Evaluation of Yu Hua by Chinese Writers

Yu Hua is a person with strong rational thinking ability. His clear vein of thought is expressed with the help of methodical and logical conversion of words, twisting and turning but not subtly. Secondly, Yu Hua has the talent of casting smoke bombs in his novels and capturing phantoms, both ghosts and humans, in the smoke, and he is so good at it. The combination of the above two aspects, just like the unity of contradictions, constitutes a batch of his well-organized imitation dream novels. Thus Yu Hua became the first lucid dream teller in the contemporary Chinese literary scene. (Writer Mo Yan's comments)

Yu Hua is a very important writer of contemporary Chinese literature in the new period, and one of the pioneers of the new-era vanguard literature. His novels, such as "Going Out at Eighteen", "A Kind of Reality", "Hard to Escape Robbery", and "The Mistake by the River", are notable for their sharp and cold scrutiny of human nature, and have posed a great impact and challenge to the traditional form of literature in terms of literary concepts, aesthetic gestures, and narrative styles. Yu Hua is also one of the first contemporary Chinese writers to really "go out" in the sense of literary ontology. In a sense, he has corrected the bias of the Western world that is usually eager to "read China" but unwilling to "read literature" when confronted with Chinese literary works. In a sense, he has corrected the bias of the Western world, which is usually eager to "read China" but not "literature" when facing Chinese literature. (Wu Yiqin, president of Writers' Publishing House)

Yu Hua is a great writer. He has the heart and feelings of a great writer, who is "as narrow as the palm of his hand, but as wide as the earth", with emotions and a particularly deep and broad thing in which he is "alive". (Director Meng Jinghui's comments)

When all Chinese writers do not face China's reality positively, it is Yu Hua who does. For this reason alone, all of us should maintain a respectful attitude toward Yu Hua.