Zhang Yang

Zhang Yang (born 1944), originally named Zhang Zunkuan and also known by the pen name Zhou Yu, is a contemporary Chinese writer from Changge, Henan. In 1963 he completed the first draft of The Second Handshake, which circulated nationwide in hand-copied form during the Cultural Revolution and, after its official publication in 1979, sold more than 4.3 million copies, a remarkable phenomenon in the history of contemporary literary dissemination. He served as vice chairman and honorary chairman of the Hunan Provincial Writers Association, and is also the author of such works as Gold Leaf, Terminal Illness, and A Lie Repeated a Thousand Times. The library holds 31 of his works, commonly classified under foreign literature, world classics, and essays and miscellany, with representative titles including A Tale of Two Cities, Guwen Guanzhi, Pride and Prejudice, and Wuthering Heights. According to the library's records, these works are mostly translations or compilations of foreign literary classics, differing from the themes of his own creative writing.