Zhang Zetian (; born 18 November 1993) is a Chinese businesswoman and investor who is the chief fashion adviser of the luxury business of

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. She gained initial fame from the popularity of a photograph of her holding

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, and was nicknamed "Sister Milk Tea" (). She later married JD.com's billionaire founder

Liu Qiangdong Liu Qiangdong (Richard) (; born March 10, 1973) is a Chinese Internet entrepreneur. Liu founded JD Multimedia as a business-to-consumer single retail store for magneto-optical products in June 1998 and later moved the company into an e-commerce ...

, and became an investor in several companies. She has been included in the list of Chinese billionaires by ''New Frontier'' and is considered to be China's youngest female billionaire.

Career

Zhang initially gained fame when a photograph of her holding a cup of

went viral on the internet. This led to her nickname of "Sister Milk Tea". She went on to appear in a promotional video supporting the

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but turned down an offer to appear in the film ''

The Flowers of War ''The Flowers of War'' (, Pinyin: ''Jīnlíng Shísān Chāi'' ) is a 2011 historical drama war film directed by Zhang Yimou, starring Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Zhang Xinyi, Tong Dawei, Atsuro Watabe, Shigeo Kobayashi and Cao Kefan. A Chinese-Hon ...

'' by director

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. She attended

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

. While studying abroad at

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in the United States, she met

for the first time. They initially stated that they were only studying together. The pair married in Sydney in 2015 after dating for three years. She was 22; he was 41. It had originally been rumored that the duo were planning to marry in

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, after they were photographed at a marriage registry in the city. In March 2016, Zhang gave birth to a daughter. Zhang holds an MBA from

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and was a student at

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. When the magazine ''New Fortune'' published a top 500 Chinese rich list in May 2017, Zhang was the youngest woman on the list. Zhang and Liu share several investments, including holdings in companies such as Uber China and a 17.3% stake of

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company Bubs Australia via Zhang's investment company. Zhang uses her followers on

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to promote companies she is involved with, which includes her

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account and 1.3 million followers on

Sina Weibo Weibo (), or Sina Weibo (), is a Chinese microblogging ( weibo) website. Launched by Sina Corporation on 14 August 2009, it is one of the biggest social media platforms in China, with over 582 million monthly active users (252 million daily ...

References

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