Introducing 4 Chinese contemporary women writers

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

At the present, Chinese contemporary female literature is developing prosperously. From these numerous writers, I chose three typical writers, Zhang jie, Can Xue and Lin Bai, who stand for three generations of Chinese female writers. Besides, Li Hong began to attract public attention in China. I hope foreign friends can understand China and Chinese female literature more through their works. The followings are brief introduction about them. Thank you!

Huang Lin

Brief introduction for Zhang Jie
Zhang Jie joined some associations, besides as a council Member of Chinese Writers’ Association; she is also an honorary Member of American Academy and China Chapter, International PEN.
  Her main works are short story Love Must Not Be Forgotten, novella The Ark and Emerald; saga novel Without Words and Heavy Wings, personal memoir Gone is The One Who Held my Dearest in The World  
  Her many a works have been published in other countries such as the U.K, the U.S.A, Germany, France, Holland, Spain, Brazil. Her works has been granted a lot of national awards and international awards, which has the Second and Sixth Mao Dun National Awards for Novels (Granted every three years), Malaparte Literary Prize (Italy) and so on.

Brief introduction for Can Xue
She was born in 1953, in Changsha city, Hunan province, which is in southern of China. She has been living in Beijing since she moved from Changsha.
  She lost her chance for further education because of her family catastrophe (That was during “Cultural Revolution”), so she only graduated from elementary school. But she love literature so much, especially fictions and poems, among which she likes classical western literature and Russian literature best. She has also written 6 commentary books about Borges, Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe, Kafka and Calvino. Her fiction books includes three novels and twelve story books ,some of which have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Danish, Russian, and Japanese.
  She visited U.S. in 1992 as an honor member of International Writing Program in Iowa, but she has almost never got any literature awards by now. 

Brief introduction for Lin Bai
Lin Bai, old name Lin Baiwei, who started to write poems when she was only 19 years old. Now, Lin Bai lives in both Beijing and Wuhan in China.
In 1994, she published the saga novel A Person’s War, which caused great impression. After that, Lichen, Say, Room, Glass Insects, All are in Blossom, The Records of Women’s Gossip and other novels were also published. There were also a number of novellas, short stories, prose and essays publishing at the same time. In 1997, “Lin Bai Corpus” was published.
Of her abundant works, All are in Blossom was chosen in Chinese 2003 Novel List (Chinese Novel Institute publicized), The Records of Women’s Gossip was granted the third Monthly Novelist Award of Chinese Literature Media Award.

Brief Introduction for Li Hong
Li Hong, an artist and writer, was born in Beijing 1965.
1990, she graduated from Beijing Normal University and got the literature bachelor degree.
1991, she became a journalist in Chinese Pictorial Office
1994, she graduated from Seminar of Painting at China Central Fine Art Institute.
1996, she graduated from the eighth assistant class at China Central Fine Art Institute.
Her paintings joined Double Female Paintings Exhibition (China Art Museum, Beijing) in 1995, China Contemporary Art Exhibition (Beijing International Art Gallery) in 1996, Century Female Art Exhibition (China Art Museum, Beijing), personal exhibition-Treachery and Conspiracy (Hong Kong and Macao Center in China) and so on. Her paintings were published in The People’s Daily, China Women Newspaper, Art Research, Artist Communication, Fashion and The Blue Book for China Culture in mainland. There are also some works appearing in Artists, Lion Art in Taiwan, Literature Paper, and other magazines in Hong Kong. She was once granted ‘Siren’ Studio Award, ‘Century& Female’ Critic Award and so on.

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