* Zhang Miao, prefect of Chenliu ( d. 195 )

This earned him the aid of other local militaries controlled by Zhang Miao and Chen Gong, who joined his cause to create his first sizable army.

While Xiahou Dun was guarding the city, Zhang Miao and Chen Gong rebelled.

Despite initial success on the invasion, Cao Cao's subordinate Zhang Miao rebelled and allowed Lü Bu to take over Cao's base in Yan Province ( present day western Shandong ), forcing Cao to retreat from Xu Province.

The story about Meng Huo's seven captures is recently questioned by many modern academics, including historians like Miao Yue, Tan Liangxiao, and Zhang Hualan.

In 194, when Cao Cao was away on a campaign against Tao Qian in Xu Province, his subordinates Zhang Miao and Chen Gong rebelled and allowed Lü Bu's forces to take over Yan Province.

As such, he was welcomed by many since his childhood, including Cao Cao and Zhang Miao.

A coalition of regional officials and commanders from the eastern provinces, including Cao Cao, Yuan Shu, Han Fu, Zhang Miao and Bao Xin, formed up behind him in a campaign to oust Dong Zhuo.

In order to curtail Yuan Shu's sphere of influence, Yuan Shao formed an alliance with Cao Cao and Zhang Miao, and named his follower, Zhou Yu ( 周喁 ; not to be confused with the more famous Zhou Yu who served Sun Jian's sons ) as Inspector of Yu Province, a title to which Sun Jian had already been entitled, and sent him to attack Sun Jian's territories in Yu province while the latter was on his way back from Luoyang.

In 194, as Cao Cao led a campaign against Tao Qian in Xu Province, his home base at Yan Province was suddenly attacked by Lü Bu, and two of Cao's officials, Chen Gong and Zhang Miao, chose to defect to Lü.

In 189, the regional warlord Zhang Miao was raising an army to join the coalition against Dong Zhuo, who was holding the Emperor Xian hostage in the imperial court.

In the next year, however, while Cao Cao was away leading a campaign against Tao Qian in Xu Province ( 徐州 ; covering present-day northern Jiangsu ), Chen Gong defected to rival warlord Lü Bu along with his colleague, Zhang Miao.

The disappointed Han Fu left everything, including his family and went to seek refuge with Zhang Miao of Chenliu.

* Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun are defeated by Han forces under Liu Yu.

Zhang Jue dies due to illness, his brothers Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang are defeated at Guanzhong.

Dou Xian ( 50s – 92 ), brother-in-law of Emperor Zhang through his sister Empress Duo, utterly defeated the Northern Xiongnu in a series of campaigns during the Yongyuan era ( 89 – 105 ).

There was a short-lived effort in 1917 to revive the Qing dynasty led by the loyalist general Zhang Xun, but his forces were defeated by rival warlords later that year.

Zhang Guotao's forces were soundly defeated by the local Nationalist warlords, the Ma clique.

General Zhang Liao of the Kingdom of Wei commanding 800 picked cavalry defeated the 200, 000-man army of the Kingdom of Wu.

In 1367, Zhu's forces defeated Zhang Shicheng's Kingdom of Dazhou, which was centered in Suzhou and had previously included most of the Yangtze River Delta and the Song Dynasty's capital city of Hangzhou.

According to Zhang Qian, the Yuezhi were defeated by the rising Xiongnu empire and fled westward, driving away the Saka ( Sai ).

Wen Chou defeated a few of Cao Cao's best warriors, including Zhang Liao and Xu Huang.

When he saw the plight of Cao Cao's defeated troops and Zhang Liao, whom he befriended when he serving Cao earlier, he decided to allow Cao and his men to leave.

Ma Chao and Zhang Fei were defeated and forced to retreat.

In the ensuing battle, many of his best generals, such as Zhang He and Yu Jin, were defeated by Ma Chao single handedly.

In the third month of 184, soon after the rebellion had broken out, the rebel leader Zhang Mancheng defeated and killed the Grand Administrator of Nanyang, and in the fourth month, at the beginning of summer, the imperial army under Zhu Jun was defeated by Bo Cai in Yingchuan, while the Grand Administrator of Runan was defeated by another force of rebels.

By this time, a new Grand Administrator had defeated Zhang Mancheng and killed him.

In the next chapter, after Lü Bu was defeated and captured by Cao Cao, Zhang Liao was also bound and brought before the victor.

Ma Su was defeated by Zhang He and the Shu forces were forced to retreat.

During the restoration affair Duan Qirui led his army and defeated Zhang Xun's restoration forces in Beijing.

After Yuan Shao defeated Gongsun Zan, Zhang He was further promoted to the rank of a junior general.

Zhang Shuye's biography further described Song Jiang and the outlaws ' activities, and how they were eventually defeated by Zhang.

In the famous long scroll Along the River During the Qingming Festival painted by Zhang Zeduan ( 1085 – 1145 AD ) during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1297 AD ), a suanpan is clearly seen lying beside an account book and doctor's prescriptions on the counter of an apothecary's ( Feibao ).

An American-Chinese-Hong Kong-Taiwanese co-production, the film was directed by Ang Lee and featured an international cast of ethnic Chinese actors, including Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, and Chang Chen.

* The Discovery of Early Pottery in China by Zhang Chi, Department of Archaeology, Peking University, China.

The Gautama Buddha | Sakyamuni Buddha, by artist Zhang Shengwen, 1173-1176 CE, Song Dynasty.

The Treatise on Cold Damage Disorders and Miscellaneous Illnesses was collated by Zhang Zhongjing sometime between 196 and 220 CE, at the end of the Han dynasty.

Chiang only won the campaign against Hu after a shift in allegiance by the warlord Zhang Xueliang, who had previously supported Hu Hanmin.

However, Chiang's allied commander Zhang Xueliang, whose forces were used in his attack and whose homeland of Manchuria had been recently invaded by the Japanese, did not support the attack on the Communists.

Notions of the Mandate of Heaven and divine monarchy were discarded, as shown in two unpopular and failed attempts to restore the imperial system by Yuan Shikai and Zhang Xun.

The title was briefly revived from 12 December 1915 to 22 March 1916 by President Yuan Shikai and again in early July 1917 when General Zhang Xun attempted to restore last Qing emperor Puyi to the throne.

The model of an egg was often used by Chinese astronomers like Zhang Heng ( 78-139 AD ) to describe the heavens as spherical:

In a passage of Zhang Heng's cosmogony not translated by Needham, Zhang himself says: " Heaven takes its body from the Yang, so it is round and in motion.

Image: Spring Outing of the Tang Court. jpg | Spring Outing of the Tang Court, by Zhang Xuan, 8th century, Chinese

Image: Meister nach Chang Hsüan 001. jpg | Ladies making silk, a remake of an 8th-century original by Zhang Xuan by Emperor Huizong of Song, early 12th century, Chinese

The Gautama Buddha | Sakyamuni Buddha, by Zhang Shengwen, 1173 – 1176 AD, Song Dynasty period.

Early reference to the Chinese export of ivory is recorded after the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian ventured to the west to form alliances to enable for the eventual free movement of Chinese goods to the west ; as early as the first century BC, ivory was moved along the Northern Silk Road for consumption by western nations.

The new area was led by Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner, and had a directorate with 15 engineers from diverse backgrounds for direction-setting and preliminary document review: The working-group members were J. Allard ( Microsoft ), Steve Bellovin ( AT & T ), Jim Bound ( Digital Equipment Corporation ), Ross Callon ( Wellfleet ), Brian Carpenter ( CERN ), Dave Clark ( MIT ), John Curran ( NEARNET ), Steve Deering ( Xerox ), Dino Farinacci ( Cisco ), Paul Francis ( NTT ), Eric Fleischmann ( Boeing ), Mark Knopper ( Ameritech ), Greg Minshall ( Novell ), Rob Ullmann ( Lotus ), and Lixia Zhang ( Xerox ).

* 1992: China Mountain Zhang by Maureen F. McHugh

General Zhang Fakui ( Chang Fa-kuei ), who based himself in Guangxi, established the Viet Nam Cach Menh Dong Minh Hoi meaning " Viet Nam Revolutionary League " in 1942, which was assisted by the VNQDD to serve the KMT's aims.

Tan was plotting to overthrow Governor Zhang and his pro-Japanese administration, and Mao aided him by organizing the students of Changsha.

* 1893 – The Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government.

The first organized form of Taoism, the Tianshi ( Celestial Masters ') school ( later known as Zhengyi school ), developed from the Five Pecks of Rice movement at the end of the 2nd century AD ; the latter had been founded by Zhang Daoling, who claimed that Laozi appeared to him in the year 142.

In addition to documenting about 2, 500 stars in his extensive star catalogue, Zhang also posited theories about the Moon and its relationship to the Sun ; specifically, he discussed the Moon's sphericity, its illumination by reflecting sunlight on one side and remaining dark on the other, and the nature of solar and lunar eclipses.