Zhang Wei Author

Zhang Wei is a contemporary writer and vice chairman of the China Writers Association. He has authored twenty-one novels, and as of 2014, forty-eight volumes of his collected works have been published. He has won many national literary prizes, including the Mao Dun Literature Award, and his writing has been translated into dozens of languages, including English, Japanese, French, and German. Haiwang Yuan is Professor Emeritus at Western Kentucky University in the US, and Guest Professor of English at Nankai University, China. He is a writer, translator and translation consultant. He has authored and co-authored many books, including Tibetan Folktales, Tales from the Other Peoples of China, The Magic Lotus Lantern, Other Tales from the Han Chinese and This is China: The First 5,000 Years. Among two dozen of his translations are Songs from the Forest, There is a Fish in the Desert, Open-Air Cinema and Illustrated Stories of Chinese Characters for Children. He has consulted on the translation of two Sinoist Books titles.