[1] She is the daughter of renowned film director Zhang Yimou and has worked alongside him on many of his projects.
[1] She moved with her family to the United States at age fifteen to study at an American high school.
Leaving university, Zhang enrolled at the Tisch School of the Arts where she studied filmmaking.
After gaining credit as an editor on the films Under the Hawthorn Tree and A Simple Noodle Story Zhang was given the role of assistant director on her fathers Hollywood blockbuster The Flowers of War.
[5][6][7] Zhang married Daniel Wade Manwaring (孟丹青), a Creative Artists Agency executive, in October 2012.