A periscope on history

Author combines perspectives to shed light on difficult times, she tells Mei Jia.

Fang Fang has always been an outspoken voice among the established Chinese writers born in the 1950s.

In her works, she is straightforward in examining life's misery for people living at the bottom, and she is equally direct in criticism of unfairness she perceives in awarding literary prizes, even if that means trouble and even a lawsuit for herself.