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Fuxi or Fu Hsi (伏羲) is a culture hero in Chinese mythology, credited along with his sister and wife Nüwa with creating humanity and the invention of music...

bishop of Hualien and Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and the chairman of Fu Jen Catholic University. Kuo-hsi was born in Puyang, Zhili province (now Puyang, Henan province)...

 fǔ). This form still appears in the Latin name of the Catholic diocese of Xi'an, archidioecesis Singanensis. The name was later romanized as "Hsi-an"...

Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Ānxī Dūhù Fǔ Wade–Giles Anhsi Tuhu Fu...

Flashman and the Dragon (1985). The 1968 novel Wij Tz'e Hsi Keizerin Van China ("We, Tz'e Hsi, Empress of China") by Dutch author Johan Fabricius is a...

century AD in China (for water-powered Chinese metallurgy, see Du Shi): Fu Hsi invented the pestle and mortar, which is so useful, and later on it was...

Fu Zuoyi (simplified Chinese: 傅作义; traditional Chinese: 傅作義; pinyin: Fù Zuòyì; Wade–Giles: Fu Tso-i) (June 2, 1895 − April 19, 1974) was a Chinese military...

Shaolin (Chinese: 洪熙官; pinyin: Hung Hsi Kuan) is a 1977 Shaw Brothers kung fu film based on the life of Hung hsi Kuan directed by Lau Kar-leung. It was...

(usually fish, particularly carp or catfish, or sometimes dolphins) and Fu Hsi (snakes). Introduced in the Blood-Dimmed Tides World of Darkness sourcebook:...

sight of the creature that he ran away. In Chinese legend, the culture hero Fu Hsi is said to have been crossing the Lo River, when he saw the lung ma, a Chinese...

literature no earlier than c.350 BCE. Her companion, Fuxi, (also called Fu Hsi) was her brother and husband. They are sometimes worshiped as the ultimate...

mythological Fu Xi, a passage of his writing gives hint that the water wheel was in widespread use by the 1st century AD in China (Wade-Giles spelling): Fu Hsi invented...

the Dragon Earl's kingdom and the height of his subjects. At the time of Fu-hsi and Shen-nung, the people of this country were still several hundred feet...

Kung Hsiang-hsi (Chinese: 孔祥熙; pinyin: Kǒng Xiángxī; Wade–Giles: K'ung3 Hsiang2-hsi1; 11 September 1880 – 16 August 1967), often known as Dr. H. H. Kung...

December 1966; Chinese: 白崇禧; pinyin: Bái Chóngxī; Wade–Giles: Pai Ch'ung-hsi, IPA: [pɑ́ɪ̯ t͡ʂʰʊ́ŋɕǐ], Xiao'erjing: ﺑَﻰْ ﭼْﻮ ثِ) was a Chinese general...

Yan Xishan or Yen Hsi-shan (IPA: [jɛ̌n ɕíʂán]; 8 October 1883 – 22 July 1960) was a Chinese warlord who served in the government of the Republic of China...

Fu Jen Catholic University (FJU, FJCU or Fu Jen; Chinese: 天主教輔仁大學 or 輔仁大學) is a private Catholic university in Xinzhuang, New Taipei City, Taiwan. The...

Review of Books. Kao, Karl S.Y. (October 1974). "An Archetypal Approach to Hsi-yu chi". Tamkang Review. 5 (2): 63–98. Plaks, Andrew (1987). The Four Masterworks...

consonantal Ge'ez script into vocalic Ge'ez script in the mid 4th-century. Fu Hsi - legendary Chinese king, ascribed invention of Chinese characters c. 2850...

as Isis, Ceres, Frigga and Athena. The man is hailed as Osiris, Crishna, Fu Hsi in China, Baal, Odin, Tuisto, Dionysus, Herakles, Zeus and Saturn. As Man...