Zhang Wuling (; 1889–1938) was a Chinese educator. Zhang was noted for promoting Chinese women's education and Chinese educational equality, he founded Suzhou Leyi Girls' School and Pinglin Middle School in

Suzhou Suzhou is a major prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu province, China. As part of the Yangtze Delta megalopolis, it is a major economic center and focal point of trade and commerce. Founded in 514 BC, Suzhou rapidly grew in size by the ...

Jiangsu Jiangsu is a coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province in East China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its capital in Nanjing. Jiangsu is the List of Chinese administra ...

. He was the father of poet Zhang Chonghe and scholar

Zhang Yunhe Zhang Yunhe (张允和, July 25, 1909 – August 14, 2002) was a Chinese writer and scholar of ''kunqu'' opera. She was the wife of linguist Zhou Youguang. Life Early life and marriage Zhang Yunhe was born on July 25, 1909, in Hefei, Anh ...

Names

His

birth name The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...

was Zhang Wuling (). His

style name A courtesy name ( zh, s=字, p=zì, l=character), also known as a style name, is an additional name bestowed upon individuals at adulthood, complementing their given name. This tradition is prevalent in the East Asian cultural sphere, particula ...

was Shengjin (), he also known as Jiyou () and Jiyou ().

Biography

Zhang was born in

Hefei Hefei is the Capital city, capital of Anhui, China. A prefecture-level city, it is the political, economic, and cultural center of Anhui. Its population was 9,369,881 as of the 2020 census. Its built-up (or ''metro'') area is made up of four u ...

Anhui Anhui is an inland Provinces of China, province located in East China. Its provincial capital and largest city is Hefei. The province is located across the basins of the Yangtze and Huai rivers, bordering Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the east, Jiang ...

, in 1889, the grandson of

Zhang Shusheng Zhang Shusheng () (1824-1884) was a Chinese official of the Qing Dynasty. He was one of the Huai Army's vice leaders, and his young brother Zhang Shushan () was also a Lieutenant General, but died in a battle against the Taiping Rebellion in De'an ...

, a high-ranking military officer in the

Huai Army The Huai Army (), named for the Huai River, was a military force allied with the Qing dynasty raised to contain the Taiping Rebellion in 1862. It was also called the Anhui Army because it was based in Anhui province. It helped to restore the stabil ...

. Zhang moved to

Shanghai Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...

in 1912. In 1918, he moved to

, he established Suzhou Leyi Girls' School () in 1921 and Pinglin Middle School () in 1925. In 1937, the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War was fought between the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Empire of Japan between 1937 and 1945, following a period of war localized to Manchuria that started in 1931. It is considered part ...

broke out, he escaped from the flames of war with his family and moved to his hometown. Zhang died in there in 1938, aged 49.

Personal life

In 1906, Zhang married Lu Ying () in Hefei, Anhui. They had six sons and four daughters. Sons: * Zhang Ninghe () * Zhang Yuhe () * Zhang Yinhe () * Zhang Zonghe () * Zhang Dinghe () * Zhang Huanhe () Daughters: * Chang Yuen-ho (; husband: Gu Chuanjie) *

(; husband:

Zhou Youguang Zhou Youguang (; 13 January 190614 January 2017), also known as Chou Yu-kuang or Chou Yao-ping, was a Chinese economist, linguist, sinologist, and supercentenarian. He has been credited as the father of pinyin, the most popular Romanization of ...

) * Chang Chao-ho (; husband:

Shen Congwen Shen Congwen (28 December 1902 – 10 May 1988), formerly romanized as Shen Ts'ung-wen, was a Chinese writer who is considered one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, on par with Lu Xun. Regional culture and identity plays a much bigger ro ...

) *

Chang Ch'ung-ho Chang Ch'ung-ho or Zhang Chonghe (; May 17, 1914 – June 17, 2015), also known by her married name Ch'ung-ho Chang Frankel, was a Chinese-American poet, calligrapher, educator and Kunqu opera singer. She is hailed as "the last talented woman of ...

(; husband:

Hans Fränkel Hans Hermann Fränkel (19 December 191626 August 2003), usually Anglicized to Hans Frankel, was a German-American sinologist noted for his studies of Chinese poetry and literature and his 25-year tenure as professor of Chinese at Yale University. ...

)

References

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