Chunhyang

장편소설 『춘향』, 중단편 소설집 『복사꽃』, 『소나무 마을』, 『나의 벗 금지에게』, 그리고 산문집 『백합같이 하얀』과 『중생』을 썼다. 춘신창작문학상, 준마문학상 소수민족 작가상, 장중문 문학상, 중국작가출판그룹상, 임근란 단편소설상, 인민문학단편상, 단편소설선정작, 월간 소설 백화상, 시월문학상 등 다양한 수상 경력이 있다. 몇몇 작품은 영어, 한국어, 아랍어, 일본어, 러시아어, 독일어, 몽골어로 번역 출간되었다. 현재 중국작가협회 회장단으로 활동하고 있으며 지린성 작가협회 회장을 맡고 있다. Her works include the novel Chunhyang, the short story and novella collections Peach Blossom, The Pine Town, and In Commemoration of My Friend Jin Zhi, and the essay collections White as a Lily and Sentient Beings. She has won many honors including the Chunshen Original Literary Award, Junma Literary Awards for Ethnic Minority Writers, Chuang Chung-Wen Literary Award, China Writers Publishing Group Award, Lin Jinlan Short Story Award, People’s Literature Short Story Award, Short Story Award of Selected Stories, Novel Monthly Hundred Flowers Award, and October Literature Award. Her works have been translated into English, Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, German, and Mongolian. She is a member of the presidium of the China Writers Association and chair of the Jilin Writers Association.

Allan H. Barr is a scholar of Ming and Qing literature and prominent translator of contemporary Chinese writing. His published translations include Yu Hua’s China in Ten Words, Han Han’s This Generation, and Ai Weiwei’s 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows. He is a professor of Chinese at Pomona College in Claremont, California.