Li Tuo
Read 1985 by Li Tuo .
Born in 1939, Li Tuo spent twenty years as a construction worker. One of China's leading thinkers and critics, he is the author of numerous essays, many of them pioneering ones, on literature, cinema and painting. He is the editor of several literature anthologies, especially of experimental literature. He has also written fiction and scripts for films. Li Tuo has been executive editor for the literary journals Jintian, and Beijing Literature. He lives in Beijing.