本书收录了作者的早期作品、唐人故事、似水柔情、中篇小说、东宫·西宫等文学佳作。其中部分虽是早期作品,但文笔流畅、意境清新,已显露出作者的文学才华;对了解作家渐臻成熟的创作有不可忽视的价值。本书的故事从古到今,其中的主角有令人匪夷所思的绿毛水怪,有唐朝的大将军李靖,还有身世令人同情的战福。故事曲折生动,题材丰富多样,令人拍案叫绝,回味无穷。 This book the author's early works, the stories of Chinese, love stories, novellas, palace stories and other literary masterpieces. Some of them are the author's early works, but they are of spontaneous writing style and fresh artistic conception, having revealed the author's literary talent. They have ignorable value for the author's gradually mature creation. The stories in this book range from ancient times to the present, and the protagonists include incredible green-furred water monster, General Li Jing of the Tang Dynasty and Zhan Fu with a pitiful life experience. The plots are full of twists and turns, and the themes are rich and varied, stunning and memorable.
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.