As the People’s Republic of China prepares to celebrate its 60th birthday, what is the state of the nation? In a special series, NPR's Louisa Lim asks the question of some of the country's most astute observers: best-selling Chinese authors of three different generations.
Featured Authors:
Sixty-three-year-old Jiang Rong, author of Wolf Totem, a semi-autobiographical novel said to be second in circulation only to Chairman Mao's Little Red Book.
Forty-nine-year-old Yu Hua, author of Brothers, a novel that captures the no-holds-barred wild west capitalism of China’s last three decades.
Twenty-six-year-old Guo Jingming, China's richest author for the past two years whose lasted book Tiny Times can be described as Sex in the City meets The Devil Wears Prada.
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