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Zhu Yu (朱昱) (artist)
Zhu Yu (朱昱), born 1970 in Chengdu, is a Chinese conceptual and performance artist known for Eating People (2000) and, since 2004, photorealistic paintings of leftovers, tea stains, and pebbles; works in Beijing.
Zhu Yunming
Zhu Yunming (祝允明) was a Ming dynasty calligrapher, poet, and minor official from Suzhou, remembered as a master of cursive script and one of the Wu region's leading literary figures.
Zhu Zaiyu
Zhu Zaiyu (朱载堉, courtesy name Boqin, died 1611) was a Ming dynasty prince of Zheng, music theorist, and mathematician whose calculation of twelve equal divisions of the octave anticipated equal temperament.
Zhu Zhengyao
Zhu Zhengyao (朱正耀), born 1973 in Haining, Zhejiang, is a Chinese businessman who co-founded Marssenger Kitchenware, a listed maker of integrated stoves, and serves as its president.
Zhu Zhi
Zhu Zhi (朱治), courtesy name Junli, was a Chinese general who served the Sun family of Eastern Wu and administered Wu Commandery for thirty-one years.
Zhu Ziqing
Zhu Ziqing (朱自清) was a Chinese essayist, poet, and professor of Chinese literature at Tsinghua University who became a national symbol of integrity after refusing American relief flour in 1948.
Zhu Zumou
Zhu Zumou (朱祖謀, 1857–1931), also known as Zhu Xiaozang, was a Chinese ci poet of the late Qing dynasty and one of its four great ci poets.
Zhuan Zhu
Zhuan Zhu (专诸) was an assassin of China's Spring and Autumn period who killed King Liao of Wu with a dagger hidden in a roasted fish.
Zhuan Zhu's assassination of King Liao of Wu
Zhuan Zhu's assassination of King Liao of Wu (专诸刺王僚) was a 515 BC palace killing at a banquet, after which Gong Ziguang took the throne as King He Lv.
Zhuang Chenchao
Zhuang Chenchao, also known as CC Zhuang (庄辰超), is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who co-founded Qunar.com in 2005 and served as its chief executive officer from 2011 to 2016.
Zhuang Liu
Zhuang Liu is a Chinese venture capitalist serving as a Managing Director at MPCi, the firm formerly known as Matrix Partners China, founded in 2008.
Zhuang people
Zhuang people (壮族), China's largest ethnic minority, a Tai-Kadai-speaking group aboriginal to Guangxi; about 14.82 million in Guangxi (2010), strongly influenced by Han culture, with an Old Zhuang sinogram script.
Zhuang Qiao's expedition to Dian
Zhuang Qiao's expedition to Dian (莊蹻入滇) was a reported Warring States expedition in which the Chu general Zhuang Qiao settled and ruled as king of Dian.
Zhuang Yong
Zhuang Yong (庄泳, born 1972 in Shanghai) is a Chinese former swimmer who won China's first Olympic swimming medal (1988 silver) and its first swimming gold, in the 100 m freestyle at Barcelona 1992.
Zhuang Zhou (庄周)
Zhuang Zhou (庄周, Zhuangzi, c. 369–286 BC), Daoist philosopher of Meng, Song state, author of the inner chapters of the Zhuangzi; declined the Chu chancellorship, taught xiaoyao and qiwu through parables.
Zhuanghe
Zhuanghe (庄河市) is a county-level city under Dalian, Liaoning, on the north Yellow Sea coast of the Liaodong Peninsula; 3,739 km² land, 742,000 residents, port city, sole Chinese breeding site of the black-faced spoonbill.
Zhuanghe power station
Zhuanghe power station (国电电力庄河发电厂) is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power station at Heidao in Dalian, Liaoning, China, with two 600 MW supercritical units that entered service in 2007.
Zhuangzi (庄子) (book)
The Zhuangzi (莊子), also called the Nanhua zhenjing (南华真经), is a classical Chinese Daoist text of 33 chapters compiled around Master Zhuangzi, known for parables, skepticism, and translations by Legge, Watson, Graham, and Lynn.
Zhuanxu Calendar
The Zhuanxu Calendar is an ancient Chinese calendar, traditionally drafted in the late Zhou, whose year began with month 10 and was used by Qin and early Han.
Zhuanzhan Shaanbei
Zhuanzhan Shaanbei (转战陕北) was the 1947–1948 campaign in which Mao Zedong abandoned Yan'an and eluded Hu Zongnan's larger Nationalist army across northern Shaanxi for over a year.
Zhubei
Zhubei (竹北市), county seat of Hsinchu County, Taiwan, north of Hsinchu City across the Toucian River. Fastest-growing suburban HSR station area, population over 220,000, science-park-driven growth.
Zhubing yuanhou lun
Zhubing yuanhou lun (諸病源候論), also called Bingyuan lun, is a fifty-juan Sui dynasty treatise on disease causes and symptoms, regarded as the earliest surviving Chinese monograph on the subject.
Zhucheng
Zhucheng (诸城) is a county-level city in southern Weifang, Shandong, China, population about 1.1 million. Known as China's dinosaur city for its Late Cretaceous Wangshi Group fossil beds, Zhuchengtyrannus, and China's largest dinosaur tracksite.
Zhudaosheng
Zhudaosheng (竺道生) was a Chinese Buddhist monk of the Liu Song dynasty who taught universal Buddha-nature and sudden enlightenment, was expelled around 428, and was vindicated in 430.
Zhufahu
Zhufahu (竺法护), known in Sanskrit as Dharmarakṣa, was a Buddhist monk of Yuezhi descent who translated Mahāyāna and Hīnayāna scriptures into Chinese under the Western Jin dynasty.
Zhufu Yan
Zhufu Yan (主父偃) was a Western Han statesman from Qi whose "extend grace" proposal divided the feudal kings' lands, and who was executed with his clan.
Zhuge clan of Langya
The Zhuge clan of Langya (诸葛氏) was a Chinese aristocratic family of Shandong whose members Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Jin, and Zhuge Dan served three rival kingdoms.
Zhuge Dan
Zhuge Dan (诸葛诞) was a general of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, known for leading the last of three rebellions against the Sima clan at Shouchun.
Zhuge Jin
Zhuge Jin (诸葛瑾), courtesy name Ziyu, was a statesman and general of Eastern Wu who served Sun Quan as a trusted adviser and elder brother of Zhuge Liang.
Zhuge Ke
Zhuge Ke (诸葛恪), courtesy name Yuanxun, was a statesman and general of Eastern Wu in the Three Kingdoms period, eldest son of the general Zhuge Jin.