Deng Wei may refer to:
Wei Jingsheng is a Chinese human rights activist and dissident. He is best known for his involvement in the Chinese democracy movement. He is most prominent for having authored the essay "The Fifth Modernization", which was posted on the Democracy Wall in Beijing in 1978. As punishment for writing his manifesto, Wei was arrested and convicted of "counter-revolutionary" activities, and he was detained as a political prisoner from 1979 to 1993. Briefly released in 1993, Wei continued to engage in his dissident activities by speaking to visiting journalists, and as punishment, he was imprisoned again from 1994 to 1997, making it a total of 18 years he has spent in various prisons. He was deported to the United States of America on 16 November 1997, on medical parole. Still a Chinese citizen, in 1998 Wei established the Wei Jingsheng Foundation in New York City whose stated aim is to work to improve human rights and advocate democratization in China.
Deng is an East Asian surname of Chinese origin which has many variant spellings and transliterations. It is a transcription of 邓 or 鄧 (traditional). In 2019 Deng was 21st most common surname in mainland China.
Teng is a Chinese surname derived from State of Teng in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is the 73rd name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. It is T'eng in Wade–Giles, Tàhng in Cantonese and is usually Romanized as "Tang" in Hong Kong. It is Têng in Hokkien and Teochew. It is "ddàng"in Wenzhou.
Lai is a common Chinese surname that is pronounced similarly in both Mandarin and Hakka dialects. The meaning of the character used in the Lai (賴) surname is "depend on; trust in; rely on". Conversely the words, 無賴 literally translated to "without Lai" which means "undependable, rascal or scoundrel".
Benjamin or Ben Turner may refer to:
Shí ([ʂɻ̩̌]) or Shih is the romanization of the Chinese surname 石. It means "stone." It was one of the "Nine Sogdian Surnames." A 2013 study found it was the 63rd most common surname, shared by 4,550,000 people or 0.340% of the population, with Henan being the province with the most people. It is romanized Shek in Cantonese.
Zhong is pinyin transliteration of several Chinese surnames, including Zhōng (鍾/钟), Zhòng (种), mistakenly for Chóng, and Zhòng (仲). These are also transliterated as Chung, Cheong or Choong, Tjung or Tjoeng, and Chiong.
Qiu or Chiu is the Hanyu Pinyin and Wade-Giles transliteration, respectively, of the Chinese surnames 丘/邱, and 秋. Qiu (丘) is a common surname in China. It is also one of the most influential surnames in Taiwan (邱), as well as the Sichuan and Fujian provinces in the South China region. They may be transliterated in various forms, as:
Yang Fan may refer to:
Tang is a pinyin romanization of various Chinese surnames.
Brian Duffy may refer to:
Deng Wei Hon FRPS was a Chinese portrait photographer who was a professor at Tsinghua University, China. He was known for his photographic projects such as the Chinese Cultural Celebrity Portrait project, and the World Celebrities project.
Deng Wei is a Chinese retired weightlifter. She is an Olympic Champion, five-time World Champion and Asian Champion. She competed in the 58 kg and 63 kg categories until 2018 and 64 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories.
Tián, or T'ien in Wade-Giles is a Chinese surname. An alternative transliteration of "田" from Cantonese is Tin, from Hokkien is Thinn. It appeared in the Hundred Family Surnames text from the early Song Dynasty. It also means "field". In 2019 it was the 34th most common surname in Mainland China.
Tāng is a Chinese surname. It is 72nd surname in the Hundred Family Surnames or Baijiaxing of the Song dynasty and 101st in modern popularity. The Tang (湯) family name traces its lineage from Tang of Shang, the first ruler of the Shang dynasty. In modern times the character can also mean "soup" or "broth".
Zhan is the pinyin romanization of several Chinese names, also spelled Chan in the Wade–Giles system common in Taiwan and in older publications
The Baise Uprising was a short-lived uprising organized by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in northwestern Guangxi around the city of Baise. It officially began on December 11, 1929, and lasted until late 1931. The uprising established the Seventh Red Army and a soviet over a number of counties in the You River valley. It drew support from a pre-existing movement of Zhuang peasants led by Wei Baqun, and focused on land redistribution in the area it controlled. After a brief but costly attempt to capture Guangxi's major cities, the soviet was suppressed and surviving soldiers made their way to Jiangxi. Today, it is most famous for the role played by Deng Xiaoping, who was the CCP Central Committee's leading representative in Guangxi during the Uprising. Deng was strongly criticized, both during the Cultural Revolution and by modern historians, for the uprising's swift defeat and his decision to abandon the retreating Seventh Red Army.
Yu is the 82nd surname mentioned in the Hundred Family Surnames. According to the 2006 census of People's Republic of China, it ranks 38th nationally. In 2019 it was the 41st most common surname in Mainland China. The name is transliterated as Vuu in Vietnamese but is very rare in Vietnam. It is the 82nd name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.
Xu is a Chinese-language surname. In the Wade-Giles system of romanization, it is romanized as "Hsu", which is commonly used in Taiwan. It is different from Xu, which is represented by a different character.
Lady Li or Lishi was a Chinese noble lady and aristocrat from the Three Kingdoms period. She was born of the Li family and lived most of her life in the city of Jiangyou (江油) in the domain of Shu Han state. Lady Li is best known for her role in the Conquest of Shu by Wei (263-264), she faced Ma Miao (馬邈), the governor of her city, who surrendered Jiangyou to Cao Wei state.