The people's Literature Publishing House, founded in March 1951, is a national publishing institution whose subsidiary is the Foreign Literature Publishing House. It has published a considerable amount of classic Chinese literary works, representative works of modern and contemporary literature and Chinese versions of outstanding overseas literary works, as well as works on literary theories and children's books etc. Books published over the years have formed an excellent series of public...    more about

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As a writer and playwright, Mai Jia (1964- ) was born in 1964. He is a native of Fuyang (Zhejiang). He used to serve in army for 17 years. In 1983, he graduated from Department of Radio of the People's Liberation Army Engineering Institute. In 1991, he graduated from Department of Literature, Art College of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He successively served as technician, publicity officer, director, etc. In 1997, he was transferred to civilian work and served as playwright in Department of TV Drama, Chengdu TV Station. He has started to write since 1986. He has authored saga novels Uncover the Secrets, Plot Against, Sound of Breeze; novel collections Mai Jia's Darkness Series, The Shaft, Military, Let's Masked People Speak, etc. His work has won numerous awards. And Mai Jia won Chinese Literary Figure of 2003, Annual Author of Vogue China 2007, Novelist Award of the Sixth Chinese Media Literature Prize of 2007, Best Playwright of the Thirteenth Shanghai International Television Festival, Best Playwright of TV Drama Ceremony, etc. TV drama "Plot Against", adapted and scripted for the same entitled novel, pioneered in Chinese film and TV drama with the theme of special espionage and won the audience's favor.