Wang Zhongjun, also known as Dennis Wang, (; born November 30, 1960) is a Chinese

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busi ...

businessman, film producer and art collector. He and his brother Wang Zhonglei (a.k.a. James Wang) founded the Chinese entertainment company

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Career

He was born in Beijing, into a family in the military. Wang bought

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's 1890 painting ''Still Life, Vase with Daisies and Poppies'' for $61.8 million in November 2014. In May 2015, Wang bought Pablo Picasso's Femme Au Chignon Dans Un Fauteuil for $29.93 million. In May 2016 Wang bought a letter written by the 11th century Chinese scholar

Zeng Gong Zeng (, ) is a Chinese family name. In Cantonese, it is Tsang; In Wade-Giles, such as those in Taiwan, Tseng or Tzeng; in Malaysia and Singapore, Chen or Cheng; in the Philippines, Chan; in Indonesia, Tjan; in Vietnam, Tăng. The surname Zeng is ...

for ¥ 207 million, setting a new record for a piece of Chinese letter. Wang was ranked by ''Forbes'' as the 309th richest person in China in 2015, with a net worth of $1 billion.

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