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    Wei Yuan (Chinese: 魏源; pinyin: Wèi Yuán; April 23, 1794 – March 26, 1857), born Wei Yuanda (魏遠達), courtesy names Moshen (默深) and Hanshi (漢士), was a Chinese...
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    9000 Wei (/weɪ/), known in historiography as the Northern Wei (Chinese: 北魏; pinyin: Běi Wèi), Tuoba Wei (Chinese: 拓跋魏; pinyin: Tuòbá Wèi), Yuan Wei (Chinese:...
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  • Cao Huan (redirect from Wei Yüan-ti)
    "Emperor Yuan (of Cao Wei)". Cao Huan's birth name was "Cao Huang" (曹璜). His father, Cao Yu, the Prince of Yan, was a son of Cao Cao, the father of Wei's first...
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    general Yuwen Tai killed the Northern Wei emperor Yuan Xiu, he installed Yuan Baoju as emperor of Western Wei while Yuwen Tai would remain as the virtual...
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  • Pei-Yuan Wei (Chinese: 魏培源; pinyin: Wèi Péiyuán) was a Taiwanese-American businessman who created ViolaWWW, the first popular graphical web browser. Pei-Yuan...
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    Cheng Wei-yuan (traditional Chinese: 鄭為元; simplified Chinese: 郑为元; pinyin: Zhèng Wèiyuán; 20 January 1913 – 3 August 1993) was a Taiwanese politician....
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    Northern Wei territory. In 534, following the disintegration of the Northern Wei dynasty, he installed Yuan Shanjian as ruler of Eastern Wei. Yuan Shanjian...
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    relatives, with the last Wei emperors largely being puppets of the Sima family. In 266, Sima Yi's grandson Sima Yan forced Emperor Yuan to abdicate, proclaiming...
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  • grown-up Gongsun Yuan seized power from his uncle Gongsun Gong and imprisoned him. Although Gongsun Yuan was nominally a vassal of the Cao Wei state, he considered...
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  • Yuan Wei-jen (born 24 June 1968) is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter and record producer. Yuan is best known for writing many hit songs for leading Mandopop...
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