Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zhang ChunYuan

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The result was keep. 78.26 _{(spin me / revolutions)} 14:39, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Zhang ChunYuan

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Doesn't appear to be a notable historical figure. Fails WP:GNG. Dixiku (talk) 14:44, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 15:18, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of China-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 15:18, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The chinese name is 張春元. Searching that does provide some online & book results but can't read them thoroughly enough to determine if they meet WP:GNG requirements. From what I could Google Translate my gut feeling is that there might be enough for an article, with some cleanup. Jumpytoo Talk 19:31, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.
1. Xi, Lian (2018). Blood Letters: The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao's China. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-1-5416-4423-6. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  The book discusses Zhang Chunyuan on pages 103, 104, 108–109, 114, 118.
  In Chapter 3, the book noted that Zhang Yuanxun was Lin Zhao's "classmate, friend, and a fellow poetry club member" at Peking University. Along with Shen Zeyi, Zhang Yuanxu "posted their call to arms, a poem entitled 'It Is Time,' which touched off the May 19 movement at Peking University." On May 22, Zhang Yuanxun and another supporter of democracy did a debate at night with "a large, organized group of leftist students". A student pamphlet titled The Square had a foreword written by Zhang that "proclaimed a new era in China, a "'May Fourth' New Culture movement of the socialist era!"" He was expelled by The Red Building's editorial board since he had ties to The Square.
  In Chapter 4, the book notes, "A leading member of the group was a self-made man named Zhang Chunyuan, who had joined the People’s Liberation Army before 1949, served in the Korean War, and returned after he was wounded. Zhang entered Lanzhou University in 1956 and, a year later, like hundreds of thousands of other earnest students across China, fell victim to Mao’s “open conspiracy.”" The book notes, "In May 1960, Tan Chanxue, Zhang Chunyuan’s girlfriend and a core member of the group, made an unsuccessful attempt to smuggle herself across the border to Hong Kong. A daring gambit by Zhang Chunyuan to rescue her—carrying a fake Public Security Bureau ID, he walked in the front door of the detention center where she was being held—ended in disaster: police found out his true identify and promptly detained him." The book notes that in August 1961, Zhang Chunyuan was able to escape from incarceration through the "ruse of bodily distress". On a continual basis, he "starved himself" and kept throwing up "until he passed out". The prison staff brought him to a "reform-through labor hospital outside the prison". After several weeks, Zhang pretended to be a doctor finished with his shift and left the hospital on foot. After traveling to Suzhou, he found out Lin Zhao had been arrested. He next traveled to Shanghai. Zhang sent a postcard to the imprisoned Lin Zhao using the name Xu Xianmin. Zhang was arrested again on September 6, 1961. In 1965, he received a life imprisonment sentence. In 1970, Zhang was executed "during the “One Strike, Three Anti” campaign for allegedly “repeating counterrevolutionary activities inside prison.”"
  In Chapter 7, the book notes that Zhang Yuanxun was Lin Zhao's former classmate and met her in prison on May 6, 1966. It called him a "once a frustrated suitor" of her. He was "arrested on December 25, 1957, along with a small group of Peking University Rightists who had secretly planned to seek political asylum at one of the foreign diplomatic missions in Beijing". He was taken to Hebei province labor camp after receiving an eight-year jail term. Although the sentence ended in December 1965, he had to stay in the labor camp "to undergo continued reform". Since he was a former prisoner, the prison officials let him visit his family for one week per year. He used that opportunity to visit Lin Zhao at Tilanqiao Prison. The book notes, "Zhang hoped to persuade her to choose self-preservation, to "back down from 'stubborn resistance.'"
2. Shao, Jiang (2015). Citizen Publications in China Before the Internet. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 187. doi:10.1007/978-1-137-49208-1. ISBN 978-1-349-69679-6. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  The book notes on page 49 that roughly 200 students and instructors were sentenced to labor in Wushan and Tianshui in July 1958 in the middle of the Anti-Rightist Campaign. Among them were "Zhang Chunyuan (张春元), a second-year history major, was sent to a tractor station in Wushan county. The 26-year-old had taken part in the Korean War, driving vehicles for the Chinese army. He had left the army after being wounded in one leg and later, enrolled to study history at Lanzhou University. The tractor station, which was situated on the transportation line, soon became a meeting place for dissidents who had been labeled rightists, and driving the tractor between the villages, Zhang became a messenger for his fellow rightists." On page 53, the book discusses how Zhang was Tan's fiancé and was arrested in his attempt to use a "forged police document" to rescue her. The book notes on page 53 that Zhang Chunyuan was executed in 1970.
  The book notes on page 1987, "Zhang Chunyuan, a former PLA soldier and a history student at Lanzhou University in 1957, had been sentenced to labor under surveillance in Wushan county during the period of the magazine’s publication. He was one of the initiators and a convener of the magazine. He was imprisoned in August 1960 and escaped in 1961. He was rearrested in 1962 and executed in 1968."
3. Zhang, Yu (2021). From Wang Shiwei to Liu Xiaobo: Prisoners of Literary Inquisition Under Communist Rule in China (1947-2010). Translated by Mosher, Stacy. Taipei: Independent Chinese PEN Center. PEN International. ISBN 978-198976317-9. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  The subject's name is also translated as Zhang Yuanxun. The book notes on page 140, "Among the most influential postings were an epic poem by Shen Zeyi and Zhang Yuanxun, 'The Time Has Come'". The article notes that Zhang was among 716 who were called Rightists. The book notes on page 141 that "Zhang Chunyuan, a Rightist student from the History Department at Lanzhou University, along with other Rightist students and teachers undergoing Reform through Labor in Gansu, launched an effort to change the country's course. ... Zhang wrote an essay entitled 'The Current Situation and Our Mission', in which he proposed 'bringing about a peaceful, democratic and free socialist society in China'. He also mimeographed 'Song of the Seagull' as publicity material." The book notes that he was arrested in July 1960. ~~The book notes on page 227 that Zhang Yuanxun was the chief editor of Square, a publication from the Hundred Flowers Society at Peking University.~~
4. 荏苒 (2016-06-06). "林昭同案犯张春元、杜映华之死" [The deaths of Lin Zhao's co-convicts Zhang Chunyuan and Du Yinghua]. DW News (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2021-06-12. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  The article notes that Zhang Chunyuan was a history student who received a life imprisonment sentence. It said he who was "falsely accused" of "conspiring to escape from prison in riots" in 1968 and received a death sentence and was executed.
There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Zhang Chunyuan to pass Wikipedia:Notability#General notability guideline, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject".
Cunard (talk) 22:50, 12 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: Useful (if grim) reading sources from Cunard above. However,Zhang Yuanxun may need to be distinguished from Zhang Chunyuan? See the Lin Zhao article where the two occupy different points in the chronology of her life. AllyD (talk) 07:42, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for pointing this out. I thought Zhang Yuanxun and Zhang Chunyuan were the same people with their names translated differently but based on the chronology you have pointed it out, they are different people. I've stricken out the parts about Zhang Yuanxun. Cunard (talk) 08:00, 13 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Cunard. VocalIndia (talk) 16:46, 19 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep As per Cunard. MrsSnoozyTurtle 10:53, 21 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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