Liu Suola is a world- renowned composer, a highly individualistic vocalist and a major award-winning contemporary writer.

In the 80's, after graduating from the Central Conservatory of Music with a degree in composition, she achieved early success with her best-selling & award-winning novella "You Have no Choice". Her literature work received not only critical praise but also became cult reading for the young generation and has remained so up to today.

From 1988 to 2002, she...

As a woman author, Tie Ning was born in 1957 in Beijing. With ancestral home in Hebei, she is a professional writer. She ever took the post of President of Writers Association of Hebei Province and Vice-Chairman of Chinese Writers Association. She was elected as Chairman of the Chinese Writers Association in 2006.

In 1975, after graduation from high school in Baoding, Tie Ning went to Hebei Province to experience rural life. In 1979, she returned to Baoding and worked in the Baoding Branch of th...

Mo Yan (originally named Guan Moye) came from a poor family. His hometown is Gaomi in Shandong Province. Mo Yan means "don't speak" in Chinese; it seems an endless cascade of words has been emerging from his pen or computer. Whatever the subject matter is, a torrential flow of rich, unpredictable and often lacerating words remains his trademark.

Born on March 5, 1956, Mo was forced to abandon primary school education during the "Cultural Revolution" (1966-76) and do farming. Upon ...