An author as good as his word
3 years, 6 months ago

An author as good as his word

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Author Yu Hua's new novel Wencheng. "I chose Wencheng as the title of this book for no other reason than because this city does not exist, and all stories are related to Wencheng,"Yu explains. "I hope I don't repeat the style of my work," Yu says. Readers may have found that the "cold writer" has become "sympathetic and soft" when they read To Live and then Wencheng. Just like literary critic Li Zhuang says:"To Live tells the story of how to live without hope, while Wencheng tells the story of how to die with hope."

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An author as good as his word
3 years, 6 months ago

An author as good as his word

China Daily  

Author Yu Hua's new novel Wencheng. For his other novel, Brothers, Yu divided it into two books, and told two distinct stories: In the first book, you can see the shadow of To Live and Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, and readers often read it with tears, but in the second book, the style was absurd and bizarre. "Literature is …

An author as good as his word
3 years, 6 months ago

An author as good as his word

China Daily  

Author Yu Hua meets readers and talks about his new novel Wencheng at a recent promotional event in a Beijing bookstore. "I hope everyone comes to criticize me," the well-known writer says. Yu is well-known for To Live, his signature award-winning novel, released in 1993, but his last full-length novel Seventh Day, published eight years ago, may have prepared him …

An author as good as his word
3 years, 6 months ago

An author as good as his word

China Daily  

Author Yu Hua meets readers and talks about his new novel Wencheng at a recent promotional event in a Beijing bookstore. "I hope everyone comes to criticize me," the well-known writer says. Yu is well-known for To Live, his signature award-winning novel, released in 1993, but his last full-length novel Seventh Day, published eight years ago, may have prepared him …

Words turn small town lifestyle into a big story
4 years, 3 months ago

Words turn small town lifestyle into a big story

China Daily  

Writer Lin Peiyuan speaks at a lecture during the recent 2020 Shanghai Book Fair. Author Lin Peiyuan, 32, observes the intricacies, history, character, old-fashioned charm and foibles of his hometown in South China's Guangdong province. The cultural and linguistic region Lin's works repeatedly evoke is often referred to as Chaoshan. As hit TV series The Bad Kids and local indie …

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