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Wei Wei (other) (born 1957), Chinese artist
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Wei Wei may refer to: * Wei Wei (male writer) (1920–2008), Chinese writer * Wei Wei (actress) (born 1922), Chinese actress * Wei Wei (singer) (born 1963), Chinese female singer * Wei Wei (female writer) (born 1970), Chinese writer * Wei Wei (comedian) (born 1982), Chinese comedian and one of the Back Dorm Boys * Wei Wei (basketball) (born 1989), Chinese female basketball player * Wei Wei (murderer) (1979–2019), Chinese murderer executed in Japan See also * Wei Wu Wei (1895–1986), British Taoist philosopher and writer * Ai Weiwei Ai Weiwei (, ; born 28 August 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist, documentarian, and activist. Ai grew up in the far northwest of China, where he lived under harsh conditions due to his father's exile. As an activist, he has been openly c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wei Wei (male Writer)
Wei Wei (; March 6, 1920 – August 24, 2008), originally known as Hong Jie (), was a Chinese poet, a prose writer, a literary report writer, a journalist, a vice-editor-in-chief and the editor of various newspapers in China. His works are noted for their themes of patriotism, communism, and nationalism. Apart from using the name ''Wei Wei'', he once used the pen name ''Hong Yangshu'' () in some of his publications. He changed his name from ''Hong Jie'' to ''Wei Wei'' in 1937 when he had started a new page of his life, a political one. Biography ''Wei Wei'' was born into a poor family in Zhengzhou, Henan, and received a rudimentary primary education. He showed early interest in calligraphy and literature, but was unable to receive much education after elementary school, when both of his parents died. He was largely self-taught and was greatly influenced by the radical Chinese literature of the 1920s and 30s, including works by authors like Lu Xun and Mao Dun. Wei Wei jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wei Wei (actress)
Wei Wei (; born 17 May 1922) is a Chinese actress. She is best known for her leading role in the classic film ''Spring in a Small Town'' (1948), and various other films from the 1940s to the 1960s. However, she has also continued to work into the late 20th and early 21st century. Wei turned 100 in May 2022. Filmography Nominations https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0917672/?ref_=tt_cl_t_4 See also *Cinema of China The cinema of China is one of three distinct historical threads of Chinese-language cinema together with the cinema of Hong Kong and the cinema of Taiwan. Cinema was introduced in China in 1896 and the first Chinese film, '' Dingjun Mountai ... References External links * 1922 births Living people Actresses from Jiangsu People from Zhenjiang 20th-century Chinese actresses 21st-century Chinese actresses Chinese film actresses Chinese centenarians Women centenarians {{China-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wei Wei (singer)
Wei Wei (; born 28 September 1963) is a Chinese mandopop singer, philanthropist, and current Standing Committee Member of the Chinese Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party since 2010. She previously served as Standing Committee Member of the All-China Youth Federation from 2005 to 2010, as China's Forestry Ambassador to the United Nations of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration from 2009 to 2010, and as Ambassador of the Chinese Football Association from 2008 to 2009. In 2022, she was appointed Visiting Professor of Music and a doctoral advisor specializing in vocal music at Shinawatra University, a private international university in Thailand established by former Prime Minister of Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra. Her breakthrough came in 1986 when she won the National Young Singers contest on Chinese television and The 24th Sopot International Song Festival in Poland, when she also won the "Miss Photo Category", and four years later, she was chosen to perform at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wei Wei (female Writer)
Wei Wei (魏微) is the pen name of Wei Lili (魏丽丽, born 1970), a Chinese writer. She was born in Shuyang County, Jiangsu, studied in Huai'an and Nanjing, and currently lives in Guangzhou. Works translated to English "Big Lao Zheng's Woman" won the 3rd Lu Xun Literary Prize The Lu Xun Literary Prize (or Lu Xun Literature Prize) 鲁迅文学奖 is a literary prize awarded by China Writers Association. It is one of China's top four literary prizes and is named after Lu Xun and has been awarded every three years since ... in 2004. References People from Shuyang County Writers from Suqian 20th-century Chinese writers 21st-century Chinese novelists Chinese women novelists 1970 births Living people Chinese women short story writers 21st-century Chinese short story writers 21st-century Chinese women writers 20th-century Chinese women writers People's Republic of China novelists People's Republic of China short story writers Short story writers from Jiangsu [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wei Wei (comedian)
The Back Dorm Boys were a Chinese duo who gained fame in 2005 for their lip sync videos to songs by the Backstreet Boys and other pop stars. Their videos, captured on a low quality Web cam in their college dorm room, have been viewed by Internet users within China and around the world. Many of their videos can be seen on YouTube, giving them YouTube fame. The two, Wei Wei () and Huang Yixin (), were sculpture majors at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (). The Dormitory Boys, a blog of note on Blogger, which some believe is not maintained by the Back Dorm Boys, but written by a ghostwriter, took requests, asking fans to recommend a song they should lip sync to. In January 2006, a poll was conducted from songs picked from 427 requests received 2005, December. The Black Eyed Peas' song "My Humps" won the poll, but the Back Dorm Boys lip synced to the song "Don't Lie" by the Black Eyed Peas instead, which was a huge hit on YouTube as well as their host country. The Back Dorm Boy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wei Wei (basketball)
Wei Wei (; born 6 October 1989 in Taigu County, Shanxi) is a basketball player for the China women's national basketball team. She was part of the squad for the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the .... References External links * * 1989 births Living people Chinese women's basketball players Basketball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic basketball players for China Basketball players from Shanxi People from Jinzhong Shanxi Flame players Guangdong Vermilion Birds players {{PRChina-basketball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wei Wei (murderer)
The was a robbery-murder by Wei Wei () and two other Chinese international students in the Higashi-ku ward of Fukuoka, Japan, on June 20, 2003. In 2004, Judge Hiroshi Suyama indicted Wei Wei for murdering Shinjiro Matsumoto and his family. The Japanese Minister of Justice Masako Mori sentenced Wei Wei to death for murder, and Wei was executed in 2019. Outline of the incident On June 20, 2003, the bodies of , his wife Chika (千加, age 40), and their two children (ages 8 and 11) were found in Hakata Bay handcuffed and weighed down with dumbbells. Shinjiro Matsumoto had been strangled with a tie, and Chika had been drowned in a bathtub. Their children had been otherwise strangled or smothered. Once the victims had been murdered, their bodies were transported by vehicle to Hakata Bay where they were discarded. Three suspects were identified from witness testimony near the discovery site and surveillance camera footage from the store where the handcuffs and dumbbells used for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wei Wu Wei
Terence James Stannus Gray (14 September 1895 – 5 January 1986), was a theatre producer who created the Cambridge Festival Theatre as an experimental theatre in Cambridge. He produced over 100 plays there between 1926 and 1933. Later in life, under the pen name Wei Wu Wei, he published several books on Taoist philosophy. Background Terence James Stannus Gray was born in Felixstowe, Suffolk, England on 14 September 1895, the son of Harold Stannus Gray and a member of a well-established Anglo-Irish family. He was raised on an estate in the Gog Magog Hills outside Cambridge, England. He received a thorough education at Ascham St Vincent's School, Eastbourne, Eton and Oxford University. Early in life he pursued an interest in Egyptology which culminated in the publication of two books on ancient Egyptian history and culture in 1923. In the later part of his life he lived with his second wife, the Georgian princess Natalie Margaret Imeretinsky, in Monaco. He had previously b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
