Liu Chang

Liu Chang, whose real name is Liu Yongquan, was born in Baoding, Hebei, in July 1956. He is a contemporary children's literature writer, children's song writer and poet. Since 1984 he has devoted himself to writing children's songs and has published nearly ten thousand children's literary works, including Adventures of Chinese Characters, Happy Recitation of Children's Songs and 100 Literacy Children's Songs. He has received an Outstanding Children's Rhyme Award from the Central Propaganda Department and four other ministries. This site holds 17 of his works. Beyond children's literature, he has also worked in foreign literature, popular science, social sciences, mystery and detective fiction, literary appreciation and film and television. His representative works include The Old Man and the Sea, Life Sculpting the Earth: The Amazing Story of Bioerosion, The Nest of Evolution: A Path of Parenting Returning to Nature, From the Republic to A Theory of Justice: Reading Western Philosophical Classics (4th Edition), The Complete Collection of World Classic Detective Stories, The Chongya Tang Book Catalogue and Chongya Tang Stele Record (4 volumes), Family Music Literacy Education, and South of the Sahara: A Female Journalist's African Vision. His writing and editorial work span literature, popular science and the humanities, with diverse subjects that combine knowledge with readability.