About the author
Su Tong, whose real name is Tong Zhonggui, was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu, in 1963 and graduated from the Chinese Department of Beijing Normal University in 1984. He lives in Nanjing and is a professional writer with the Jiangsu Writers Association. A representative of China's contemporary avant-garde and Neo-Realist fiction, he is known for works such as Wives and Concubines, Rouge, Rice, The Boat to Redemption, and The Yellow Sparrow, and has received the Man Asian Literary Prize and the Lu Xun Literary Prize. His writing often focuses on individual fates amid social change, with delicate prose and symbolic resonance, forming a distinctive style between avant-garde narrative and realistic concern. Four of his works are included in the collection, covering social fiction, classic works, and literary appreciation, and reflecting the diversity of his fiction and literary essays.
Written (11)
Rating 4.3★ Night Stories: Complete in 2 Volumes Su Tong People's Literature Publishing House · 2026 Night Stories is a short-story collection by the Chinese writer Su Tong, published in 2018 by People's Literature Publishing House. A leading figure o… Rating 3.8★ The Madonna Business: A Collection of Shortlisted Novellas and Short Stories for the First Wang Zengqi Chinese-Language Fiction Award Su Tong SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2025 The "Wang Zengqi Chinese Fiction Award" is presented by the Fiction Selection journal of the Chinese Writers Association, the Liaoning Writers Associa… Rating 3.8★ Binu: The Legend of Meng Jiangnü Weeping at the Great Wall Su Tong Chongqing Publishing House · 2025 The emperor has seized every able-bodied young man to build the Great Wall. Thinking of the bitter northern winter, Meng Jiangnü resolves to bring her… Rating 3.6★ Peking University Micro-Lectures: Returning to the Avant-Garde: Literature and Memory Su Tong Peking University Press · 2025 Writer Su Tong gives a brilliant lecture on his life experiences and memories, and on how his reflections on life relate to literature. Rating 4.0★ My Life as an Emperor Su Tong People's Literature Publishing House · 2024 My Life as an Emperor is a novel Su Tong wrote in the early 1990s and is regarded as a representative work of his "new historical fiction." Told in th… Rating 3.9★ Thirty Masterclasses in Literature: Six Literary Masters on Great Classics Shen Congwen / Wang Zengqi / Liang Shiqiu / Su Tong / Lao She / Fu Lei Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2023 This is a collection of essays in which leading modern and contemporary Chinese writers offer readings of classic works of Chinese and world literatur… Rating 3.3★ A Smile for This World Jia Pingwa / Su Tong / 李一鸣 / Xu Zechen / 卞毓方 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2021 There are many essay anthologies marketed as "collections by famous writers," and they easily fall into the looseness and formula of a mixed platter. … Rating 4.2★ Wives and Concubines Su Tong Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020 Su Tong wrote Wives and Concubines at the age of twenty-six. It later became his most widely circulated work and is known to household audiences throu… Rating 4.0★ City North District Su Tong Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2020 City North District is a novel by Su Tong and the longest, most densely populated installment in his Xiangchun Tree Street series. It was first serial… Rating 3.8★ Empress Wu Su Tong Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2004 Empress Wu is one of the few full-length historical novels by Su Tong. It was first published under the title Rosewood Ball in the combined first and … Collected Winning Works of the Ninth Mao Dun Literature Prize Ge Fei / Wang Meng / Li Peifu / 金宇澄 / Su Tong On August 16, 2015, after a sixth round of voting, the jury of the Ninth Mao Dun Literature Prize produced five winning works; on September 29, the aw…Publishers
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing HousePeople's Literature Publishing HousePeking University PressBeijing United Publishing Co., Ltd.SDX Joint Publishing CompanyChongqing Publishing House