Liu Xinwu
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Native name | 刘心 |
Born | June 1942 (age 82) Chengdu, Sichuan, China |
Pen name | Liu Liu (刘浏) Zhao Zhuanghan (赵壮汉) |
Occupation | Novelist |
Language | Chinese |
Period | 1977 - present |
Genre | Novel |
Literary movement | Scar literature |
Notable works | The Wedding Party |
Notable awards | 2nd Mao Dun Literary Prize 1985 The Wedding Party |
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Simplified Chinese | 刘心 | ||||||
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Liu Xinwu (Chinese: 刘心
Biography
[edit]Born in the province of Sichuan, his family moved to Beijing, a city that figures prominently in his work, in 1950. Liu spent most of his life in Beijing, except for a brief period during the Cultural Revolution, when he was sent to work in rural China.
His short story, "Class counsellor" (also translated as "The Class Teacher"; Chinese:
Liu filled editorial positions in a number of prominent government-sponsored publications throughout most of the 1980s. In 1987, however, he was removed as editor of the publication People's Literature after a story published failed to meet government approval. He left all his government positions after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 because of continual harassment from the government for his pro-demonstrator stance. Since then, he has devoted himself entirely to his writing.
Liu's work, which includes novels, short stories, and children's literature, focuses on the common people of Beijing and people who live on the margins of society.
Redology
[edit]Since the early 1990s Liu has also been engaging in Redology, also known as studies of the famous 18th-century Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber. Liu takes on the controversial stance that in studying this famous Qing novel, the researcher's point of departure should be the figure of Qin Keqing, thus authoring the branch of Qin studies (Chinese:
Translations
[edit]- Black Walls and Other Stories (ed. by Don J. Cohn, ISBN 962-7255-06-8)
- Chinese short stories of the twentieth century: an anthology in English (ed. by Zhihua Fang, ISBN 0-8153-0532-X) Includes "The Class Teacher".
- Prize-winning Stories from China, 1978-1979 (by Liu Xinwu, Wang Meng, and others). HC (ISBN 0-253-34620-7) PB (ISBN 0-253-20292-2) (Includes "The Teacher") Available to borrow at archive.org [1]
- The Wedding Party (translated by Jeremy Tiang). HC (ISBN 1542031206) PB (ISBN 1542044790)
- The Wounded: new stories of the Cultural Revolution, 77-78 (ed, Hsin-hua Lu, Geremie Barmé, Bennett Lee). HC (ISBN 962-04-0007-0) PB (ISBN 962-04-0008-9) Includes "Class counsellor".
References
[edit]- ^ "Chinese Writer: Liu Xinwu". people.cn. 2009. Archived from the original on 2012-12-11. Retrieved 2014-03-11.
- ^ Xie, Xinhua (2000). "《
班 主任 》不 是 伤痕文学 ("'The Class Teacher' is not scar literature")". The Journal of the Teacher's College, Qingdao University. 17 (1). Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. - ^ Joel Martinsen, Conspiracy of the Red Mansions Archived 2016-06-03 at the Wayback Machine danwei.org (Dec 8, 2006).