Complex sentence: Zhang is often grouped with Mao Zonggang, and Jin Shengtan as commentator/editors whose "dufa" (讀法 lit. "way to read") raised the status of fiction for Chinese readers and made the writing of fiction into a respectable activity for educated people.
Split into simpler sentences: Zhang is often grouped with Mao Zonggang, and Jin Shengtan as commentator/editors. This innovation raised the status of fiction for Chinese readers and made the writing of fiction into a respectable activity for educated people.