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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 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 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.
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 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 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.
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 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 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.
Zheng Chouyu
Zheng Chouyu, born Zheng Wentao (1933–2025), was a Taiwanese poet whose 1954 lyric poem "Mistake" became one of the most widely read poems in the Chinese-speaking world.
Zheng Zhen
Zheng Zhen (1806–1864) was a Qing dynasty classical scholar and poet from Zunyi, Guizhou, who led the Shatan scholarly group and became the most celebrated poet of the late Qing Song School.
Zhong Lihe
Zhong Lihe (鍾理和) was a Taiwanese Hakka novelist and essayist, 1915 to 1960, called the Father of Nativist Literature, best known for Lishan Farm and Rain.
Zhong Rong
Zhong Rong (鍾嶸, ca. 468–518) was a Chinese literary critic of the Liang dynasty, author of the Shipin, the first work of Chinese criticism devoted to poetry.
Zhong Xing
Zhong Xing (钟惺, courtesy name Bojing, 1574–1624) was a Ming dynasty poet and critic from Jingling, Hubei, who founded the Jingling School and compiled the influential poetry anthology Shigui.
Zhong Zhaozheng
Zhong Zhaozheng (鍾肇政, 1925–2020), Hakka novelist of Longtan, Taoyuan, pioneer of the Taiwanese river novel with Turbidity Trilogy and Taiwanese Trilogy, founder of Wenyou Tongxun, editor of Taiwan Literary Arts, called Mother of Taiwanese Literature.
Zhou Dafu
Zhou Dafu is a Chinese novelist and retired army writer from Dengzhou, Henan, who won the 2008 Mao Dun Literature Prize for Lake Light and Mountain Color.
Zhou Erfu
Zhou Erfu (周而复, born Zhou Zushi, 1914–2004) was a Chinese novelist and calligrapher, best known for the four-part novel Morning in Shanghai about the socialist transformation of Shanghai's capitalist industry.
Zhou Ji
Zhou Ji (周濟, 1781–1839) was a Qing dynasty ci poet and theorist who built the Changzhou school's complete theoretical system through his anthologies Cibian and Song sijia cixuan.
Zhou Libo
Zhou Libo (周立波) was a Chinese socialist-realist novelist from Yiyang, Hunan, whose 1948 novel The Hurricane, on land reform, won the Stalin Literature Prize; his 1957 Great Changes in a Mountain Village depicted agricultural cooperativization.
Zhou Mengdie
Zhou Mengdie (周夢蝶; original name Zhou Qishu, 1921–2014) was a Chinese-born Taiwanese modernist poet, a leading figure of Taiwan's "1949 generation," who sold books from a Wuchang Street stall for 21 years.
Zhu Xiang
Zhu Xiang (朱湘, courtesy name Ziyuan, 1904–1933) was a Chinese formalist poet of the Crescent Moon Society, a pioneer translator of Western literature into Chinese, and Lu Xun's China's Keats.
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.
Zhyrau
A zhyrau (жырау) is a Kazakh poet-sage of the oral tradition who composed tolgau, philosophical verse, and served as counselor and soothsayer to the khan, flourishing from the 15th to 18th centuries.
Zimbabwe Women Writers
Zimbabwe Women Writers is a Zimbabwean organization for women writers, founded in Harare in 1990 to promote, publish, and train women writing in Shona, Ndebele, and English.
Zinaida Gippius
Zinaida Gippius (Зинаида Гиппиус), 1869–1945, was a Russian Symbolist poet, critic, and prose writer who, with her husband Dmitry Merezhkovsky, hosted a famous literary salon before emigrating to Paris in 1919.
Zitkala-Sa
Zitkala-Sa, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was a Yankton Dakota Sioux writer and activist who wrote the earliest published autobiographical accounts of American Indian boarding school life.
Zmicer Zhylunovich
Zmicer Zhylunovich, who wrote under the pseudonym Tsishka Hartny, was a Belarusian writer and statesman, first chairman of the provisional government of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Byelorussia.
Zmitrok Biadulia
Zmitrok Biadulia (Змітрок Бядуля), born Samuil Plaunik, was a Belarusian poet, prose writer, and publicist counted among the founders of modern Belarusian literature, known for the novella Salavej.