hemorrhage in Beijing, China. Media adaptations Some television series are based on works by Zhang. A Family of Distinction has been adapted at least twice, once during the 1980s, when Hong Kong television broadcaster Television Broadcasts Limited produced the series Yesterday’s Glitter, and during the 2000s, with the Mainland China television series The Story of a Noble Family. See also Literature of China References Additional sources Zhang Henshui and Popular Chinese Fiction, 1919-1949 by Thomas Michael McClellan (Edwin Mellen Press, 2005) External sources Shanghai Express Republic of China novelists 1895 births 1967 deaths Chinese travel writers People from Shangrao Writers from Jiangxi 20th-century novelists Chinese male novelists 20th-century Chinese male writers