Zhang Xinke

Zhang Xinke, born in 1966 in Shangcai, Henan, holds a doctorate from Germany and is a second-tier professor and doctoral supervisor. He currently serves as Party secretary and executive vice chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Federation of Social Sciences. Trained in engineering, he has devoted himself to literary creation and has published nearly five million characters of fiction, including Remote Letters, Vast Land, The Story of Mountains and Rivers, and Iron Words. He has received the Annual Award of Selected Stories and the Zijinshan Literature Prize. His works often focus on social reality and historical memory, with solid writing that combines narrative tension and humanistic concern. In addition to fiction, he has edited or contributed to social science volumes on Jiangsu's development and policy consultation, reflecting a parallel engagement with literature and social science research.