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Ning Ken is a contemporary Chinese author. Public information about him is limited, and details such as his year of birth, native place and education are not clearly recorded. Judging from the sixteen works held in the collection, his writing spans full-length novels, biography, essays and modern poetry, showing considerable breadth in both subject matter and form. His representative works include the novels The Masked City, Heaven·Tibet, Three Trios and Crater, as well as the biography Feng Kang, along with works such as The Road Not Taken, Both Banks of a River and How to Become an Iron Tower. His novels tend to focus on the individual's situation in the city and in reality, and his narratives carry a spirit of exploration and reflection, while his essays and poetry show a sustained engagement with everyday experience and inner feeling. Overall, Ning Ken is a writer who moves among various literary forms and whose style keeps changing.