Of the original mission of just over a hundred men, only Zhang Qian and Ganfu managed to return to China.

Under Emperor An, Zhang also served as Prefect of the Majors for Official Carriages under the Ministry of Guards, in charge of the reception of memorials ( containing policy and administrative suggestions ) submitted to the throne as well as nominees for official appointments.

As well as being a painter, Zhang also crafted figurine sculptures similar to this one.

Zhang Chunqiao refused to admit any wrong as well.

Mao's wife Jiang Qing, meanwhile, had formed an informal radical political alliance with Shanghai revolution organizer Wang Hongwen, who seems to have gained Mao's favour as a possible successor, as well as Shanghai Revolutionary Committee Chairman Zhang Chunqiao and propaganda writer Yao Wenyuan, all of whom were elevated to the Politburo by the 10th Congress.

Zhang Sanfeng is also said to have been versed in Shaolin Gung Fu, an expert in the White Crane and Snake styles of Chinese martial arts, as well as in the use of the Chinese straight sword or jian.

The chief eunuch at the palace Zhang He ( 張賀 ), who had been had previously been an advisor to Prince Ju before he was castrated by Emperor Wu in the aftermaths of Prince Ju's death, cared well for young Bingyi, and paid for his expenses and studies out of his own pocket.

Zhang Liang rallied about 100 men to start a rebellion as well, but his force was too weak, so he led his followers to join Jing Ju, a pretender to the throne of Chu.

The more well known of those were Liu Qi Wen ( 劉啟文 ), Chen Zizheng ( 陳子正 ), Zhang Zhan Wen ( 张詹文 ) and Liu Zhan Wu.

However as Wanli's reign progressed, different factions within the government began to openly oppose Zhang's policy as well as his powerful position in government and courted Wanli to dismiss Zhang.

Zhang Qian also describes the origins of the Yuezhi, explaining they came from the eastern part of the Tarim Basin, a momentous explanation which has encouraged historians to connect them to the Caucasoid mummies, as well as to the Indo-European-speaking Tocharians that have been identified from precisely the same area:

Following Zhang Qian's embassy and report, commercial relations between China and Central as well as Western Asia flourished, as many Chinese missions were sent throughout the end of the 2nd century BCE and the 1st century BCE, initiating the development of the Silk Road:

Xu Zhimo's various love affairs with Zhang Youyi, Lin Huiyin, and Lu Xiaoman are well known in China.

Dr. Louis Livingston Seaman met Zhang during the Russo-Japanese War, and took several photographs of him and his troops as well as writing an account of his journey.

Zhang Chu's songs are full of such memorable quotes which could easily stand alone independent of the music, no wonder he quickly became widely celebrated on college campuses as well as among lovers of modern Chinese literature.

Pang De again served Ma Teng well, breaking Zhang at Yao ( 殽, around present-day Luoning County, Henan province ), his performance in this battle was praised as " the bravest amongst Ma Teng's men ".

In 700, Wu Zetian, in order to give her lovers Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong legitimacy in their entries into the palace, had Li Jiao head a project to create a work known as the Essence of Pearls from the Three Religions ( 三教珠英, Sanjiao Zhuying ) -- a compilation of various poetry about Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism -- and had Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong involved in the project as well.

The film was the last collaboration between Zhang Yimou and actress Gong Li in the 1990s, thus ending a successful partnership that had begun with Zhang's debut, Red Sorghum, and had evolved into a romantic relationship as well.

Though perhaps less well known than some of Zhang Yimou's more celebrated films ( notably Ju Dou, To Live and Raise the Red Lantern ), Shanghai Triad was nevertheless generally praised by critics upon its release, with an 85 % " fresh " rating on the review-database, Rotten Tomatoes.

Even Ebert however, conceded that the film's technical credits were well done, calling Zhang one of the " best visual stylists of current cinema.

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In 112, Zhang was summoned to the court of Emperor An of Han ( r. 106 – 125 ), who had heard of Zhang's expertise in mathematics.

Liu Zhen and Liu Taotu were Zhang's only historian allies at court, and after their deaths Zhang had no further opportunities for promotion to the prestigious post of court historian.

Zhang's work was similar to Ban's, although the latter fully praised the contemporaneous Eastern Han regime while Zhang provided a warning that it could suffer the same fate as the Western Han if it too declined into a state of decadence and moral depravity.

He also knew Zhang through Zhang's wife, Liu Qingyang, a member of the Awakening Society.

The remnants of Zhang's forces eventually joined Mao in Shaanxi, but with his army destroyed, Zhang, even as a founding member of the CPC, was never able to challenge Mao's authority.

The remnants of Zhang's Fourth Red Army eventually rejoined Mao in Shaanxi, but with his army destroyed, Zhang, even as a founding member of the CPC, was never able to challenge Mao's authority.

According to the biography of Zhou, however, Zhou told others that Zhang ’ s application was opposed by Stalin, as he thought Zhang's status as a warlord made him a poor candidate for CPC membership.

He was a student of Zhang Binglin ; some of Zhang's works were copied and printed in Qian's remarkable seal script handwriting.

The world's first water-powered celestial globe was created by Zhang Heng, who operated his armillary sphere by use of an inflow clepsydra clock ( see Zhang's article for more detail ).

One of the best reviews came from Manohla Dargis in The New York Times, who called the film, " An unqualified triumph ," and praised Zhang Ziyi's performance, states: " Ms. Zhang's shockingly intense performance burns a hole in the film that gives everything, including all the other relationships, a sense of terrific urgency.

Zhang's son, Zhang Xueliang, took over control of Manchuria and decided to cooperate with Chiang and the Kuomintang by replacing all banners of the Beiyang Government in Manchuria to the flag of the Nationalist Government, thus nominally uniting China under one state, due to his desire to drive out Japanese influence over Manchuria.

Since Empress Dowager Bian favored Cao Zhang, so Cao Pi had to make Cao Zhang's death seem natural.

Zhang Lu once thought of marrying his daughter to Ma Chao, but Wang Shang, one of Zhang's followers, opposed the idea, saying that Ma Chao was courageous but inhumane and untrustworthy.

After Ye Jianying fled Zhang's headquarter with all of the maps and code books to Mao's camp, Yang and another colleague also fled from Zhang Guotao's headquarter with top secret documents, and they were forced to hide along the way in order to escape the Zhang's cavalry sent to capture them.

Zhuge Liang, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun led separate forces to reinforce Liu Bei in the attack on Liu Zhang's capital city, Chengdu, while Guan Yu stayed behind to guard Jing Province.

Sima Yi then ordered Zhang He to pursue the enemy, despite Zhang's warnings of possible ambush.

In 212, Liu Bei officially declared war on Liu Zhang after he integrated Liu Zhang's forces stationed at Boshui Pass into his own.

Along the way, Zhang Fei arrived at Jiangzhou, which was defended by Liu Zhang's general Yan Yan.

Zhang Fei's army proceeded to break through Liu Zhang's defenses and eventually reached Chengdu, where he rendezvoused with Liu Bei.

Having recently lost a major military conflict against the USSR, Zhang Xueliang, falsely claiming to be under implicit instructions from Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government to adhere to a nonresistance policy, had already urged his men not to put up a fight and to store away any weapons in case the Japanese invaded ( a piece of information that the Japanese advisors to Zhang's army knew ahead of time, hence facilitating the planning ).

Japanese secret agents had permeated Zhang's command because of his past ( and his father, Zhang Zuolin's ) reliance on Japanese military advisers.

In 254, after falsely accusing the emperor's father-in-law Zhang Ji ( 張緝 ) and Zhang's associates Li Feng and Xiahou Xuan of treason, Sima Shi had them and their clans executed, and when Cao Fang considered a coup against the Simas later that year, Sima Shi had him deposed.