Paradise On Earth

Born in 1949, Zhu Lin, the daughter of a Shanghai intellectual, was relocated as a teenager to the countryside in Anhui Province, where she remained for six years. After working as an editor, she embarked on her own writing career, with works ranging from short stories to full-length fiction. She is now member of Shanghai Writers' Association. Her 1979 novel The Path Traveled fired the first salvo of literature devoted to the stories of China's "educated youth." Subsequent award-winning works include Love on Earth and Leaving Today and Coming Back Last Night. Her children's novel The Children of Zhulin Village has been included in the series "China's Hundred Children's Literary Classics of the Last Hundred Years." Zhu Lin's works capture the social and political realities of China in an engaging and personal way. She has said of her fiction that its purpose is to restore the souls of readers who have lost themselves in the turbulence of a society in transition to modernity.