Yu Hua: Young People's Devotion to Incense Burning Represents Ambition and Expectations

If a person doesn't even want to do calculations, then they might be truly pessimistic. When discussing the work conditions of contemporary young people, he remarked that now even going to work requires clocking in and being monitored by cameras, and those who can slack off are the masters.

Yu Hua is a representative figure of avant-garde fiction. He started publishing novels in 1983, and his breakthrough work was 'Leaving Home at Eighteen.' His notable works include 'Brothers,' 'To Live,' 'Chronicle of a Blood Merchant,' and 'Cries in the Drizzle.' 'To Live' and 'Chronicle of a Blood Merchant' were both selected as two of the 'Top Ten Influential Works of the 1990s' by critics and literary editors.