Zhang Qian (Chinese: 張騫; died c. 114 BC) was a Chinese diplomat, explorer, and politician who served as an imperial envoy to the world outside of China...

Book of Han. It is mentioned in the accounts of the Chinese explorer Zhang Qian in 130 BCE and the numerous embassies that followed him into Central Asia...

chapter 123 of the Records of the Great Historian by Sima Qian, describing a mission of Zhang Qian in the late 2nd century BC. Essentially the same text appears...

By the time Zhang Qian visited, there was no longer a major king, and the Bactrians were under the suzerainty of the Yuezhi. Zhang Qian depicted a rather...

Chemistry. Qian was born in Shanghai International Settlement, with ancestral roots in Lin'an, Hangzhou, in 1911. His parents were Qian Junfu and Zhang Lanjuan...

through the missions and explorations of the Chinese imperial envoy Zhang Qian, which brought the region under unified control. The Chinese took great...

expansion of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom – and then is used by the explorer Zhang Qian in 126 BCE to designate Bactria. It is possible that "Daxia", in part...

Retrieved 2022-06-01. Liu, Xiangrui; Yang, Xiaonan (2011-09-24). Zhang Qian/Zhang Xi (张茜) (ed.). "Four sex slaves detained in probe - People's Daily...

produced by Steven Tsui. At the end of 1997, Cheung met his wife Jess Zhang (Zhang Qian), an actress in China. They were filming in the same location on separate...

and used to distinguish it from nearby Bactria. The Chinese explorer Zhang Qian, who visited the neighbouring countries of Bactria and Parthia along with...

Kingdom, and then is used by the explorer Zhang Qian in 126 BCE to designate Bactria. The reports of Zhang Qian were put in writing in the Shiji ("Records...

Chinese mission, led by Zhang Qian in 126 BC, which sought an offensive alliance with the Yuezhi against the Xiongnu. Zhang Qian, who spent a year in Transoxiana...

Qian Zhang (Chinese: 張黔) is a Chinese computer scientist, the Tencent Professor of Engineering and Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science...

the border several times, especially ravaging Yuyang. The Han diplomat Zhang Qian escapes Xiongnu custody and resumes his mission of forming an anti-Xiongnu...

from systematically raiding northern China, and dispatched his envoy Zhang Qian into the Western Regions in 139 BC to seek an alliance with the Greater...

goods are bought and sold. (Records of the Great Historian by Sima Qian, quoting Zhang Qian, trans. Burton Watson) The Yuezhi further expanded southward into...

Western Regions). Emperor Wu of Han had received reports from diplomat Zhang Qian that Dayuan owned fast and powerful Ferghana horses known as the "heavenly...

Wan Qian (Chinese: 万茜, born 14 May 1982), also known as Regina Wan, is a Chinese actress and singer. She won Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress...

Asia into contact with the Chinese empire. During the 2nd century BC, Zhang Qian became the first known Chinese diplomat to venture deep into Central Asia...

method in Europe for naming years. Emperor Wu of Han sends the diplomat Zhang Qian west to form an alliance with the Yuezhi against the Xiongnu. Wu does...

30,000 Xiongnu soldiers. Generals Li Guang and Zhang Qian ride north from Youbeiping, but Zhang Qian, with the larger army, is slow to rendezvous with...

Mount Wutai, Shanxi province The travel of Zhang Qian to the West, complete view, c. 700 The travel of Zhang Qian to the West, details of mural from cave...

to hold off repeated attacks for two days until Zhang Qian arrived and the Xiongnu retreated. Zhang Qian was demoted to commoner status for arriving late...

Qian Qianyi (traditional Chinese: 錢謙益; simplified Chinese: 钱谦益; pinyin: Qián Qiānyì; Wade–Giles: Ch'ien Ch'ien-i; Suzhou dialect: Wu Chinese pronunciation:...

Garibong district, of Seoul. Yoon Kye-sang as Jang Chen (Chinese: 張謙 / 张谦, Zhang Qian), a notorious crime lord, from Harbin, China, leader of the "black dragon...

Qian Tianyi (Chinese: 钱天一, born 23 January 2000) is a Chinese table tennis player. She was the 2018 World Junior Table Tennis singles champion. Zhang...

an affair with her doctor, in the film The Shining Arc (弧光), directed by Zhang Junzhao (张军钊), her most highly acclaimed role in the Chinese film industry...

El-Mashad, Hamed M.; Yang, Xu-Hai; Mujumdar, Arun S.; Gao, Zhen-Jiang; Zhang, Qian (2017-06-01). "Recent developments and trends in thermal blanching –...

MarkTechPost. Retrieved 2024-02-23. Zhu, Lianghui; Liao, Bencheng; Zhang, Qian; Wang, Xinlong; Liu, Wenyu; Wang, Xinggang (2024-02-10), Vision Mamba:...

finally defeated by the Xiongnu, after which they fled Gansu. According to Zhang Qian, the Yuezhi were defeated by the rising Xiongnu empire and fled westward...