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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 in 1936, and was appointed as a librarian at the Academia Sinica's Institute of History and Philology. He evacuated the institute's library following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, transporting it through Hunan and Yunnan to Sichuan. He spent the remainder of the war writing articles on paleography and textual history, and was appointed to the rank of associate research fellow. He was offered a full professorship at Peking in 1946, and for a time simultaneously worked at Tsinghua. Despite attempts at support from the department's administrator, he was fired during the late 1950s Anti-Rightist Campaign, and worked for several years as an editor at the Zhonghua Book Company.