The novel To Be Alive is the representative work of the writer Yu Hua. Fu Gui, the hero of the novel, was a young master of a landlord family in the Republic of China. He lost all his money because of gambling and debauchery when he was young. After his father became angry, Fu Gui's family became tenant farmers, and was quickly caught by the national army and involved in the civil war. With the civil war, the three anti-five evils, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and other social changes, his life and family suffered constantly, and all his relatives left him, leaving only the old man and an old cow. Yu Hua was awarded the Knight of French Literature and Art in March 2004 for this novel. Living completes the philosophical inquiry of the meaning of life with an incisive expression.

Yu Hua (male) (1960-) was originally from Gaotang, Shandong. Born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, I grew up in Haiyan. Both parents are doctors. 1973 graduated from primary school, 1977 graduated from middle school and worked as a dentist in the town hospital. 1983 began to create, and entered the Haiyan Cultural Center in Zhejiang Province in the same year. The first novel Star was published in Beijing Literature 1984 1. After that, he studied in a postgraduate class jointly recruited by Lu Xun College of Literature and Beijing Normal University. Now living in Beijing, engaged in professional creation. His main works include the short stories Going Out at the Age of 18, April 3rd Incident, 1986, Errors by the River, A Reality, Bloody Plum Blossoms, Sisyphus, Smoke, Classical Love, Teenagers in the Dusk, Shouting in the Drizzle, Living and Xu. He is a representative writer of the "avant-garde".

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