Joseph Yuan Zaide was a Chinese Catholic priest who lived from 1766 to 1817. Born in Pengshui, he embraced Christianity after hearing the preaching of Gabriel-Taurin Dufresse. After training at the Luoranggou mission seminary in Yibin, he was ordained in 1794. He served as a missionary throughout eastern Sichuan until the persecutions under the Jiaqing Emperor led to his arrest. Refusing to abandon his religious convictions, he was executed by strangulation in Chengdu on June 24, 1817.