Bai Xingjian


Bai Xingjian was a Chinese novelist, poet, and short story writer. He was a younger brother of the famed poet Bai Juyi.
One of his most famous works is the novella The Tale of Li Wa. It has been translated into English many times:
It was also translated into many other languages, for example German by Franz Kuhn and French by André Lévy. He is also believed to have written the poem "Tiandi yinyang jiaohuan dalefu".