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Zhang Shusheng
Zhang Shusheng (张树声, 1824–1884) was a Qing dynasty official and general from Hefei, Anhui, a founding commander of the Huai Army who rose to governor-general of Liangguang and sent troops to Korea in 1882.
Zhang Shuye
Zhang Shuye (张叔夜, 1064–1127) was a Song dynasty official and general who defeated the rebel Song Jiang and died after the fall of the Northern Song.
Zhang Sichuan
Zhang Sichuan (张思川) is a director of Hello Group (挚文集团), the Beijing company behind the Momo app, and was its chief operating officer until July 2026.
Zhang Side
Zhang Side (张思德) is a 2004 Chinese black-and-white biographical film directed by Yin Li, written by Liu Heng, and starring Wu Jun and Tang Guoqiang, made to mark the 60th anniversary of Mao's "Serve the People" speech honoring the soldier Zhang Side, who died in a 1944 charcoal kiln collapse at Yan'an.
Zhang Siding
Zhang Siding (张巳丁) is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded the Peking University bike-sharing startup ofo in 2014 with Dai Wei, ran its operations, and left in 2019 to found BLANK.
Zhang Siwei
Zhang Siwei (张四维) was a Ming dynasty grand secretary from Puzhou who led the government for about ten months after Zhang Juzheng's death, dying in 1585.
Zhang Songxian
Zhang Songxian (张颂贤, 1817–1892) was a Chinese silk and salt merchant of Nanxun, Zhejiang, who exported Jili silk from Shanghai and became Zhejiang's largest salt monopolist.
Zhang Su
Zhang Su (张宿, died 818) was a Tang dynasty official who rose from commoner status to acting grand master of remonstrance under Emperor Xianzong, chiefly through the emperor's personal favor.
Zhang Tang
Zhang Tang (张汤) was a Western Han legal official under Emperor Wu who became Grand Justice and Imperial Counselor and drove the coinage, salt and iron monopoly reforms.
Zhang Tingyu
Zhang Tingyu (张廷玉, 1672–1755) was a Qing dynasty statesman from Tongcheng, Anhui, who drafted the Grand Council's rules, directed the History of Ming, and became the only Han official honored at the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
Zhang Tingyue
Zhang Tingyue (张廷岳) was a Qing dynasty official who served as Kulun affairs minister from Tongzhi year 6, organizing the defense of Mongolia against Gansu Hui incursions until his death in 1874.
Zhang Tonglu
Zhang Tonglu (张同禄, 1942–2022) was a Chinese cloisonné master known as "Falang Zhang" who mastered every stage of the craft and was named a China Arts and Crafts Master in 1988.
Zhang Wancheng
Zhang Wancheng (张万成) is a Chinese quantitative investor who serves as deputy general manager and investment director of Chengqi Asset, a major Shanghai-based quant fund manager.
Zhang Wanyi (张晚意)
Zhang Wanyi (张晚意) is a Chinese actor, born in 1994 in Shiyan, Hubei, who became widely known in 2021 playing Chen Yannian in The Age of Awakening.
Zhang Wei (venture capitalist)
Zhang Wei (张维) is a Chinese venture capitalist who chairs CoStone Capital, a Shenzhen investment firm he founded in 2001 that manages RMB 85–90 billion.
Zhang Weili (张伟丽)
Zhang Weili (张伟丽), nicknamed Magnum, is a Chinese UFC women's strawweight fighter and two-time champion; first Chinese UFC titleholder (2019, 42-second KO of Andrade), famed for the 2020 war with Jedrzejczyk.
Zhang Weiwei (international relations scholar)
Zhang Weiwei (张维为), born 1957, is a Chinese professor of international relations at Fudan University, director of its China Institute, and a leading advocate of the "China model" thesis.
Zhang Wen (technology executive)
Zhang Wen (张文) is a Chinese technology executive, founder, chairman, and CEO of Shanghai Biren Technology, a GPU designer he founded in 2019 after serving as president of SenseTime.
Zhang Wenda
Zhang Wenda (张问达) was a Ming dynasty official from Jingyang who rose to Minister of Personnel and handled the three great succession cases of his era.
Zhang Wenming
Zhang Wenming (张文明, born 1984) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who co-founded the Wuhan-based game live-streaming platform DouYu, serving as co-CEO until resigning in December 2021.
Zhang Wentao
Zhang Wentao (张问陶; 1764–1814), sobriquet Chuanshan, was a Chinese poet and poetic theorist of the mid-Qing dynasty, a leading xingling school figure and called the foremost Qing poet of Sichuan.
Zhang Wentian
Zhang Wentian (张闻天) was a Chinese Communist Party leader who led the party after the 1935 Zunyi Conference and later served as ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Zhang Xian
Zhang Xian (张先, 990–1078), courtesy name Ziye, was a Northern Song ci poet and official from Wucheng in modern Zhejiang, nicknamed "Zhang Three Shadows" and known as a transitional figure between short lyrics and slow tunes.
Zhang Xiangxiang
Zhang Xiangxiang (张湘祥), Chinese weightlifter born 1983 in Longyan, Fujian; 56 kg bronze at Sydney 2000 at 17, 62 kg gold at Beijing 2008 with 319 kg after surviving a coma from a spinal cord injury.
Zhang Xianliang
Zhang Xianliang (张贤亮, December 1936 – 2014) was a Chinese writer of labor-camp novels such as Half of Man Is Woman, and later founded the Zhenbeipu Western Film Studio.
Zhang Xianzhong
Zhang Xianzhong (张献忠, 1606–1646) was a late Ming rebel leader who ruled most of Sichuan from Chengdu as the Great West king until Qing troops killed him.
Zhang Xianzhong's rebellion
Zhang Xianzhong's rebellion (张献忠起义) was the peasant rising begun in 1630 by former soldier Zhang Xianzhong, who captured Chengdu and proclaimed himself emperor of the Great Western state in Sichuan.
Zhang Xiaojuan
Zhang Xiaojuan (张小娟, born 1969) is a Chinese businesswoman who co-founded YTO Express with her husband Yu Huijiao in Shanghai in 2000 and serves as a director of the listed company.
Zhang Xiaolei
Zhang Xiaolei (张小雷), born 1969, is the Chinese founder of Qianbao Network, a Nanjing online platform exposed as a Ponzi scheme; he was sentenced to 15 years for fundraising fraud in 2019.
Zhang Xiaolong
Zhang Xiaolong (张小龙, known as Allen Zhang) is a Chinese software engineer who created Foxmail and WeChat and has led Tencent's Weixin Group since May 2014.