Wang Tu’s main experience

Wang Tu

Wang Tu (Wang Guiyan), male, was born in Changde, Hunan. He entered the factory at the age of fifteen and worked as a porter, cooker, and boilermaker for nearly 20 years. . He began literary creation in the 1980s and has written nearly 10 million words of novels, essays, poetry, and reportage. He is one of the founders of Chinese free literature.

Chinese name: Wang Tu

Nationality: Chinese

Ethnicity: Han

Birthplace: Changde, Hunan

Occupation: Freelance writer, writer

Main achievements: National Outstanding Prose Award

Representative works: "River of Joy", "Fifteen Days of Detention"

Wang Tu (Wang Guiyan), male, was born in Changde, Hunan. He entered the factory at the age of fifteen and worked as a porter, cooker, and boilermaker for nearly twenty years. He began literary creation in the 1980s and has written nearly 10 million words of novels, essays, poetry, and reportage. In the 1990s, he fled the factory and moved to Shenzhen.

Office

He was employed as a local chronicle editor, chief editor of the Shenzhen Books and Periodicals Department of Xinhua News Agency, chief editor of "China Style" magazine, chief editor of "Legal China" magazine, and editor of "China Judicial Affairs" of the Ministry of Justice. 》The deputy director of the Guangdong Reporter Station, etc., were later dismissed for supporting the petition of landless farmers.

Work honors

Representative works

Wang Tu’s main works are: the novel "Happiness" (upper part: River of Sorrow, lower part: River of Joy), "Children in Big City Playing with Fire", "Women's Wish in Big City", "15 Days of Detention", "President Mao Er", "Pyramid" (Drifting Pyramid), "Entangled", "Gold Everywhere", "Shenzhen" "Cat on the Roof"; essays "A Street of One", "Scherzo for Men", "Thanks to Spring"; reportage "Mountains, Our Father", "Flames of the South China Sea", etc.

About the work

Big city novel series:

"Children Playing with Fire in Big City"

The novel truly describes the "big city" The shocking survival story of the "post-slum legion" formed by the children of workers, vagrants, and beggars in the chaotic state of "explosion" or in the dark slums in the "underground" state profoundly reveals There is a huge gap between the rich and the poor in China, and it is a social reality that most people are struggling at the bottom of society and desperately trying to survive.

"The Mind of a Woman in a Big City"

The work tells from the mouth of a prostitute who has been a prostitute for many years the true meaning that all politicians who are keen on power pursue tirelessly and eternally. Politicians at home and abroad regard this old prostitute who has been hiding in China's slums for decades as a spiritual pope. The work is extremely ironic. It is an "underground" literary work with the most historical and practical significance in mainland China that has shocked not only the literary world but also the world's political circles. It has independent humanistic thoughts and spiritual character.

"The White Giant in the Big City"

It tells the story of a folk hero and independent thinker at the bottom of contemporary society who has led generations of poor people and cruel corrupt officials and wealthy officials and businessmen for decades. The epic fight story of a desperate battle also ruthlessly exposed the widespread and consistent corruption and greed of local powerful people in China.

Honours

The mainland official literary awards received include the first prize of the Hunan Province Youth Literature Creation Award, the Central Propaganda Department’s National Outstanding Article Award for Provincial and above publications, the National Outstanding Prose Award, and the Chinese Writers Award. Novella Award and more than ten awards. Foreign literary awards include the Taiwan World Chinese Literature Award, the Malaysian Modern and Contemporary Chinese Chinese Literature Award, and the Canadian Latin American Chinese Literature Award. Now a freelance writer, he pioneered the theories and concepts of Chinese free literature and China's third category of writers, and launched an action to pay attention to the spiritual concerns of "third category" writers.

Comments on Works

Chinese Writers

Comments on "Contemporary Literature": German sinologist Ku Bin proposed that contemporary Chinese literature is garbage. On the one hand, it lies in its reading scope. On the other hand, the most important thing is the lack of understanding of China’s cultural system and the fact that there are still a large number of outstanding literary works among the Chinese people that are difficult to publish. This is not only a tragedy for Chinese literature, but also puts world Sinology in a very embarrassing situation. To fully understand contemporary Chinese literature, we must understand the situation and works of Chinese free literature and free writers. This is a lesson that world Sinology urgently needs to learn.

Comments on "Contemporary Chinese Writers": Only through comparison can we identify. Only by comparing "Happiness" with other novels published by official literary magazines can we know what "joy" is and what "sadness" is! Not only ordinary literary magazines and publishing houses, but even the short and medium-length novels that have won various domestic literary awards in recent years cannot be compared with them in terms of ideological quality, artistry, literary language and writing skills. Tianya netizens commented that it is China's No. 1 "underground" novel! An outstanding novel that is difficult to publish in official literary magazines. "Society and News" commented that it is the greatest work of contemporary Chinese literature! "Reality" and "sex" have reached unprecedented heights.

Chinese Literature

The author of "Popular Thought" commented on "Happiness" intends to turn the increasingly vulgar and false contemporary literature onto the path of serious and true pure literature, and turn it into an increasingly entertaining The popular taste of vulgarity, vulgarity and illusion is adjusted to the aspects of authenticity, artistry and ideological quality. But this is an exercise in futility in a corrupt society.

Comments from "World Literature": The novel soars like a black bird in the sky of Chinese culture, bringing a black lightning to the Chinese literary world. Especially the shocking descriptions in the novel such as "black skin, snow-white genitals, the moon with eternal reproductive function and the pure and dripping planet".

Chinese Contemporary Writers

"China News Forum" comments: The novel "Joy" has exceeded the imagination and understanding of ordinary Chinese literary critics, and has quickly entered the field of world contemporary literature. . In addition to its profound ideological nature, "River of Joy" also has beautiful descriptions of natural scenery such as the night sky, rivers, sunsets, and bright moons, as well as artistic descriptions of the human body. It leads the new trend of contemporary literature and has become not only a domestic writer but also many Foreign writers followed and imitated the models.

Chinese Contemporary Literature

Contemporary Literature also commented on the novel "River of Joy" written by Chinese freelance writer Wang Tu for several years, in terms of creative techniques, language skills and sharpness. These ideas are unseen and unheard of in the Chinese literary world. A fierce topic about Chinese free literature is about to come.

The above comments listed Wang Tu as a representative of contemporary Chinese free literature, and praised Wang Tu's novels for their dark wit, unparalleled language art, and wise and sharp thoughts, which condensed a new totem of contemporary Chinese literature. .