---
title: "Zhang Baosheng"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Zhang Baosheng"
aliases: ["张宝胜"]
first_seen: "2026-08-28T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["He Zuoxiu","somatic science","Qian Xuesen","human body ESP dispute"]
seek_code_commit: "7d6d9ed"
---


Chinese "super psychic" whose claimed abilities — metal-bending, moving objects out of sealed containers — made him one of the most closely studied test subjects of China's 1980s human-body-ESP research programs, and whose eventual exposure as a fraud became a flashpoint in the country's science/pseudoscience debate.

Matters to this vault as the concrete case study the abstract [[entity-qian-xuesen|Qian Xuesen]]–[[entity-yu-guangyuan|Yu Guangyuan]] dispute over [[entity-somatic-science|somatic science]] ultimately turned on: [[entity-he-zuoxiu|He Zuoxiu]]'s 1988 test of Zhang is the one specific, adjudicated instance located so far where the dispute's abstract claims met an empirical result.

## References
- Capture: 10-inbox/raw/2026-08-28-do-qian-xuesens-own-1989-book-and-the.md (entity candidate; no dedicated claim-note yet — He Zuoxiu's 1988 test and its 1995 publication are the natural next primary source)