About the author
A Cheng, whose original name is Zhong Acheng, was born in Beijing in 1949, with his ancestral home in Jiangjin, Chongqing. He is a contemporary Chinese writer and screenwriter. He rose to fame with his novella The Chess Master in 1984 and later published such works as The Tree King, The King of Children, and All Over the World. Mostly taking social life as their subject, these works are written in a concise and restrained style, with calm and unhurried narration, giving him a distinctive place in contemporary Chinese writing. Besides fiction, he also writes essays and miscellaneous pieces, such as Venice Diary, Idle Talk, and Common Sense and General Knowledge, which discuss observations, daily life, and reading, in plain prose informed by insight. He has also worked as a screenwriter, including for the films Hibiscus Town and The Assassin. His works are widely read, and this site holds five of his titles. Public information about his early life is limited; the above introduction focuses on the themes, style, and influence of his writing.
Written (12)
Rating 4.4★ The Chess King A Cheng Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2019 This edition of The Chess Master collects the classic "three kings" novellas along with rare documents, illustrations from the Stars Art Exhibition, a… Rating 4.4★ A Cheng Collected Works (The Chess Master + Idle Talk and Random Remarks + Common Sense and General Knowledge + Venice Diary, 20th Anniversary Edition) A Cheng Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2019 The essential works of A Cheng, in a twentieth-anniversary collector's edition: The Chess Master, Idle Talk, Common Sense and General Knowledge, and V… Rating 4.4★ Venice Diary A Cheng Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2019 Venice Diary is the journal ACheng kept during a three-month stay in Venice in 1992. Since its publication, this small book has become a classic that … Rating 4.2★ Common Knowledge and General Knowledge A Cheng Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2019 Common Knowledge and General Knowledge is a collection of columns the writer A Cheng wrote for the Shanghai magazine Harvest. The column ran from 1997… Rating 4.2★ Common Sense and General Knowledge A Cheng Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2019 The twelve essays in Common Sense and General Knowledge were written by Mr. A Cheng for his column in Harvest, originally titled "A Wet Blanket," beca… Rating 4.1★ Chitchat and Casual Talk A Cheng Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2019 Random Talk is Mr. A Cheng's collection of talks on Chinese secular culture and Chinese fiction. Written in the manner of literary history and in the … The Acheng Collection A Cheng Shanghai Joint Publishing Company · 2019 The Acheng Collection is an illustrated collector's series of Acheng's works launched by Imaginist in 2019 and published under the Shanghai Sanlian Bo… Rating 4.6★ The Ah Cheng Collection (Seven Volumes) A Cheng Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House · 2016 The Ah Cheng Collection is the first publication of Ah Cheng's works gathered in a collected edition. Released in 2016 by Jiangsu Phoenix Literature a… Rating 4.5★ Selected Works of Ah Cheng A Cheng Beijing Yanshan Press · 2015 Selected Works of Ah Cheng is a volume of selected works by a major author in the "Century Literature: 60 Writers" series, edited by the scholar He Sh… Rating 4.5★ Selected Works of A Cheng A Cheng Beijing Yanshan Press · 2011 This book is a selection of A Cheng's works in Beijing Yanshan Press's "Century Literature: 60 Authors" series, edited by the scholar He Shaojun with … Rating 4.5★ Selected Works of A Cheng A Cheng Beijing Yanshan Press · 2011 Selected Works of A Cheng is one of the titles in the Century Literature: 60 Writers series from Beijing Yanshan Press. It gathers representative fict… Earth Is Being Demolished A Cheng Baidu Novel Freshman Song Ningyu receives a "demolition notice" from the Hongmeng Elders' Council at Haicheng University of Finance and Economics, learning that E…Publishers
Shanghai Joint Publishing CompanyBeijing Yanshan PressJiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing HouseBaidu Novel