1. Winners of the First Mao Dun Literature Prize (1977-1981)
Zhou Keqin, Xu Mao and His Daughters, Hundred Flowers Literature and Art Publishing House
Wei Wei, The Orient, People's Literature Publishing House
Mo Yingfeng, General's Chant, People's Literature Publishing House
Yao Xueyin, Li Zicheng Li Zicheng (Volume 2), China Youth Publishing House
Gu Hua, Hibiscus Town, People's Literature Publishing House
Li Guowen, Spring in the Winter, People's Literature Publishing House
2. Second Maodun Literature Prize Award Winning Pieces (1982-1984)
Li Zhun, The Yellow River Flows East. Beijing Publishing House
Zhang Jie, Heavy Wings (Revised), People's Literature Publishing House
Liu Xinwu, The Bells and Drums, People's Literature Publishing House
3. Third Mao Dun Literature Prize Winners (1985-1988)
The Ordinary World? Lu Yao? (Part I: Huacheng, No. 6, 1986, China Federation of Literature and Art Publishing Company, December 1986; Part II: China Federation of Literature and Art Publishing Company, April 1988; Part III: Yellow River, No. 3, 1988, China Federation of Literature and Art Publishing Company, October 1989)
The Young Heavenly Son? Ling Li? By? Beijing October Literature and Art Publishing House, August 1987
"Urban Windfall"? by Sun Li and Yu Xiaohui by Sun Li and Yu Xiaohui Zhejiang Literary Publishing House, February, 1989
The Second Sun? by Liu Baiyu. by Liu Baiyu? People's Literature Publishing House, Nov. 1987
The Muslim Funeral? by Huo Da? by Beijing October Literary Publishing House, December 1988
2 Honorable Mentions:
Bloodbath in Luoxiao? by Xiao Ke by Xiao Ke? PLA Literature and Art Publishing House, August 1988
The Golden Mansion is Missing? by Xu Xingye. by Xu Xingye? Fujian People's Publishing House, December, 1980
4. Fourth Mao Dun Literary Award Winners (1989-1994)
White Deer Plain (Revised Edition) by Chen Zhongshi, People's Literature Publishing House, December, 1997
White Deer Plain (Revised Edition) by Xu Xingye. By Chen Zhongshi, People's Literature Publishing House, December 1997
(White Deer Plains (First Edition)? Chen Zhongshi? People's Literature Publishing House, June, 1993)
War and Man (trilogy)? by Wang Huo (People's Literature Publishing House, 1987, 1989, 1992)
White Gate Willow (Parts 1 and 2)? by Liu Sifen, China Literature Union Publishing Company, 1984, 1991
The Autumn of Commotion? By Liu Yumin, People's Literature Publishing House, July 1990
5. The Fifth Mao Dun Literature Prize Winners (1995-1998)
The Choice? By Zhang Ping, Crowd Publishing House, August, 1997
Dust Settles? by A Lai, People's Literature Publishing House, March, 1998
The Song of Long Hatred? by Wang Anyi, Writer's Publishing House, February, 1996
The Tea Man Trilogy (Parts I and II)? by Wang Xufeng Zhejiang Literary Publishing House, 1995, 1998
6. Sixth Maodun Literary Award Winners (1999-2002)
Zhang Juzheng by Xiong Zhaozheng, Yangtze Literary Publishing House, 2002.11
Without Words by Zhang Jie, Beijing October Literary Publishing House, 2002.1
Historical Sky?
The Sky of History by Xu Guixiang, People's Literature Publishing House, 2000.4
The Age of Heroes by Liu Jianwei, People's Literature Publishing House, 2001.3
The Book of East Tibet by Zong Pu, People's Literature Publishing House, 2001.4
7. The Winning Pieces of the 7th Mao Dun Literature Prize (2003-2006)
Jia Pingwei, the first Chinese writer to win the Mao Dun Literature Prize in China.
Jia Pingwa, Qin Cavity, Harvest Magazine, Writers' Publishing House
Chi Zijian, The Right Bank of the Erguna River, Harvest Magazine, Beijing October Literary Publishing House
Zhou Daxin, The Color of the Lake and the Mountains, Chinese Writers Magazine, Writers' Publishing House
Mai Jia, The Secret Calculation, Zhongshan Magazine (published under the title The Secret Weapon), World Knowledge Publishing House, People's Literature Publishing House
8. Eighth Maodun Literature Prize Winners (2007-2010)
Zhang Wei, You're on a High Plateau
Liu Qinglong, The Skywalker
Mo Yan, Frogs
Bi Feiyu, Pushing the Nail
Liu Zhenyun. One Sentence Over Ten Thousand
9. Ninth Mao Dun Literature Prize Winners (2011-2014)
The Jiangnan Trilogy ? Ge Fei ? Shanghai Literary Publishing House, April 2012
This Side of the Scenery by Wang Meng ? Flower City Publishing House, April 2013
The Book of Life ? Li Peifu ? Writer's Publishing House March, 2012
The Flowering Flower by Jin Yucheng ? Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, March, 2013
The Yellow Sparrow by Su Tong ? Writers Publishing House, August 2013
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Some of the award-winning works in brief:
1, "Xu Mao and His Daughters"
Author ---- Zhou Keqin
"Xu Mao and His Daughters" is a full-length novel written by peasant writer Zhou Keqin and published in Hongyan (Red Rock) in 1979, Issue 2.
The novel is set against the backdrop of a working group that came to the Sichuan countryside in the winter of 1975 to carry out rectification work, and depicts the sad and happy story of Xu Mao, an old farmer, and his daughters, reflecting the disaster brought by the ten-year turmoil to the peasants as well as their struggles and pursuits.
Hsu Mao, originally a rural activist, becomes withdrawn, selfish and irritable in a time when right and wrong are upside down. His fourth daughter, Xu Xiuyun, is the most unfortunate. From the ups and downs of Xiuyun's marriage, the work reflects the political turmoil in this remote mountain village, reflecting the broader content of the times.
The novel is rich in local color and local flavor, with an intriguing plot of twists and turns, and distinctive characters such as Xu Mao, Xiuyun, and Jin Dongshui.
2. Heavy Wings
Author ---- Zhang Jie
Heavy Wings is China's first full-length novel reflecting the construction of the Four Harmonizations and industrial reform. The novel recounts the story of Zheng Ziyun, the vice minister of the Ministry of Heavy Industry, who supports Chen Yongming, the director of Shuguang Automobile Manufacturing Plant, to carry out reforms, but is opposed by the minister Tian Shoucheng.
Ye Zhiqiu, a female reporter, writes a report on Chen Yongming's reforms, which is very well received, but some people take the opportunity to spread rumors and slander Zheng Ziyun. Tian Shoucheng, in order to consolidate his position, secretly also competes with Zheng Ziyun.
The novel focuses on the reform process and contradictions of the State Ministry of Heavy Industry and its Shuguang Automobile Manufacturing Plant, and shows the complex and arduous struggle after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, when the center of gravity of the Party's work was shifted to the right track of the four-form construction.
The novel depicts the urgency and difficulty of the reform and the sharp and complex social contradictions it faces, and gives an all-around view of the human conditions under the tide of the reform, with full writing and incisive arguments, and a unique style.
3. The Ordinary World is a one-million-word novel by Chinese writer Lu Yao. It is a full-length novel that panoramically expresses the social life of contemporary Chinese urban and rural society, and the whole book **** three parts.It was first published in December, 1986.
The novel is a novel of the Chinese writer Lu Yao.
The book is set in the decade from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s in China, and through complex conflicts and entanglements, centering on two brothers, Sun Shao'an and Sun Shao'ping, it portrays many ordinary people from all social classes at that time.
Labor and love, frustration and pursuit, pain and joy, daily life and great social conflicts are intertwined in a multitude of ways, profoundly demonstrating the difficult and twisted paths that ordinary people have traveled in the course of the historical process of the great era.
In March 1991, The Ordinary World was awarded the Mao Dun Literature Prize of the Third Chinese Academy of Arts and Letters.
4. "White Deer Plains" is the masterpiece of writer Chen Zhongshi, a long novel*** of more than 500,000 words, which took Chen Zhongshi six years to complete.
The novel epitomizes the White Deer Village on the White Deer Plain in the Guanzhong area of Shaanxi Province, and shows the historical changes that took place from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the 1970s and 1980s over a period of more than half a century through the story of the feuds and disputes between the grandchildren of the two major families, the Bai family name and the Deer family name.
In 1997, the novel won China's fourth Mao Dun Literature Prize. The novel has also been adapted into a variety of art forms, including a movie of the same name, a TV drama, a play, a dance drama and a Qin opera.
5. Dust Settles is a full-length novel by Tibetan writer A Lai, first published in 1998.
The novel depicts the story of a reputable Kham Tibetan tusshu, who gives birth to a fool of a son with a Han Chinese wife after a drunken stupor. This fool, whom everyone recognizes as being out of touch with real life, has super-period premonitions and mannerisms, and becomes a witness to the rise and fall of the tusi system. The novel shows the unique Tibetan flavor and the romance and mystery of the Tusi system.
6. The Sky of History is a long novel written by Xu Guixiang and published by People's Literature Publishing House. The book was awarded the Sixth Mao Dun Literature Prize, the Third People's Literature Prize, the Tenth All-Army Literature and Art Prize, and the Eighth National Five One Project Prize.
The book was made into a TV series by director Gao Xi Xi in 2014.
7. The Right Bank of the Erguna River is a long novel by Chi Zijian, which won the seventh Mao Dun Literature Prize. The novel tells the story of a weak nation's tenacious struggle and beautiful love in the self-reporting tone of a woman who is the last chief of Ewenki ethnic group in her nineties. The language of the novel is exquisite, and it brings to life a group of little-known, flesh-and-blood Ewenki people with the beauty of simplicity.
The novel is the first of its kind in the world to be published in the United States.
On the right bank of the Erguna River on the border between China and Russia, there lives a group of Ewenki people who migrated from the shore of Lake Baikal hundreds of years ago and depend on reindeer for their lives.
They believe in shaman, reindeer by reindeer like food and relocation, hunting, enjoying the gifts of nature at the same time but also difficult to taste, the population is declining. They sought to reproduce under the attack of cold, fierce animals and plague, and to survive under the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders, the clouds of the Cultural Revolution and even the extrusion of modern civilization.
They have great love, great pain, fight to the death in the face of fate, but also watch the decline of the whole nation's helplessness. However, the love and hatred of generation after generation, the unique folk style of generation after generation, and the legend of life and death of generation after generation show the tenacious vitality of the weak nation and its indomitable national spirit.
8. You are on the Plateau is a full-length novel by contemporary writer Zhang Wei, first published in 2002.
The book is divided into thirty-nine volumes, categorized into ten units ("The Family," "Oak Tree Road," "Haike Talks about Terra Nova," "Deer's Eye," "Memories of Arya," "My Fields," "People's Magazine," "The Dawn and the Twilight," "The Wasteland Chronicles," and "Boundless Wandering").
In this work, the author uses the story of the Ning and Qu families as the main thread, telling the way of life of the people in the "highland", and interspersing the family history and the tragic lives of the ancestors and fathers. The author has created a large number of characters in You are on the Plateau, among which the female characters are unique.
The novel is not a series in the usual sense; it has a peculiar structure: the main characters are unified before and after, but each book can stand alone.
9. The Book of Life is a full-length novel published in April 2012 by Li Peifu.
The Book of Life is the finale of his Plains Trilogy, following The Sheep's Door and The City's Lights. It is a book of introspection and a history of one man's mind over the past fifty years. It traces the trajectory of the changing times in the city and the countryside, and writes about the broken lives and remaining beliefs in contemporary China.
In the changing times and land, the spirit of the characters fissures, and they all go to the opposite side of themselves. In these helplessness and sadness, and in the various alienated life trajectories, there lies the true meaning of one's life.
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