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Liu Jiming is described in China as a people’s writer in the new era, critics call him the pioneer of “new socialist literature.” Liu Jiming, born in 1963, graduated from the Chinese Language Department of Wuhan University. He has served as screenwriter of the Hubei Provincial Opera and Dance Theater, vice chairman of the fifth and sixth Hubei Provincial Writers Association, professional writer, and editor-in-chief of “World” 《Tianxia 》 magazine. He is known as a representative writer of “cultural care novels” and “subaltern literature.” His main works include the short and medium-sized novels "Going to Huangcun"《前往黄村 》 , “Undersea Village” 《 海 底 村 庄 》 and “Enlightenment” 《启蒙 》， the novels “Rivers and Lakes” 《 江 河 湖 》 and Qu Yuan Literature and Art Award, Xu Chi Reportage Award, Hubei Literature Award, Shanghai Literature Award, etc. Among them, “Human Realm” was nominated for the Luyao Literary Award, selected into the 40 important novels in the 40 years of reform and opening up and the 2016 “Harvest” (Harvest is a prestigious and very popular literary journal – Editor) novel list, and was shortlisted for the 2016 Chinese Novel Gold List and the Chinese Novel Society's Novel List Novel Ranking, praised by critics as a pioneering work of “new socialist literature.” In contemporary China, Liu Jiming is one of the few intellectuals who writes and speaks from a proletarian standpoint.
Vice-Chairperson, and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi; and, Associate Professor, Centre for Chinese and South East Asian Studies, School of Language, Literature, and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
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