screenwriter
Wang Guangli (Chinese: 王光利) (born November 1966), nicknamed "King Death" is a film director. A native of Sichuan, and originally a psychology professor, Wang eventually turned to film, making underground independent features that were often censored...
Film director
x Peng Xiaomin   Apr 8, 1973    
Peng Xiaomin (Chinese: 彭小民; pinyin: Péng Xiǎomín; born April 8, 1973) is a Chinese chess grandmaster. In 1997, he became China's 6th Grandmaster. Peng Xiaomin is married to WGM Qin Kanying. Peng has been a grandmaster since 1997. In 1998, he became...
x Tian Pengfei   Aug 16, 1987 China  
Tian Pengfei (born 16 August 1987) is a professional snooker player from the People's Republic of China. Tian reached the last 32 of the under-21 division of the IBSF World Snooker Championship in 2002. The following year, he reached the last 16 in...
x Wang Yu   Nov 19, 1982    
Wang Yu (Chinese: 王瑜; born November 19, 1982) is a Chinese chess player who holds the IM and the WGM titles. In 1996, she won the World U14 Girls Championship and in 1998, won the World U16 Girls Championship. In 1999, she was runner-up at the World...
x Xu Yuanyuan   Mar 8, 1981    
Xu Yuanyuan (Chinese: 许婳婳; born March 8, 1981) is a Chinese WGM-titled chess player. In October 1997 Xu won the World U16 Girls Chess Championship in Yerevan, and in 2000, also in Yerevan, she won by a large margin (with a score of 11/13 -- she...
x Wang Bing   1967 China  
Wang Bing (Chinese: 王兵; pinyin: Wáng Bìng) (born 1967 in Shaanxi) is a Chinese director, often referred to as one of the foremost figures in documentary film-making. Wang is the founder of his own production company, Wang Bing Studios, which...
x Wei Wenhua   Jan 3, 1967    
Wei Wenhua (Chinese: Chinese: 魏文华; Pinyin: Wèi Wénhuá; January 3, 1967 – January 7, 2008) was the general manager of a construction company, Shuli Architectural Engineering. He was beaten to death in Wanba, Tianmen, Hubei, after attempting to film...
x Fayun   1933    
Venerable Master Fayun (also romanized as Fa Yun) (Traditional Chinese: 法雲法師; Simplified Chinese: 法云法师; Pinyin: Fǎ Yún Fǎ Shī) (1933-2003) was a Chinese Buddhist monk and thirteenth generation successor in the Yunmen (雲門; Cloud Gate) lineage of the...
x Tan Zhongyi   Nov 5, 1991    
Tan Zhongyi (Chinese: 谭中怡; born May 29, 1991) is a Chinese female chess player, who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster. Tan won the World Youth U10 Girls Chess Championship twice in 1999 and 2001 (both in Oropesa del Mar). In 2002, she won...
x Ju Wenjun   Jan 31, 1991    
Ju Wenjun (Chinese: 居文君; born January 31, 1991) is a Chinese female chess player, who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster. In December 2004, Ju came joint second in the Asian Women's Chess Championship in Beirut. In October 2007, she came...
x Liu Shilan   Jan 24, 1962    
Liu Shilan (Chinese: 刘适兰; born January 24, 1962) is a Chinese female chess player who holds the WGM title, which she received in 1982. She was nine-times China National Women's Champion (1979-81, 1983-6). In 1982, Liu came third at the World Chess...
x Wu Mingqian   Jan 8, 1961    
Wu Mingqian (Chinese: 吴敏茜; born January 8, 1961) is a Chinese female chess player who holds the WGM title, which she received in 1985. In 1985, Wu came second at the World Chess Championship Interzonal Tournament in Zeleznovodsk with a final score...
x Wu Wenjin   Mar 10, 1976    
Wu Wenjin (Chinese: 吴文瑾; born March 10, 1976) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. In 2000, he became China's 11th Grandmaster. In October 1999, Wu came joint first (with Dao Thien Hai, Peng Xiaomin, and Bu Xiangzhi) with 6 pts at the Qingdao Daily Cup....
x Wang Zili   Jun 14, 1968    
Wang Zili (Chinese: 汪子力; born June 14, 1968) is a retired Chinese chess Grandmaster. In 1995, he became China's 5th Grandmaster. He gained the GM title in 1995. He was twice National Champion in 1988 and 1999. He participated for the China national...
x Liang Jinrong   May 21, 1960    
Liang Jinrong (Chinese: 梁金荣; born May 21, 1960) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster. In 1997, he became China's 7th Grandmaster. He gained the GM title in 1993. He was National Chess Champion twice in 1995 and 2000. He competed for the China national...
x Wang Pin   Dec 11, 1974    
Wang Pin (Chinese: 王频; born December 11, 1974) is a Chinese WGM-titled chess player. She is currently the 50th highest rated female player in the world, and she used to be the 6th highest rate female player in January to April 2001. Her peak rating...
x Wang Lei   Feb 4, 1975    
Wang Lei (Chinese: 王磊; pinyin: Wáng Lěi; born February 4, 1975 in Shanghai) is a Chinese WGM-titled chess player. She was in the FIDE Top 50 Women rating list from 2000 to 2003. Her highest position was 5th in the world on October 2001. Her peak...
x Lin Weiguo   Jul 25, 1970    
Lin Weiguo (Chinese: 林卫国; born July 25, 1970) is a Chinese IM-titled chess player. He was National Chess Champion three times in 1991, 1992 and 1997. He competed for the China national chess team twice at the Chess Olympiads (1992-1994) with an...
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