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Bernstein Litowitz says the Wangs' certification does not indicate sales of Boeing shares – an "unusual" trading pattern, given the magnitude of the Wangs' investment.

Despite Bernstein Litowitz's suspicions about the Wangs' trading, the firm initially attempted to team up with the family, suggesting that the Wangs and MissPERS move jointly to lead the Boeing case.

Most of the designers that everyone's heard of are well into adulthood; the Vera Wangs, Calvin Kleins, and even Alexander Wangs of the world are veterans when it comes to running their own companies.

There, the Wangs became immersed in a bustling community of Fujianese immigrants.

Somebody put a lot of thought, and giggles, into furry fake wangs here.

She found it in the village of Roslyn, where the Wangs bought a hillside home.

Bring sunscreen (and use it correctly!) and a pair of sunglasses, like these Kent Wangs.

She finds herself baffled by the motivations of the Yukong Zhaos and Michael Wangs of the world.

None of the Wangs had played golf or knew much about the game until Elizabeth began competing.

"Black ponytail curled in a bun, wrapped around all my loving thoughts of you," the Wangs crooned.

The Wangs' lawyers also went to Nevada state court to ask for an order of protection against Bernstein Litowitz investigators.

In 2010, the Wangs moved to San Marino because they wanted Elizabeth to be able to play golf year round.

Bernstein Litowitz suggested in the brief it filed Friday that the investigation vindicated its suspicions about the Wangs' reported Boeing investment.

Investigators ran down the Wangs' financial records in the U.S. and China, which isn't out of the ordinary in securities class actions.

Insurrections by Rion Amilcar Scott We Show What We Have Learned by Clare Beams The Mothers by Brit Bennett The Wangs vs.

With the biggest losses of any of the five investors that asked to lead the Boeing case, the Wangs currently have an edge.

Be extremely glad that the porn you watch is done by glowing professionals with pearly teeth and wangs like great leathery sea-beasts.

The result is a manic, consistently funny book of alternating perspectives as the Wangs make various cross-country stopovers in their '80s station wagon.

The Wangs, who had been living in Mineola, N.Y., bought the 2,200-square-foot 1976 colonial, with its three bedrooms and three fireplaces, for $930,000.

In what can be read as an unexpected show of restraint, social media isn't currently flooded with images of Soulcalibur fighters and their giant wangs.

Yes, you read that right: Players are subverting the character creation tools in Soulcalibur VI to affix giant, flapping wangs to the groins of various characters.

People love to make the argument, every time I write something complaining about boobs, that I'd probably just love it if everyone had their wangs out, wouldn't I?

The other investors bidding to lead the case seem to be hoping Judge Tharp decides that both the Wangs and MissPERS are too compromised to represent all Boeing investors.

That is until a combination of his own hubris and bad timing (the 2008 financial crisis) causes the Wangs to lose everything — from rags to riches to rags again.

It was the backup location for an interview, the first choice having been the suitably named Big Wangs, a zippy chicken-wing joint that turned out to be closed.

Wangs in real life are so often a symbol of power and dominance, so when they're depicted as these comical little wiggle-boys, it takes away some of their authority.

He described the Wangs as "regular working people" and called the assertion that they had tens of millions of dollars in investments "wrong" and "a lie," according to the Bernstein brief.

What a relief that, when Trillin failed to apologize for his poem, I could toss his New Yorker issue into the trash and turn instead to Jade Chang's The Wangs vs.

According to Bernstein Litowitz's analysis, the Wangs claim to have bought more Boeing shares and lost more money than Charles Schwab, TD Asset Management and Oppenheimer, which collectively manage billions of dollars.

WAGs have long been embroiled in drama both on- and off- screen, thanks in large part to the wandering wangs of their footballer beaus, who aren't just players on the soccer field.

The owner of the pest control company where the son is employed, who describes himself as a longtime family friend, told Bernstein investigators there was no way the Wangs had invested $40 million.

If there is a stereotype that Asian-Americans kids are quiet, unpopular and studious, that their parents are strict disciplinarians (think Tiger Mom), then Chang has conjured up the Wangs to prove otherwise.

So sex-toy maker XenoCatArtifacts did what any normal, business-savvy person with the know-how to manufacture custom silicone wangs would do—sold fish man dildos based on The Shape of Water character.

" He wrote: "If there is a stereotype that Asian-Americans kids are quiet, unpopular and studious, that their parents are strict disciplinarians (think Tiger Mom), then Chang has conjured up the Wangs to prove otherwise.

I asked my new Potterotica friends Allie, Lyndsay, and Danny what readers will expect in my stories aside from the magical muffs and wizardry wangs of the preexisting Potter characters we've all grown up with.

Kahn Swick responded that if the judge has questions about the Wangs' trades, the family will show the judge backup documents detailing the transactions, even though such backup is not necessary under the guidelines for securities suits.

It's weird, because studios are putting more and more effort into creating characters with believable and complex personalities and motivations, but that seems to go out the window as soon as the wangs and baps come out.

Genital Jousting isn't afraid to explore the hilarity of wangs: the weird physics, the grotesqueness, the way they wobble around like fat jelly worms, the noises they make when they penetrate things (which is, apparently, a slightly unnerving "squelch").

This year we have seen two highly acclaimed debuts by writers of color in Kaitlyn Greenidge's We Love You, Charlie Freeman, about a black family who move to the all-white Berkshires to try to help a chimpanzee learn to speak, and Jade Chang's The Wangs vs.

Yet the Wangs are not alone in their disdain for affirmative action — they are part of a new generation of Chinese American activists who, much to the delight of conservatives who have long wished for Asian Americans to join them, have in recent years mobilized opposition against the policy.

When the Wangs came across this Panda Express location one day during their road trip, they parked their car, headed inside, and ordered a batch of Orange Chicken, that atomically hued dish of breaded, boneless chicken, fried in a wok with vegetable oil and coated with a sweet citrus glaze.

If it is disquieting to see Chinese Americans in opposition to policies meant to benefit students of color who have historically been shut out of the promise of higher education, activists like the Wangs and Zhao firmly believe their work to undo one of the remaining legacies of the civil rights movement is actually a step toward real equality.

Wangs is an unincorporated community in Warsaw Township, Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States, near Dennison.

Wang Hui (; 1632–1717) was a Chinese landscape painter, one of the Four Wangs. He, and the three other Wangs, dominated orthodox art in China throughout the late Ming and early Qing periods. Of the Four Wangs, Wang Hui is considered the best-known today. Beijing, Shanghai and Taipei museums loaned works for "Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632-1717)" in 2008 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Vilters-Wangs is a municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Sarganserland in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

Ong had aliases. He was also known as Wang Rongzan () and Wang Lisheng (). He was part of the 29th generation of the Wang/Ong family which originated from the Three Wangs/Ongs () whose roots had been traced back to the Zhou Ling Wang Emperor (BC 571-545) 2,500 years back. The Three Wangs/Ongs migrated to Fujian Province more than one thousand years ago (in AD 825).

The Four Wangs () were four Chinese landscape painters in the 17th century, all called Wang (surname Wang). They are best known for their accomplishments in shan shui painting.

Wang Dao and his cousin, the general Wang Dun, served in key roles, and it was said at the time that the domain was ruled equally by the Simas and the Wangs.

One of the Three Wangs/Ongs was Wang Shenzhi () (AD 862-925), the first king of Fujian Province.Wang & Ong 2013, p.17 Ong and his descendants originated from this ancestral line.Wang & Ong 2013, ch.

Cihai: Page 1196. Wang's precise color style of painting was influenced by Dong Yuan. His own works stand out, and he is a member of the Four Wangs and Six Masters of the early Qing period.

The Four Wangs represented the so-called "orthodox school" of painting at the time. The school was based on the teachings of Dong Qichang (1555-1636). It was “orthodox” in the Confucian sense of continuing traditional modes.

There are many places to choose from. A landmark lower-middle-class place is Hotel Ashok Bhavan, on the Velacherry road. It serves good vegetarian food. Other places include Hotel Adyar Anantha Bhavan, Wangs Kitchen, French Loaf and Mount Palace.

His partnership with Wang Xuehan began in 2012. The pair won the bronze medal at the 2013 Chinese Championships. Making their Grand Prix debut, the Wangs placed fourth at the 2013 Cup of China. They finished fourth at the 2014 Chinese Championships.

Wang started skating in 2005 at a rink in a shopping mall. Her partnership with Wang Lei began in 2012. The pair won the bronze medal at the 2013 Chinese Championships. Making their Grand Prix debut, the Wangs placed fourth at the 2013 Cup of China.

The Wangs were prominent supporters of the Drug Enforcement Administration Foundation and helped bring the DEA Museum to the California Science Center in Los Angeles to educate the public on illegal drugs and trafficking. The Wangs also established an endowed chair at the Cedar Sinai Medical Center for Pediatric Surgery to fund novel research in pediatric surgery, as well as assist underprivileged children in need of surgery. The couple funded six staff positions at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center to aid in providing legal services to immigrant domestic-violence survivors. The Walter and Shirley Wang Foundation donated $250,000 to found an Outward Bound Center for underprivileged youth in New York, New York.

Peonies by Yun Shouping Yun Shouping (惲壽平), also known as Nantian (南田) (1633 – 1690), was a Chinese calligrapher and painter. He was a major artist of the early Chinese Qing dynasty. He was regarded as one of the "Six Masters" of the Qing period, together with the Four Wangs and Wú Lì.

The painting of the early years of the dynasty included such painters as the orthodox Four Wangs and the individualists Bada Shanren (1626–1705) and Shitao (1641–1707). The nineteenth century saw such innovations as the Shanghai School and the Lingnan School, which used the technical skills of tradition to set the stage for modern painting.

Qian Weicheng (style name Zongpan, sobriquet You’an), a native of Changzhou, Jiangsu, came in first place in the civil service exams of 1745. In painting, he looked back to the Four Yuan Masters and more recently in his day to the Four Wangs of the Qing. Receiving instruction from Dong Bangda, he also entered the Southern Studio at court.

Panorama from Sonnenberg toward Vilters Aerial view by Walter Mittelholzer (1920) Vilters- Wangs has an area, , of . Of this area, 46.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 34% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 5.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (14.5%) is non-productive (rivers or lakes). The municipality is in the Sarganserland Wahlkreis.

Emperor Ai would officially be succeeded by his cousin, Prince Jizi, as Emperor Ping, but this was merely a pretext for Wang Mang to seize the throne nine years later. Emperor Ai's abuse of power, first influenced by his grandmother and then by his love for Dong, caused the people and the officials to yearn for the return of the Wangs.

Wang Zongfang (; August 3, 1957 – September 18, 1983) and Wang Zongwei (; November 16, 1954 – September 18, 1983), commonly called Er Wang () or Two Wangs, were a pair of Chinese brothers and serial killers born in Shenyang, Liaoning. The Ministry of Public Security of China placed them on its most wanted list in 1983. They were killed in a shootout with the military in September 1983.

On 12 April 1983, the Wangs' Mercedes was hijacked. Teddy Wang was taken away and chained to a bed for eight days until Nina Wang paid a $33 million ransom. On 10 April 1990, Teddy Wang was kidnapped again and not recovered. After his disappearance, Nina took the helm of Chinachem under the title of "Chairlady" and built it into a major property developer.

After learning painting and calligraphy at a young age, Wang worked as a government official. However he fell ill due to exhaustion on a trip to Nanking in 1630. Wang returned to his homeland and immersed himself in art, creating numerous works. Wang's works place him in an elevated group known as the Four Wangs, also part of the Six Masters of the early Qing period.

Charles B. Wang was born in Shanghai to parents Kenneth and Mary Wang. He has two brothers, Anthony W. Wang and Francis Wang. His father was a Supreme Court judge in the Republic of China. In the closing years of the Chinese Civil War which saw the Nationalist government flee to Taiwan, the Wangs moved to Queens, New York, when he was eight years old.

They finished fourth at the 2014 Chinese Championships. The following season, the Wangs were awarded bronze at both of their Grand Prix events – 2014 Cup of China and 2014 Trophée Éric Bompard. They took the silver medal at the 2015 Chinese Championships. In the 2015–16 season, the pair placed fifth at the 2015 Skate America and fourth at the 2015 Cup of China.

The following season, the Wangs were awarded bronze at both of their Grand Prix events – 2014 Cup of China and 2014 Trophée Éric Bompard. They took the silver medal at the 2015 Chinese Championships. In the 2015–16 season, the pair placed fifth at the 2015 Skate America and fourth at the 2015 Cup of China. They were selected to compete at their first ISU Championship – the 2016 Worlds in Boston.

Posdnuos of De La Soul (produced by DJ Spinna) # "Power Out" # "Pass The Mic" feat. KRS-One (Produced by Double-O) # "Over There" (produced by M-Phazes) # "Rounds And Round" feat. DOITALL of Lords Of The Underground (Produced by DJ Supreme One) # "Hot Wangs" # "Ei8ht Is Enough" (produced by Frank Dukes) # "Here I Go" feat. Jamelle Bundy (produced by Rain) # "You, Me & Some Snacks" # "Dancing Like A W.G." feat.

The compound was built by the county's Wang family, one of four historically prominent families in the county. The local Wang family traces to a migration from Taiyuan to Jinsheng in 1312 during the Yuan Dynasty. According to family lore the wealth of the family grew from selling bean curd. The local Wangs would reach its apex of wealth and power in 18th century after accumulating riches from business and government position.

When Wang Mang saw this, he rebuked the official and ordered that Empress Dowager Fu's seat be moved to the side, which drew great ire from Empress Dowager Fu, who refused to attend the banquet. To soothe her anger, Wang Mang resigned, and Emperor Ai approved his resignation. After Wang Mang's resignation, the Wangs gradually and inexorably began to lose their power. At Empress Dowager Fu's behest, the Fus and the Dings were installed in their place.

The Saar is a minor tributary of the Alpine Rhine in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen. It rises in Mittelsäss, Bad Ragaz municipality, at 2,087 m elevation. Flowing generally north, it passes the Saarfall waterfall, dropping from 560 m to 500 m, reaching the plain of the Rhine Valley. From here, it is strongly canalised, flowing through the territories of the Vilters-Wangs, Mels and Sargans municipalities before joining the Rhine downstream of Trübbach at 480 m.

The three-part, six-hour documentary examines immigration, citizenship, and what it means to be Chinese-American. In the wake of the COVID-19 global pandemic, Plastpro, Inc. and JM Eagle donated surgical masks to Ohio facilities local to the Plastpro, Inc. factory. The Wangs donated $1 million to the Mayor's Fund of Los Angeles, as well as supplies for the creation of face shields for use at Cedars Sinai Medical Center and the Innovation Lab at UCLA.

Grand Empress Dowager Wang had no desire to contend with Fu, however, and voluntarily ordered members of the Wang family to resign and turn over power to the Fus and the Dings. Her humility and willingness to yield greatly impressed the people and the officials in government, and as the incompetence of Emperor Ai became apparent, the people and the officials—who were largely against the Wangs during the reign of Emperor Cheng—all clamored for the return of the Wangs. This yearning came partly from a thorough miscarriage of justice perpetrated by Consort Fu in 6 BC when she, still bearing a grudge from her struggles with her former romantic rival Consort Feng Yuan (who by that time was Princess Dowager of Zhongshan and the grandmother of Prince Liu Jizi of Zhongshan), falsely accused Consort Feng of practicing magic, forced her to commit suicide, and executed and exiled a large number of her family. In response, in 2 BC, Emperor Ai recalled Wang Mang to the capital to attend to Grand Empress Dowager Wang.

Finne was born in Bergen. He became a student in 1888, worked for a time as a journalist in Kristiania (now Oslo), and published his first novel in 1889, Filosofen (The Philosopher), with action that takes place in a literary bohemian environment. Finne's books are sparse and sharp in their highly realistic presentation, and there is an intense mood of bitterness and uneasiness in his portrayals. In the space of a few years, Finne published the novel Doktor Wangs børn (Dr.

Tempted by the huge amount of cash, however, some members disobey and strike, only to be robbed by Wang Bo moments later. This exposes Wang's skills to Uncle Li, who becomes highly interested in recruiting him. When Wang declines, the contest between the Wangs and Uncle Li's gang quickly escalates, with Sha Gen still completely unaware of the danger surrounding him. While the two sides tussle, however, a plainclothes police detective (Zhang Hanyu) has been silently watching and awaiting his chance.

The Wangs largely > pioneered the trade in Chinese cane-ware, bamboo blinds, camphorwood chests, > and arts and crafts. Fireworks were among their most lucrative earners. In > 1962, wishing to make his first overseas business trip on an Australian > passport, David applied for naturalisation six months before he had > completed the required fifteen years residence, and succeeded on appeal. He > purchased and demolished the Canton Building in Little Bourke Street, > erecting in its place a modern emporium, opened in 1964 by > Calwell.

Teddy Wang was born in Shanghai, China to Wenzhounese parents, the son of paint and chemical business proprietor Wang Din-shin. He was a childhood playmate of Kung Yu Sam (Nina Wang). In 1948, when she was 11 and him being 15, they renewed their friendship, and they married in 1955. The Wangs moved to Hong Kong, and the business became the Chinachem Group, eventually one of the island's largest and most powerful companies due to its lucrative pharmaceutical division.

He and Gu were well regarded by the local population, which eventually began to trust Sima Rui's leadership. Wang Dao and his cousin, the general Wang Dun, served in key roles, and it was said at the time that the domain was ruled equally by the Simas and the Wangs. Around the time that Luoyang fell to Han Zhao and Emperor Huai was captured (311), large numbers of refugees fled to Sima Rui's domain. Wang assisted Sima Rui in settling the refugees and strengthening his rule.

Daru Jambangan, royal palace of the Sultanate of Sulu. Malacañang Palace along the Pasig River In pre-Hispanic Philippines, Filipinos built large wooden residences for the ancient nobility and royalty (such as Lakans, Wangs, rajahs and datus) called Torogan or Bahay Lakan ("king's house").The windows of torogan are slits and richly framed in wood panels with okir designs located in front of the house. The communal kitchen is half a meter lower than the main house is both used for cooking and eating.

When Emperor Ai ascended the throne, Empress Dowager Wang received the title that she is later most known for—Grand Empress Dowager Wang. Initially, out of respect for her, Emperor Ai, while consolidating his own power base, left the Wangs, including Wang Mang, largely in the posts that they had been in. However, the influences of Emperor Ai's grandmother Consort Fu would soon be shown. Consort Fu was not content with her title of Princess Dowager of Dingtao; rather, she also wanted to be empress dowager.

Some simpler mantra methods, such as reciting the mani mantra, are open to all however. Traditionally, there are technically three requirements before a student may begin a tantric practice: # The ritual initiation # A reading of the text by an authorized holder of the practice (Tib. lung) # The oral instruction (tri) on how to perform the practice In Unsurpassed Yoga Tantra, the ritual procedure generally includes four "wangs" (though it may include more, depending on the system):Jamgön Kongtrül (2005), p. 44, 225, 229, 231-233.

On 1 August 2013, the nation's first Good Samaritan law took effect in Shenzhen. While most attention was focused on the passers- by who failed to assist Wang, a British journalist interviewed other shopkeepers in the Foshan hardware market who were just meters away yet failed to respond. He found that the area where the incident occurred was inhabited mainly by internal migrant families (the Wangs had migrated from Shandong seven years earlier). In the writer's view, there was little sense of community and little in common there.

The Pizol is a mountain in the Glarus Alps of northeastern Switzerland, overlooking Wangs in the canton of St. Gallen. At 2,844 metres above sea level, it is the highest summit of the chain separating the valleys of the Seez and the Tamina rivers, and the highest mountain lying entirely within the canton of St. Gallen. There are five mountain lakes (Pizolseen) on Pizol: Wangsersee at Pizolhütte, Wildsee, Schottensee, Schwarzsee (2368 m) and Baschalvasee (2174 m). A small cirque glacier, the Pizolgletscher, lies above 2,600 metres on the northern side of the mountain.

"新'百家姓'图腾，快来看看您的尊姓啥模样" [The New Hundred Family Surnames's Totems: Quick, Come Look at Your Honorable Surname's Picture]. 12 December 2011. Accessed 28 March 2012. Previous partial surveys proved less accurate, as many surnames are clustered regionally. The summary of the 2007 survey revealed China had approximately 92,881,000 Wangs (7.25% of the population), 92,074,000 Lis (7.19%), and 87,502,000 Zhangs (6.83%). A 2018 survey showed that Liu and Chen were the next most common in mainland China with more than 70 million each.

The Six Masters of the early Qing period () were a group of major Chinese artists who worked in the 17th and early 18th centuries (Qing dynasty). Also known as orthodox masters, they continued the tradition of the scholar- painter, following the injunctions of the artist-critic Dong Qichang late in the Ming Dynasty. The Six Masters included the flower painter Yun Shouping and the landscapists Wu Li and the Four Wangs: Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang Yuanqi, and Wang Hui.Cihai: Ci hai bian ji wei yuan hui (辞海编辑委员会）.

Wang and her husband have been recognized by the China AIDS Initiative in 2006, the Museum of Chinese in America in New York in 2007, and the Los Angeles Chinatown Public Safety Association in 2008, and were honored in 2010 by Asian Americans Advancing Justice with its 2010 Public Service Award. The pair also received the 2010 Asian Pacific American Legal Center Public Service Award. The Wangs were bestowed the Anti-Defamation League's Humanitarian Award in 2018. Wang personally received the prestigious Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2011 on behalf of her philanthropic work.

In summer 550, the Buddhist monk Sun Tianying () launched a peasant rebellion and attacked Chengdu (成都, in modern Chengdu, Sichuan), the capital of Yi Province. Xiao Yi engaged Sun and killed him. in fall 550, the people of Li Province (黎州, roughly modern Guangyuan, Sichuan) -- a minor province part of Xiao Ji's domain—rebelled and expelled the governor of Li Province, Zhang Ben (). The general Yang Fachen () entered Li, and he instigated two major clans of Li Province, the Wangs and the Jias, to petition Xiao Ji that Yang be allowed to become governor.

Ci hai （辞海）. Shanghai: Shanghai ci shu chu ban she （上海辞书出版社）, 1979 Page 958. The works of the Six Masters are generally conservative, cautious, subtle, and complex, in contrast to the vigorous and vivid painting of their "individualist" contemporaries. One of the most famous works produced by a member of the group is the White Clouds over Xiao and Xiang, hanging scroll after Zhao Mengfu by Wang Jian (one of the Four Wangs), ink and colour on paper, 1668, which is exhibited in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

A crew member on board was instructed beforehand to smash a hole in the hull as soon as the ship had entered sufficiently deep waters. The ship sank, and the last members of the Goryeo Dynasty drowned. According to an urban legend, after the fate of the Wangs gullible enough to board the doomed ship reached their relatives on the mainland, most of them changed their surnames from Wang (王) to Ok (玉) by adding an extra brush stroke, thus hiding their true descent. Calls for a new capital followed the demise of the last remnants of the Goryeo Dynasty.

Kung Yu Sum was born in Shanghai to parents from Wenzhou, and was a childhood playmate of Teddy Wang, whose father Wang Din-shin, a Wenzhounese businessman, established a paint and chemical business. The Wangs moved to Hong Kong, and the business became the Chinachem Group, eventually one of Hong Kong's largest and most powerful companies based on a lucrative pharmaceutical division. In 1948, when she was 11 and he 15, they renewed their friendship, and in 1955 they married. Nicknamed "Little Sweetie" ("Siu Tim Tim" or "小甜甜" in Cantonese), she was noted for her two pigtails and her love of dressing in traditional Chinese dresses.

In partnership with her husband, Wang funded documentaries on crucial social issues in China and Chinese-American history. The documentary The Blood of Yingzhou District, which centers on the AIDS epidemic in China, won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject). The Warriors of Qiugang, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) in 2010, resulted in a $30 million investment from the Chinese government to clean up the toxic waste around the waterway where the film takes place. Additionally, the Wangs are the first and most prominent sponsors of the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary Becoming American: The Chinese Experience by Bill Moyers.

The extroverted, Americanized woman is not what Wang has in mind for his elder son, and Wang and Ta argue. Sammy Fong arrives and quickly penetrates Linda's scheme: Linda, frustrated by the five years she has been seeing Sammy, is determined to marry someone, and if Sammy won't step forward, she will settle for Ta. Sammy quickly strikes back by inviting the Wangs, Mei Li and her father to watch the show at his "Celestial Bar" ("Fan Tan Fannie"). Linda does her striptease, realizing too late who is sitting at the best table. Sammy's special guests storm out, except for Ta, who is so humiliated that he does not know what to do.

Grand Empress Dowager Wang was willing to let her have the title, and it was by her edicts that Consort Fu was also given the title Grand Empress Dowager (with a difference—Fu had the unique title, not again to be used, of Ditaitaihou (帝太太后) compared with Wang's regular title of Taihuangtaihou (太皇太后)); in an analogous manner, Emperor Ai's mother Consort Ding was also given the title of Empress Dowager (Ditaihou, 帝太后; cf. Zhao Feiyan's title of Huangtaihou, 皇太后)). Consort Fu was not content with titles, however, but did everything she could to control her grandson's administration. Part of her agenda involved the removal of the Wangs from government.

Tao Hongjing was enthralled by their calligraphy, and later wrote, "In my view, it is not something that could have been achieved by skill alone. Rather, Heaven conferred on them this mastery, that it might lead others to enlightenment". Tao decided to undertake the task of recovering all that remained of the original autograph manuscripts by Yang, Xu Mai, and Xu Mi (Strickmann 1977: 3). Comparing the manuscripts of Yang and the two Xus, Tao Hongjing said, "the calligraphy of Master Yang is the most accomplished … The reason that his fame did not spread is only that his social position was low and that, moreover, he was suppressed by the Two Wangs", that is, his famous calligraphic contemporaries Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi (Ledderose 1984: 258).

Wang Mang's son Wang Yu (王宇) disagreed with his father's dictatorial regime and program to build up his personality cult, afraid that in the future the Wangs would receive a backlash when Emperor Ping was grown. He therefore formed friendships with Emperor Ping's Wei uncles, and told Consort Wei to offer assurances to Wang Mang that she would not act as Emperor Ai's mother and grandmother did, trying to become an empress dowager. Wang Mang still refused to let her visit the capital. In 3 CE, Wang Yu formed a conspiracy with his teacher Wu Zhang (吳章), his brother-in-law Lü Kuan (呂寬), and the Weis, to try to see what they can do to break Wang Mang's dictatorial hold.

Mather > 1976:246) Keith McMahon cites the Wangs' wushisan camaraderie as a historical analogy for 19th-century opium addicts. > In one old anecdote, two fourth-century friends of considerable status think > fondly of each other whenever they have a euphoric experience. One of the > friends takes the powder and, coming upon a beautiful scene, immediately > thinks of the brilliance of his absent friend. It was not necessarily that > individuals took the powder together at the same time, but that people of > like interests and status enjoyed the special effects of this drug and did > so without embarrassment or sense of shameful indulgence. (2002:117) Second, when Huan Xuan was summoned to the capital in 387 to serve the crown prince Sima Dezong, his friend Wang Chen came to visit (tr.

Meanwhile, Li Keyong became involved in another confrontation with other military governors that started over a succession struggle at Hezhong Circuit. Wang Chongrong had been assassinated in 887 and been succeeded by his older brother Wang Chongying. After Wang Chongying died in spring 895, the Hezhong soldiers supported Wang Chongrong's adoptive son Wang Ke—the biological son of Wang Chongying's and Wang Chongrong's older brother Wang Chongjian (王重簡). Wang Chongying's sons Wang Gong the military governor of Baoyi Circuit (保義, headquartered in modern Sanmenxia, Henan) and Wang Yao (王瑤) the prefect of Jin Prefecture were displeased with the situation and engaged Wang Ke in battle; they further sought aid from Zhu Quanzhong, claiming that Wang Ke was not actually a blood relation to the Wangs.

Wang Dun was the son of the Jin official Wang Ji (王基), and he married Emperor Wu of Jin's daughter Princess Xiangcheng. He served as an assistant to Emperor Hui's crown prince Sima Yu, and when Sima Yu was falsely accused of crime by Empress Jia Nanfeng and deposed, he risked his life to attend the crown prince's farewell, and received renown from that. He later served as the governor of Yang Province (揚州, modern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu and Anhui). After Sima Rui, then the Prince of Langye, became in charge of the military operations in the area in 307, both Wang Dun and his cousin Wang Dao became key assistants to him, and it was said at the time that the domain was ruled equally by the Simas and the Wangs.

By 320, Emperor Yuan's relationship with Wang Dun was at a breaking point, as Wang Dun had grown more and more arrogant and controlling of the western provinces. Emperor Yuan feared him, and therefore began to group men around him who were against Wang Dun as well, such as Liu Huai () and Diao Xie () -- men of mixed reputation who, in their efforts to suppress the Wangs' power offended many other people. In 321, Emperor Yuan commissioned Dai Yuan () and Liu with substantial forces, claiming that they were to defend against Later Zhao attacks, but instead was intending to have them defend against a potential Wang Dun attack. (The general who had a charge of protecting Later Zhao attacks actually remain held by Zu Ti (by this time, he was a governor of Yu Province under Jin).

Wang Zhengjun (; 71 BC – 13 AD), officially Empress Xiaoyuan (孝元皇后), later and more commonly known as Grand Empress Dowager Wang, born in Yuancheng (modern Handan, Hebei), was an empress during the Western Han dynasty of China, who played important roles during the reigns of five successive Han emperors (her husband, son, two stepgrandsons, and stepgreat-grandnephew) and later (according to traditional historians, unwittingly) led to the usurpation of the throne by her nephew Wang Mang. She is largely viewed sympathetically by historians as an unassuming and benevolent if overly doting woman who suffered much in her long life, who tried to influence the empire as well as she could, and who was not a party to her nephew's machinations, but whose failure, leading to the downfall of the Western Han Dynasty, was her overdependence on her clan (the Wangs).

Because Emperor Xiaowu often stayed in his mother's bedchambers, rumors grew that he was having an incestuous affair with his mother, but there was no conclusive evidence of such an affair. Empress Dowager Lu occasionally involved herself in her son's administration, and her nephews Lu Qiongzhi (路瓊之), Lu Xiuzhi (路休之), and Lu Maozhi (路茂之) became honored, although not particularly powerful, officials. On one occasion in 458, Lu Qiongzhi visited the noble Wang Sengda (王僧達), a descendant of Wang Dao, and he sat on Wang's bench—which Wang then ordered thrown out, because he felt dishonored that Lu Qiongzhi, a son of one of the Wangs' servants, would sit on his bench. Lu Qiongzhi informed Empress Dowager Lu of this and, angry that her family was being disrespected, she told her son to punish Wang.

Emperor Ai removed the qualification "of Dingtao" from his father's posthumous title (thus making him simply "Emperor Gong"), and then gave his grandmother a variation of the grand empress dowager title (ditaitaihou (帝太太后), compared to Grand Empress Dowager Wang's title taihuangtaihou (太皇太后)) and his mother a variation of the empress dowager title (ditaihou (帝太后), compared to Empress Dowager Zhao's title huangtaihou (皇太后)), and there were therefore now four official empresses dowager in the capital, each with a full budget. Grand Empress Dowager Fu died in 3 BC, and was buried with Emperor Yuan – an act that drew even greater hatred from the Wangs, because now there would be no place for Grand Empress Dowager Wang, Emperor Yuan's wife, to be buried after her death. Further, Emperor Ai granted her a posthumous empress title, which was viewed to be inappropriate and disrespectful to Grand Empress Dowager Wang.

The issue of the roles of Princess Dowager Fu and Consort Ding (and what honor, if any, to posthumously bestow on Emperor Ai's father Prince Kang), however, would quickly again erupt into a major controversy. Initially, Grand Empress Dowager Wang decreed that Princess Dowager Fu and Consort Ding see him periodically, every 10 days. However, Princess Dowager Fu quickly began to visit her grandson everyday, and she insisted that two things be done: that she receive an empress dowager title, and that her relatives be granted titles, like the Wangs. Grand Empress Dowager Wang, sympathetic of the bind that Emperor Ai was in, first granted Prince Kang the unusual title of "Emperor Gong of Dingtao" (定陶共皇) and then, under the rationale of that title, granted Princess Dowager Fu the title "Empress Dowager Gong of Dingtao" (定陶共皇太后) and Consort Ding the title "Empress Gong of Dingtao" (定陶共皇后).

Seeing Wang Dun's ambition, Emperor Yuan began to fear him, and he began to group men around him who were against Wang Dun as well, such as Liu Huai (劉隗) and Diao Xie (刁協) -- men of mixed reputation who, in their efforts to suppress the Wangs' power offended many other people. He also reduced the roles that Wang Dun's relatives, including Wang Dao, had in his government, which angered Wang Dun further. Wang Dun was further encouraged by his assistants Qian Feng (錢鳳) and Shen Chong (沈充), both of whom persuaded him to plan a military confrontation with Emperor Yuan. In 320, however, when Emperor Yuan, against Wang's request, made Sima Cheng (司馬承) the Prince of Qiao the governor of Xiang Province (湘州, modern Hunan) instead of Shen, Wang Dun was not yet ready to fully break with Emperor Yuan, and therefore allowed Sima Cheng to take his post.

Emperor Cheng died suddenly in 7 BC, and Prince Xin ascended the throne as Emperor Ai. Almost immediately, the issue of the roles of Princess Dowager Fu and Consort Ding (and what honour, if any, to posthumously bestow on Emperor Ai's father Prince Kang) would quickly erupt into a major controversy. Initially, Grand Empress Dowager Wang decreed that Princess Dowager Fu and Consort Ding see him periodically, every 10 days. However, Princess Dowager Fu quickly began to visit her grandson everyday, and she insisted that two things be done: that she receive an Empress Dowager title, and that her relatives be granted titles, like the Wangs. Grand Empress Dowager Wang, sympathetic of the bind that Emperor Ai was in, first granted Prince Kang the unusual title of "Emperor Gong of Dingtao" (定陶共皇) and then, under the rationale of that title, granted Princess Dowager Fu the title "Empress Dowager Gong of Dingtao" (定陶共皇太后) and Consort Ding the title "Empress Gong of Dingtao" (定陶共皇后).