王小波 (Wáng Xiǎobō) · Wang Xiaobo

Meanings

1 Wang Xiaobo
2 Chinese novelist and essayist, author of the Times Trilogy

About Wang Xiaobo

1952–1997 · 作家 writer

Novelist and essayist whose 黄金时代, about a sent-down youth in Yunnan during the Cultural Revolution, opens his Times Trilogy. His witty essays, like the one on a pig who lived as he pleased, found a wide readership after his early death.

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HSK 5

王小波去世得很早，但他的书至今还有很多读者。

Wáng Xiǎobō qùshì de hěn zǎo, dàn tā de shū zhìjīn hái yǒu hěnduō dúzhě.

Wang Xiaobo died young, but his books still have many readers today.

HSK 7-9

王小波的《黄金时代》是当代中国文学的代表作。

Wáng Xiǎobō de 《 Huángjīnshídài 》 shì dāngdài Zhōngguó wénxué de dàibiǎozuò.

Wang Xiaobo's Golden Age is a landmark of contemporary Chinese literature.

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history

He earned a master's degree at the University of Pittsburgh in 1988. His wife was the sociologist 李银河, and their love letters were published as 《爱你就像爱生命》, 'Loving you is like loving life'.