Zhang Jie
After the Cultural Revolution, Zhang Jie finally started her literary work, she published her first novel"The Child of the Forest" in 1978. Once published in Beijing Literature and Art, the novel immediately attracted the attention of the literary world, and won the Best Short Stories, this was her first entry into the literary world. In the following year, she published a number of short stories and joined the Chinese Writer's Association. Zhang Jie joined the Communist Party in 1980. The novel "Leaden Wings" published in April 1981, which immediately aroused strong reactions and controversies, and almost became a notable event in the literary world and the society. In 1982, she joined the International PEN China Center and accompanied a delegation of Chinese writers to the United States to attend the first Sino-American Writers' Conference, she was the vice chairman of the Beijing Writers' Association. She has visited and been invited countless times to hold readings of her works, lectures and press conferences in Berlin, Paris, Vienna and other parts of the world. "Leaden Wings" was reissued by the People's Literature Publishing House in July 1984 and was well received by the literary community and won the 2nd Mao Dun Literature Prize of 1985. Over the years, Zhang Jie's creative works have been very successful. From December 1984 to January 1985, Zhang Jie attended the Fourth Congress of the Chinese Writer's Association. By 1986, Zhang Jie was the first writer of the new period to win three national awards. Some of her works have been translated into foreign languages and distributed around the world.