The Lu Xun Literary Prize 鲁迅文学奖 is a literary prize awarded by China Writers Association. It is one of China's top four literary prizes and is named after Lu Xun and has been awarded every three years since 1995. Its predecessor, the National Outstanding Short Story Award and National Outstanding Novella Award, was established since the beginning of the new-era literature in the early 1980s.
Haiyang, is a coastal city in the Shandong province in eastern China, located on the Yellow Sea (southern) coast of the Shandong Peninsula. Its name translates directly to "ocean" (海) and "sun" (阳) in Mandarin. It is a county-level city under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Yantai and was the host city for the 2012 Asian Beach Games.
Hailin is a county-level city, under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Mudanjiang, in the southeast of Heilongjiang province, China, bordering Jilin province to the southwest. It has an area of 8,816 km2 (3,404 sq mi), and a population of 422,000. Ethnic groups include the majority Han Chinese as well as significant numbers of Manchu and ethnic Koreans.
Wolf Totem is a 2004 Chinese semi-autobiographical novel about the experiences of a young student from Beijing who finds himself sent to the countryside of Inner Mongolia in 1967, at the height of China's Cultural Revolution. The author, Lü Jiamin, wrote the book under the pseudonym Jiang Rong; his true identity did not become publicly known until several years after the book's publication.
Ling Zhang is a former senior audiologist and fiction writer in Toronto, Canada. She was born in Wenzhou, China and came to Canada in 1986 to pursue her MA in English at University of Calgary. She obtained her second MA degree in Communication disorders at the University of Cincinnati. She has published nine novels and several collections of novellas and short stories in Chinese. One of her novels,《金山》, has been translated into English, French, and German. She has won numerous important literary prizes in China.
Wulian County is a county of the prefecture-level city of Rizhao, Shandong. The county is known for and named after its eponymous Wulian Mountain. It borders Zhucheng to the north, Donggang District to the south, Ju County to the west and Xihai'an to the east.
Qu Bo was a Chinese novelist. His name was also translated as Chu Po. Qǔ (曲), the family name, has meanings of curve, melody and tune. Bō (波) stands for ripples and waves. His first book Tracks in the Snowy Forest made him one of the most popular authors at the time.
Xue Xiaolu is a Chinese film director and screenwriter. She is considered one of the top Chinese female directors. Her first major feature was Ocean Heaven, (2010) which stars Jet Li, followed by Finding Mr. Right (2013) starring Tang Wei and Wu Xiubo. Her top-grossing film is Finding Mr. Right 2. Her films have won multiple awards in China and abroad, including the Outstanding New Screen Writer award at the fifteenth HuaBiao Awards, and Best Director at the 2013 China Image Film Festival. Xue is also a teacher at the Beijing Film Academy, and has been a volunteer with Beijing Stars and Rain, a non-governmental educational organization for autistic children, for 14 years.
Cao Shui born June 5, 1982, also known as Shawn Cao, courtesy name Yaou (Eurasian), pseudonym or haoLord of Tower of Babel, is a Chinese poet, novelist, screenwriter and translator. He is one of the representative figures of Chinese Contemporary Literature. He leads the Great Poetry Movement. In his Declaration of Great Poetry, he aims to integrate sacred and secular cultures, oriental and occidental cultures, ancient and modern cultures in Chinese literature. His most notable works include the Epic of Eurasia, Secret of Heaven (trilogy), and King Peacock. His works are dedicated to rebuilding a republic in which the whole humanity can live in freedom, which he always described as Eurasia, the Top of the Tower of Babel or Kunlun Mountains. As of 2024, 46 books of Cao Shui have been published, including 10 poem collections, 4 essay collections, 10 novels, 18 fairy tales，4 translations and one hundred episodes TV series and films. He is a member of China Writers' Association, China Film Association, and World Poetry Movement. His works have been translated into 26 languages by 2024. He is also the editor-in-chief of Great Poem and deputy editor-in-chief of World Poetry. Currently he lives in Beijing as a professional writer and screenwriter.
Yilin Zhong is a British-Chinese journalist, screenwriter and author. She is the author of seventeen novels, two film screenplays, ten books and many other work including poems and literary reviews. She currently lives in London.
Tang Yixin, born Tang Ting, also known as Tina Tang, is a Chinese actress and singer.
Guardian is a 2018 Chinese web series starring Bai Yu and Zhu Yilong. An adaptation of the 2012 fantasy-danmei web novel of the same name by Priest, the series was released on the video platform Youku between June 13 and July 25, 2018. The series follows Zhao Yunlan (Bai) and Shen Wei (Zhu), a detective and a professor who investigate supernatural phenomena. Though the novel depicts their relationship as romantic in nature, the web series depicts the relationship as a platonic friendship with homoerotic subtext in response to Chinese laws prohibiting depictions of same-sex relationships on television.
Danmei is a Chinese genre of literature and other fictional media that features romantic relationships between male characters. Danmei is typically created by and targeted towards female audiences, but not necessarily straight women. While danmei works and their adaptations have achieved widespread popularity in China and globally, their legal status remains unclear due to Chinese censorship policies. The female same-gender counterpart to danmei is known as bǎihé, which is an orthographic reborrowing of the Japanese word yuri, but it is not as well known or popular as danmei.
Mao Ni is a Chinese author of xianxia novels. His most famous work is the web novel, Ze Tian Ji which has been adapted into an action TV drama, Fighter of the Destiny. In 2017, it was placed first on the Chinese social media site Weibo's poll of most-anticipated TV dramas of 2017. His web novel Jiang Ye (Nightfall) was adapted into the TV series Ever Night. His novels are published on the Webnovel platform, an English-language website and mobile platform launched by China Literature, Chinas largest online publishing company.
The Secret of Heaven, also known as The Secret History of Kunlun, is a trilogy of Chinese language novels written by Cao Shui. Its story focuses around the Kunlun Shan, the important mountain-range of Chinese mythology, as the location of the world's original spiritual homeland where a new generation of Chinese Manichaeism inspires the protagonist's mission to bring about the salvation of humanity. The trilogy has received positive reviews from critics.
Sun Anke, also known as Zhang Xiaowei, is a Chinese actress. She is best known for her roles in the dramas Master Devil Do Not Kiss Me (2017), Heavenly Sword and Dragon Slaying Sabre (2019), Arsenal Military Academy (2019), and Dreaming Back to the Qing Dynasty (2019).
Zhang Huaicun is an artist and an author of children's literature. She is Tu Ethnic Minority people, British Chinese, a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and the Chinese Writers Association.
Zhang Wei, also known under the pen name Tang Jia San Shao (唐家三少), is a Chinese novelist. He is the author of the epic fantasy series Douluo Dalu, also known as Soul Land, which became a multimedia franchise including a TV series, an animated series, various comic adaptations and video games.
Cui Daoyi was a Chinese literary editor, writer and literary critic. He was the former executive deputy editor of People's Literature magazine, an editor, and an honorary member of the Chinese Writers Association. He was originally from Faku, Liaoning Province.
