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In the new period, an abundance of novels were created. Liu Xinwu's short novel The Headmaster pioneered "trauma literature;" Gao Xiaosheng's Li Shunda Builds a House, Ru Zhijuan's A Wrongly Edited Story, Zhang Jie's Heavy Wings, Jia Pingwa's A Family in Jiwowa, Tie Ning's Ah, Xiangxue, Chen Rong's Upon Reaching Middle Age, Gao Xiaosheng's Chen Huansheng Going to Town, Li Cunbao's Wreaths at the Foot of the Mountain, Acheng's Chess Master, Mo Yan's Red Sorghum, Liu Suola's You Have No Other Choice, Wang Meng's The Man with Movable Parts, Ma Yuan's Fabrication, etc. display and reflect various aspects of the times and society from diversified perspectives in an all-round manner, showing the unprecedented prosperous scene of novel creation. At the turn of the century, a new journey of novel creation began, and Yu Hua's To Live, Wang Xiaobo's The Golden Age, Chen Zhongshi's White Deer Plain, Wang Anyi's The Eternal Regret, Su Tong's Rice, Zhang Jie's Without Words, Bi Feiyu's The Plain, Mo Yan's Frog, etc. all exerted important influence. It should be noted that some weighty works also emerged among Internet novels with extensive influence - for example, Ning Ken's The Covered City became one of the long novels that won the 2002 "Lao She Literary Award."
The 800-li Qinchuan is plain and mysterious with a long history and profound cultural connotations. The land full of charm also nourished a group of writers with the same charm including Jia Pingwa. Jia Pingwa grew up in a poor peasant family in Shaanxi, and began his creation career in 1972. Jia Pingwa's creations are full of regional color. His hometown Shangzhou is not only the background of his writing, but also provides abundant materials for him. His talent and rebellious spirit also make his works' styles diversified and the contents colorful. Read more
Yu Hua, a native of Hangzhou, Zhejiang, grew up mainly in Haiyan County. Yu Hua says in his autobiography, "I lived in Haiyan for nearly 30 years. I am familiar with everything there... All my past inspiration is from there, and my future inspiration will also come from there." In 1984, Yu Hua published his first novel Stars and began to reveal his uniquely individualized literary talent. Later he published works such as A Kind of Reality, A World of Affairs like Smoke and A Story Dedicated to the Girl Willow successively, carried out bold practice in the field of vanguard novels, and formed a style of his own. Under Yu Hua's pen, the cruel interpersonal state is outlined easily in an unrestrained atmosphere. After the 1990s, the style of Yu Hua's creation changed greatly. He began to pay attention to ordinary people's daily life and feelings, and completed long novels such as To Live, Chronicle of a Blood Merchant and Brothers. Though still having the characteristic of "violent" narration, they are more focused on manifesting tender interpersonal feelings and eulogizing man's kind and noble character. Read more
Su Tong began to create and publish literary works in 1983 at the age of 20. His first medium-length novel Escape of 1943 written between the autumn and winter of 1986 has unique historical meanings. Su Tong's main representative works include Opium Family, Rouge, Wives and Concubines, Rice, Divorce Guide, Binu, etc. Read more
Mo Yan, a native of Gaomi, Shandong, was born in a peasant family. In his childhood, economic poverty and political oppressionleft painful memories to him, and these psychological traits directly influenced his later novel creation. In the early 1980s, Mo Yan's novels such as The Transparent Carrot aroused attention from the literary circles, and later he created many medium-length novels such as Red Sorghum, Garden, Big Breasts & Wide Hips, The Garlic Ballads, Red Forest, Sandalwood Death and Frog, manifesting intensive cultural reflection and magical artistic feelings. Mo Yan's novel creation is influenced by American writer William Faulkner and Columbian writer Garcia Marquez. He tries to gain a new understanding of the Chinese nation's life consciousness and cultural psychology with a novel and fresh artistic feeling, and meanwhile he is rooted in the Chinese nation's soil, inheriting many expression methods of Chinese traditional literature in depth and revealing a unique mysterious sense in the course of exploring reality. Read more