Professor Yuan Ping Accepting the Prize (third from left)
At the ceremony for the 17th Baihua Literature Prize on December 9, the work Master’s Wife written by Professor Yuan Ping (pen name: A Yuan) of School of Humanities was awarded the 17th Baihua Literature Prize for Full-length Novel.
The Master’s Wife is Yuan Ping’s latest masterpiece, with a background set as university campus, from the perspective of “Master’s Wife” Zhuang Jinyu, narrating the marriage life of her husband Hu Dengke and her, describing the university life of the intellectual, demonstrating the multiple circumstances of female intellectual as well as the female intellectual facing up to the perfect ideal of love and the fact of affection unable to resist desire, thus exploring the feeling, characters and fate of the intellectual in higher institutions. Yuan Ping’s former works like The Hidden Danger, Man on the River, have won the 14th and 15th Baihua Prize for Excellent Medium-length Novel.
Originally known as Novel Monthly Baihua Prize, founded in 1984, “Baihua Literature Prize” is a nation-wide novel prize held once every two years, and it is the only awarding activity adopting the form of readers’ voting and relying on the votes to determine the prize in the country, and establishing prize of editor in charge and readers award.
Edited by Zhou Yuanyuan
