diff --git a/spacy/lang/zh/__init__.py b/spacy/lang/zh/__init__.py
index 399925a8a..04b9dcab3 100644
--- a/spacy/lang/zh/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/lang/zh/__init__.py
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ from ...language import Language
 from ...tokens import Doc
 from .tag_map import TAG_MAP
 from .stop_words import STOP_WORDS
+from ...util import update_exc
+from ..tokenizer_exceptions import BASE_EXCEPTIONS
+from .tokenizer_exceptions import TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS
 
 
 class ChineseDefaults(Language.Defaults):
@@ -15,6 +18,7 @@ class ChineseDefaults(Language.Defaults):
     tag_map = TAG_MAP
     stop_words = STOP_WORDS
 
+
 class Chinese(Language):
     lang = 'zh'
     Defaults = ChineseDefaults  # override defaults
diff --git a/spacy/lang/zh/tag_map.py b/spacy/lang/zh/tag_map.py
index f5b6b5040..33829f27f 100644
--- a/spacy/lang/zh/tag_map.py
+++ b/spacy/lang/zh/tag_map.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # encoding: utf8
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-from ..symbols import *
+from ...symbols import *
 
 
 TAG_MAP = {
diff --git a/spacy/lang/zh/tokenizer_exceptions.py b/spacy/lang/zh/tokenizer_exceptions.py
index ba592e84c..26a3ea908 100644
--- a/spacy/lang/zh/tokenizer_exceptions.py
+++ b/spacy/lang/zh/tokenizer_exceptions.py
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 # encoding: utf8
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
-from ..symbols import *
-from ..language_data import PRON_LEMMA
+from ...symbols import *
 
 
 TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS = {
diff --git a/spacy/zh/language_data.py b/spacy/zh/language_data.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 61f3e6b61..000000000
--- a/spacy/zh/language_data.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-# encoding: utf8
-from __future__ import unicode_literals
-
-
-# import base language data
-from .. import language_data as base
-
-
-# import util functions
-from ..language_data import update_exc, strings_to_exc
-
-
-# import language-specific data from files
-from .tag_map import TAG_MAP
-from .stop_words import STOP_WORDS
-from .tokenizer_exceptions import TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS, ORTH_ONLY
-
-
-TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS = dict(TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS)
-TAG_MAP = dict(TAG_MAP)
-STOP_WORDS = set(STOP_WORDS)
-
-
-# customize tokenizer exceptions
-update_exc(TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS, strings_to_exc(ORTH_ONLY))
-update_exc(TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS, strings_to_exc(base.EMOTICONS))
-
-
-# export
-__all__ = ["TOKENIZER_EXCEPTIONS", "TAG_MAP", "STOP_WORDS"]