When 15 years old, he enrolled in the Nanchang Army Survey Academy, following elder brother Zhang Dingfan, an officer in the "Dare to Die" regiment of the Xinhai Revolution.

[4] These included Guo Moruo, Cheng Fangwu, Zhang Ziping, Zheng Boqi, Xu Zuzheng, Shen Yinmo, Lu Xun, and Yu Dafu.

These provided forums for lively and heated discourse on the transition to the vernacular Chinese language; weeklies for short insights or responses, quarterlies for considered and developed ideas.

A lasting achievement was to recover the works of the Rare Book Preservation Society which were looted during World War II.

March 23, 1946, the Ministry appointed Zhang Fengju to the Chinese Occupation Mission in Japan as head of the Fourth Section (Education and Culture).

Because of his gift in languages and his participation in the original preservation effort,[circular reference] he held substantive meetings with all parties without translators.

His handwritten diaries and reports, now at National Central Library in Taipei, contain details of the recovery looted manuscripts and books from Tokyo.