Biography: ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Zhang Yang (Chinese: 张杨, born 1967) is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is the son of Zhang Huaxun, who is also a Chinese film director. Zhang grew up in Beijing, studied until 1988 at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong, from which he graduated with a degree in Chinese literature, and then went to the Central Academy of Drama, graduating in 1992. Description above from the Wikipedia article Zhang Yang (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.