Liu Qingbang

Liu Qingbang, born in December 1951 in Shenqiu, Henan Province, is a contemporary writer and a first-class writer. He has served as chairman of the China Coal Mine Writers Association and vice chairman of the Beijing Writers Association. Primarily a fiction writer, he is the author of novels such as Red Coal, Fault, and Ballads on the Plain, as well as novellas and short story collections including The Sacred Wood and Shoes. His short story "Shoes" won the Lu Xun Literary Prize, and the film Blind Shaft, adapted from The Sacred Wood, won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. His work often focuses on ordinary people at the margins of society and on life in mining areas, with a plain, solid style that reveals character and emotion through everyday detail. This site carries two of his works, Huadeng Diao and Xunxun Mimi, commonly classified as social fiction. Public information about his life and career is limited, and this introduction is based only on established facts.