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It is estimated that throughout his life Zhang wrote a total of some 30 million Chinese characters in over 110 novels. His works emphasize realistic dialogue, often interposing people from different social strata and were thus hugely popular amongst the Chinese public from 1920s to 1940s.
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Zhang started his career as a member of a theatre troupe. Zhang joined the press in 1918 as an editor. Zhang became a journalist in Wuhan. In 1919, Zhang became a newspaper editor in Beijing, China.
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Her first television appearance was in The Story of a Noble Family (2003), based on Zhang Henshui's novel of the same name.
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Zhang took up novel-writing as a hobby. The first of his novels serialized was
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in 1949, Zhang temporarily lost the ability to walk, but continued to write.
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in 1919 to work as a newspaper editor, his first major long work,
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has been adapted at least twice, once during the 1980s, when
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Zhang Henshui and Popular Chinese Fiction, 1919-1949
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Some television series are based on works by Zhang.
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Chinese name
family name
Zhang
Chinese
Statue and tomb of Zhang Henshui in Qianshan County, Anqing
Nanchang
Jiangxi province
Great Qing
Beijing
People's Republic of China
Chinese
Wade–Giles
novelist
fiction
Nanchang
Jiangxi province
Qianshan
Anhui
baihua
classical Chinese poetry
Beijing
War of Resistance against Japan
parables
dream sequences
stroke
brain hemorrhage
Hong Kong
Television Broadcasts Limited
The Story of a Noble Family
Literature of China

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