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Zhu Tao

Zhu Tao (朱滔) was a Tang dynasty military governor of Youzhou, brother of the rebel Zhu Ci, who joined the four-king rebellion and died in 785.

Zhu Tiangui

Zhu Tiangui (朱天贵) was a naval commander of the Ming–Qing transition from Putian, Fujian who surrendered to the Qing with 20,000 men in 1680 and died at the battle of Penghu in 1683.

Zhu Ting

Zhu Ting (朱婷, born 1994) is a Chinese volleyball outside hitter who captained China to gold at the 2016 Olympics, where she was named Most Valuable Player.

Zhu Wen

Zhu Wen (朱温), granted the name Zhu Quanzhong, was a late Tang general who defected from the rebel Huang Chao and rose to power as Xuanwu Military Commissioner from 883.

Zhu Wen forces the move of the capital to Luoyang

Zhu Wen forces the move of the capital to Luoyang (迁都洛阳) was the forced transfer of the Tang capital from Chang'an to Luoyang by the warlord Zhu Wen.

Zhu Xi (朱熹)

Zhu Xi (朱熹, 1130–1200), also called Zhu Zi or Chu Hsi, was the preeminent Southern Song Neo-Confucian (Daoxue) philosopher who compiled the Four Books with commentary, the basis of China's civil service examinations from the Yuan dynasty until 1905/1908.

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 Xingliang

Zhu Xingliang (朱兴良), born in 1959, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Suzhou Gold Mantis Construction Decoration in Suzhou in 1993, China's first listed decoration company, and was Jiangsu's richest person in 2013.

Zhu Xinli

Zhu Xinli (朱新礼), born 1952 in Shandong, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Huiyuan Juice in 1992, saw a $2.4 billion Coca-Cola sale blocked in 2009, and left as it entered bankruptcy restructuring.

Zhu Xuan

Zhu Xuan (朱瑄, died 897) was a Tang dynasty military governor who ruled Tianping Army from Yunzhou and was captured and beheaded by Zhu Wen's forces.

Zhu Yi (pharmaceutical executive)

Zhu Yi (朱义, born 1963) is a Chinese pharmaceutical entrepreneur who founded Sichuan Baili-Tianqing and licensed its lead cancer drug to Bristol Myers Squibb for up to $8.4 billion.

Zhu Yi (朱易) (figure skater)

Zhu Yi (朱易, Beverly Zhu), born 2002 in Westwood, California, is a US-born ladies' figure skater who switched to China in 2018, competed at Beijing 2022 (team 5th), and holds personal bests of 174.00 total (2026 Four Continents).

Zhu Yigui

Zhu Yigui (朱一贵), known as the Duck Mother King, was a duck-raising farmer in Qing Taiwan who led a major uprising against officials in 1721.

Zhu Yiming (朱一明)

Zhu Yiming (朱一明) is a Chinese semiconductor entrepreneur who founded memory chip designer GigaDevice in 2005 and Changxin Memory Technologies in 2016, now China's largest and the world's fourth-largest DRAM producer.

Zhu Yingwen

Zhu Yingwen (朱颖文) is a Chinese sprint freestyle swimmer, born in 1981 in Shanghai, who won Olympic silver in the 4 × 200 meter relay at Athens 2004.

Zhu Yizun

Zhu Yizun (朱彝尊), 1629 to 1709, was a Qing dynasty scholar, poet, and bibliophile from Jiaxing who compiled the Ming History and founded the Zhexi school of ci poetry.

Zhu Youdun

Zhu Youdun, also known by his studio name Chengzhai (诚斋), was a Ming dynasty imperial prince and playwright whose thirty-one surviving zaju plays mark a major step in the transformation of Ming drama.

Zhu Yougui's parricide and usurpation

Zhu Yougui's parricide and usurpation (朱友珪弑父) was the 912 palace murder in which Zhu Yougui killed his father, Later Liang founder Zhu Wen, and seized the throne.

Zhu Yu (朱昱) (artist)

Zhu Yu (朱昱), born 1970 in Chengdu, is a Chinese conceptual and performance artist known for Eating People (2000) and, since 2004, photorealistic paintings of leftovers, tea stains, and pebbles; works in Beijing.

Zhu Yunming

Zhu Yunming (祝允明) was a Ming dynasty calligrapher, poet, and minor official from Suzhou, remembered as a master of cursive script and one of the Wu region's leading literary figures.

Zhu Zaiyu

Zhu Zaiyu (朱载堉, courtesy name Boqin, died 1611) was a Ming dynasty prince of Zheng, music theorist, and mathematician whose calculation of twelve equal divisions of the octave anticipated equal temperament.

Zhu Zhengyao

Zhu Zhengyao (朱正耀), born 1973 in Haining, Zhejiang, is a Chinese businessman who co-founded Marssenger Kitchenware, a listed maker of integrated stoves, and serves as its president.

Zhu Zhi

Zhu Zhi (朱治), courtesy name Junli, was a Chinese general who served the Sun family of Eastern Wu and administered Wu Commandery for thirty-one years.

Zhu Ziqing

Zhu Ziqing (朱自清) was a Chinese essayist, poet, and professor of Chinese literature at Tsinghua University who became a national symbol of integrity after refusing American relief flour in 1948.

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.

Zhuan Zhu

Zhuan Zhu (专诸) was an assassin of China's Spring and Autumn period who killed King Liao of Wu with a dagger hidden in a roasted fish.

Zhuan Zhu's assassination of King Liao of Wu

Zhuan Zhu's assassination of King Liao of Wu (专诸刺王僚) was a 515 BC palace killing at a banquet, after which Gong Ziguang took the throne as King He Lv.

Zhuang Chenchao

Zhuang Chenchao, also known as CC Zhuang (庄辰超), is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who co-founded Qunar.com in 2005 and served as its chief executive officer from 2011 to 2016.

Zhuang Liu

Zhuang Liu is a Chinese venture capitalist serving as a Managing Director at MPCi, the firm formerly known as Matrix Partners China, founded in 2008.

Zhuang people

Zhuang people (壮族), China's largest ethnic minority, a Tai-Kadai-speaking group aboriginal to Guangxi; about 14.82 million in Guangxi (2010), strongly influenced by Han culture, with an Old Zhuang sinogram script.