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A hidden rural talent

Updated: 2011-09-02 17:50

(chinadaily.com.cn)

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A rural woman has finished three long novels, a total of about 700,000 words, in her spare time over the past five years, China Business News reported.

Jiang Lanfang, who lives in northwest China's Shaanxi province, discovered her talent for writing when a lament she wrote won plaudits from others.

She then started writing essays and poems in the short intervals in her daily work.

Jiang's novels focus on domestic violence in the rural family and the sad fates of rural woman. Some rural women called and confided their problems after learning about her.

However, none of Jiang's works has been published. Li Xing, a critic in China, said Jiang's work was great, but unknown writers are not easy to publish their works because they are unable to make the publishers great money.

By Chen Yingqun

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