My father Zhang Henshui

Author: Zhang Wu
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: Father not only wrote a lot but also, as soon as his novels were published, they would immediately cause a sensation. In the readers' circles, he had fans of A Golden Dream in a Dusty World (Jin Fen Shi Jia), A Love in a Fallen City (Ti Xiao Yuan Yan), and even "Zhang Henshu" enthusiasts. What was even more astonishing was that father could write multiple novels at the same time—at his peak, he could simultaneously author seven long serial novels. Not only that, he never wrote drafts; he always composed directly on lined paper. In his early years, he used a calligraphy brush with regular script, his handwriting neat and without scribbles, with hardly any corrections. After the 1940s, he switched to using a pencil and carbon paper, producing two copies in one go, with clear and upright handwriting. Anyone who had seen his manuscripts was deeply impressed.