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Liu Qingbang (刘庆邦) was born to a rural family in Shenqiu, Henan Province, in December 1951. He had previously worked as a farmer, a miner and a reporter.
Liu plans to go to a coal mine in Shaanxi province later this year to prepare for his next novel, about the lives of family members of miners who died in a gas explosion eight years ago. (info from http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2012-09/18/content_15765005.htm)
Over his 40-year career, coal miner-turned-author Liu Qingbang has won acclaim for short stories and novellas that dig deep into the suffering of China’s miners and the frustrations of its rural people
Blind Shaft ( Chinese: 盲井; pinyin: Mángjǐng) is a 2003 film about a pair of brutal con artists operating in the illegal coal mines of present-day northern China. The film was written and directed by Li Yang (李杨), and is based on Chinese writer Liu Qingbang 's short novel Shen Mu ( Sacred Wood ).
Ex-miner, one-time mining journalist, now writer about mines and the mining community, Liu Qingbang is well-established in China but hardly known outside it. It may surprise those who saw the 2003 Golden Bear Award-winning Blind Shaft (on Youtube with Chinese subtitles only) that they were watching the film adaptation of his novella, Sacred ...
Dec 3, 2015 · Ex-miner, one-time mining journalist, now writer about mines and the mining community, Liu Qingbang is well-established in China but hardly known outside it.
“The One Who Picks Flowers” by Liu Qingbang (translated by Lee Yew Leong) is available to read online at Read Paper Republic. Liu Qingbang, born in Henan in 1951, spent time working in coal fields before they became the subject and setting of his journalism and eventually fiction.
