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Zhan Chen

Zhan Chen is a chemistry professor at the University of Michigan who studies buried polymer and biological interfaces using sum frequency generation spectroscopy, and was elected an AAAS and Royal Society of Chemistry fellow in 2018.

Zhan Cheng Nan

Zhan Cheng Nan (战城南) is a Western Han yuefu folk song, the only warfare song among the Eighteen Songs of the Han Drum-and-Flute, mourning unburied soldiers and condemning war.

Zhan Hua Kui

Zhan Hua Kui is a chuanqi play by Suzhou playwright Li Yu, adapting Feng Menglong's story of the oil vendor Qin Zhong and the courtesan Wang Meiniang.

Zhan Jisheng

Zhan Jisheng (詹际盛) is a Chinese express-delivery entrepreneur from Chun'an, Zhejiang, who co-founded STO Express's predecessor in 1993 and founded Tiantian Express in Hangzhou in 1994.

Zhan Ruoshui

Zhan Ruoshui (湛若水, 1466–1560), style name Ganquan, was a Ming dynasty Confucian philosopher and official from Zengcheng, Guangdong, who taught experiencing heavenly principle wherever one is and founded over forty academies.

Zhan shi fu (Directorate of the Imperial Household, office administering the heir apparent)

Zhan shi fu (詹事府) was a Ming dynasty office administering the heir apparent; from the mid-Ming it served mainly as a promotion stage for Hanlin Academy officials.

Zhan Xugang

Zhan Xugang (占旭刚; born 1974) is a Chinese former weightlifter who won Olympic gold at Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 and set world records in the lightweight class.

Zhan Ziqian

Zhan Ziqian (展子虔) was a Chinese painter of the Sui dynasty, active earlier under Northern Qi and Northern Zhou, best known for the landscape handscroll Youchun Tu (Stroll About in Spring).

Zhan-tian and hu-diao system

The zhan-tian and hu-diao system (佔田制與戶調式) was the land-holding and taxation regime the Jin dynasty proclaimed in 280 after reunifying China, combining land limits, grain tax, and household silk quotas.

Zhanazhol Oil and Gas Field

Zhanazhol (Kazakh: Жанажол) is a large oil, gas, and condensate field in western Kazakhstan's Aktobe region, discovered in 1978 and operated by CNPC-Aktobemunaygaz since 1997.

Zhang Ailing

Zhang Ailing (張愛玲) was a Chinese fiction writer born in Shanghai, known for The Golden Cangue and Love in a Fallen City, found dead in Los Angeles in 1995.

Zhang Aiping

Zhang Aiping (张爱萍), born Zhang Duanxu, was a Chinese PLA colonel general who founded its first naval force, commanded China's first atomic bomb test, and served as defense minister.

Zhang Anshi

Zhang Anshi (张安世) was a Western Han statesman and general, son of Zhang Tang, who commanded the capital's guards under Emperor Xuan as Marquis of Fuping.

Zhang Baixi

Zhang Baixi (张百熙, 1847–1907) was a Qing dynasty official from Changsha, Hunan, who served as superintendent of the Imperial University of Peking and ended as Minister of Posts and Communications.

Zhang Bangchang

Zhang Bangchang (张邦昌, 1081–1127) was a Song dynasty chief councillor whom the Jin army installed as puppet emperor of Great Chu, then executed after he returned the throne.

Zhang Bangxin

Zhang Bangxin (张邦鑫), born 1980, is the co-founder and CEO of TAL Education, the Beijing education-technology group he began as the Xueersi tutoring firm in 2003.

Zhang Bao (Yellow Turban)

Zhang Bao (张宝, died 184 CE) was a Yellow Turban Rebellion leader, brother of founder Zhang Jiao, titled Terrestrial General, killed at Quyang in 184.

Zhang Binglin

Zhang Binglin, known as Zhang Taiyan (章太炎), was a Chinese classical scholar and revolutionary who first proposed the name Republic of China and edited the revolutionary journal Minbao.

Zhang Boduan

Zhang Boduan (张伯端), sobriquet Ziyang, was a Song dynasty Daoist master and former government clerk who wrote the Wuzhen pian, foundational to the Southern school of inner alchemy.

Zhang Boxing

Zhang Boxing (张伯行, 1651–1725) was a Qing dynasty official praised by the Kangxi Emperor as a model of integrity, serving twice as governor and as Minister of Rites.

Zhang Bu

Zhang Bu (张步), courtesy name Wengong, was a warlord of the Xin–Han transition who held twelve Qi commanderies before his defeat by the Han general Geng Yan.

Zhang Cang

Zhang Cang (张苍) was a Western Han statesman and calendrical-mathematical scholar who served Emperor Gaozu through the founding wars, directed the state's accounts, and was chancellor for over a decade under Emperor Wen.

Zhang Cang's statutes and calendar

Zhang Cang's statutes and calendar (张苍定章程) was the fixing of the Han dynasty's calendrical rules and measurement standards by the mathematician Zhang Cang under Emperor Gaozu.

Zhang Ce

Zhang Ce (张策) was a Chinese scholar-official of the late Tang and early Later Liang who served as chancellor under its founder, Zhu Wen, dying in retirement at Luoyang in 912.

Zhang Changzong

Zhang Changzong (张昌宗), called Sixth Lord at court, was a favorite of Empress Wu Zetian who held power with his elder brother Zhang Yizhi until both were killed in 705.

Zhang Chao

Zhang Chao (張潮, 1650–after 1707) was a Qing dynasty writer and publisher from Shexian, Anhui, best known for the aphoristic collection Youmengying and the story anthology Yuchu Xinzhi.

Zhang Chaoyang

Zhang Chaoyang (张朝阳), known in English as Charles Zhang, is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who founded Sohu in 1996 and chairs and leads it as chief executive.

Zhang Cheng

Zhang Cheng (张成) was a late Yuan dynasty Chinese lacquer craftsman in Xitang, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, one of the two most celebrated carved-lacquer masters of his era.

Zhang Chenglong

Zhang Chenglong (张成龙), Chinese artistic gymnast born 1989 in Shandong; 2012 Olympic team gold, 2016 team bronze, 2010 Rotterdam world horizontal bar champion, 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games triple gold.

Zhang Chengzhi

Zhang Chengzhi (张承志, born 1948) is a Chinese writer of Hui Muslim descent, author of Black Steed and History of the Soul and a founder of the Red Guards.