Xu Zechen: “The Suffering of Chinese Youth Today Is Spiritual”

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Xu Zechen (Lianyungang, 1978) knows both the demand of the field and that of the most elitist universities, so his literature gives a unitary sense to both. In 2019 he became the youngest writer to receive Mao Dun, the most important prize in the country, and that milestone, plus twenty works in a dozen languages, gave him the consideration of emerging star of Chinese letters.Xu receives ABC in his office from the Beijing Writers Association bef…