David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Biddu
Biddu Appaiah( born 1944) is an Indian- born, England- based singer- songwriter, composer, and music producer – who composed and produced many worldwide hit records during a career spanning five decades.
Considered one of the pioneers of disco, Euro disco, and Indian pop, he has sold millions of records worldwide, and has received Grammy and Ivor Novello awards for his work.
He has been ranked at number 34 on" NME"'s" The 50 Greatest Producers Ever" list.
Biddu was born in Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
He began his music career in the 1960s, singing as part of a music band in India before moving to England where he would start his career as a producer.
He eventually found some success producing a hit song for Japanese band
The Tigers in 1969, scoring the soundtrack for 1972 British film" Embassy", and producing several early disco songs that would find a niche audience in British northern soul clubs during the early 1970s.
His international breakthrough came in 1974 with" Kung Fu Fighting" performed by Carl Douglas; the song became one of the best- selling singles of all time with eleven million records sold, helped popularise disco music, was the first worldwide disco hit from Britain and Europe, and established Biddu as one of the most prolific dance music producers from outside the United States at the time.
He soon began producing his own instrumental albums under the name Biddu Orchestra, which started an orchestral disco trend in Britain and Europe with 1975 hits" Summer of'42" and" Blue Eyed Soul"; his solo albums eventually sold 40 million copies worldwide.
He also launched the careers of other British disco stars such as Tina Charles, helping her sell 36 million records within a few years, and Jimmy James; scored soundtracks for several British films such as" The Stud"( 1978); and produced a hit song for late French singer Claude François.
Biddu also experimented with electronic disco and Hi- NRG music from the mid-1970s, and influenced British new wave bands such as The Buggles, founded by two of his former session musicians Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes.
Following the decline of disco in the Western world, he later found success in Asia during the 1980s, where he launched the careers of the late Pakistani pop singer Nazia Hassan and her brother Zohaib; he produced their debut album" Disco Deewane", which charted in fourteen countries and became the best- selling Asian pop album up until that time, and helped the duo eventually sell 60 million records worldwide.
During that decade, he also produced several hit Bollywood soundtracks for films such as" Qurbani"( 1980) as well as several hit songs for Japanese pop idol Akina Nakamori and Chinese pop singer Samantha Lam( 林志美).
In the 1990s, he popularised Indian pop with the hit album" Made in India"( 1995), which became the best- selling pop album in India and launched the career of Alisha Chinai, after which he would launch the careers of several more Indian pop acts such as Shaan and his sister Sagarika as well as Sonu Nigam.
In the 2000s, Biddu has been active in the Western and Indian music scenes producing albums which are more spiritual and Eastern- oriented.
He rearranged a classical hit for Luke Kenny's film, Rise of the Zombie.
Zhengde Emperor
The Zhengde Emperor( 27October 149120April 1521) was the 11th Emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigned from 1505 to 1521.
Born Zhu Houzhao, he was the Hongzhi Emperor's eldest son.
Zhu Houzhao took the throne at only 14 with the era name Zhengde meaning" Right virtue" or" Rectification of virtue".
He was known for favoring eunuchs such as Liu Jin and became infamous for his childlike behavior.
He eventually died at age 29 from a illness he contracted after drunkenly falling off a boat into the Yellow River.
He left behind no sons and was succeeded by his first cousin Zhu Houcong.
Empress Zhang (Hongzhi)
Empress Xiaochengjing( 1471 – 1541), was a Chinese Empress consort of the Ming Dynasty, married to the Hongzhi Emperor and mother of the Zhengde Emperor.
Luis Sarmento
Luis Sarmento was the Imperial ambassador to Portugal in 1536.
He represented Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain.
Xiong Xiu
Xiong Xiu( 1441- 1515) was a politician of the Ming Dynasty.
Entering service with the imperial examination in 1466, he was first appointed as inspector of the tea trade in Sichuan, then inspector of Shaanxi province.
During the reign of the Zhengde emperor, Xiong was appointed Viceroy of Liangguang, where he suppressed a rebellion of the Zhuang in He County.
Subsequently, having offended the eunuch Liu Jin, he was stripped of his official posts.
Fubao
Fubao, a woman from the, was according to some Chinese mythology sources the mother- in- law of the inventor of silk, Leizu; mother of Huang Di the Yellow Emperor and of Yan Di the Flame Emperor; and, wife of Shaodian.
However, the mythological genealogy varies.
Fubao is viewed as ancestress to the Han people who form the majority of the population of China.
Empress Xia (Ming dynasty)
Empress Xiaojingyi( 1492–1535), was a Chinese Empress consort of the Ming dynasty, married to the Zhengde Emperor.
She was from the district Sang-yuan( in present Nanking).
In 1506, she was selected to become the first consort and empress of the emperor.
She had no issue.
When her spouse died childless in 1521, he was succeeded by his cousin Jiangjing.
She was given the title Empress Chuang- su.
Alisha Chinai
Alisha Chinai, formerly known as Alisha Chinoy or her former stage name Alisha, is an Indian pop singer known for her Indi- pop albums as well as playback singing in Hindi cinema.
She began her singing career with the album" Jadoo" in 1985, and by the 1990s became known as the" Queen of Indipop".
Her best known songs were with producers Anu Malik and Biddu during the 1990s.
Her most successful and popular album is" Made in India", released in 1995.
Wang Ao (Grand Secretariat)
Wang Ao (1450 – 1524) was a politician, essayist and poet of the Ming Dynasty.
As a politician during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor, he held the position of Grand Secretariat.
Wang Ao was also an essayist who was considered a master on eight-legged essays.

Question: Were Zhengde Emperor and Biddu of the same nationality?
Answer: no