Some of the funniest writing on sex I have encountered ... Through a colourful cast of characters the writer satirises a society in which the Cultural Revolution continued to shape behaviour for decades Ankita Chakraborty Observer
Wang Xiaobo was born in 1952. From 1968 to 1970, he worked on a farm in Yunnan, China, as an 'educated' youth. Hepublished Golden Age in 1992, first in Taiwan, but publication in China soon followed, where it was an immediate success, still topping bestseller lists today. Wang Xiaobo died of a heart attack in 1997, at the age of forty-four.