Bai Hua (1930–2019), originally named Chen Youhua, was a Chinese poet, playwright, novelist and essayist from Xinyang, Henan. He began publishing in 1946 and served as vice chairman of the Shanghai Writers Association and a council member of the Chinese Writers Association. His representative works include Bitter Love, Bells on the Mountain Road, King Wu's Spears and King Yue's Swords, and The Peacock, several of which have been translated into English and French. This library holds two of his works, classified respectively as historical reading and otherworld fantasy: The Five Thousand Years of China presents Chinese history in an accessible style, while the Star Fleet unfolds an imaginative narrative set in an otherworldly continent. The two subjects are quite far apart, showing that his writing was not confined to a single field. Given the available material, public information about his creative career is limited, and readers may appreciate his language and thematic range through the works themselves.
