Xiong Zhaozheng
Xiong Zhaozheng (; born December 1953) is a Chinese novelist. Biography. Xiong was born in Yingshan County, Hubei in December 1953. He worked in Yingshan Culture Centre () by age 22. Xiong started to publish works in 1973. In 1981, Xiong was transferred from Yingshan County to Wuhan. From 1984 to 1986, Xiong served as an associate editor in "Changjiang Literature and Art". In 1993, Xiong started to write his historical novel, "Zhang Juzheng", which won the Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2005.