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Chinese Communists in the early 1920s; died in 1925 on the eve of the
Northern Expedition.
Sunzi (d. 320 B.C.): Eastern Zhou military strategist; author of The Art
of War, a manual of strategy.
Tang Taizong (597-649): Second Tang emperor and the dominant
personality of the early Tang period; subjugated the Turks in the early
seventh century and ruled over them as Khan and over the Chinese as
emperor.
Tang Xuanzong (685-762): Mid Tang emperor (r. 712-756) who ruled
over the dynasty at its height and helped precipitate its decline by
turning over too much military authority to General An Lushan, a rel-
ative of his favorite concubine.
Wang Dan (1969?-): Tiananmen Square student leader sentenced to
four years in prison for his role in the Tiananmen protest movement;
persecuted by the Chinese Communist government and sentenced to
prison again in 1996.
Wang Jingwei (1883-1944): Left-wing Nationalist politician who led
the Wuhan regime in the mid-1920s; later regarded as a traitor to
China because he headed up a Japanese puppet regime in Nanjing.
Wang Mang (45 B.C.-A.D. 23): Confucian literalist who usurped the
Han throne from 9 to 23 A.D., during which time he renamed the
dynasty Xin.
Wang Shouren (1472-1529): Ming dynasty neo-Confucian philoso-
pher who disagreed with Zhu Xi's rationalistic dualism and taught
that the monastic truth of the universe inhered in the hearts or minds
of people.
Wang Yangming: See Wang Shouren.
Wen Wang: See King Wen.
Wong, Jan (1952-): Canadian student and journalist who lived in
late Maoist China and was an eyewitness to the Tiananmen Square
Massacre.
