Wang Guohua

Wang Guohua, who writes under the pen name Yi Shuihan, is a native of Fucheng, Hebei Province. He graduated from Northeast Normal University in 1997 and moved south to Shenzhen in 2011; he currently serves as a member of the editorial board of Bao'an Daily. He is a member of the China Writers Association and a council member of the Chinese Prose Society, and is known as an advocate and practitioner of "urban nostalgia" prose. The library holds ten of his works, most notably the Street and Alley Chronicles series, including Shenzhen Is Already Home, A Cloud Comes, Walking and Writing, and Shenzhen's Body Temperature, which draw on everyday street life to portray a migrant's observations of and feelings for the city. His writing also touches on documentary literature, prose collections, law, and social culture. Public information is limited, and details such as his birth and death years are not recorded; he has nevertheless published more than twenty books and has received the Bing Xin Prose Award and the Guangdong Youwei Literature Award, among others.