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Wang Xuan
Wang Xuan may refer to: * Wang Xuan (Second Zhou) ( 692–703), prime minister during Wu Zetian's reign * Wang Xuan (computer scientist) (1937–2006), Chinese computer scientist * Xuan Juliana Wang (王轩, Wáng Xuān, born 1985), Chinese-American writer * Wang Xuan (water polo), (born 2002), Chinese water polo player {{hndis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Xuan (Second Zhou)
Wang Xuan (王璿) was an official of Wu Zetian's Zhou dynasty, briefly serving as chancellor. Despite Wang's high status, little is firmly established about his career except for the time that he served as chancellor—as, unusual for a chancellor, he did not have a biography in either the ''Old Book of Tang'' or the ''New Book of Tang''.See the Table of Contents for the ''Old Book of Tang'' and the Table of Contents for the ''New Book of Tang''. It is known that his clan was a prominent one, from what was one point Langye Commandery (琅邪, roughly modern Linyi, Shandong), that traced its ancestry all the way back to a descendant of the original Zhou dynasty's imperial house, then to officials of the Qin dynasty, Han dynasty, Cao Wei, Jin dynasty (266–420), Liu Song, Liang dynasty, and Chen dynasty. Wang Gui's great-grandfather Wang Meng (王猛, not to be confused with the great Former Qin chancellor of the same name) served as a provincial governor during Chen and carrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wang Xuan (computer Scientist)
Wang Xuan (; February 5, 1937 – February 13, 2006), born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, was a Chinese computer scientist. He was a computer application specialist and innovator of the Chinese printing industry, as well as an academician at both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was the vice-president of the CPPCC and founder of the major technology conglomerate company Founder Group in 1986.} Biography Wang Xuan graduated from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics at Peking University in 1958 and devoted himself to computer science education and research. He was mainly involved in research into computer processing of words, graphics and images. In 1975, he was in charge of the research and development of laser typesetting systems in the Chinese language and of electronic publishing systems. Surpassing Japan's second-generation optical designation and the third-generation Cathode ray tube, CRT designation, the fourth-generation laser typesetti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xuan Juliana Wang
Xuan Juliana Wang is a Chinese American writer. She teaches creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her 2019 short story collection, ''Home Remedies'', won the John C. Zacharis First Book Award and was shortlisted for the Young Lions Fiction Award and the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. She earned her MFA from Columbia University and received a Stegner Fellowship to study at Stanford University. Early life and education Xuan Juliana Wang was born in 1985 Heilongjiang, China. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was seven years old. Wang earned her BA from the University of Southern California. She earned her MFA from Columbia University in 2011 and received a Stegner Fellowship to study at Stanford University from 2011 to 2013. She lived in Beijing for two and a half years in her 20s. During the 2008 Summer Olympics she worked as a translator. Career Wang's work has been published in the ''Pushcart Prize Anthology'', ''The Atlantic'', ''Ploughshares' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
