Few Chinese ventured westward along the Silk Road and those that did, like Zhang, had very different motives.
The 31-year-old woman, who was identified by her first name Zhang, fell ill on January 10.
So four of us, including cameraman Zhang Yimou, spent a month traipsing through northern China.
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Zhang told the paper he was given the bond in 1998 by his father.
Not for the first time, Mr Zhang looks like hitting his market ahead of the curve.
"Whenever he is not sleeping or eating, he is working, " recalls Zhang, now at Harvard.
Figures alone might suggest that Mr Zhang (a hardline Han Chinese) is making headway.
But analysts like Zhang say with the demand, also comes pollution and infrastructure challenges.
Those triumphs led Zhang to abandon his doctorate plans and, with Sun, co-found startup Greedy Intelligence.
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Chinese nationals Zhang and Hu will be deported at the end of their sentences.
Mr. Zhang said he expects the number to grow but declined to give targets.
Click here for a profile of Zhang in the current issue of Forbes China magazine.
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In a letter to festival directors Zhang said Cannes organisers had given his work political overtones.
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"It's just not as well known as Edinburgh or the Lake District, " Zhang notes.
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Add to this mix the very promising newcomer Zhang, touted as the next Gong Li.
Zhang doubts that China will produce its own version of Jobs any time soon.
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If so, then why did all his reference letters call him Mr. Zhang, not Dr. Zhang?
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Percival Zhang at Virginia Tech is looking at ways to produce hydrogen gas from biomass.
Mr Bo's successor, Mr Zhang, will need to work hard to reassure private businesses.
Mr Zhang, like Mr Wang before him, portrays Xinjiang as a target of an al-Qaeda-inspired jihad.
Mr Zhang, the Silk Market trader, is a good example of the system's iniquity.
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Zhang says he's optimistic because the U.S. company's management approach differs from China's biggest homegrown chains'.
"We realized that low-end producers won't last long only creative companies can survive, " said Mr. Zhang.
"Understanding the eruption process of these storms will definitely help us better predict them, " Zhang said.
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Why not, thought Alliance founders Robert Zhang and Mark Baldwin, post job advertisements on the Internet?
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