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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 Shuang (郑爽) (actress, born 1991)
Zheng Shuang (郑爽), born 1991 in Shenyang, is a mainland Chinese actress famous for Meteor Shower, Swords of Legends, and Love O2O, distinct from the 1966-born actress of the same name; her career ended in 2021 over a surrogacy scandal and tax evasion case.
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.
Zhexi School
The Zhexi School (浙西词派) was a school of ci poetry centered on western Zhejiang in the early Qing dynasty, led by Zhu Yizun and dominant for over a century.
Zhiguai
Zhiguai (志怪, "recording the strange") is a Chinese genre of brief classical accounts of anomalies, ghosts, immortals, and marvels, peaking during the Six Dynasties period (220–589).
Zhizn Iskusstva
Zhizn Iskusstva (Жизнь искусства, "The Life of Art") was a Soviet theater and arts periodical in Petrograd, a newspaper from 1918 to 1922 and then a journal.
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 Qiu Tie
Zhong Qiu Tie (中秋帖) is a cursive-script handscroll attributed to Wang Xianzhi, held in the Palace Museum, Beijing, and generally considered a Song copy by Mi Fu.
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 Shanshan (钟睒睒)
Zhong Shanshan (钟睒睒), born 1954, is a Chinese entrepreneur, founder of Nongfu Spring (农夫山泉) and controlling shareholder of Beijing Wantai Biological; former journalist, 'lone wolf', China's richest person 2021–2025.
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.
Zhongshan Going on Excursion
Zhongshan Going on Excursion (中山出遊圖) is a Yuan dynasty handscroll by Gong Kai showing Zhong Kui and his sister, held in the Freer Gallery of Art.
Zhongyong Lun
Zhongyong Lun (中庸论) is a set of three essays by Song writer Su Shi on the Doctrine of the Mean, written between 1057 and 1061.
Zhostovo painting
Zhostovo painting (Жостовская роспись) is a Russian folk craft of hand-painting metal trays with floral designs, centered in the village of Zhostovo near Moscow since 1825.
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 Dongyu (周冬雨)
Zhou Dongyu (周冬雨), born 1992 in Shijiazhuang, Chinese actress discovered by Zhang Yimou for Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010); Golden Horse, Hong Kong Film, and Golden Rooster Best Actress winner, youngest "three-gold" grand slam film queen.
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 Fang
Zhou Fang (周昉, courtesy names Zhonglang and Jingxuan, c. 730–800) was a mid-Tang dynasty Chinese painter from Chang'an, known for portraits of aristocratic women and creating the Water-Moon Guanyin iconography.
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 Jieqiong (周洁琼)
Zhou Jieqiong (周洁琼; Korean stage name Kyulkyung, 결경; also Pinky), born 1998 in Taizhou, Zhejiang, is a Chinese singer-actress, the only Chinese member of I.O.I from Produce 101 2016, later PRISTIN, now a mainland Chinese drama actress.
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 Maoshu Appreciating Lotuses
Zhou Maoshu Appreciating Lotuses (周茂叔愛蓮図) is a 15th-century hanging scroll by Kanō Masanobu showing the Song scholar Zhou Dunyi drifting in a boat among lotuses.
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.
Zhou Shen (周深)
Zhou Shen (周深), also known as Charlie Zhou Shen, is a mainland Chinese male singer and music producer trained at Ukraine's Lviv National Music Academy, who debuted on The Voice of China in 2014 and is known for 《大鱼》, ethereal mixed-voice technique, and the 2024 IFPI-ranked album 《反深代词》.
Zhou Xun (周迅)
Zhou Xun (周迅), born 1974 in Quzhou, Zhejiang, is a Chinese film and television actress and singer, one of the 'Four Dan Actresses' and the first Chinese actress to hold the Golden Rooster, Hong Kong Film Award, and Golden Horse Best Actress prizes.
ZHU (musician)
ZHU, real name Steven Zhu, is a Chinese-American electronic music producer and DJ who emerged anonymously in 2014 with "Faded" and the Blacklizt club series; albums include Generationwhy, Ringos Desert, DREAMLAND 2021, GRACE, and BLACK MIDAS.
Zhu Kexin
Zhu Kexin (朱可心, born Zhu Kaichang, 1904 to 1986) was a Chinese Yixing zisha pottery master best known for naturalistic flower-vessel teapots called "Kexin flower ware".
Zhu Qizhan
Zhu Qizhan (朱屺瞻) was a Chinese painter and calligrapher from Taicang, Jiangsu, 1892 to 1996, known for vigorous ink landscapes and flowers blending Chinese tradition with Western color.
Zhu Quan
Zhu Quan (朱权, 1378–1448) was a Ming dynasty prince, the first Prince of Ning, remembered as a drama theorist and author of the Taihe Zhengyin Pu.