Contemporary Chinese Fiction Writers

This book introduces the lives and works of eighty contemporary Chinese writers, and focuses on writers from the "Rightist" generation (Bai Hua, Gao Xiaosheng, Liu Shaotang), writers of the Red Guard generation (Li Rui, Wang Anyi), Post-Cultural Revolution Writers, as well as others. In addition to providing biographical information, each entry includes a critical presentation and evaluation of the writer¿s major works, and a selected bibliography of publications that includes works in Chinese, works translated into English, and critical articles and books available in English.