Film director Zhang Yimou says the script of The Flowers of War, based on Yan Geling's 2005 novella of the same title, is the best he's encountered.
Fusang, a 20-year-old woman, is kidnapped from her village in China, taken to San Francisco and sold into prostitution.
Yan Geling's latest novel is based on her grandfather and was a work of self-discovery, she says.
Chi Zijian has already won several awards for her best-selling novel, Right Bank of the Ergun (E'erguna He You'an).
Author Chi Zijian's works reflect the shades of darkness and light that color the human soul.
Chabbi encountered Li's works in 2004 when a friend recommended Afternoon Poetics (Wuhou de Shixue), a collection of the writer's short stories.
Writer Li Er was not surprised when German Prime Minister Angela Merkel invited him for a talk, for the second time, during her visit to China last year.
One of China's best-known writers of literary fiction talks about his latest anthology of short fiction, and more, to Chitralekha Basu and Yang Guang.
Arguably China's most-watched writer Mo Yan takes on the family planning policy in his new novel and shares why he thinks that 'of all things, life is most valuable'.
No one, it seems, has read from cover-to-cover Zhang Wei's ponderous 10-volume book on four generations of a family caught in the throes of change. But critics have been unstinting in their praise. Yang Guang reports.
Mao Dun Literature Prize winner Liu Xinglong has been recognized for his poetic evocation of the bitterness of country life.
Literary star Bi Feiyu says all the stories that he has penned are essentially one - the story of pain.
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