Ge Fei

Ge Fei (, born 1964) is the pen-name for Liu Yong, a Chinese novelist who is considered one of the preeminent experimental writers during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Biography Ge Fei was born in Dantu, Jiangsu, in 1964. He graduated from East China Normal University in 1985. He received his PhD in 2000. Works His most prominent work is the novel Peach Blossom Paradise (人面桃花, Renmian Taohua, 2004), which explores the concept of utopia, and is laden with classical allusions. The English translation was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2021. It is the first book of his Jiangnan Trilogy, of which the second book, My Dream of the Mountain and River (山河入梦 Shanhe Rumeng), was published in 2007. The third is Spring Ends in Jiangnan, published in 2011. The title of Renmian Taohua is taken from a classical work, and has also been used by the director Du Haibin for his documentary on a gay club in Chengdu (2005). The English name for the film, Beautiful Men, is not a direct translation.