Wang Zhen

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Wáng Zhēn (王禎) (1260—1330), official of the Yuan Dynasty. He created the first wooden movable type printing in the world. The invention was described in his Book of Agriculture (農書) published in 1313.

Wang Zhen, a well-known painter of the "Shanghai school" in the Qing dynasty.

Wáng Zhèn (王震) (1908—1993), Chinese political figure, one of the Eight Immortals of Communist Party of China. A political supporter of Deng Xiaoping and member of his regime. As one of the architects of the suppression by force of the pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in 1989, he was quoted in the Tiananmen Papers as stating in a June 2, 1989 meeting with other Communist Party of China elders: "We should announce in advance to those people occupying the Square that we're coming in. They can listen or not as they choose, but then we move in. If it causes deaths, that's their own fault. We can't be soft or merciful toward anti-Party, anti-socialist elements."

Another quotation from Wáng Zhèn is said to be: "The Communist Party of China established our government in China at the cost of 40 million people's lives. Any attempt to steal the control of the government from the Party without exchanging with 40 million lives for it is daydreaming!"