Zhu Wen (director)
Zhu Wen (朱文 Zhū Wén, born 1967) is a Chinese short story writer turned director.
Zhu Wen was born in 1967 in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province. He attended Southeast University in Nanjing, and graduated with a degree in electric power. After working as an engineer in a state-owned thermal power plant for five years, he quit his job in 1994 to become a freelance writer.
His first published short story, I Love Dollars, was denounced by some critics as the "shameless and indecent novel of a hooligan."
In 1998, he instigated and became identified with the Rupture movement(duanlie) to voice dissatisfaction with the literary establishment. He sent questionnaires to about 70 writers, about 55 of which responded. The responses were sarcastic and mostly expressed discontent, and later spawned publications that nurtured more independence among writers.
In an introduction to Zhu Wen's short stories, translator Julia Lovell characterized his 'trademark narrative style' as "a loosely punctuated, first-person voice in which speech, both direct and indirect, run on within sentences of descriptive prose, designed to capture the unceremonious, free-flowing rhythms of action and dialogue in contemporary China."
As a writer, he was labeled as part of a 'newly-born generation' (xinshengdai) movement.
He began writing short stories and novellas in 1991. He has written the following novellas:
His only novel-length work is What is Garbage, What is Love. (什么是拉圾，什么是爱).
A selection of his short stories were translated by Julia Lovell and published by Columbia University Press in January 2007.
Zhu decided to direct a movie in 2000. He has said that most of the directors he admires come from Continental Europe and Russia, including Andrei Tarkovsky.
He is considered a member of the Sixth Generation of Chinese film makers. His first movie was Seafood(海鲜), about a policeman and prostitute's friendship in Beidaihe. It won the Grand Jury Prize at the 58th Venice Film Festival. It cost about 300,000RMB to produce.
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