Zhang Renjie

Zhang Renjie
張人傑
Born	Zhang Jingjiang (Chinese: 張靜江; Wade–Giles: Chang1 Ching4-chiang1) 19 September 1877 Wuxing, Zhejiang, Great Qing
Died	2 September 1950 (1950-09-03) (aged 72) New York City, United States
Occupation(s)	Entrepreneur, political figure

Zhang Renjie (Chinese: 張人傑; pinyin: Zhāng Rénjié; Wade–Giles: Chang¹ Jen²-chieh²; 19 September 1877 − 3 September 1950), born Zhang Jingjiang, was a political figure and financial entrepreneur in the Republic of China. He studied and worked in France in the early 1900s, where he became an early Chinese anarchist under the influence of Li Shizeng and Wu Zhihui, his lifelong friends. He became wealthy trading Chinese artworks in the West and investing on the Shanghai stock exchange. Zhang gave generous financial support to Sun Yat-sen and was an early patron of Chiang Kai-shek. In the 1920s, he, Li, Wu and the educator Cai Yuanpei were known as the fiercely anti-Communist Four Elders of the Chinese Nationalist Party. ^[1]