Before joining the Berggruen Institute, Chang Zhang served as a content director and program producer at YIXI Talks, when she helmed the role of chief producer for the video interview series Branches in its third season. Before joining YIXI, she was a senior cultural journalist at Beijing News Book Review Weekly, winning numerous awards for her reporting and writing. Her first job was an e-book program manager, responsible for developing CITIC's “Independent Author Brand” and for identifying and signing promising original creators.Chang Zhang holds a Master of Arts in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Arts in Media and International Communications from Zhejiang University, with a minor in the “Morningside Cultural China Scholars Program”. Furthermore, she is an accomplished author and Chinese translator, with over 10 published works to her name.