Gu Hua

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Who is Gu Hua?

Gu Hua is a Chinese novelist born in the People's Republic of China. His writings concern rural life in the mountainous area of southern Hunan of which he was familiar. In 1988 he emigrated to Canada.

Hua is best known for his 1981 novel Furong zhen which won the inaugural Mao Dun Literature Prize, one of most prestigious literature prizes in China. It was the third top-selling novel to ever win that prize, selling over 850,000 copies. The novel was a rebuke of the Cultural Revolution. The novel was famously adapted to film in 1986 as Hibiscus Town, winning many awards including 'Best Film' of the 1987 Golden Rooster Awards, China's equivalent of the Academy Awards.

In 1986, The New York Times reported that Hua has "risen to prominence in the last three years among some younger writers who seek to rediscover, if not necessarily to affirm, China's traditional life and values. In China he has been called the Shen Congwen of the 80's and even, amazingly, the [Thomas] Hardy of Hunan," although the Times author Perry Link disagreed that Hua is comparable to those talents.

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on July 23, 2013

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