COURTING CONTROVERSY

Making literary waves is second nature to Jia Pingwa, who recently published his latest novel, The Mountain Stories. Mei Jia reports.

Jia Pingwa has been caught in controversies several times in his writing career that spans more than 45 years. His Ruined City was banned for 16 years until 2009, and he likens it to a "child with unlucky fate".

Then, he courted controversy again with Ji Hua, a novel about an abducted woman, published in 2016.