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Zhenghe Bencao

Zhenghe Bencao (政和本草) is a Song dynasty materia medica completed in 1116, when the medical official Cao Xiaozhong collated Tang Shenwei's compilation under Emperor Huizong.

Zhenghe Wuli Xinyi (New Ritual Code of the Five Rites of the Zhenghe Era)

The Zhenghe Wuli Xinyi (政和五礼新仪) is a 220-juan code of state ritual compiled under Zheng Juzhong during Emperor Huizong's Zhenghe era, the only Northern Song ritual code to survive.

Zhengmian Branch Secretariat (Campaign Bureau for Burma)

The Zhengmian Branch Secretariat (征缅行省), also called the Mianzhong Branch Secretariat, was a Yuan dynasty campaign bureau under Kublai Khan directing the war against Burma.

Zhengming Chen

Zhengming Chen (陈铮鸣) is a Chinese-born epidemiologist and Professor at the University of Oxford who founded and leads the China Kadoorie Biobank, a cohort of 512,000 Chinese adults.

ZhengMing Sun

ZhengMing Sun (孙正明) is a Chinese materials scientist, chief professor and doctoral supervisor at Southeast University in Nanjing, known for MAX phases, MXenes, and aqueous zinc-ion battery research.

Zhengshi Stone Classics

The Zhengshi Stone Classics (正始石經), also called the Three-Type Stone Classics, are Confucian texts carved in stone by Cao Wei around 241 in three scripts.

Zhengshi Xuanxue (Mysterious Learning)

Zhengshi Xuanxue (正始玄学), or Zhengshi Mysterious Learning, is the school of thought founded by He Yan and Wang Bi in Cao Wei during the Zhengshi era of 240 to 249.

Zhengtong Daozang

The Zhengtong Daozang (正统道藏) is the Ming dynasty official collection of Daoist scriptures, printed in 1445 and the only officially compiled Daoist canon to survive.

Zhenguan Clan Register

The Zhenguan Clan Register (氏族志) is an official 638 ranking of Tang dynasty aristocratic clans, compiled by Gao Shilian under Emperor Taizong, ranking clans by current office.

Zhenguan ritual code

The Zhenguan ritual code (贞观礼) is the official ritual code of the Tang dynasty, compiled under Emperor Taizong by Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng, revising the Sui rites.

Zhenguan Zhengyao

Zhenguan Zhengyao (贞观政要) is a Tang dynasty book in ten juan on Emperor Taizong's government, compiled by Wu Jing and read by later Tang rulers as a mirror.

Zhengyi Dao (Tianshi Dao)

Zhengyi Dao, also called Tianshi Dao (正一道), is the umbrella organization of Chinese Daoist talisman schools, formed in the Yuan dynasty and led by Zhang Ling's descendants.

Zhengzhi Zhunsheng

证治准绳 (Zhengzhi Zhunsheng, Criterion of Diagnosis and Treatment), also called Liuke Zhunsheng, a 44-juan Ming clinical medical encyclopedia by Wang Kentang (1549–1613), first printed 1602–1608, covering miscellaneous diseases, cold damage, surgery, pediatrics, and gynecology.

Zhengzhou (郑州)

Zhengzhou (郑州), capital of Henan Province and one of China's eight ancient capitals, is a national central city of about 13.1 million people, home to the early Shang capital site, a double-cross rail hub, and major electronics, automobile, and frozen-food industries.

Zhengzhou Botanical Garden

Zhengzhou Botanical Garden (郑州植物园) is a free municipal botanical garden in Zhongyuan District, Zhengzhou, Henan, covering 1,035 mu with 1,876 species, 15 specialized gardens, and Henan's only tropical plant exhibition greenhouse, a 5,400 m2 bianzhong-inspired hall with ground-source heat pump climate control.

Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange

The Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (郑州商品交易所) is a futures exchange in Zhengzhou, Henan, China, established in 1990 as China's first State Council-approved pilot futures exchange, ranking seventh globally by contract volume in 2023.

Zhengzhou Xinli power station

Zhengzhou Xinli power station, also known as Henan Xinli power station, was a 1,000 MW coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Zhengzhou, Henan, China, retired in 2019.

Zhengzhou Yuneng power station

Zhengzhou Yuneng power station (郑州豫能热电) is a coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Xingyang, Zhengzhou, Henan, China, with two 660 MW units opened in 2019.

Zhengzhou Zoo

Zhengzhou Zoo (郑州市动物园), a municipal zoo at 103 Huayuan Road, Jinshui District, Zhengzhou, Henan; opened 1985 on 430 mu; about 210 species, 2,500 animals; home of gorilla Nikou and elephants Babu and Buyang.

Zhenhai Xia

Zhenhai Xia is a computational materials scientist, Deputy Director of the Australian Carbon Materials Centre at UNSW Sydney, known for metal-free carbon electrocatalysis and the 2019 Somiya Award.

Zhenhao Zou

Zhenhao Zou (Zou Zhenhao), Chinese former UCL PhD student from Dongguan, convicted March 2025 of 28 offences including 11 rapes of 10 women in the UK and China; sentenced June 2025 to life with a 24-year minimum.

Zhenhua Heavy Industries

Zhenhua Heavy Industries (ZPMC, 上海振华重工) is a Chinese state-owned heavy equipment manufacturer in Shanghai, the world leader in port cranes and a major builder of offshore wind installation vessels.

Zhenhua Ni

Zhenhua Ni (倪振华) is a Chinese physicist known for Raman spectroscopy and optoelectronics of graphene and two-dimensional materials, and a professor at Southeast University since 2010.

Zhenjiang

Zhenjiang Shi (镇江市), Zhenjiang City, a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu, China, at the Yangtze-Grand Canal junction; 3 districts and 3 county-level cities, 3,840 km², 3.228 million people, Jiangsu provincial capital 1929-1949.

Zhenjin (真金)

Zhenjin (真金, 1243–1286), posthumously Emperor Yuzong of Yuan, was Kublai Khan's principal-wife son and crown prince from 1273; he died before reigning, and his son Temür (Emperor Chengzong) succeeded Kublai in 1294.

Zhenjiu jiayi jing (A-B Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion)

The Zhenjiu jiayi jing (针灸甲乙经) is the earliest surviving systematic treatise on acupuncture and moxibustion, compiled by the scholar Huangfu Mi in China's Western Jin dynasty around 260 to 282.

Zhenkun Lou

Zhenkun Lou is a molecular biologist and cancer researcher at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who chairs the Division of Oncology Research and studies p53 regulation and genome stability.

Zhenkunhang (震坤行)

Zhenkunhang (震坤行), also known as ZKH Industrial Supermarket, is a Shanghai-based e-commerce platform for MRO industrial supplies, founded by Chen Long and listed on the NYSE under ticker ZKH since December 2023.

Zhenping

Zhenping County (镇平县), Nanyang, Henan; anciently Neyang; county since 1226, first led by poet Yuan Haowen. Known as China's jade-carving hometown despite producing no jade, with 400,000 workers and 30-billion-yuan output.

Zhenqiang Ma

Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma is an electrical engineering professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison known for building flexible, biodegradable, and transparent electronics on semiconductor nanomembranes, recognized with a PECASE award.