Yu hua biography

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Paper Republic – Chinese Literature in Translation

Now one of China's best-known novelists, Yu Hua was born in Haiyan, Zhejiang province, in , and grew up in and around a hospital where his parents were both doctors. His education was encompassed almost entirely by the Cultural Revolution, following which he was assigned to a job as a dentist. Five years later he published his first short story in a Beijing literary magazine, and shortly thereafter moved to a job in the provincial level cultural bureau.

Yu Hua was one of the generation of writers who began reconstructing modern Chinese literature in the s, and in the 90s began publishing a series of spare, simple, carefully-drawn novels. His latest novels, Brothers, an ambitious tapestry of two eras of Chinese literature, and The Seventh Day, a dark look at the plight of China’s underclasses represent a departure in style, length and subject matter from his prev

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Yu Hua

To Live

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China in Ten Words
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Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
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The Seventh Day
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Brothers
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نهر الزمن
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Boy in the Twilight: Stories of the Hidden China
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La città che non c'è
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Mao Zedong è arrabbiato
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صيف حار وقصص أخرى
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Yu Hua Biography

Yu Hua was born in in Zhejiang, China. He finished high school during the Cultural Revolution and worked as a dentist for five years before beginning to write in He has published four novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. His work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. In Yu Hua became the first Chinese writer to win the prestigious James Joyce Foundation Award. His novel To Live was awarded Italy's Premio Grinzane Cavour in , and To Live and Chronicle of a Blood Merchant were named two of the last decade's ten most influential books in China in the s by Wenhui Bao, the largest newspaper in Shanghai. Yu Hua lives in Beijing.

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