- Jia Pingwa
Jia Pingwa (贾平凹), Chinese novelist, born 21 February 1952 in
Shangluo inShaanxi province.According to [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-08/31/content_678520.htm "China Daily"] he is the third most popular writer in China, in a biennial poll conducted by the Chinese Publishing Science Research Center (in 2006). His "Turbulence: a novel" won the [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0802139728 Pegasus prize in literature.] According to in [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-12/04/content_287341.htm China Daily] his 1993 novel, "Fei Du" (The Abandoned Capital) "was banned for its explicit sexual content by the State Publishing Administration."
References
*Narrating China: Jia Pingwa and his Fictional World (Routledge Contemporary China Series) by Yiyan Wang Routlege, 2006 ISBN 0415326753
**Reviewed in [http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/pubs/reviews/visser.htm Modern Chinese Literature and Culture] by Robin Visser (2006).
* [http://mcx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/17/2/163 The Macho Eunuch: The Politics of Masculinity in Jia Pingwa's "Human Extremities] by Kam Louie "Modern China" Vol. 17, No. 2, 163-187 (1991)
* [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/positions/v014/14.3rojas.html Flies' Eyes, Mural Remnants, and Jia Pingwa's Perverse Nostalgia] by Carlos Rojas, " positions: east Asia cultures critique" 14.3 (2006) 749-773
* [http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/search.pl?term1=Beijing-Shi--China&limit=0 Intute: Arts and Humanities]External links
* [http://book.sohu.com/20060731/n244538759.shtml Jia Pingwa awarded the Hongloumeng Prize]
* [http://www.china.org.cn/english/LI-e/25026.htm Jia Pingwa: Painter or novelist?]
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