A student group Mao led even got financial support from the Zhang family.
Detractors complain that high-speed rail is too expensive for the Zhang in the street.
The playing table still has pride of place in the Zhang family.
By 2009, the Zhang family brought in the private equity firm Carlyle Group as a minority investor.
Something about watching the Zhang Family Band and the Li Family Daoist Band at work in Zankel Hall on Saturday night felt curiously inappropriate.
The Zhang family toilet is not the perfect answer to Roosevelt, as it still uses some water, though 80percentt less than a regular flush toilet uses.
Fleet of Time, the Zhang Yibai-directed 1990s college drama reported on last week under the title The Best, The Lost, has taken a big scalp in China: the first part of John Woo's big-budget period romance The Crossing.
Watching the Zhang musicians let fly on lutes, fiddles and gongs, as the singer Zhang Ximin roared through lively ballads recounting folk tales and myths, you were swept up by their energy and charisma.
(Who could resist the cavorting performer who pounded a wooden block on a bench to keep time?) Likewise, the exuberance of the Zhang Family's puppetry compensated for an unfamiliarity with the tales being depicted.
I would note that, originally, Qin Entombed Warriors in the form of gargantuan puppets (piying) were to feature in one scene of the Zhang Yimou-designed Olympic Opening Ceremony of August 8 , 2008
ON the rare half-days they have off from school or the restaurant, the Zhang brothers take turns traveling to the Chinatown in Flushing, Queens, for special pastries and other delicacies as well as videotapes of Chinese television dramas.
