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Wang Zhen (simplified Chinese: 王祯; traditional Chinese: 王禎; pinyin: Wáng Zhēn; Wade–Giles: Wang Chen, fl. 1290–1333) was a Chinese agronomist, inventor, mechanical engineer, politician, and writer of the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368). He was one of the early innovators of the wooden movable type printing technology.
Wang Zhen (April 11, 1908 [1] – March 12, 1993) was a Chinese political figure who was one of the Eight Elders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was the 4th Vice President of China and served under Chinese Presidents Yang Shangkun and Li Xiannian.
Wang Zhen was a Chinese eunuch who monopolized power during the first reign of the Ming emperor Yingzong (reigned as Zhengtong; 1435–49). Wang was denounced by later historians as the first of a series of eunuchs whose mismanagement helped destroy the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Wang was the constant.
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Wang Zhen, (simplified Chinese: 王祯; traditional Chinese: 王禎; pinyin: Wáng Zhēn; Wade–Giles: Wang Chen, fl. 1290 – 1333), an official of the Yuan Dynasty working in Jingde County in Anhui province, and author of the Nong Shu, developed movable type carved from wood in China around 1280 CE.
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Buddhist Sagewas painted by Wang Zhen (also known as Wang Yiting). In China, the year of his birth was the “Sixth Year of the Tongzhi Period of the Great Qing” (1867 in the Western calendar); he died in the “Twenty-seventh year of the Chinese Republic” (1938). He was part of a generation that lived through traumatic times, with China buffeted by in...
Buddhist Sage carries a poetic inscription that identifies who and what we see in the painting.It reads: The “sage from the West” is the semi-legendary founder of the Chan sect of Buddhism, Bodhidharma, active in the early 5thcentury C.E. The earliest Chinese sources to mention him state that he was a visitor to China from “the Western regions,” a ...
Wang Zhen began painting early in life, his earliest surviving works dating from 1885, when he was in his late teens. He acknowledged as teachers two members of the Shanghai School, the more famous of these being Ren Yi, also known as Ren Bonian. Through his connection to this famous master, Wang Zhen can himself be thought of as a member of that s...
A successful Shanghai businessman as well as a devout Buddhist, Wang Zhen is best known for his paintings of Buddhist figures in the calligraphic brush manner of his mentor, Wu Changshi (1844–1927).
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Wang Zhen was Chinese artist and calligrapher known for his paintings of birds, flowers, and Buddhist figures. His style was directly influenced by his teacher Wu Changshuo, and his works often evince the devote nature of his belief in Zen Buddhism.
