Zhang Renjie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Zhang Renjie

Chinese political leader

Date of Birth: 19-Sep-1877

Place of Birth: Wuxing District, Zhejiang, China

Date of Death: 03-Sep-1950

Profession: businessperson, politician

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Zhang Renjie (Chang Jen-chieh 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.