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Po Chü-i

(Encyclopedia) Po Chü-iPo Chü-ibô jü-ē [key], 772–846, Chinese poet. He occupied several important government posts, rising to the presidency of the imperial board of war in 841. He wrote over 3,000…

Chu Hsi

(Encyclopedia) Chu HsiChu Hsij&oomacr; shē [key], 1130–1200, Chinese philosopher of Neo-Confucianism. While borrowing heavily from Buddhism, his new metaphysics reinvigorated Confucianism.…

Steven Chu Biography

Steven Chu physicist Born: 1948 Birthplace: St. Louis, Mo. Steven Chu shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in…

James Chu Biography

James Chucomputer entrepreneurBorn: 1957Birthplace: Taiwan Chu's first job was selling Chinese-English dictionaries and English-language instruction tapes. He later got a job with a small…

Chu Shih-chieh

(Encyclopedia) Chu Shih-chiehChu Shih-chiehj&oomacr; shŭ-jĕ [key], fl. 1280–1303, Chinese mathematician. He contributed to the study of arithmetic and geometric series and to that of finite…

Chu, Steven

(Encyclopedia) Chu, Steven, 1948–, U.S. physicist and government official, b. St. Louis, Mo., grad. Univ. of Rochester (B.S., A.B. 1970), Univ. of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. 1976). He worked from…

Chu-hai

(Encyclopedia) Chu-hai: see Zhuhai, China.

Chu Teh

(Encyclopedia) Chu Teh: see Zhu De.