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Zhang Xianliang
Zhang Xianliang (张贤亮, December 1936 – 2014) was a Chinese writer of labor-camp novels such as Half of Man Is Woman, and later founded the Zhenbeipu Western Film Studio.
Zhang Xie Zhuangyuan
Zhang Xie Zhuangyuan (Top Graduate Zhang Xie) is a Southern Chinese drama (nanxi) play, the earliest extant in that tradition, written by the Nine Mountain Society of Wenzhou and preserved in the Yongle Dadian of 1408.
Zhang Xinxin
Zhang Xinxin (张辛欣, born 1953) is a Chinese writer and director known for the controversial 1981 story On the Same Horizon and the oral-history work Beijing Ren.
Zhang Yan
Zhang Yan (1248 – c. 1320) was a Chinese ci poet of the late Song and early Yuan, author of the Ciyuan and known as Zhang Lone Goose.
Zhang Yimou (张艺谋)
Zhang Yimou (张艺谋), born 1950 in Xi'an, is a Fifth Generation Chinese film director; Red Sorghum won the 1988 Berlin Golden Bear, Hero opened the blockbuster era, and he directed the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics ceremonies.
Zhang Yingfei (张颖菲)
Zhang Yingfei (张颖菲, born 2004, Qinhuangdao, Hebei) is a Chinese actress and Central Academy of Drama graduate known for short-drama leads Lin Siwang in The Heiress Who Won With Brains (真千金她是学霸) and roles in Dashing Youth.
Zhang Yuqi
Zhang Yuqi (张雨绮, Kitty Zhang Yuqi), Chinese actress born 1986 in Dezhou, Shandong; discovered by Stephen Chow, starred in CJ7, The Mermaid, Legend of the Demon Cat, and the Candle in the Tomb TV series.
Zhang Zhehan
Zhang Zhehan (张哲瀚), born 1991 in Xinyu, Jiangxi, is a Chinese actor, singer, and director known for Word of Honor (2021). Blacklisted in China in August 2021 over Yasukuni Shrine photos, he relaunched abroad as a singer-songwriter.
Zhang Zhupo
Zhang Zhupo (张竹坡, 1670–1698), Qing critic from Xuzhou, wrote the Gaohe Tang commentary on Jin Ping Mei in 1695, refuting its obscene-book reputation and shaping the novel's transmission.
Zhang Ziyi (章子怡)
Zhang Ziyi (章子怡), Chinese actress born 1979 in Beijing, trained in dance and at the Central Academy of Drama; known for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, 2046, Memoirs of a Geisha, and Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations.
Zhanghui novel
The zhanghui novel (章回小说) is the traditional Chinese form of long vernacular fiction, divided into chapters headed by couplet titles and flourished in Ming and Qing times.
Zhao Jiadi (我叫赵甲第)
Zhao Jiadi (我叫赵甲第) is a 2022 Youku Chinese web drama adapted from Fenghuo Xi Zhuhou's novel 《老子是癞蛤蟆》, starring He Peng as a rich heir who refuses his father's money; it earned a record 70.75 million yuan split and a 2025 second season.
Zhao Liying (赵丽颖)
Zhao Liying (赵丽颖, Zanilia Zhao), born 1987 in Langfang, Hebei, is a Chinese actress who rose from a 2006 talent-contest win through seven years of supporting roles to Feitian and Hundred Flowers awards for Wild Bloom and Article 20.
Zhao Lusi (赵露思)
Zhao Lusi (赵露思, Rosy Zhao), born 1998 in Chengdu, is a Chinese actress known for The Romance of Tiger and Rose, Love Like the Galaxy, and Hidden Love; Versace ambassador, Youku record-holder.
Zhao Na (model)
Zhao Na (赵娜, Zena), Chinese model and dancer, Miss Universe China 2025; Top 12 and first Chinese Miss Universe Asia 2025 at Miss Universe 2025 in Thailand; later judge at Miss Universe Philippines 2026.
Zhao Pan'er Fengyue Jiu Fengchen
Zhao Pan'er Fengyue Jiu Fengchen (赵盼儿风月救风尘), usually shortened to Jiu fengchen, is a four-act Yuan-dynasty zaju comedy by Guan Hanqing in which the courtesan Zhao Pan'er tricks the merchant Zhou She into freeing Song Yinzhang.
Zhao Shao'ang
Zhao Shao'ang (赵少昂, 1905–1998) was a Chinese painter of the Lingnan School, best known for his flower-and-bird paintings and based in Hong Kong from 1948.
Zhao Shuli
Zhao Shuli (赵树理, 1906–1970) was a Chinese novelist and short-story writer from Shanxi whose rural fiction, notably Little Erhei's Marriage of 1943, made him the model author of the Yan'an literary policy.
Zhao Wangyun
Zhao Wangyun (赵望云, 1906–1977) was a Chinese ink painter known for rural sketch reporting from 1932 and as founding figure of the Chang'an School in Xi'an.
Zhao Wei (赵薇)
Zhao Wei (赵薇), also Vicki Zhao, Chinese actress born 1976 in Wuhu, Anhui; star of My Fair Princess (还珠格格), Shaolin Soccer, Red Cliff; directed So Young (2013); works removed from Chinese platforms in 2021.
Zhao Ye
Zhao Ye was an Eastern Han scholar from Kuaiji, known as the author of the Wu Yue Chunqiu, a chronicle of the rival states of Wu and Yue.
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 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.
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.
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.
Zheani
Zheani (Zheani Isobel Sparkes, born 1993) is an independent Australian fairy trap, trap metal, and witch house artist from Queensland; debut album LONG LIVE THE OLD DEAD GODS released November 2025.
Zhen Guo Zhu Zai (镇国主宰)
Zhen Guo Zhu Zai (镇国主宰) is a 2024 Chinese vertical micro-drama by Judian Duanju: 90 episodes, war-god revenge plot of Zhan Tiandi, starring Wang Ziming, with over 10 million RMB in recharges.
Zhenchuan wenji
Zhenchuan Ji, or Zhenchuan xiansheng ji (震川先生集), is the collected prose and verse of Ming dynasty writer Gui Youguang, first assembled completely during the Kangxi reign.
Zheng Cao
Zheng Cao (曹錚), 1966–2013, Shanghai-born American mezzo-soprano, San Francisco Opera Adler Fellow known for Suzuki, Cherubino, and creating Ruth in The Bonesetter's Daughter; also her stage-4 lung cancer fight and the opera Zheng about her life.