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About Zhou Meisen
- Zhou Meisen (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Zhou Méisen; born 9 March 1956) is a contemporary Chinese novelist and scriptwriter.
- He is active in literary mainland China since the 1980s.
- He is well known for some of his works which have been adapted for screen, especially In the Name of the People. Zhou was born on 9 March 1956, in Jiangsu.
- He grew up in Jiawang, a suburb of Xuzhou with plentiful coal capacity.
- Later, he went to a high school, as a part-time student, working for a local pit.
- He became a miner after he left school.
- Thus, Zhou's earlier writings focus on coal industry and miners.
- When he was 14 years old, he knew Balzac by chance.
- From then on, Zhou adores him and professes realism should be the guideline of own writing.In the late 1970s, Zhou published his first work in Xinhua Daily.
- A year later, he was transferred to Nanjing, working as an editor for Youth, a recently-started magazine.
- He gained initial fame with his 1983 novella The Sinking Land (Chinese: ?????), then he became a professional writer since 1984.
- In the mid 1990s, he spent one year on secondment to a municipal government as deputy secretary general .
- In the meantime, he attempted to make a decent living by investing in business, stock and real estate.
- The broad experience inspired him, and suffuses in his works. Zhou's novels and scripts of the anti-graft dramas are in the public gaze.
- To make the plot vivid, he even visited a jail and interviewed the detained officials for corruption.As a major individual shareholder of some a listed company, Zhou published his open letters and called on individual investors against its reform of non-tradable shares to unite in 2005, since he claimed such a reform damages the interests of them.
- Eventually, the shareholders' meeting voted that down.
- The news caused a strong reaction among the individual investors, so he became the candidate for CCTV Person of the Year for Social Common Good (Chinese: ??????).
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