Bi Feiyu

Bi Feiyu, born in January 1964 in Xinghua, Jiangsu, is a contemporary Chinese writer and currently a professor at Nanjing University and chairman of the Jiangsu Writers Association. He began writing fiction in the mid-1980s, drawing much of his material from everyday life and individual destinies. His writing is delicate and attentive to character psychology and social relationships. Representative works such as Corn, Massage, and The Woman in the Lactation Period reflect his sustained concern with social reality; Massage won the 8th Mao Dun Literature Prize, and he has twice received the Lu Xun Literature Prize. His works are often classified as social fiction and have exerted a broad influence on the contemporary literary scene.