Pen name ruoshui. People from Ningjin, Shandong. 1982 graduated from Chinese Department of Fudan University. He has been editor and journalist of Outlook magazine of Xinhua News Agency, editor of Literature and Art Research of China Academy of Art, and researcher of Literature Research Institute of China Academy of Social Sciences. Joined the Chinese Writers Association in 2000. He is the author of Literary Theory and Criticism, Farewell to Classicism, Introduction to Novel, City Frame, Essay, Talk with Bare Hands, Room with a View, Half-written Book, Talk of a Slumdog, The Taste of Tofu, Li Jiefei's Prose, etc.