Introduction to Beiqiao

Bei Qiao, literary critic and writer, whose real name is Zhu Gang, was born in Zhuwan Village, Sancang Township, Dongtai, Yancheng, Jiangsu Province in April 1968. He graduated from the Literature Department of the PLA Art Academy and participated in the Second China Advanced training class for young and middle-aged literary and art critics of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the first theoretical criticism class of art calligraphy in the army. He served in the army for 25 years and achieved 1 second-class merit and 9 third-class merit. After 10 years of photography, he gradually turned to literary creation, literary research and art criticism in 1996. He has published more than 5 million words of novels, essays, literary reviews, and calligraphy and painting reviews in "Red Rock", "Furong", "PLA Literature and Art" and "Contemporary Writers Review", etc., and more than 230 works have been selected or included in various anthologies. He has published 11 novels, including "Being a Soldier", a collection of novels, "It's Going to Rain," a series of essays, "Soldiers of the World," and literary criticism monographs, "Liu Qingbang's Daughter Country," "Flying Close to the Ground," and "Dating Novels." His essays won the 10th Chinese People's Liberation Army Literary Award, his literary criticism won the 6th National Coal Mine Literature Wujin Award, and his novella won the gold medal in the "99 Reader's Cup" World Journey Online Writing Competition. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association and the Chinese Contemporary Literature Research Association. Now lives in Beijing.