Zhang Zhenglang
Zhang Zhenglang (Chinese: 張政烺, 15 April 1912 – 29 January 2005) was a Chinese historian. Born in a small village in Rongcheng, Shandong, he attended school in Qingdao and Beijing before his acceptance at Peking University. He graduated from the university's history department in 1936, and was appointed as a librarian at the Academia Sinica's Institute of History and Philology. He successfully evacuated the institute's library following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, transporting it through Hunan and Yunnan to Nanxi County in Sichuan. He spent the remainder of the war writing articles on paleography and textual history at Nanxi, and was appointed to the rank of associate research fellow.