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Wang Shuo has 115 books on Goodreads with 2122 ratings. Wang Shuo’s most popular book is Please Don't Call Me Human.
Wang Shuo is a national bestseller in China and has influenced generations of Chinese readers. With over 20 novels and 10 million copies in print, Wang Shuo's influence ranges from students to workers, and from drifters to intellectuals.
Wang Shuo emerged as a literary force in China in the late 1980s, pioneering a movement known as pizi wenxue, or hooligan literature. Instead of ascribing to the Communist Party’s goal of ‘spiritual civilization,’ he shunned the heroic models common in Chinese literature.
The enfant terrible of Chinese literature in the 1980s and 90s, Wang Shuo was born in Nanjing to a military family of Manchu origin, but grew up in Beijing. During the Cultural Revolution, his parents were sent down to the countryside, leaving Wang and his brother behind in the city.
Wild Beast (simplified Chinese: 动物凶猛; traditional Chinese: 動物兇猛; pinyin: Dòngwù Xiōngměng) is a 1991 novel by Wang Shuo. It tells the story of Ma Xiaojun (马小军; 馬小軍; Mǎ Xiǎojūn), a son of a military official who roams around Beijing during one summer.
Nov 23, 2021 · Wang Shuo (1958–) is known as the “bad guy” in the contemporary Chinese literature. Most of his novels (he wrote over 20) are set in Beijing and portray the life and mentality of a young generation of Beijing residents in the 1980s and 1990s, a...
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