Gao Xiaosheng

…such as Wang Zengqi and Gao Xiaosheng—the latter’s short stories about Chen Huansheng, a simple and honest peasant, met with success—continued to write, while younger writers emerged: Wang Anyi; Mo Yan, who gained a literary reputation with his fanciful story Touming de hongluobo (1984; The Diaphanous Red Radish) and went…