Zhang Yu

Zhang Yu is a contemporary Chinese writer born in 1952 in Luoning, Henan. He has served as chairman of the Henan Writers Association and honorary president of the Henan Literature Academy. He began publishing in 1979 and is the author of novels such as Breathing, Pain and Caress, Weakness, Football Gate, and Sunbathing, as well as novellas including Living Ghost, Rural Emotions, and No Loneliness. A seven-volume Collected Works of Zhang Yu has also been published. His writing has received awards including the Zhuangzhongwen Literary Award and has been translated into several languages. The library holds 26 of his works, covering medicine, finance, popular science, social fiction, management, and biography. Representative titles include The Spleen and Stomach Treatise (A Pocket Classic of Chinese Medicine), The True Scripture of Consumer Finance: A Complete Guide to the Personal Loan Business Process (Original 2nd Edition), The Engine of Life: How Microbes Created a Livable Earth, Living Ghost (a collected representative work of contemporary Chinese writers), Hatching Twitter: A Wild Journey from Chaos to IPO, Ren Zhitang's Medical Case Lectures, Greatness in the Ordinary: A Biography of Qian Xuesen, and Collected Materials on the Tufa Xianbei: A Compilation of Materials on the Donghu Peoples, reflecting his diverse cross-disciplinary writing and editorial work.