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  Yu Hua
Yu Hua was born in Hangzhou in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang in 1960.
Later, Yu Hua broke off his medical studies and took up a position in the district Cultural Department where he was primarily concerned with the collection of folkloric songs and stories.
Yu Hua’s experimental short novels and — above all — 'Leben!' and 'Der Mann, der sein Blut verkaufte' have put him, together with Wang Shuo, Su Tong and Mo Yan, among those authors of the younger generation whose books have the highest circulation.
www.literaturfestival.com /bios1_3_6_435.html   (374 words)

  
  Wang Bailin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Shang Hai (Shang Hai, 上海): Zhong Hai Shu Ju (Chung Hua Shu Chu, 中华书局), 1927.
Hai Nan Lu Tai Hua Qiao Zhi Bian Chuan Chu (Hai Nan Lu Tai Hua Chiao Chih Pien Chuna Chu, 海 南 旅 泰 华 侨 志编篡处), 1962.
Shang Hai (Shang Hai, 上海): Zhong Hua Shu Ju (Chung Hua Shu Chu, 中华书局), 1935.
www.overseaschineseconfederation.org /database/l.htm   (17021 words)

  
 The Secret Lives of Dentists - How Yu Hua's brutal novels reflect the transformation of literary China. By Nell ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Before Yu Hua started writing stories in 1983, he worked as a dentist, and his prose retains what I guess might be the intensity of a provincial Chinese root canal.
Yu Hua's work is connected to a tradition of stylized Chinese opera, and if there is something that remains self-consciously difficult or experimental about his style, it's the flatness of his characters.
In Yu Hua's fiction, by contrast, history is often simply dispatched in the manner of stage directions: "Xu Sanguan said to Xu Yulan, 'This year is 1958.
slate.msn.com /id/2090292   (1147 words)

  
 A Conversation with Yu Hua, UCLA International Institute
Yu was born in 1960 in the province of Zhejiang.
As Yu explained, he feels that the magic of writing is that it gives writers a chance to express emotions and desires in a fictional world that are usually not easily expressible through other means.
Yu felt after he became a professional writer that his "true" life was becoming more and more routine and boring while the fictional world he created in his writing became increasingly exciting and rich.
www.international.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=5470   (973 words)

  
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Yu Hua's writing and his respect for technical skills must not be confused with the tendency to amputate literature through the borrowing of a "pseudo French style." That is a thorough cognition of literature in a writer who has been engaged in writing for about twenty years.
Yu Hua discussed Faulkner, Hemingway, Borges, Mishima Yukio( Nö\1u}+Y), Kawabata Yasunari(Ý]ïz·^b), Bulgakov, Kafka, Schwartz, Mo Yan and the like, but he brings to writing a different and opposing appearance and a sympathetic attitude. This is the empty inmost heart of a writer who is concerned about the writing process.
When Yu Hua is asked what to write, he must mention how to write and when he answers the question of how to write, he should talk about the truth of what to write.
www.ruf.rice.edu /~tnchina/commentary/wanghui0101.doc   (6034 words)

  
 Kina som sæbeopera - Politiken.dk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Yu Hua har fået på puklen af mange litteraturkritikere for sit portræt af landet, hvor økonomien vokser hurtigere end noget andet sted i verden.
Ifølge kritikerne af Yu Hua, som ellers er en af landets mest respekterede forfattere, tegner han et billede af Kina, som Hollywoods filmfabrik kunne forventes at skære en historie om det fremgangsrige land.
Ifølge Yu Hua er der imidlertid ingen vej udenom.
www.politiken.dk /boger/article169417.ece   (651 words)

  
 UCLA Center for Chinese Studies: A Conversation with Yu Hua   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Yu was born in 1960 in the province of Zhejiang.
As Yu explained, he feels that the magic of writing is that it gives writers a chance to express emotions and desires in a fictional world that are usually not easily expressible through other means.
Yu felt after he became a professional writer that his "true" life was becoming more and more routine and boring while the fictional world he created in his writing became increasingly exciting and rich.
www.isop.ucla.edu /ccs/newsarticle.asp?parentid=5470   (965 words)

  
 Yu Hua Interview, Michael Standaert
Yu Hua—I have to think about this … (pauses) … I would say, for me, that the theme which is central in much of my writing is that I’ve realized that the Chinese people can overcome any difficulty presented to them … the Chinese character remains strong even after all the changes.
Yu Hua—There is a Russian critic called Belinsky (Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky, often called the father of the Russian radical intelligentsia in the early 1800s) … in the seventeenth century.
Yu Hua—The state of contemporary Chinese literature is difficult to describe.
mclc.osu.edu /rc/pubs/yuhua.htm   (4031 words)

  
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 Yu Hua to live
Throughout Yu Hua's novel, the concept of fate and, more specifically, the Buddhist idea of karma is a consistent theme, starting with that one night in the teahouse that would change Fugui's life forever, as well as that of his family.
Yu Hua's novel, To Live, is a tale about Fugui, the main character, and his struggle to survive during the tumultuous period of Chinese history in which the Chinese Civil War, land reform, the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution took place.
In Yu Hua's story, To Live, the novelist dwells on this topic through the dramatic and horrific telling of one family's fall from the upper class and their inability to live as a unit under new circumstances.
www.wooster.edu /Chinese/chinese/reviews/Live.htm   (9334 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Chronicle of a Blood Merchant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Yu Hua’s characters bring to life the history, culture, traditions, and superstitions of Mao’s China within a story that is well-plotted, poignant, and dramatic.
Yu Hua is an author who isn't afraid to "tell it like it is." His writing verges on the melodramatic, but he has such wonderful control you know he's giving you the facts rather than simply inventing melodrama for its shock value (though it is shocking).
Yu Hua shows us how cruel one human being can be to another, especially when pushed to his limits in an effort to simply survive.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1400031850   (2233 words)

  
 Yu Hua Tai China - China tourist & travel guide for Yu Hua Tai, China
Yu Hua Tai lies on a hill outside the Zhonghua Gate of Nanjing City.
"Yu hua" means "raindrops" in Chinese and it always associated with something sad in Chinese literature.
Yu Hua Tai is located in an artificial forest covering an area of 86.87 hectare.
www.orientaltravel.com /province/city/area/Yu_Hua_Tai.htm   (261 words)

  
 TIME Asia Print Page: Collective Tragedy -- November 17, 2003 / Vol. 162 No. 19   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Yu meant to critique a Chinese society whose capacity for cruelty can still astonish, but even his avant-garde peers were a bit put off.
In the 1990s, Yu began producing novels that, though still suffused with suffering, were leavened by a touch of Chekhovian compassion.
(Yu co-wrote the screenplay.) Following a peasant family from the Chinese civil war of the 1940s through the spasms of the Cultural Revolution, To Live is a historical fable with a long-suffering protagonist, Fugui, to rival the Biblical Job.
time.com /time/asia/magazine/printout/0,13675,501031117-538987,00.html   (583 words)

  
 To Live: A Novel by Yu Hua : Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Like all of Yu Hua's books, "To Live" is a story that sticks with you long after you close the covers and put it on your shelf.
Yu Hua, however, takes care to make sure that we see the anger and rage that flourished in the era of the Cultural Revolution: ""We'll be able to make three bombs out of this iron, and all of them are going to be dropped on Taiwan," he proudly declared.
Yu details the grittiness of life under communism as well as the weakness of the human condition than upon the politics behind the given scenarios.
www.crimsonbird.com /4/1400031869.html   (2518 words)

  
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www.thailand-huahin.com   (1463 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: The Past and the Punishments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The main characters in both the title story and in "1986" are scholars specializing in the history of punishment through the ages, and an ancient fortune teller in another story is said to have achieved near-immortality through the deaths of his first four children.
Personality and feeling are almost secondary in Yu Hua's cruel world, a world dominated by numerology, prophecy, and the faceless power of the state.
Yu is best known in this country for his novel Lifetimes, or more precisely for the moving film adaptation of it, the 1994 Cannes Film Festival-winning To Live.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0824818172   (294 words)

  
 Yu Hua’s novel ‘Brothers’ shows a China where everyone is scrambling to get rich - New York Times
Yu’s fl comedy is a society in which everyone is scrambling to get rich and con artists abound.
Yu, who has long been one of China’s most respected novelists, for producing what one called a trashy, Hollywood-style portrait of the country.
Yu was 16, and he was able to attend school, graduating from high school and then receiving state training as a dentist.
www.nytimes.com /2006/09/04/college/coll04hua.html?ex=1235275200&en=eb8b20ae3cd2496e&ei=5034   (1034 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Chronicle of a Blood Merchant: Books: Yu Hua   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Yu Hua’s characters bring to life the history, culture, traditions, and superstitions of Mao’s China within a story that is well-plotted, poignant, and dramatic.
Symbolically, of course, Yu Hua is portraying the burdens and hypocrisies of a system in which the lowly and honest can only barely survive by resorting to the extreme measure of selling their energy, their strength, and in some cases, their very lives.
Third, Yu Hua has skillfully recreated the peasant atmosphere of Chinese village life, complete with gossiping and public lamentations, traditions and superstitions, the importance of connections (guanxi, as the Chinese call it) with higher-ups, and horrific misinformation about human health and personal care.
www.amazon.com /Chronicle-Blood-Merchant-Yu-Hua/dp/1400031850   (2769 words)

  
 China's premier dentist-turned-novelist. - By Nell Freudenberger - Slate Magazine
Before Yu Hua started writing stories in 1983, he worked as a dentist, and his prose retains what I guess might be the intensity of a provincial Chinese root canal.
Yu Hua's work is connected to a tradition of stylized Chinese opera, and if there is something that remains self-consciously difficult or experimental about his style, it's the flatness of his characters.
In Yu Hua's fiction, by contrast, history is often simply dispatched in the manner of stage directions: "Xu Sanguan said to Xu Yulan, 'This year is 1958.
www.slate.com /id/2090292   (1107 words)

  
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 UC Berkeley East Asian Library :: Recent Chinese Acquisitions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Taiwan Diqu Hua qiao Hua ren zhu shu zi liao mu lu, 1950-2000 / Zhu Hongyuan, Zhang Cunwu zhu bian.
Ji jin wen zi yu qing tong wen hua lun ji / Du Naisong zhu.
Zhong xi fang yu yan xue shi zhi bi jiao = Zhong xi fang yu yan xue shi zhi bi jiao / Wang Jianjun bi# Di 1 ban.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /EAL/recent_chinese.html   (17711 words)

  
 Yu Hua   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Yu Hua wurde 1960 in Hangzhou in der ostchinesischen Provinz Zhejiang geboren.
Nach seinem literarischen Debüt 1987, der Erzählung „Wie Schall und Rauch“, zog Yu Hua nach Peking.
Heute gehört Yu Hua sowohl mit seinen experimentellen frühen Novellen, als auch — und vor allem - mit „Leben!“ und „Der Mann, der sein Blut verkaufte“ neben Wang Shuo, Su Tong und Mo Yan in China zu den auflagenstärksten Schriftstellern der jüngeren Generation.
www.internationales-literaturfestival-berlin.de /bios1_1_6_435.html   (387 words)

  
 People's Daily Online -- Author Yu Hua says Brothers is my best book
Attending a symposium organized by the ongoing Hong Kong Book Fair 2006, Yu, whose To Live was awarded the Grinzane Cavour Award in Italy in 1998, shared his writing experience and answered questions of the readers.
Yu finally decided to let Fu Gui talk about his own story, then everything goes well because in Fu Gui's mind, life is a mixture, not only of pain but also with joy.
Yu had said he would never written a novel exceeding 300,000 Chinese characters but he broke the promise in Brothers, which is over 510,000 characters.
english.people.com.cn /200607/20/eng20060720_285141.html   (594 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: To Live: a Novel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Initially banned in China, internationally acclaimed, made into an award-winning movie, and newly translated into English, Yu Hua's close-to-the-bone tale portrays the reckless son of a wealthy landowner who gambles away the family fortune.
Fugui is humbled by the loyalty of his loved ones, and comes to accept the severe hardships of his altered life, but fate has only begun its brutal work.
Yu Hua is a writer with a masterful voice and a generous spirit.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1400031869   (685 words)

  
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Lei Feng: (6 ch'ang hua chu), Chia Liu teng chu, Chieh fang chun wen i ts'ung
Chung-kuo shen hua tzu liao ts`ui pien / Yuan K`o, Chou Ming pien.
Yu jen yu hua / Kung Te-pai chu.
ublib.buffalo.edu /libraries/units/lml/charlclass/chineselang.html   (12671 words)

  
 House of World Cultures | Yu Hua (Beijing/China)
More than anything else, it is through the shocking descriptions in his works, his original treatment of seemingly normal everyday themes and succinct style that Yu Hua captivates his readers.
Later, Yu Hua abandoned his career in medicine and took on a job at the district cultural centre where he was primarily responsible for the collection of folk songs and stories.
After his debut as a writer in 1967 with the story "Wie Schall und Rauch", Yu Hua moved to Beijing.
www.hkw.de /en/programm2006/cultural_memory/veranstaltungen_4734/Veranstaltungsdetail_1_8354.php   (218 words)

  
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Yu Hua was born in 1960 in Zhejiang, China.
In 2002 Yu Hua became the first Chinese writer to win the prestigious James Joyce Foundation Award.
An award-winning, internationally acclaimed Chinese bestseller, originally banned in China but recently named one of the last decade’s ten most influential books there, To Live tells the epic story of one man’s transformation from the spoiled son of a rich landlord to an honorable and kindhearted peasant.
www.randomhouse.com /anchor/catalog/results.pperl?authorid=42988   (209 words)

  
 UCLA International Institute :: Yu Hua visits Los Angeles
On his visit to UCLA on November 24, 2003 he impressed a crowded room full of students, faculty and other community members with his eloquence and quick wit and allowed his audience a glimpse of what it means to be a writer in contemporary China today.
Born in 1960 in Hangzhou, Yu Hua worked as a dentist for five years when he graduated from high school right after the Cultural Revolution.
Today, after having published several novels, collections of short stories and critical essays, Yu Hua is more than ever at the forefront of China’s literary scene and is widely acclaimed as one of the most talented and creative voices of contemporary Chinese literature.
www.isop.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=10070   (758 words)

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