Wu Jin Zang

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Pang Bei. Wu Jin Zang

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About the author

Table of Contents

An Editor’s Casual Notes

Volume I. A Taoist Hermit

Volume II. Crape Myrtle Official Zhu

Volume III. The Housekeeper

Volume IV. Double Monk

Volume V. Grand Minister

Volume VI. A Strange Bhikkhu

Volume VII. The Female Alchemist

Volume VIII. The Last Lord

Volume IX (Lost) Postscript to an Ancient Printing

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Pang Bei, born in 1966, is a novelist, a playwright as well as a screenwriter. The Name of the Nun, a novel written by Pang Bei, is reputed as a novel which requires the talent of none but Jorge Luis Borges, yet one that Jorge Luis Borges found hard to write. It is also acclaimed as the Chinese version of Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose, a novel considered to be the groundbreaking book of knowledge-based mystery novel in the West. The Name of the Nun has been listed as one of the annual global Top 10 Best Chinese Novels selected by Asian Newsweek. As a playwright, Pang Bei‘s stage play Life After Life, an internationally-expressed Chinese drama, has been well received in China. It will be performed in the 2016 Festival d’Avignon. And as a screenwriter, Pang Bei ‘s film script Lord of Shanghai is a winner of the Golden Horse Film Festival (Taiwan).

Pang Bei shared the same career in his youth days with Mo Yan, the Nobel literature laureate of China, and Mai Jia, author of the worldwide bestsellers Decode. This special experience has given them a global vision and the ability to reach out to the world.

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Minister Xu did not pay attention to me, but instead was gazing at the manuscript on his desk. On this desk, there was a rockery ink slab, a dragon tail ink slab and half a piece of precious Tinggui ink stick. Minister Xu picked up a writing brush from the dragon tail ink slab and slowly wrote the character “” on a piece of bamboo paper.

He held down the paper with a paper weight. No doubt, he would add this character into the dictionary.

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