Life

Liu Xinwu, pen-named Liu Liu and Zhao Zhuanghan, was born in 1942 in Chengdu of Southwest China's Sichuan Province. He is a modern Chinese writer, and once was the editor-in-chief of the literature magazine People's Literature.

Liu graduated from the Beijing Normal Academy in 1961, and afterwards taught in a middle school for 15 years. In 1976, he became an editor for Beijing Publishing House in 1976. In the following year, his short story A Teacher in Charge of a Class, which was considered the start of the trauma literature, caused a big stir, and obtained the Excellent National Short Story Award.

Later he published a number of other novels like The Position of Love, Wake up, Younger Brother, and I Love Every Green Leaf, which also garnered the Excellent National Short Story Award.

His representative novella includes Ruyi, Cloverleaf Intersection, and A Small Block of Wood. The best-known full-length novels are Bell and Drum Towers, Four Decorated Archways, The Building that Rests the Phoenix, and Wind Passing through Ear.

In 1985, his documentary writings Long Camera Lens on May 19 and Bus Aria caused another sensation. He started a column called "personal album" in the magazine called Harvest, starting a new form of style in a literature magazine with both pictures and essays. In 1999, he presented his novel The Tree and Forrest are Together, with plenty of pictures.

After 1992, he produced a great number of informal essays, which later were collected and published in different volumes.

Liu began to publish essays on the studies of A Dream of Red Mansions in 1993. Later these study results were published in the forms of novels and monographs.

Liu made an attempt to comment on construction in 1995. In succession he published two books, Construction and Environment in My Eyes in 1998 and The Beauty of Material in 2004.

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