परिचय
जन्म : 17 फरवरी 1955, चीन
भाषा : चीनीविधाएँ : कहानी, उपन्यास, नाटक, निबंध, संस्मरणमुख्य कृतियाँ
उपन्यास : Red Sorghum, The Garlic Ballads, Thirteen Steps, The Herbivorous Family, The Republic of Wine : A Novel, Big Breasts & Wide Hips, Red Forest, Sandalwood Death, Pow!, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, Frog
कहानी संग्रह : White Dog and the Swing, Meeting the Masters, Joy (8 novellas; six of them are published in English as Explosions and Other Stories), The Woman with Flowers (8 novellas), Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh (9 novellas; one of them, Change, is published independently in English)
नाटक : Our Jing Ke
अन्य : The Wall Can Sing, Broken Philosophy, Ears to Read, Grand Ceremony
सम्मान
Neustadt International Prize for Literature, Kiriyama Prize, Doctor of Letters, Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize, Man Asian Literary Prize, Newman Prize, Mao Dun Literature Prize, Nobel Prize