A History of China (90 page)

William of Rubruck (ca. 1220–ca. 1293)

Wilson, Woodrow (1856–1924)

Witte, Sergei (1849–1915)

women

World Trade Organization

Wu, emperor of the Han dynasty (r. 140–87
BCE
)

Wu, emperor of the Liang dynasty (464–549)

Wu, emperor of the Northern Wei dynasty (424–452)

Wu, empress of the Tang dynasty (624–705)

Wu, king of the Zhou dynasty

Wubeizhi
(
Treatise on Armaments Technology
)

Wu Cheng’en (ca. 1500–1582)

Wu Daozhi (680–740)

Wu dynasty

Wu Han (1909–1969)

Wuhan industrialization

Wu Sangui (1612–1678)

Wusun

wu-wei
(nonaction)

Wuxi

Wuzong, emperor of the Tang dynasty (814–846)

Xia dynasty (ca. 2070–ca. 1600
BCE
)

Xia dynasty (ca. 985–1227)

Xia Gui (fl. 1195–1224)

Xianbei

Xianfeng, emperor of the Qing dynasty (1831–1861)

Xiangyang

Xiang Yu (232–202
BCE
)

Xian incident (kidnapping of Chiang Kai-shek)

Xianyang

Xianzong, emperor of the Tang dynasty (778–820)

Xiao, consorts of Liao emperors

Xiao, duke of Qin (381–338
BCE
)

Xiaojing
(
Classic of Filial Piety
)

Xiaotun

Xie He (fl. fifth century)

Xi Kang (223–262)

Xi Liao dynasty (1124–1218)

Ximen Qing

Xinjiang

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

Xiongnu

Xuan, emperor of the Han dynasty (r. 74–49
BCE
)

Xuantu

Xuanzang (596 or 602–664)

Xuanzong, emperor of the Tang dynasty
see
Li Longji

Xu Guangxi (1562–1633)

Xu Jin (1437–1510)

Xun Zi (?312–230
BCE
)

Xun Zi

Yalta Conference (1945)

Yan (state in Warring States period)

Yan’an

Yan dynasties (337–370)

Yan Fu (1854–1921)

Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of the Sui dynasty (569–618)

Yang Guifei (Yang Yuhuan) (719–756)

Yang Guozhong (d. 756)

Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of the Sui dynasty (541–604)

Yang Xiuqing (d. 1856)

Yang Zengxin (1867–1928)

Yangshao

Yan Liben (ca. 600–673)

Yan Xishan (1883–1960)

Yao and merit

Ya’qub Beg (“Athalik Ghazi”) (1820–1877)

Yelang (Guizhou)

Yellow River (Huang He)

Yellow Sect of Tibetan Buddhism (dGelugs-pa)

Yellow Turbans

Yelü Chucai (1190–1244)

Yelü clan (Liao dynasty)

Yelü Dashi (1087–1143)

Ye Shengtao (1894–1988)

Yijing

Yijing (635–713)

Yili
(
Record of Rituals
)

Yin, capital of Shang dynasty

yin
privilege

yin-yang
and Five Phases or Elements

Yonghegong (temple)

Yongzheng, emperor of the Qing dynasty (1678–1735)

Younghusband, Francis (1863–1942) and Tibet

Yu and Great Flood

Yuan dynasty (1271–1368)
see
Khubilai Khan; Mongols

Yuan Shikai (1859–1916)

Yue (state in Warring States period)

Yungang

Yung Wing (1828–1912)

Yunqi temple

Yuwen Rong (d. 730–731)

zaju
(skits)

Zanabazar (1635–1723)

Zeng Guofan (1811–1872)

Zeng Jize (1839–1890)

Zhang Heng (78–139) and seismography

Zhang Jue (d. 184)

Zhang Juzheng (1525–1582)

Zhang Lexing (1810–1863)

Zhang Qian (d. 114
BCE
)

Zhang Shicheng (1321–1367)

Zhangsun Wuji (ca. 600–659)

Zhanguoce
(
Intrigues of the Warring States
)

Zhang Xueliang (1901–2001)

Zhang Zai (1020–1077)

Zhang Zuolin (1875–1928)

Zhao Gao (d. 207
BCE
) and the Great Wall

Zhao Kuangyin, Emperor Taizu of the Song dynasty (927–976)

Zhao Mengfu (1254–1322)

Zhao Ziyang (1919–2005)

Zhenfan

Zheng Chenggong (Coxinga) (1624–1662)

Zheng He (1371–1433)

zhengming
(“to rectify the names”)

Zhi Dun (314–366)

Zhi Miaoyin

Zhiyi (538–597)

Zhongdu

Zhongjong
(“Mean”)

Zhongzong, emperor of the Tang dynasty (656–710)

Zhou, king of Shang (r. 1075–1046
BCE
)

Zhou Dunyi (1017–1073)

Zhou Enlai (1898–1976)

Zhoukoudian

Zhou Shuren (Lu Xun) (1881–1936)

Zhou Yan (305–240
BCE
)

Zhuang Zi (Zhuang Zhou, Zhuangzi) (368–286
BCE
)

Zhu Biao (1355–1392)

Zhu Da (Bada Shanren) (ca. 1626–1705)

Zhu De (1886–1976)

Zhu Di, Emperor Yongle of the Ming dynasty (1360–1424)

Zhuge Liang (181–234)

Zhukov, Gyorgy (1896–1974)

Zhurong

Zhu Rongyi (1928–)

Zhu Wen (852–912) and the Liang dynasty

Zhu Xi (1130–1200)

Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Hongwu of the Ming dynasty (1328–1398)

Zhu Yunwen (1377–1402?)

Zoroastrianism

Zunghar (or Western) Mongols

Zuo Commentary
(
Zuo zhuan
)

Zuo Zongtang (1812–1885)