The book The Ages Trilogy by Wang Xiaobo (The 20th Anniversary Souvenior Edition, 3 Volumes) contains Golden Age, Silver Age and Bronze Age, which are the essence of Wang Xiaobo's works. The Ages Trilogy is a collection of Wang Xiaobo's works and there seems to be no connection between volumes, but in fact, they are in a logic Gold Age is about the real world, Silver Age is about the future world and Broze Age is about the things happened in the past.
Wang was born in an intellectual family in Beijing in 1952. He was sent to a farm in Yunnan province as an "intellectual youth" at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1968. In 1971, he was sent to the countryside of Shandong province, and became a teacher. In 1972, he was allowed to return to Beijing, and he got a job as a working in a local factory. He met Li Yinhe in 1977, who was working as an editor for "Guangming Daily", and she later became his wife. He was accepted by Renmin University of China in 1978 where he studied economics and trade and got his Bachelor's Degree. He received his Master's Degree at the University of Pittsburgh in 1988. After he returned to China, he began to teach at Peking University and Renmin University of China. He quit his job as a college lecturer in 1992, and became a freelance writer. On April 11, 1997 he died suddenly of heart disease at his apartment.