Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v2.c11.s5.t3.13

v2.c11.s5.t3.13

He is a native Shaanxi Province in northwest China and was born in the historical city of Xi’an. He joined the Beijing Film Academy in 1978 after the end of the Cultural Revolution. Although Zhang was way older that the regulation age for admission and did not have the prerequisite academic qualification, he was admitted into the Academy