Author Description

This book contains four excellent novelettes, Honeyed Words in the Hair Salon, Upside, A Friend Until Death, and The Ghost Painting, respectively created by the four outstanding Chinese writers Wang Anyi, Wang Xiangfu, Nie Xinsen and Chi Zijian. The contents of these novelettes cover the course of the contemporary China's development and changes during the last ten years, reflecting from various perspectives the changes of time and people's life and revealing the real situation of the contemporary China.