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J Jiang Chunliang Film & TV · Unknown nationality

Jiang Chunliang (1988-October 7, 2021), male, from Huainan, Anhui, is an actor and director from Mainland China. He graduated from the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama. His representative works include "Four Famous Catchers", "Heroes of Fire", "Fat Man Action Team", "Brothers Sleeping in My Upper Bunk", "Only Mom is Good in the World", "Gu Jian Qi Tan: The Moon Shines", "Spent a Long Time with Anthony", etc. On the evening of October 7, 2021, Jiang Chunliang died at the age of 33 due to failed rescue efforts. The farewell ceremony for his body will be held on October 9 at the Fengtai County Funeral Home.

Jiang Menglin Jiang Menglin Political figures · Republic of China

Jiang Menglin (January 20, 1886 - June 19, 1964), formerly known as Mengxiong, also known as Deming, courtesy name Zhaoxian, alias Menglin, pen name Weixin, was a native of Yuyao, Zhejiang, an educator, writer, Minister of Education of the National Government, President of National Peking University, and President of National Zhejiang University.

J Jiang Haokang Scholars · People's Republic of China

Jiang Haokang (March 1935 - October 15, 2019), male, was born in Wujin, Jiangsu. Professor at the School of Energy and Power Engineering, Beihang University. The research area is turbomachinery pneumatics.

pubajia pubajia Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Wu Ze Pubajia (Tibetan: ཕུར་པ་སྐྱབས།, Wiley: phurpa skyabs, July 8, 1985 -), a Tibetan, Chinese actor and singer from the Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province. In 2006, he made his debut by winning the national championship of Dragon TV's "Come on Good Man".

Gary Johnson Gary Johnson Political figures · United States

Gary Earl Johnson (English: Gary Earl Johnson, January 1, 1953 -) is an American businessman, author and politician. He served as the governor of New Mexico as a Republican from 1995 to 2003. He was a presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party in the 2012 and 2016 U.S. presidential elections. He was also the New Mexico candidate nominated by the Libertarian Party in the 2018 U.S. Senate election.

Lan Tianye Lan Tianye Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Lan Tianye (May 3, 1927 - June 8, 2022), formerly known as Wang Runsen, also known as Wang Huang, male, was born in Raoyang, Hebei, and was a Chinese drama, film and television actor and director. Actor and director at Beijing People's Art Theater. The representative drama works "Teahouse" and "Cai Wenji", the representative TV works "Desire" Wang Zitao, and "The Legend of the Gods" Jiang Ziya. One of the first 29 recipients of the July 1st Medal.

Lenny Kravitz Lenny Kravitz Musicians · United States

Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz (English: Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz, born May 26, 1964), known as Lenny Kravitz, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and arranger. The music style is retro, incorporating elements such as rock, soul, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic rock, folk and ballads. In addition to singing, Lenny also played all guitars, bass, drums, keyboards and percussion instruments for the album. Lenny has won 4 Grammy Awards so far, and won the Best Male Rock Vocalist 4 times in a row from 1999 to 2002. He also broke the record for the most wins of this award. Lenny has also been nominated for and won many awards such as the American Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, and Brit Awards.

Lan Hongchun Lan Hongchun Film & TV · Unknown nationality

Lan Hongchun (1985-) is a mainland Chinese director and screenwriter. He mainly represents the "Chaoshan Trilogy" of Chaozhou-dialect films - "Dad, I Can Do It", "Take You to Meet My Mom" ​​and "A Love Letter to Grandma". His works are often based on the local culture of Chaoshan.

C Cai Renmao Entrepreneurs · Unknown nationality

Cai Renmao, (? - 1934, date of birth to be determined), was a Chinese industrialist in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. He was the "King of Glass" in the Republic of China and a pioneer in the Chinese glass industry.

C Cai Wei Political figures · People's Republic of China

Cai Wei (March 1971-), male, native of Zhuji, Zhejiang, is a politician and diplomat of the People's Republic of China. He once served as the Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Houston and the Director of the Latin America and Caribbean Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is currently a member of the Party Committee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, Assistant Minister and Director of the Department of North America and Oceania.

C Cai Boli Writers · People's Republic of China

Choi Park Lai, GBS (English: Choi Park Lai, December 28, 1922 - July 26, 2018), formerly known as Cai Quanqin, was a Hong Kong historian, philanthropist and the third generation successor of Cai Zhenbutang.

C Cai Laixing Entrepreneurs · People's Republic of China

Cai Laixing (April 1943-), a native of Shanghai and an entrepreneur from Hong Kong, China.

Jolin Tsai Jolin Tsai Musicians · Republic of China

Tsai Yiling (English: Jolin Tsai, September 15, 1980 -), whose stage name is Jolin Tsai, is a Taiwanese female singer, songwriter, music producer and actor. Born in Xinzhuang City, Taipei County (now Xinzhuang District, New Taipei City). In 1998, he participated in the singing competition program "New Voice Card Battle" and won the championship. In 1999, he released his first album "1019" and made his official debut. In 2003, he released the album "Look at My 72 Changes" and began the transformation of his music style, establishing a direction mainly focused on dance music. In 2006, he released the album "Dancer" and won his first Golden Melody Award. Since then, he has won multiple Golden Melody Awards for his albums "Muse", "Bah", "Ugly Beauty" and "Pleasure". She has won nine Golden Melody Awards so far, making her the most awarded Chinese female singer in the history of the Golden Melody Awards. Jolin Tsai's record sales have exceeded 25 million to date, making her the highest-selling female singer in Taiwan since the 2000s. Since the 2003 album "Look at Me 72 Changes", her 11 original studio albums have all won Taiwan's annual female singer record sales championship, and four of her albums have won Taiwan's annual record sales championship. She has also appeared on Forbes' "China Celebrity List" many times. From 2010 to the 2020s, she entered the top 20 in the comprehensive ranking six times, including three times ranking first in the comprehensive ranking of Chinese female singers. Her net worth exceeded NT$2 billion in 2014, and she became Taiwan's highest-paid female singer 16 times between 2003 and 2022.

Cai Yuanpei Cai Yuanpei Political figures · Republic of China

Cai Yuanpei (January 11, 1868 - March 5, 1940), also known as Zhongshen, also known as Heqing, Minyou, Jiemin, nicknamed Junjun, nicknamed Yige, nicknamed Yike, and nicknamed Ah. Pei, who also used the pseudonyms Cai Zhen and Zhou Ziyu, male, from Shanyin County, Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province (now Shaoxing City), originally from Zhuji, Shaoxing, was a modern Chinese revolutionist, educator, politician and translator. He served as Acting Chairman of the National Government of the Republic of China and is generally regarded as a pioneer in modern ethnological research in China. Cai Yuanpei became a Jinshi at the age of 25 and was appointed a scholar of the Hanlin Academy. He was the first Minister of Education of the Republic of China. From 1916 to 1927, he served as the president of Peking University. He revolutionized Peking University and launched an "academic" and "liberal" style. From 1920 to 1930, Cai Yuanpei also served as the president of the Sino-French University. During the Northern Expedition, after the Nationalist Government established Nanjing as its capital, he chaired the Educational Administration Committee, prepared the establishment of the University of the Republic of China and the Academia Sinica, and led the reform of the education and academic system. He is also a supervisory committee member of the Chinese Kuomintang. During the April 12th Incident, he took the lead in publishing the "Power Line to Protect the Party and Save the Nation", calling for the party to be purged. From 1928 to 1940, he served as the president of Academia Sinica, implementing his views on academic research. Cai Yuanpei was a generous and compassionate person with a thorough observation of Chinese society and customs. He twice studied in Europe and was intimately familiar with the spirit of Renaissance humanism and the ideological trends after the French Revolution. He "transferred Chinese culture and education from the era of feudal autocracy to the era of democracy and freedom." Set educational policies by hand and create a modern education system. Make Peking University academic and lay the foundation of Academia Sinica. Promote military-civilian education, materialism, civic ethics, outlook on life, world view, and aesthetic education. It advocates free thought, civil rights and women's rights, strives to get rid of the old custom of "study to become an official", and develops a scientific research atmosphere.

Charlene Choi Charlene Choi Film & TV · Canada

Charlene Choi (English: Charlene Choi, November 22, 1982 -), Hong Kong female singer, actress, member of the girl group Twins, nicknamed "Ah Sa". Born in Vancouver, Canada, and raised in Hong Kong, she started working as a part-time model for magazines and advertisements in the third year of secondary school. In 1999, she served as a special actor in the movie "Since He Came Here". In 2000, she filmed the youth drama "Youth@Y2K" which was very popular. After that, she signed a contract with Emperor Entertainment to become an artist. She formed Twins with Gillian Chung and made her debut the following year with the song "Caritas Secret Love Tuition Club". In 2005, it officially expanded into the Chinese-speaking market, entered Taiwan, and became popular on campus. In September 2002, at the age of 19, she became the youngest female singer to hold a concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum (Coliseum) in Hung Hom.

Cai Guoqiang Cai Guoqiang Artists · People's Republic of China

Cai Guoqiang (December 8, 1957 -) is a Chinese artist famous for his gunpowder blasting artistic creation method. Born in Huiyu Island, Quangang District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, he currently lives in New York and New Jersey, United States, where he engages in creative work.

Cai Shaofen Cai Shaofen Film & TV · British Hong Kong

Ada Choi Siu Fun (English: Ada Choi Siu Fun; September 17, 1973 -), native of Chaozhou, Guangdong, Hong Kong actress. Since the 2010s, the focus of performing arts has shifted to mainland China, but its Hong Kong-style Mandarin is often criticized. She is most familiar with her classic lines "I can't do it" in the TV series "The Legend of Zhen Huan" and "I used to call her Xiao Tiantian, but now I call her Mrs. Niu" in the movie "Westward Journey".

Tsai Chongxin Tsai Chongxin Entrepreneurs · Canada

Tsai Chongxin, born in Taipei, is a lawyer and entrepreneur. He has dual citizenship of the Republic of China and Canada and is a permanent resident of Hong Kong. His family comes from a Shanghai lawyer family and immigrated to the United States when he was in high school. He is qualified as a lawyer in New York State and is currently the chairman of the board of directors of Alibaba Group. He spent US$2 billion to buy the Brooklyn Nets of the American NBA and became the owner of the Nets. He is also the chief "global consultant" of IAE International Bachelor's College in the United States.

Cai Kangyong Cai Kangyong Film & TV · Republic of China

Kevin Tsai (English: Kevin Tsai, March 1, 1962 -), Taiwanese host, writer and director. In his early years, Cai Kangyong was a film critic and screenwriter. His screenwriters include "A Baby" (1990) and "Fang Shiyu" (1993), and later became a writer and host. From 2004 to 2016, he co-hosted "Kangxi Is Coming" with Xiao S, which was a great success in the Chinese world and won the Best Variety Show Host Award at the 40th Golden Bell Awards. From 2014 to 2020, he co-hosted "Qi Pa Shuo" with Ma Dong and others. He has hosted the Golden Bell Awards twice, the Golden Horse Awards seven times, and directed the film "Eat Love" (2017). Cai Kangyong is the author of "Happy Diary", "LA Wanderings", "Things Those Boys Taught Me", "Cai Kangyong's Way of Speaking" series and "Cai Kangyong's Emotional Intelligence Class" series, etc.

Cai Xukun Cai Xukun Musicians · People's Republic of China

Cai Xukun (August 2, 1998 -) is a mainland Chinese singer, original music producer and actor. In 2012, he participated in the variety show "Up!" "Youth" has entered the entertainment industry in mainland China. In 2015, he participated in the first and second seasons of the Chinese and Korean reality show "Star Asia", and successfully made his official debut through the 10-member boy group SWIN in October 2016. After his contract with Yihai Culture was terminated, he participated in iQiyi's "Idol Producer" as a personal trainee, and finally won the first place in the show, and debuted as the leader and center of NINE PERCENT. Cai Xukun's well-known personal original works include the singles "I Wanna Get Love", "Hard To Get", "Wait Wait Wait", "Lover", EP "1" and the latest album "Mystery". In terms of group works, he participated in the composition of the group song "Just Because You Are So Beautiful" during the SWIN-S period; after joining NINE PERCENT, he participated in the lyrics of "Rule Breaker" in the group album "TO THE NINES". His music style is diverse and he is good at integrating Future R&B/Urban R&B, Hip-Hop, Oriental and other music elements.

Tsai Ming-liang Tsai Ming-liang Film & TV · Republic of China

Tsai Ming-liang (October 27, 1957 -) is a film director who was born in Sarawak, East Malaysia and moved to Taiwan. His films have won major awards at major film festivals at home and abroad. He is an internationally renowned film author and one of the representatives of Malaysian films in Taiwan. He has won many important awards at three major international film festivals in Europe, including "Love" "Long Live Love" (1994) and "Outing" (2013) won the Golden Lion and the Jury Prize respectively at the Venice Film Festival, and "The River" (1997) won the Silver Bear and "Days" (2020) the Teddy Bear Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. "The Face" (2009) became the first film to be collected by the Louvre, setting a benchmark and model for art films. He has been shortlisted for the Venice Film Festival four times, the Cannes Film Festival three times, the Berlin Film Festival three times, and the Golden Horse Award for Best Director eight times.

Cai Qin Cai Qin Film & TV · Republic of China

Tsai Chin (English: Tsai Chin, December 22, 1957 -), Taiwanese female singer, actress and host. In the late 1970s, he entered the music scene as a campus folk singer. In 1979, he became famous with the song "Just Like Your Tenderness". In the same year, he released his first solo album "Out of the Sea". She is a finalist for Taiwan's three gold medals and is an important driving force behind the establishment of Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards.

Cai Shengbai Cai Shengbai Entrepreneurs · Unknown nationality

Tsai Shengbai (English: Tsai Shengbai, September 27, 1894 - April 15, 1977), a famous businessman in modern Chinese history, was born in Shuanglin Town, Wuxing County, Zhejiang Province (now Shuanglin Town, Nanxun District, Huzhou City).

C Cai Yuedong Entrepreneurs · People's Republic of China

Cai Yuedong (January 28, 1964 -), Chinese entrepreneur, founder and current chairman of Fujian Dongsheng Group, and concurrently chairman of Zhangzhou Experimental Middle School. He once served as a deputy to the Zhangzhou Municipal People’s Congress.