WDaoxuan was the Chinese Buddhist monk and patriarch of the Vinaya school, who wrote both the Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks and Standard Design for Buddhist Temple Construction. In legends he is attributed with the transmission of the Buddha relic called Daoxuan's tooth, one of the four tooth relics enshrined in the capital of Chang'an during the Tang dynasty. He is said to have received the relic during a night visit from a divinity associated with Indra.
WGeorge Alexander Kennedy, was an American sinologist known for his studies of classical Chinese and for his teaching of Chinese to students.
WLei Chen was an early leading figure in the movement to bring fuller democracy to the government of the Republic of China.
WLing Mengchu was a Chinese writer of the Ming Dynasty. He is best known for his vernacular short fiction collections Slapping the Table in Amazement (拍案驚奇), I and II.
WLou Tseng-Tsiang or Lu Zhengxiang was a Chinese diplomat and a Roman Catholic monk. He was twice Premier of the Republic of China and led his country's delegation at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He sometimes used the French name René Lou in earlier life, and his monastic name was Pierre-Célestin, O.S.B..
WQian Xuantong was a Chinese linguist and writer. He was a professor of literature at National Peking University, and along with Gu Jiegang, one of the leaders of the Doubting Antiquity School.
WShen Haixiong is a Chinese journalist and propaganda official, serving since July 2015 as the propaganda chief of Guangdong Province. He is the current head of the China Media Group, the umbrella state media organization. He also serves as deputy minister of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee. Shen was born in Huzhou, Zhejiang province. He earned a bachelor's degree in Chinese at Hangzhou University, then an executive MBA from Shanghai Jiaotong University. He spent much of his career as a reporter and news editor, starting at the Zhejiang provincial division of Xinhua News Agency, then the editor-in-chief of the Shanghai branch of Xinhua, specializing in finance. He was selected for the "ten best Xinhua journalists" award in its inaugural year. In addition, he has worked in Korean Broadcasting System and Asahi Shimbun for more than five years. During much of this time he worked under Xi Jinping, who was party chief in Zhejiang then Shanghai. In 2010, while serving in Shanghai, he was named "outstanding and progressive individual" by the Chinese government for his work at Expo 2010 in Shanghai. In August 2012 he was elevated to deputy editor-in-chief of Xinhua, then in July 2014 the deputy director of the agency.
WShen Jiaben, alias Jiyi, was a Late Qing Chinese politician and jurist from Huzhou, Zhejiang province.
WYu Yue, courtesy name Yinfu, hao Quyuan, was a prominent scholar and official of Qing Dynasty China. An expert in philology and textual studies, he taught and wrote prolifically on the classics and histories. Yu Pingbo was his great-grandson; one of his most important disciples was Zhang Taiyan.