Her journal article The Film Language' s Modernization which she co-authored with her husband Li Tuo, is being considered as the manifesto of new era Chinese cinema.

[2] In 1958, Nuanxin Zhang graduated from the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China and began studying at the Beijing Film Academy.

In 1987, Zhang Nuanxin with French director Jacques Dorfmann co-directed the film Le Palanquin des Larmes (1987).

In 1988, Nuanxin Zhang plans to adapted famous Chinese author Wang Shuo's novel Playing for Thrills and finished the film script.

Her funeral was held on June 3, famous Chinese author Wang Zengqi wrote her an elegiac couplet.

[3] Zhang's film treats themes of alienated youth, contemporary Chinese history, as well as her signature usage of the long-take, color digital video, and his realist style.

[2] The Drive to Win, in particular, Zhang tells a story about women, about a normal female volleyball athlete(Sha Ou Played by Shanshan Chang)'s life, even Sha ou has been going through the team lose world champion and her husband's death, but her still facing her life optimistic.

[2] And because The Drive to Win represents a generation and women's life who living in that period, this film is being considered as Zhang Nuanxin's most important.

[3] The film language's modernization (1979), co-written by Zhang Nuanxin and her husband Li Tuo, is considered the manifesto of a new era of Chinese cinema.

Shuguang Yao also argues the limation of The film language's modernization which is this article admire Bazin's long-shot theory without careful analysis and reflection.