Jizhong Zhang

Jizhong Zhang was born in Beijing, China. He is one of the most famous and best Chinese film and TV series producers who gains worldwide recognition.Fact|date=June 2008

With such recent successes as Roman of Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Zhang has become one of the most well-known in Larger-Scale historical and Chinese Wuxia genre TV series nationally and even internationally. He certainly boasts an impressive record as a successful producer. Recent years, he continued to make various successful TV series including The Smiling, Proud Wanderer, Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, The Legend of Arching Hero, Love of the Condor Heroes, Sword Stained with A Royal Blood and The Deer And the Cauldron, which edited by a famous Wuxia novel author Louis Cha. As the first producer to filmize Louis Cha’s Wuxia novel into TV series, all of his arts of work achieved considerable successful in the broad areas where have Chinese, especially in South East Asia area. He managed to film good quality and valuable TV series, sealing his reputation as one of the national and international’s best TV series producers at the peak of his powers. Until now, more and more people would like to call him’ Chinese TV series’ superhero’

Zhang produces varies successful TV series and collects valuable historical and Louis Cha’s WuXia TV series’ production experiences. For instance, He produces the TV series Romance of Three Kingdoms and Water Margin from the Four Chinese Classical Novel and the WuXia genre TV series: The Deer And the Cauldron. In 2008, Jizhong Zhang’s next big breakthrough with his Large-Scale historical biography TV series, Sun Tzu: The saint with The Art of War based on his profound perceives with four Chinese traditional philosophies (Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Su Tzu’s philosophy). He is the first producer admit to produce filmized The Art of War which named Sun Tzu: The saint with the art of war. It will bring back the passion towards Chinese culture and humanism. In the TV series of Sun Tzu: The saint with The art of war he would like to emphasize and express his understating of the distillation of The Art of War “Therefore one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful. Seizing the enemy without fighting is the most skillful.” It also generates the high expectation of his next production Journey to the West.

"'Profile of Jizhong ZHANG'

Mr. Jizhong Zhang, a household name in the Chinese film and TV industry has produced many of the most successful TV series in China which have been viewed by over 10 billion times worldwide.

Since his participation in the television production of the Chinese classical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms in 1992, Mr. Jizhong ZHANG has produced and filmed many TV series based on Chinese classical novels and martial arts. They contain an abundance of traditional Chinese elements and his productions have been very successful. If you input his Chinese name “张纪中，Jizhong ZHANG” into any search engine on the Internet, over 3 million pieces of information that are relevant to Jizhong ZHANG will appear on your screen. The works that Jizhong ZHANG has produced have had a very influential effect in Asia. In Japan, there are many fans of his works and in Korea there is a special channel that broadcasts his work three times a day.

Due to the immense popularity and success of his works whenever Zhang announces his intention to make a new TV series; or seeking new cast members; or scene revisions; or even a trivial change will draw enormous attention from the media and fans, which serves to ensure its future commercial success.

With his unique understanding of traditional Chinese culture, the works produced by Mr. Jizhong ZHANG stand out for their story telling, romance and aesthetic scenes in addition to their rich customs. Thus producing the style has come to be known as “Jizhong ZHANG production”. Jizhong ZHANG is now heralded as the “No. 1 Producer” in China. Most of the actors in Zhang’s productions were unknown to the public, but presently many of them have become well-known actors in China and abroad. They include Liu Yifei a/k/a Crystal Liu, (who starred in The Demi-Gods, Semi-Devils and Condor Hero, and now pursues her career in Hollywood after successfully playing a role in The Forbidden Kingdom), Hu Jun (who played the male protagonist, now has become a well-known actor in China and played leading roles in many Hong Kong, Taiwan and international films), Huang Xiaoming, Li Yapeng and so on.

Guaranteeing movie box office success and wide viewership, Jizhong ZHANG’s name has become a reliable investment guarantee. Almost every investor that has cooperated with Mr. Jizhong ZHANG has obtained a 200% return on his or her investment. Meanwhile, the shooting sites of Zhang’s works have also increased income from tourism at those locations.

There are now over 11 cities where he has filmed his movies which have become tourist areas. Each of these areas has received support from the local government with multi- millions of dollars of investment.

In 2008, Jizhong ZHANG turned his focus to making Journey to the West a/k/a Monkey King, one of the greatest Chinese classic novels, first into a movie and later a fifty episode TV series. Journey to the West is a mythical story, which has been passed down in China for hundreds of years from generation to generation. The story contains Chinese Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist culture, as well as provides entertainment based upon traditional Chinese culture. It is about the pilgrimage of a famous monk to India during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) in order to obtain Buddhist sutras by a group of Buddhists. The group consists of an almighty monkey—Sun Wukong (Monkey King), Zhu Bajie (Pigsty, a demon in the shape of a pig), Sha Seng (Sandy, a divine general punished by Heaven), and a white horse (changed from a dragon). It is a combination of magic realism, fairytale, heroism and adventure, Journey to the West has bridged language barriers and moved readers all over the world. Mr. Jizhong ZHANG is now seeking financial partners to make this story into a movie in order to share this amazing mythology with the whole world, as well as assuring it will be a great financial success.