Wang Meng (author)
Wang Meng is a Chinese writer who served as China's Minister of Culture from 1986 to 1989.
Biography
Wang was born in Beijing in 1934. During his middle school years, he was introduced to the Chinese Communist Party ideology and joined the Communist Youth League.
Wang Meng has published over 60 books since 1955, including six novels, ten short-story collections, as well as other works of poetry, prose and critical essays.
In 1956 Wang published a controversial piece, "The Young Newcomer in the Organizational Department". This caused a great uproar.
He served as China's Minister of Culture from July 1986 to September 1989.
On 27 June 2015 at the United International College's 7th Graduation Ceremony in Zhuhai, Wang Meng was rewarded with the Honorary Fellowships. In 2015 he was awarded the Mao Dun Literature Prize for The Scenery Around Here.
Selected publication
;Books available in English:100 Glimpses into China: Short Short Stories from China . Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1989.Alienation. Hong Kong: Joint Publishing Co., 1993.Bolshevik Salute: A Modernist Chinese Novel. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1989.Prize-winning Stories from China, 1978-1979. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1981.Snowball. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1989.The Butterfly and Other Stories. Beijing: Chinese Literature,1983.The Strain of Meeting. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1989.The Stubborn Porridge and Other Stories. New York: George Braziller, 1994.Wonderful Xinjiang: A photographic journey of China's largest province as told through the pen of Wang Meng. Pleasantville: Reader's Digest, 2004.On the Road at Eighteen, which portrays a young man sent on the road by his father, and who is attacked by a group of peasants-turned-robbers, 1986.