15 Facts About Zhang Boling

Zhang Boling was a cadet officer in the Beiyang Fleet, but he abandoned his training after the fleet was destroyed during the First Sino-Japanese War.

Zhang Boling attended and graduated from Saint John's University in Shanghai.

Zhang Boling was noted for his emphasis on athletics, which he believed would rid China of its image as the 'Sick man of Asia' in the early 1900s, quoting that 'only a good sportsman can be a good teacher'.

Zhang Boling established a number of annual national athletic meets and the forerunner to the modern Chinese Olympic Committee.

Zhang Boling established several smaller institutions, including a girls middle school, experimental primary school, institute of economics, and of chemistry .

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In 1941, Zhang Boling Boyu joined the Kuomintang and introduced the people as Jiang Zhongzheng.

The Kuomintang hopes that Zhang Boyu leaves the mainland, goes to Taiwan or the United States, and promises to agree with any conditions, But Zhang Boling refused with the words "I don't want to leave Nankai School, leave my motherland".

Zhang Boling is the officer of the Qing Dynasty, can say this, I am very grateful.

Zhang Boling developed mental issues after failing multiple times to graduate and died at 38.

Zhang Boling failed the imperial exam when he was young, but had a passion for music and mounted archery.

Zhang Boling was particularly talented at playing the lute, which earned him the nickname "Lute Chang" among people in Tianjin.

Zhang Boling was a businessman and died of persecution during the Cultural Revolution.

Zhang Boling was an accountant and suffered the same fate as his older brothers during the Cultural Revolution, dying in 1976.

Zhang Boling died serving his country in 1937 when the bomber he was piloting crashed in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province while on its way to bomb the Japanese cruiser Izumo.

Zhang Boling once served as the Vice-secretary of Jiangsu Province's Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and as a professor in the School of Life Sciences in Nanjing University.