Zhang Haidi

In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhang.

Zhang Haidi (Chinese: 张海迪; born September 1955) is a Chinese writer, translator, and chairwoman of China Administration of Sports for Persons with Disabilities (CASPD); the national paralympic committee of China. A paraplegic since early childhood, she has been called the Helen Keller and Pavel Korchagin of China.[1] Since the early 1980s, she has been hailed as a role model for disabled people and for Chinese youths in general, a "Lei Feng of the 80s".[2]

  1. ^ "Zhang Haidi". Women of China. 15 June 2011. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2015.
  2. ^ Song, Yuwu (2013). Biographical Dictionary of the People's Republic of China. McFarland. p. 393. ISBN 978-0-7864-3582-1.