Qi of Xia Qi of Xia Qi () was a Chinese king, the son of Yu the Great and the second sovereign of the Xia Dynasty. He ruled for approximately nine or ten years. Qi's father, Yu the Great also the founder of the Xia dynasty married Nu Jiao and had Qi. Qi was not to be the next emperor but due to public pressure Qi was chosen as Yu's successor beginning the dynastic tradition. Later Qi had a son named Tài Kāng who also became the next emperor. Yu died 45 years into his reign. After Qi's rule, Qi's son Tai Kang
The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul is a biography of the Nobel Prize-winning author V. S. Naipaul by Patrick French. It was published in 2008 (by Picador in the UK and Knopf in the USA). The title is a quotation from Naipaul's book "A Bend in the River". "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it." French deals with Naipaul's family background and his life from his birth in 1932 until his second marriage