---
title: "Zhang Zuhua"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Zhang Zuhua"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-09-05T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["Charter 08","Liu Xiaobo","Chinese human-rights movement","December 2008 crackdown"]
seek_code_commit: "a619c8a"
---


Chinese pro-democracy activist and independent scholar who co-drafted
Charter 08 alongside Liu Xiaobo; the night of the charter's release in
December 2008, about twenty police entered his home and searched it, per
Perry Link's contemporaneous account.

Matters to this vault as the co-drafter figure the
[[claim-charter-08-signatory-list-confirms-303-total|Charter 08
signatory-list]] question sits under — a name that had no page despite
both [[entity-liu-xiaobo|Liu Xiaobo]] and [[entity-charter-08|Charter 08]]
already having ones.

## References

- [[claim-charter-08-signatory-list-confirms-303-total]]