Chinese Famous Names Starting with Letter Z

Is a Chinese football coach and was the head coach of the China national football team to 22nd of Au

Is a Chinese football coach and was the head coach of the China national football team to 22nd of August 2007.

Is a male Chinese Taekwondo practitioner. At the 2008 Summer Olympics Zhu won the bronze medal in th

Is a male Chinese Taekwondo practitioner. At the 2008 Summer Olympics Zhu won the bronze medal in the men's 80 kg category. He lost to eventual gold medalist Hadi Saei of Iran in the quarterfinals but captured bronze by defeating Aaron Cook of Great Britain and Deepak Bista of Nepal in the repechage.

Is a prominent Chinese composer.He was born in Tianjin and brought up in Shanghai, and lived in Jing

Is a prominent Chinese composer.He was born in Tianjin and brought up in Shanghai, and lived in Jing County, Anhui, China. He began composing in 1940 and pursued composition studies at the Moscow Conservatory in 1955. He is a professor at the Shanghai Conservatory. He has composed for both Western and Chinese instruments and his works have been performed around the world. In 2000 he was commissioned by Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project to compose Silk Road Reverie.

Is a retired Chinese high jumper.On June 11, 1983 Jianhua jumped 2.37 metres, setting a new world re

Is a retired Chinese high jumper.On June 11, 1983 Jianhua jumped 2.37 metres, setting a new world record. He would go on to reach 2.38 and even 2.39 metres, the latter on June 10, 1984. The world record stood until August 11, 1985, when Rudolf Povarnitsyn beat it by one centimeter.

Is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Qingdao Jonoon. He made his senior club debut o

Is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Qingdao Jonoon. He made his senior club debut on March 23, 2009 in a league match against Hangzhou Greentown, but his team lost 1-2.

Is a former female Chinese handball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Is a former female Chinese handball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Is a Chinese volleyball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Is a Chinese volleyball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.

A female Chinese swimmer, who competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

A female Chinese swimmer, who competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Was a Chinese intellectual, translator and historian.

Was a Chinese intellectual, translator and historian.

Is a male Chinese sport shooter who won the gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the Men's 10 m

Is a male Chinese sport shooter who won the gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle event.

Is a prominent Chinese politician who served as the Mayor and Party chief in Shanghai between 1987 a

Is a prominent Chinese politician who served as the Mayor and Party chief in Shanghai between 1987 and 1991, before serving as Vice-Premier and then the fifth Premier of the People's Republic of China from March 1998 to March 2003.

Was one of the greatest Chinese mathematicians lived during the Yuan Dynasty.Zhu born close to today

Was one of the greatest Chinese mathematicians lived during the Yuan Dynasty.Zhu born close to today's Beijing, two of his mathematical works have survived. Introduction to Computational Studies (????), written in 1299, is an elementary textbook on mathematics. Zhu included four illustrative problems to explain operations in arithmetic and algebra, adding 284 further problems as exercises. This book also showed how to measure different two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional solids. The Introduction had an important influence on the development of mathematics in Japan. The book was once lost in China until a copy of the book was made from a Korean source from a reprinted edition of 1660.

Was a Chinese film director, born in Taicang, Jiangsu, China. Zhu began his career in the thriving f

Was a Chinese film director, born in Taicang, Jiangsu, China. Zhu began his career in the thriving film industry of Shanghai, directing actresses like Ruan Lingyu with the Lianhua Film Company. After the war, Zhu moved to Hong Kong, where he founded the Longma Film Company along with fellow Shanghai emigrant Fei Mu.

Is principal of the Beijing Taiqi Education Center in Beijing, China.[1] He is nationally famous in

Is principal of the Beijing Taiqi Education Center in Beijing, China.[1] He is nationally famous in China as an English teacher and author of review books.[2]

Is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Dalian Shideas a striker.

Is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Dalian Shideas a striker.

Is a Chinese short story writer turned director.His first published short story, I Love Dollars, was

Is a Chinese short story writer turned director.His first published short story, I Love Dollars, was denounced by some critics as the "shameless and indecent novel of a hooligan.In 1998, he instigated and became identified with the Rupture movement(duanlie) to voice dissatisfaction with the literary establishment. He sent questionnaires to about 70 writers, about 55 of which responded. The responses were sarcastic and mostly expressed discontent, and later spawned publications that nurtured more independence among writers.[2]

Was a Song Dynasty (960-1279) Confucian scholar who became the leading figure of the School of Princ

Was a Song Dynasty (960-1279) Confucian scholar who became the leading figure of the School of Principle and the most influential rationalist Neo-Confucian in China. His contribution to Chinese philosophy included his assigning special significance to the Analects of Confucius, the Mencius, the Great Learning, and the Doctrine of the Mean (the Four Books), his emphasis on the investigation of things (gewu), and the synthesis of all fundamental Confucian concepts.

Is a Chinese novelist and the author of Tales of Judge Dee, has also authored a biographical work, T

Is a Chinese novelist and the author of Tales of Judge Dee, has also authored a biographical work, Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China, and contributed to Father: Famous Writers Celebrate the Bond Between Father and Child, an anthology including contributions by Annie Proulx, John Updike, Dean Koontz, and Calvin Trillin.

Is a Chinese long-distance runner.She finished fourth at the 2007 World Championships.

Is a Chinese long-distance runner.She finished fourth at the 2007 World Championships.

Is a Shanghai-based Chinese historian and public intellectual. He is a major exponent of contemporar

Is a Shanghai-based Chinese historian and public intellectual. He is a major exponent of contemporary Chinese liberalism.

Is a Chinese football player who currently plays as a midfielder for Beijing Guoan in the Chinese Su

Is a Chinese football player who currently plays as a midfielder for Beijing Guoan in the Chinese Super League. Zhu Yifan would join the Beijing Guoan youth team before moving to the senior team where he would eventually earn his senior team debut on June 13, 2009 in a 1-0 league victory against Tianjin Teda F.C.

Is a female Olympic medal-winning swimmer from the People's Republic of China, who competed at the 2

Is a female Olympic medal-winning swimmer from the People's Republic of China, who competed at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.

Was an author of the Chinese Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD). Between 1111 and 1117 AD, Zhu Yu wrote the

Was an author of the Chinese Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD). Between 1111 and 1117 AD, Zhu Yu wrote the book Pingzhou Ketan (????; Pingzhou Table Talks), and had it published in 1119 AD.[1] It covered a wide variety of various maritime subjects and issues in China at the time. His extensive knowledge of maritime engagements, technologies, and practices were owed to the fact that his father, Zhu Fu, was the Port Superintendent of Merchant Shipping for Guangzhou from 1094 until 1099 AD, whereupon he was elevated to the status of governor there and served in his office until 1102 AD.[1][2]

Is a retired Chinese heptathlete.

Is a retired Chinese heptathlete.

Was a colleague of Sun Yatsen in his early organizing of the anti-Manchu revolutionary party the Ton

Was a colleague of Sun Yatsen in his early organizing of the anti-Manchu revolutionary party the Tong Meng Hui and helped Sun develop and spread his revolutionary philosophy. In 1918 he decided to forgo further military affairs and follow cultural and ideological pursuits. Zhu was a gifted writer and polemicist, known, among other writings, for his 1919 attack on Christianity which sparked the Anti-Christian Movement. After his untimely death in 1920, Wang Jingwei helped established the Zhixin Memorial School in Guangzhou.