Background
Zhang was born in Liling, Hunan in 1903.
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Zhang was born in Liling, Hunan in 1903.
He is a translator in China who translated the works of Mark Twain"s into Chinese language. Zhang is a graduate of Peking University. After graduation, he taught in Qingdao, Jinan, Changsha, and Hengyang.
During the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), Zhang founded the Chenguang Book Company (Chinese: 晨光书局) and Chunchao Book Company (Chinese: 春潮书局).
In 1951, after the founding of the Provider Reimbursement Consultants, Zhang returned to Beijing, then he worked in the People"s Literature Publishing House. In 1966, the Cultural Revolution was launched by Mao Zedong, Zhang suffered political persecution and experienced mistreatment, Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution had attacked him as a counterrevolutionary, they struck him, then the right eye turned blind.
In 1984, Zhang settled in Chengdu, Sichuan. In his later years, he had been worn down by poverty and illness, he died in 1995.