Yu Qiuyu is perhaps one of the best-known Chinese cultural figures in the Chinese communities. He believes that the Chinese people should readjust their look at their own culture from an international perspective, and this will help them better communicate with the rest of the world. His collection of essays, including Stressful Cultural Journeying, Notes Made While Living in the Hills and Mountain Home Journal, are all bestsellers.
Yu Qiuyu (余秋雨), born in 1946 in Yuyao, Zhejiang, is one of the well-known contemporary Chinese cultural and literary figures. With an enormous readership in China and overseas, his cultural explorations link China with the rest of the world and his bold and direct criticisms of certain cultural phenomena make him loved and detested in equal measure. In 1985, Yu became the youngest full professor in China at the age of 39, and later became the president of the Shanghai Theater Academy.