Sun Ganlu was born in Shanghai in 1959. He is currently a writer, vice chairman of the Shanghai Writers' Association, president of literary magazine Bud and chief strategist of Shanghai International Literary Week of Shanghai Book Fair. His representative works include: the novel Breathing; a collection of short stories and novellas A Visit to Dreamland; the ... Read morenovels Asking Women to Solve Riddles and Remembering the Qin Maid; the illustrated books Shanghai's Period Dolls and Selected Literary Fragments of Sun Ganlu Chosen by the Author; collections of essays Dancing on the Ceiling and Slower than Slow; Shanghai over the Years; and The Selected Works of Sun Ganlu. The author's works have been translated into French, Russian, Japanese, English, Korean and many other languages. Show Less