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 Old China," and "China's Sexual Enlightenment." It gathers the author's most outstanding works, serving as a social commentary by a writer filled with the concerns of a true patriot. Liang Xiaosheng is a writer whose reputation is already widely recognized. His powerful and deeply realistic middle-length works prove his unwavering commitment to literature that focuses 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 stories, from intellectuals to college students, workers, peasants, armed police, and criminals, to women of all kinds from different eras, they form a literary "River Scene at Qingming" of Chinese society as depicted by Liang Xiaosheng.