Chen Zhongshi

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| birth_place = Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

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| occupation = Novelist

| language = Chinese

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| period = 1965–2016

| genre = Novel, prose

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| notableworks= White Deer Field

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Chen Zhongshi ({{zh|s=陈忠实|t=陳忠實|hp=Chén Zhōngshí}}; 3 August 1942 – 29 April 2016) was a Chinese author. He started writing prose in 1965 and finished his magnum opus White Deer Field in 1993 (for which he won the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 1997).{{cite web

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In 1979, he became a member of the Chinese Writers Association (which he at one point served as the association's vice chairman).

Biography

Chen was born in Xi'an, Shaanxi on 3 August 1942.{{cite web | title =Escritor Chen Zhongshi | publisher =CRIENGLISH.com | date =2007-03-26 | url =http://portuguese.cri.cn/152/2007/03/26/1@64408.htm | access-date = 2014-01-13 | language = pt}} After graduating from No. 34 High School of Xi'an in 1962, he got a teaching job in primary school and, after two years, became a senior high school teacher. In 1966, Chen joined the Chinese Communist Party. He was interested in literature and soon began devoting himself to a writing career.

Chen became the vice director of Culture Bureau of Baqiao District of Xi'an in 1980. He served as a member of the Writers Association of Shaanxi, becoming vice president in 1985 and chairman in 1993. Between 2001 and 2006, he was the vice president of the Chinese Writers Association.{{cite web| script-title =zh:陈忠实简介| url =http://www.xazz.cn/Article_Show.asp?ArticleID=51| access-date =2014-01-13| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20140114051456/http://www.xazz.cn/Article_Show.asp?ArticleID=51| archive-date =14 January 2014| language =zh| url-status =dead| df =dmy-all}}

Chen died on 29 April 2016 at the age of 73 in Xi'an.{{cite news | url=http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news.php?id=74211 | title=Reputed author Chen Zhongshi dies at 73 | date=29 April 2016 | newspaper=The Standard | location=Hong Kong | access-date=1 July 2016 }}

Works

=Short stories=

Trust ({{lang|zh-hans|信任}})
Country ({{lang|zh-hans|乡村}})
Early Summer ({{lang|zh-hans|初夏}})
The courtyard of the Kangs ({{lang|zh-hans|康家小院}})

=Novels=

White Deer Field({{lang|zh-hans|白鹿原}})
White Deer Field, which has a large following in China, as of 2016, had not been translated into English.{{cite news|author1=Mi Qin|title=Exposing the Brutality of False Benevolence White Deer Plain, China's One Hundred Years of Solitude, explores the cruelty hidden behind the veil of Confucian ideology at the turn of the 20th century|url=http://english.caixin.com/2016-05-21/100945829.html|access-date=21 May 2016|work=Caixin|date=21 May 2016}}