sentences:  After his graduation, Zhang was "sent down" to Ujimqin Banner in Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia, where he lived for four years before returning to Beijing.Soon after his return, he entered the archaeology department of Peking University, graduating in 1975.He began his writing career in 1978, with the publication of a poem in Mongolian entitled "Son of the People" (做人民之子/"Arad-un-huu") and a Chinese-language short story "Why does the rider sing?"