Notes on Zhongguancun (collected Works of Ning Ken)
by Rather
About This Novel
"Contemporary Literary Assassin" Ning Ken's 40th anniversary commemorative edition, one of the 2018 "Ning Ken Collected Works" series. 2017 Chinese Good Books, 50 popular books in 2017. Write the history of Zhongguancun with the eyes of a novelist and write a biography of the reform era. "Notes on Zhongguancun" is based on field investigation and in-depth thinking, and writes about typical characters of Zhongguancun in different stages in a humanistic style. The book starts with Feng Kang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who is one of the "Troika" of Chinese mathematics together with Hua Luogeng and Chen Shengshen, and runs through it. It focuses on Chen Chunxian and Zhongguancun's Silicon Valley dream, Liu Chuanzhi and Lenovo, Wang Zhidong and Sina, Wang Xuan and the "Millennium Promise", Wang Yongmin and Chinese character input, Cheng 19 paragraphs and notes, including Wei and Didi Taxi, Wu Gansha and smart driving, Su Su and garage coffee, show the epic process of how Zhongguancun pursues innovation, emancipates the mind, creates history, reshapes value, and becomes another world technology innovation center after Silicon Valley in the United States. Zhongguancun has not only changed Beijing, but also China, and in a sense, it has also changed the world. The work traces its origins and reflects deeply on this. It is inspiring, courageous, penetrating and shocking, and has unique artistic innovation. Ning Ken, a Beijinger. Novelist and essayist, his main works include the novels "Heaven·Zang", "The Masked City", "Three Trios", "The Door of Silence" and "The Crater". Born in Beijing in 1959, his original name was Ning Minqing and his ancestral home was Ningzhuang, Hejian County, Hebei Province. Graduated from the Chinese Department of the Second Branch of Beijing Normal University in 1983. In 1982, he published his debut poem "Snow Dream" at "Grudge" in Shanghai. He lived in Tibet from 1984 to 1986 and wrote a series of prose works such as "Sky Lake", "Tibetan Song" and "The Silent Shore", making him one of the representatives of China's "new prose" movement. He is the author of essay collections "Speak, Tibet", "Beijing: City and Years", "My 20th Century" and "The Pipe of Thought". There are also short and medium story collections "Words and Objects" and "Vigram", and the non-fiction work "Notes on Zhongguancun". He is currently a member of the 9th National Committee of the Chinese Writers Association and the executive deputy editor-in-chief of "October" magazine. He has won the Lao She Literary Award for Novel twice, the first Shi Naian Literary Award, the 4th "People's Literature" Biennial Novel Award, the Beijing Literary Art Award, the overall champion of the 2nd "Contemporary" Literary Rally in 2001, the first Sun Li Prose Award Biennial Award, the first Hong Kong "Dream of Red Mansions Award" recommendation award, and the first American Newman Literary Award nomination. Selected as one of the top ten novels of Asia Weekly in 2014 and one of the best Chinese books in 2017, with works translated into English, French, Italian, and Czech.
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