Selected Works of Liang Xiaosheng

Author: Liang Xiaosheng
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book is the author's self-selected collection, divided into four parts: "Bird's-Eye View of the Commercial Era," "My View on the 'Sent-down Youth'," "Women of Former China," and "China's Love and Sex Enlightenment." It gathers the author's most outstanding works, serving as a social commentary record of a writer, filled with the patriotic and compassionate feelings of an innocent. Liang Xiaosheng is a writer who has long been widely recognized. His powerful and deeply insightful middle-length works prove that he has consistently adhered to the literary principle of focusing on reality. He is known as the "commoner writer" and hailed as the "Balzac of China." In terms of quantity, he is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers of contemporary Chinese middle-length fiction. In his middle-length novels, from intellectuals to college students, workers, peasants, armed police, and criminals, to various female figures of different eras, a myriad of characters form a literary "River Scene at Qingming Festival" of Chinese society as depicted by Liang Xiaosheng.