ABSTRACT
https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315288291/a1eedcaa-57fc-4fca-9a39-2ae5e50fda7a/content/fig27_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> Zheng Wanlong, one of the oldest writers in this book, was born in 1944 into a gold miner's family in Aihun County, Heilongjiang Province. After losing his mother when he was eight he was brought up by a distant relative in Beijing. Although trained in chemical engineering, he was interested in literature and began writing during the Cultural Revolution, largely influenced by the extreme literary theories of the time. His novel Water Sound Bay (Xiangshui wan) (1976), which depicts peasant resistance to Liu Shaoqi's milder agricultural policy, is typical propagandist literature.
