About the author

Tang Di: publicly available information is limited. At present, only two works are known to exist under this name: Art, and Those Solitary Shadows and Kilometer Zero. Judging from the common categories assigned to these two books, Tang Di's writing spans both prose miscellany and social fiction. In subject matter, the work attends both to art and individual circumstance and to narratives of social reality. The title Art, and Those Solitary Shadows suggests prose writing oriented toward artistic perception and portraits of people, perhaps in a quiet and restrained tone, while Kilometer Zero, classified as social fiction, indicates that the author engages in fictional narrative with social experience and problems. Because birth and death dates, nationality, and biographical details cannot be confirmed, the full shape of Tang Di's writing is difficult to outline. Yet even the cross-genre tendency visible in these two extant works shows an unconventional approach to writing. Readers who wish to know the author and the work can currently begin only with these two books.

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Publishers

Guangxi Normal University PressZhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House