 He kept up this practice even after he was stripped of all of his titles.Zhang died of stomach cancer and the family believed that depression as a result of his political downfall may have contributed to the deterioration of his health.To his consolation in a poetic sense, in the TV docu-drama series "The Liberation", made in China to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic, Zhang was portrayed fairly accurately in his activities as a power-broker in the late 1940s, though overall the role in the TV docu-drama was minor.