Turn-up for the books
By Mei Jia | China Daily | Updated: 2018-09-22 07:02
A trio of recent book fairs gave literature lovers the chance to hear their favorite writers discuss how China's reform and opening-up helped shape their work
He Jianming, 62, is one of the country's leading writers of nonfictional works, especially in the field of literary reportage.
His writing career took off in 1978, the year that China's reform and opening-up process began, and it has continued to flourish in tandem with the country's development for the past 40 years. Key moments in China's history over the decades have formed the mainstay of his work.
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