diff --git a/spacy/zh/__init__.py b/spacy/zh/__init__.py
index 3f4e36207..1847a7d8d 100644
--- a/spacy/zh/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/zh/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-import jieba
-
 from ..language import Language
 from ..tokens import Doc
 
@@ -8,5 +6,6 @@ class Chinese(Language):
     lang = u'zh'
 
     def make_doc(self, text):
+        import jieba
         words = list(jieba.cut(text, cut_all=True))
         return Doc(self.vocab, words=words, spaces=[False]*len(words))