About the author
Sha Ting (1904–1992), originally named Yang Chaoxi, was a native of An County, Sichuan, and a modern Chinese writer. He joined the League of Left-Wing Writers in 1932 and, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, went to Yan'an and accompanied He Long's troops as an interviewer. Primarily a fiction writer, he is known for such works as In the Xiangju Teahouse, Gold Panning, Cornered Beast, and Returning Home, most of which draw on the society of Sichuan's towns and villages. His style is coolly ironic and richly local, revealing social tensions and the changes of the times through everyday people and events. Besides novels, he wrote many short stories and left diaries and memoirs. He served as vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association and director of the Institute of Literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Written (11)
Rating 4.3★ Collected Works of Sha Ting (Volume I: A Record of Gold Panning · A Record of the Trapped Beast) Sha Ting Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 I was born on the thirteenth day of the eleventh lunar month in 1904. My original name was Yang Chaoxi. After graduating from the Sichuan Provincial *… Rating 4.2★ Collected Works of Sha Ting (Volume IV: Short Stories: 1931-1944) Sha Ting Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Thinking about moving house, Luo Mo could not help but feel angry again. "Shanghai people are really insufferable!" Three days earlier, when he was ca… Rating 4.1★ Collected Works of Sha Ting (Volume II: A Record of Returning Home · Breaking Through the Pass) Sha Ting Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 It is rather difficult to trace in detail the entire history of Linqin Valley. But one thing is worth mentioning: since the end of the last century, a… Rating 4.1★ Collected Works of Sha Ting, Volume III: Muyu Mountain · Qinggang Slope · Red Stone Beach Sha Ting Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This was the courtyard home of a large landlord in town, a three-courtyard compound. The dining hall adjoined the spacious kitchen off the main house,… Rating 4.0★ Collected Works of Sha Ting (Volume V: Short Stories: 1945-1984) Sha Ting Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 A faint gleam of dawn steals through the small window. The light and shadow in the room are still blurred; the piles of dense black shadows, of varyin… Rating 3.9★ Collected Works of Sha Ting (Volume X: Memoirs) Sha Ting Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 In the spring of 1991, my eyes were stricken with glaucoma-cataract syndrome, and I could barely see. I suffered in the darkness for a long time; now … Rating 3.9★ Collected Works of Sha Ting (Volume IX: Diaries: Complete in Two Volumes · Part Two) Sha Ting Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 After breakfast came the sound of aircraft. I ran at once into the air-raid shelter by the east gate. Others were already there, and more kept coming:… Rating 3.9★ Collected Works of Sha Ting (Volume IX: Diaries: Complete in Two Volumes · Part One) Sha Ting Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 After breakfast there was the sound of aircraft. I ran at once into the air-raid shelter by the city wall at the East Gate. People were already there,… Rating 3.9★ Collected Works of Sha Ting (Volume VI: Reportage · Prose · Plays) Sha Ting Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 On November 19, 1938, a clear day of melting snow, some of our classmates from the Lu Xun Academy of Arts, together with Comrade He Qifang, followed C… Rating 3.8★ Collected Works of Sha Ting (Volume VIII: Letters) Sha Ting Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 Comrade Chen Zhuokun of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts wrote to me asking for the woodcut that Ye Fu of the "Yiba Art Society" made for the Xinken… Rating 3.8★ Collected Works of Sha Ting (Volume VII: Literary Theory) Sha Ting Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 It is long that I have restrained the urge to trouble you so presumptuously, but a man such as we take you to be would hardly be indifferent to a ferv…Publishers
Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House