Chronicle of a Blood Merchant

Yu Hua was born in 1960 in Zhejiang, China. He finished high school during the Cultural Revolution and worked as a dentist for five years before beginning to write in 1983. He has published three novels, six collections of stories, and three collections of essays. His work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, and Korean. In 2002 Yu Hua became the first Chinese writer to win the prestigious James Joyce Foundation Award. His novelTo Livewas awarded Italy's Premio Grinzane Cavour in 1998, andTo LiveandChronicle of a Blood Merchantwere named two of the last decade's ten most influential books in China. Yu Hua lives in Beijing. Andrew F. Jones is the translator of Yu Hua's first collection of short fiction in English,The Past and the Punishments,as well as a collection of literary essays by Eileen Chang. He is associate professor of modern Chinese literary and cultural studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author ofYellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age.Hua, Yu is the author of 'Chronicle of a Blood Merchant', published 2004 under ISBN 9781400031856 and ISBN 1400031850.