Zhang Ping, a winner of the Mao Dun Literary Award--the highest literary prize in contemporary literature in China, emerges as a figure squarely in Chinese literary circle. He owns all his success to his soulful and poetic depiction of novel’s characters whose families are so poverty stricken and anxiety ridden; to his uncanny ability to generalize real men and women in actual life; to his profound thinking derived from his deep understanding of what is life; and to his rich and pithy language and his undulated structure of his novels. Zhang Ping, a winner of the Mao Dun Literary Award - the highest literary prize in contemporary literature in China, emerges as a figure squarely in Chinese literary circle. He owns all his success to his soulful and poetic depiction of novel’s characters whose families are so poverty stricken and anxiety ridden; to his uncanny ability to generalize real men and women in actual life; to him profound thinking derived from his deep understanding of what is life; and to his rich and pithy language and his undulated structure of his novels.