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Zhao Zhenji
Zhao Zhenji (赵贞吉) was a Ming dynasty scholar-official from Sichuan who served as Minister of Rites and Grand Secretary under the Jiajing and Longqing emperors.
Zhao Zhigao
Zhao Zhigao (赵志皋, 1524–1601) was a Ming dynasty official from Lanxi, Zhejiang, who rose to chief grand secretary under the Wanli Emperor and pressed to fix the imperial succession and abolish the mining taxes.
Zhao Zhiqian
Zhao Zhiqian (赵之谦, 1829–1884) was a Chinese calligrapher, painter, and seal carver of the late Qing dynasty, a forerunner of the Shanghai School who influenced Wu Changshuo and Qi Baishi.
Zhao Zhixin
Zhao Zhixin (赵执信, 1662–1744) was a Qing dynasty poet, poetry theorist, and calligrapher from Yidu, Shandong, best known for the Tanlong lu, his attack on Wang Shizhen's shenyun poetics.
Zhao Zi
Zhao Zi (赵滋, courtesy name 子深) was a Song dynasty military officer from Kaifeng who served six years as prefect of Xiongzhou on the Liao frontier.
Zhao Ziyang (赵紫阳)
Zhao Ziyang (赵紫阳), 1919–2005, Chinese Communist Party leader, Premier 1980–1987 and General Secretary 1987–1989, architect of 1980s economic reforms, purged in 1989 for opposing martial law at Tiananmen, held under house arrest until his death, secret memoir published 2009 as Prisoner of the State.
Zhao Ziyue
Zhao Ziyue (赵子曰) is a 1927 satirical novel by the Chinese writer Lao She, his second, following an idle student through a strike, expulsion, and failed ventures in 1920s Beijing.
Zhao‐Qi Wang
Zhao-Qi Wang is a molecular biologist in Germany known for knockout-mouse studies of c-Fos, Igf2/Mpr, and NBS1, and for leading genomic stability research in Jena.
Zhao's destruction of Zhongshan
Zhao's destruction of Zhongshan (赵灭中山) was Zhao's conquest and annexation of the state of Zhongshan during the Warring States period, beginning with a two-route campaign in 305 BC.
Zhao's wars against Yan
Zhao's wars against Yan (赵攻燕之战) were planned Zhao attacks on its neighbor Yan during the Warring States period, recorded in the Strategies of the Warring States; none were fought.
Zhaofeng Yan (严照峰)
Zhaofeng Yan (严照峰) is a Chinese structural biologist and professor at Hunan University's Institute of Life Sciences and Medicine since 2020, studying membrane protein transport complexes by cryo-EM.
Zhaoge (朝歌)
Zhaoge (朝歌), renamed Menghui Zhaoge (梦回朝歌), is an unaired Yu Zheng Chinese costume mythological drama on Ji Fa and Daji, filmed 2016-2017 in Xinjiang, delayed by 2018 costume-drama policy and the 2021 lead-actor ban.
Zhaohui Zhang
Zhaohui Zhang (张朝晖) is a Chinese businessman who co-founded pharmaceutical outsourcing company WuXi AppTec in Wuxi in 2000 and serves as its China chief operating officer.
Zhaomu system of ancestral temple ordering
The zhaomu system (昭穆) is a Chinese ritual scheme ordering ancestral temples, tombs, and clan members by alternating generational rank, known from Zhou ritual texts and the Shiji.
Zhaoqing (肇庆)
Zhaoqing (肇庆), historically Duanzhou, is a prefecture-level city in midwest Guangdong on the Xijiang River, the largest mainland Greater Bay Area city by area (14,891 km²), with about 4.12 million people, a 2025 GDP of 297.5 billion yuan, and fame for Duan inkstones, Seven Star Crags, and Dinghu Mountain.
Zhaotong
Zhaotong (昭通) is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Yunnan, China, at the Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan junction; historic Silk Road gateway, mountainous terrain, 2025 GDP 210.34 billion yuan.
Zhaowei Liu
Zhaowei Liu is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC San Diego who joined in 2008, known for optical superlenses, hyperlenses, and hyperbolic metamaterials.
Zhaoxin
Zhaoxin (兆芯) is a Chinese fabless semiconductor company founded in 2013 as a joint venture between VIA Technologies and the Shanghai government, which designs x86-compatible desktop, embedded, and server CPUs.
Zhaoxuan Si (Buddhist Registrarate)
Zhaoxuan Si (昭玄寺) was the central office of the Northern Wei and later northern dynasties for governing the Buddhist clergy, handling registration, discipline, and monastic courts from around 453.
Zhaoxun Media
Zhaoxun Media Advertising Co., Ltd. (兆讯传媒) is a Chinese operator of digital advertising media in high-speed railway stations, founded in 2007 and listed on the Shenzhen ChiNext since 2022.
Zhaoyi Army
The Zhaoyi Army (昭義軍) was a Tang military command spanning the Zelu and Xing-Luo regions, famed for elite infantry and guarding against the Hebei garrisons.
Zhaozhou Congshen
Zhaozhou Congshen (赵州从谂, 778–897) was a Tang dynasty Chan Buddhist master, dharma heir of Nanquan Puyuan, remembered for his koans, including the famous "Wu" case.
Zharnel Hughes
Zharnel Hughes (born 1995, Anguilla) is a British sprinter; British 100m record 9.83 and 200m record 19.73, European 4x100m record 37.36, world 100m bronze 2023, Olympic relay bronze 2024.
Zhazira Zhapparkul
Zhazira Zhapparkul (Жазира Жаппаркуль), Kazakh weightlifter born 1993 in Arys: 2010 Youth Olympic gold, 2016 Rio Olympic silver in women's 69 kg (259 kg), and world silver medals in 2014 and 2015.
Zhdanovshchina
Zhdanovshchina (Ждановщина) was a Soviet campaign of ideological tightening against writers and composers, launched by the Communist Party in August 1946 and named after Andrei Zhdanov.
Zhe Liu
Zhe Liu is a biophysicist and group leader at HHMI's Janelia Research Campus who trained under Robert Tjian at UC Berkeley and co-developed lattice light-sheet microscopy and Voltron.
Zhe Lü
Zhe Lü, a biophysicist trained in Beijing and Wisconsin who leads a laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, showed that membrane phospholipids stabilize the voltage sensors of potassium channels.
Zhe School
The Zhe School (浙派) was a school of professional painters in Ming dynasty China, founded by Dai Jin of Zhejiang, who continued the Southern Song academic landscape style.
Zhe Zeng (曾喆)
Zhe Zeng (曾喆), 1972–2001, Guangzhou-born Chinese American Bank of New York employee and certified rescuer who died giving first aid in the 9/11 World Trade Center collapse; honored with Zeng Zhe Way in Manhattan Chinatown.
Zhe Zhu
Zhe Zhu is a Chinese-born American remote sensing scientist at the University of Connecticut, known for the Fmask cloud detection and CCDC land change algorithms used in Landsat production.