General articles: Arts and culture
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Zeyne (singer)
Zeyne, born Zein Sajdi in 1997, is a Palestinian-Jordanian singer from Amman with roots in Nablus, known for the 2024 hit "Asli Ana" and her debut album AWDA, released in 2025.
Zeytin Ağacı
Zeytin Ağacı (Another Self) is a Turkish Netflix drama created by Nuran Evren Şit, starring Tuba Büyüküstün, Seda Bakan, and Boncuk Yılmaz as friends confronting family trauma in Ayvalık; 3 seasons, 24 episodes, 2022–2026.
Zha Shibiao
Zha Shibiao (查士標, 1615–1698), courtesy name Erzhan, was a Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet of the early Qing dynasty, counted among the Four Masters of the Xin'an school.
Zhambyl Zhabayev
Zhambyl Zhabayev (Dzhambul Dzhabaev, 1846–1945) was a Kazakh folk poet and akyn whose improvised aitys contests and wartime poem "Leningraders, My Children!" made him a Soviet cultural figure.
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.
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 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 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.
Zhang Chongren
Zhang Chongren (1907–1998) was a Chinese sculptor and painter, trained in Brussels, who modeled for the character Chang in Hergé's Tintin album The Blue Lotus.
Zhang Dai
Zhang Dai (张岱, 1597–?1684), literary name Tao'an, was a Chinese essayist, historian, and biographer from Shaoxing, Zhejiang, whose reminiscences made him a late-Ming master of the short essay.
Zhang Ding
Zhang Ding (张仃, 1917–2010) was a Chinese painter, designer, and art educator who helped design the PRC national emblem and led the 1979 Capital Airport mural project.
Zhang Geng
Zhang Geng (張庚, 1685–1760) was a Qing dynasty painter, connoisseur, and art historian from Xiushui, Zhejiang, known for the Guochao Huazheng Lu and the treatise Pushan Lun Hua.
Zhang Guixing
Zhang Guixing (张贵兴, born 1956) is a Malaysian Chinese novelist based in Taiwan, known for novels set in the Borneo rainforest such as Elephant Herd.
Zhang Hao (章昊) (singer)
Zhang Hao (章昊, born 2000) is a Chinese singer, violinist, and actor who won Mnet's Boys Planet in 2023, debuted as ZEROBASEONE's center, and in 2026 became leader of AND2BLE.
Zhang Henshui
Zhang Henshui (张恨水; born Zhang Xinyuan, 1895 to 1967) was a Chinese novelist and newspaperman whose serialized chapter-form novels made him one of the Republican era's most widely read writers.
Zhang Huiyan
Zhang Huiyan (张惠言, 1761–1802) was a Qing dynasty classicist, prose writer, and ci poet from Changzhou, Jiangsu, who founded the Changzhou school of ci poetry.
Zhang Ji (poet)
Zhang Ji (張籍), courtesy name Wenchang, was a mid-Tang dynasty poet from Hezhou, Anhui, best known for plain-language yuefu ballads depicting social conditions; paired with Wang Jian, he influenced the New Yuefu movement.
Zhang Jingchu (张静初)
Zhang Jingchu (张静初) is a Chinese actress and Central Academy of Drama directing graduate, known for Peacock (2005), Aftershock, Protégé, Rush Hour-era Hollywood work, a New York study year, and The Long Season.
Zhang Kejiu
Zhang Kejiu (张可久, c. 1270–1348 or later) was a Yuan dynasty sanqu poet, native of Ningbo, Zhejiang, whose 855 surviving songs are the largest corpus of the era and led the 'clear and elegant' school.
Zhang Leping
Zhang Leping (张乐平) was a Chinese cartoonist, born in Haiyan County, Zhejiang in 1910, who created the comic boy Sanmao, first published in 1935 and famous across 20th-century China.
Zhang Miaoyi (张淼怡)
Zhang Miaoyi (张淼怡, Miaoyi Zhang), Chinese mainland actress born 1998 in Pinghu, Zhejiang; debuted as Lin Daiyu in Hu Mei's Dream of the Red Chamber, known for Please Don't Spoil Me and When I Fly Towards You.
Zhang Peili
Zhang Peili (张培力), born 1957 in Hangzhou, is a Chinese contemporary artist regarded as China's first video artist, known for 30 x 30 (1988) and his 'X?' glove paintings.
Zhang Qian Stele
The Zhang Qian Stele (张迁碑) is a Chinese stone stele of 186 CE honoring the Eastern Han official Zhang Qian, famous for its square-brush clerical script calligraphy.
Zhang Sengyou
Zhang Sengyou (张僧繇) was a 6th-century court painter of China's Liang dynasty, one of the Six Dynasties masters, known for Indian-derived concave-convex shading and the dragon-painting idiom hua long dian jing.
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 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 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 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 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.