Zhang Beihai

Zhang Beihai

Zhang Beihai, whose real name is Zhang Wenyi and ancestral home is Wutai, Shanxi Province, was born in Peking in 1936. He is a writer from the mainland of China. His main works include "America: eight stories", "people in New York", "American postmark", "America? America", "chivalrous hermit", etc.

Character experience

In 1949, 13-year-old Zhang Beihai moved to Taiwan with his family. After graduating from the English Department of Taiwan Normal University, he obtained a master's degree in comparative literature from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. In 1972, he settled in New York and worked in the United Nations for more than 20 years as a translator and reviser. Before the age of 60, Zhang Beihai devoted himself to writing about the people and things that happened around him, describing American society with keen observation and humorous style. In "America: eight stories", "people in New York", "American postmark", "America? America" and other books, he started from a young age, describing small things from New York subway, jeans to rock music, from a taxi to the statue of liberty. After 60 years old, Zhang Beihai retired from the United Nations. His writing object changed from New York to Beijing, from modern American society to China in 1930s, and his writing style changed from prose to martial arts. It took him more than six years to write his first martial arts novel chivalrous hermit, which was adapted by Jiang Wen into the film "evil does not weigh the right" in 2018.

Main works

The collection of essays "America: eight stories" is a collection of eight long and complete stories selected from his many articles. They are the story of jeans, the story of New York subway, the story of rock music, the story of East River Bridge and so on. the book adopts the New York group paintings by the famous painter Han Xiangning as the cover pictures. Zhang and Han lived together in New York, and they lived together in the 1970s and 1980s.

Award winning record

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