Ha Jin
Ha Jin, author of "Waiting", described Yu Hua as a "major contemporary novelist" and stated that the latter "writes with a cold eye but a warm heart. His novels are ingeniously structured and exude a mythical aura. Though unmistakably Chinese, they are universally resonant.” Dai Sijie, author of "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress" (2000), called it a "wrenching and blackly humorous tale. Long after I closed the book, the character Xu Sanguan has remained stubbornly impressed upon my heart.”