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Zhang Zhen

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 11, 2023
Entity authorityQ8070432 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zhang Zhen (Wade–Giles: Chang Chen) may refer to:

Zhang Zhen (Qing dynasty) (張貞), Chinese scholar of the Qing period

Zhang Zhen (general) (1914–2015), Chinese general of the People's Liberation Army

Zhang Zhen (diplomat, born 1930), former Chinese ambassador to Ukraine

Zhang Zhen (diplomat, born 1936), former Chinese ambassador to Jordan and Syria

Chang Chen or Zhang Zhen (born 1976), Taiwanese actor

Zhang Zhen (athlete) (born 1984), Chinese Paralympics gold medallist

Zhang Zhen (章贞), professor in Uppsala University.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Zhang Zhen” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Zhang, Zhen and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1914, 2015, 1930, 1936—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Zhang, Zhen and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Zhang Zhen”, the useful work is to connect “wikimedia disambiguation page” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 11, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q8070432. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1914, 2015, 1930 and 1936.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zhang Zhen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.