Ba Jin (pseudonimo) (1904–2005)

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1. Jonathan D. Spence

   Author of The Search for Modern China, God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan, Treason By the Book

2. Ha Jin

   Author of Waiting, The Crazed, In the Pond

3. Cao Xueqin

   Author of The Golden Days, Dream of the Red Chamber [Abridged], A Dream of Red Mansions

4. Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

   Author of The Makioka Sisters, Some Prefer Nettles, Naomi

5. Lao She

   Author of Rickshaw Boy

6. Yasunari Kawabata

   Author of Snow Country, The Sound of the Mountain, The Lake

7. Kenzaburō Ōe

   Author of A Personal Matter, The Silent Cry

8. Mo Yan

   Author of Red Sorghum: A Novel of China

9. Nien Cheng

   Author of Life and Death in Shanghai

10. William Hinton

    Author of Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village

11. Yu Hua

    Author of To Live: A Novel

12. Gao Xingjian

    Author of Soul Mountain

13. Michael H. Manser

    Author of Concise English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary

14. Shi Nai'An

    Author of Outlaws of the Marsh

15. John King Fairbank

    Author of China: A New History, Second Enlarged Edition

16. Wu Cheng'en

    Author of Monkey: Folk Novel of China

17. Zedong Mao

    Author of Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

18. Luo Guanzhong

    Author of Three Kingdoms: Chinese Classics (Classic Novel in 4-Volumes)

19. Sōseki Natsume

    Author of Kokoro

20. Maxine Hong Kingston

    Author of China Men