Li Hao

Li Hao, born in 1971, is a Chinese writer who holds the title of first-class writer, serves as a professor in the School of Chinese Language and Literature at Hebei Normal University, and is vice chairman of the Hebei Writers Association. His works span novels, short-story collections, and criticism, including the novels Ruguilü Dian, The Father in the Mirror, and The Legend of the Kitchen God, the story collections The General's Troops and Who Was Born an Assassin, and the criticism collections The Craftsman's Workshop and The Stars Above My Head. He has received the Fourth Lu Xun Literary Prize and the Zhuang Chongwen Literary Award. Twenty of his works are held in the collection, covering essays and miscellaneous writings, social fiction, classics, historical readings, biography, and law. They include edited and annotated selections of Lu Xun's essays, fiction, and letters, as well as original works such as Self, Mirror and Library, Notes of a Rural Poet, Old Tales of Sichuan, and A Glorious Song: Li Bai, the Immortal Poet of the Great Tang. His writing combines literary criticism, historical narrative, and personal essays, with attention to self-experience, rural memory, and contemporary readings of classic texts.