Zhao Yi was a poet, historian, and critic during the Qing dynasty in China. Zhao is notable for his innovative poetry, his historical writings, and for espousing unconventional views on various aspects of Chinese dynastic history.
Zheng Yi is a Chinese writer and a notable figure of the scar literature. Zheng served as the president of Shanxi Branch of the China Film Association, and the president of the Independent Chinese PEN Center. Zheng's well-known works include Feng, Old Well, Scarlet Memorial, and so on. In particular, Feng and Old Well were adapted to films, which won the best film in 1987 Tokyo International Film Festival and the best film in 1988 Hundred Flowers Awards, respectively. Zheng moved to Hong Kong and then to the United States after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989.
Zheng Zhenduo, courtesy name Xidi, was a Chinese journalist, writer, archaeologist and scholar. His pen names were Baofen (寶芬), Guo Yuanxin (郭源新) and CT.
Yevgeny Viktorovich Belousov, better known as Zhenya Belousov was a Soviet and Russian pop singer, popular in the late 1980s — early 1990s. His best-known hits include My Blue-Eyed Girl, Night Taxi, Alyoshka, Devchonka-Devchonochka, Evening-Evening, Hair Cloud, Golden Domes, Short Summer, Dunya-Dunyasha, In the Evening on a Bench.
Zhi Dun was a Chinese Buddhist monk and philosopher. A Chinese author, scholar, and confidant of Chinese government officials in 350 CE, he claimed that all who followed Buddhism would, at the end of their life, enter Nirvana.
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov was a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of the semiconductor heterojunction for optoelectronics. He also became a politician in his later life, serving in the lower house of the Russian parliament, the State Duma, as a member of the Communist Party from 1995.
Zhou Dunyi was a Chinese cosmologist, philosopher, and writer during the Song dynasty. He conceptualized the Neo-Confucian cosmology of the day, explaining the relationship between human conduct and universal forces. In this way, he emphasizes that humans can master their qi ("spirit") in order to accord with nature. He was a major influence to Zhu Xi, who was the architect of Neo-Confucianism. Zhou Dunyi was mainly concerned with Taiji and Wuji, the yin and yang, and the wu xing.
