Feng Jicai

Feng Jicai is a contemporary Chinese author, artist and cultural scholar.

Biography Born in Tianjin in 1942 to a family originally from Ningbo, Zhejiang province, Feng rose to prominence as a pioneer of the Scar Literature movement that emerged after the Cultural Revolution. He has published close to one hundred literary works that span a number of different topics, styles and genres. His major works include Ah!, The Carved Pipe, The Tall Woman and Her Short Husband, The Miraculous Pigtail, Three Inch Golden Lotus, Zebra Finches, Ten Years of Madness: Oral Histories of China's Cultural Revolution, and Extraordinary People in Our Ordinary World.

In 2018, the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles honoured Feng and Wu Bing'an with the Lifetime Achievement Award in Folk Art and Literature.

Translated works (English)

Chrysanthemums and Other Stories (1985) The Miraculous Pigtail (1987) Voices from the Whirlwind (1991) Three Inch Golden Lotus (1994) Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom (1995) Ten Years of Madness: Oral Histories of China's Cultural Revolution (1996) Selected Stories by Feng Jicai (1999) Faces in the Crowd: 36 Extraordinary Tales of Tianjin (2019) A Looking-Glass World (2021) From Purgatory to Paradise: An Oral History of Artist Han Meilin from the Cultural Revolution to the Present Day (2023) The Enemies of Art (2024)