Zhang joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1938, later becoming a prominent journalist in charge of Jiefang Daily after the establishment of the People's Republic. He rose to prominence after his October 1958 article entitled "Destroy the Ideology of Bourgeois Right" caught the attention of Mao Zedong, who ordered its reproduction in People's Daily.
zhang joined the chinese communist party in 1938 later becoming a prominent journalist in charge of jiefang daily after the establishment of the people's republic he rose to prominence after his october 1958 article entitled "destroy the ideology of bourgeois right" caught the attention of mao zedong who ordered its reproduction in people's daily