Yang Zhengguang Author

Yang Zhengguang (b.1958) is an influential writer and playwright, best known for his TV adaptation of The Outlaws of the Marsh, though he began his career as a poet. His novella How Old Dan Became a Tree was adapted into a film starring Cillian Murphy. Now dividing his time between his native Shaanxi and Shenzhen, Yang is the founder and CEO of the Chang’an Film and Television Production Company. Hu Zongfeng is the most prolific literary translator of his home province, Shaanxi. He serves as president of the Shaanxi Translators Association and director of the Edgar and Helen Snow Studies Center. He is academic dean of the School of Foreign Languages and director of the Shaanxi Research Institute of Culture and Translation at Xijing University. Robin Gilbank is originally from the North Yorkshire coast. He is now a professor of the School of Foreign Languages, Xijing University. With Hu Zongfeng, he launched the “Shaanxi Stories” series to promote the work of local authors in English translation. He is the author of An Englishman in the Land of Qin (2018) and Exploring China (2018), with the latter being longlisted for the Lu Xun Prize.