Lin Jianfa

Lin Jianfa (1950–2022) was a native of Lianjiang, Fujian, and graduated from the Department of Chinese at East China Normal University in 1982. He was an important literary editor and critic in contemporary China. For many years he served as editor-in-chief of Contemporary Writers Review, and also as executive editor-in-chief of Dongwu Academic and as a distinguished professor at Changshu Institute of Technology. He received the Publication Figure Award of the China Government Award for Publishing. Beyond his editorial work, he authored In Search of the Sprite and Thought and Reflection in an Age of Dialogue, and edited more than one hundred books, including The 21st-Century Chinese Literature Series. Twenty of his works are held in this collection, most notably the Sunbird literary annuals, which gather the best Chinese novellas and short stories from 2005 to 2009, reflecting his sustained attention to contemporary fiction and his discerning editorial eye.