Who is Wang Shuo?

occupation

Name: Wang Shuo

Gender: male

Birthday: 1958-8-23

Constellation: Leo

Nationality: Manchu

Occupation: freelance writer

Native place: Beijing

Nationality: China.

income

In 2007, Wang Shuo ranked sixth in the "2007 Second Rich List of Chinese Writers" with a royalty income of 5 million yuan, which aroused widespread concern.

2 personal profiles

personal information

Wang Shuo, male, from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, was born in Xiuyan, Liaoning Province. 1976 graduated from Beijing No.44 Middle School, and later worked as a health worker in the North Sea Fleet of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy. 1980 retired and returned to Beijing to work as a salesman in the drug wholesale store of Beijing Pharmaceutical Company. 1983. 1978 began to engage in literary creation (the short story "Waiting" was published in the1/issue of PLA Literature that year). Since 1984, the first novella "Flight Attendant" was published in contemporary times, 22 novellas and 3 novels have been written, about1600,000 words. 1997 65438+ 10 went to America in October. 65438+/kloc-0 returned to China in July, 1997, and engaged in freelance writing.

It claims: "Physical development coincides with three years of natural disasters, and education catches up with the Cultural Revolution. This is called total malnutrition. He doesn't have any skills, but he knows about three or five thousand words. It is the kind of person who aims high and is only ignorant. He should do nothing all his life and be a stone at the feet of others. It is also that life should not be doomed, and social change is difficult and difficult. It is not a good thing to sink into the pool and dance with pen and ink for the sake of future life. ]

Growth trajectory

Shortly after his birth, he followed his parents and settled in a military compound in the suburbs of Beijing. There are people from all over the country, except Beijing people. Wang Shuo's understanding is that perhaps fewer Beijingers took part in the revolution at that time. As a little boy, Wang Shuo didn't know that there were residents in the city, thinking that there were parks besides shopping malls.

After entering middle school, Wang Shuo moved into the city, at the foot of Chaoyangmen, and had direct communication with the language in Beijing. Before that, he knew little about Beijing culture, and the language in Beijing was strange to him. It can be seen that Wang Shuo's language today has nothing to do with "old Beijing". Old Beijing is a unique language formed after communicating with Beijing language and can only be regarded as one of the new Beijing cultures. "teasing",

Being the language of Wang Shuo is the biggest feature. And ridicule itself is a language form that is neither hard nor soft. This language form is not so much that Wang Shuo regards it as a tool as a weapon, but an ordinary one.

Some people, when they were young, were not respected but were constantly violated. Street hooligans, serious teachers and overbearing parents can all be aggressive. You can't fight back against this aggression. But you must also take self-protection measures. Wang Shuo's choice of ridicule can not only resolve the insult caused by the other party, but also safeguard his dignity. Wang Shuo has become a "rogue" in people's eyes. An instinctive resistance, a trick similar to children's pranks, has made adults angry.

Someone asked Wang Shuo, "What is the purpose of your writing?" "For fame and fortune, of course." Wang Shuo replied. Wang Shuo wrote about people on the edge of society. In the past, idleness was not allowed in society, and everyone's social status was very clear. Since the new period, many people have lived on the edge of society. In the past, the middle class in China was attached to the power class, and it was composed of some people in the government, the army and officials. Before the reform and opening up, these people were politically

Have a strong sense of superiority, and the economic situation is above average. After the reform and opening up, this class gradually disintegrated, and many people felt a great sense of loss. The economic superiority has been replaced by the private sector, and the political superiority is very high.

Fuzzy, they don't want to engage in manual labor, and they don't have much education. Their social status has changed greatly, and they are no longer the best among young people. The promotion of social status is directly proportional to knowledge. In the early days, small traders and hawkers raised their waists.

Now people who are literate and capable are very proud. Every writer can't write about all kinds of people in society, only familiar people. Just as some people are familiar with farmers and intellectuals, Wang Shuo's understanding of "marginal people" makes his works full of this group of people. [ 1]

Wang Shuo's life photo

Wang Shuo's mother is a doctor and his father is a faculty member of the PLA Political College. Although he is not a scholar, his family is well-off, and he is a typical Beijing citizen family (this background is of great benefit to his later works to describe ordinary life in Beijing). When Wang Shuo was young, he lived in a military compound. What the children do every day is just group fighting, but that free day left a deep impression on Wang Shuo. His later novella Beast (once adapted into the film Sunny Days) was written about the feelings at that time. Wang Shuo studied in Shaoshan Middle School when he was a teenager. He is not a stubborn student at school. He even took part in the "April 5" incident of 1976 with the belief that every man has a responsibility. Although he was not a mighty and unyielding hero, he was also imprisoned for three months.

writing

/kloc-in the summer of 0/976, Wang Shuo joined the army in Shandong after graduating from high school. He used to be an ordinary "steering soldier", a hygienist and even a cook in the army. 1978 when the university resumed enrollment, Wang Shuo had the desire to apply for liberal arts and began to practice writing. During the period, I accidentally contributed homework to the PLA literature and art, and was accidentally selected. This is his first novel, the short story Waiting. Waiting is a novel with a strong sense of the times and quite childish, and its writing is still very student-like. But when 1978 gang of four was just smashed, it was undoubtedly fresh and gratifying, and it also showed Wang Shuo's creative potential.

Photos of Wang Shuo participating in the event

Since then, Wang Shuo has written several works on military themes, but the response is not great. In the meantime, he tried to do business. Not only did I not make any money, but I also experienced many feelings of being cheated. This experience of trying to make money was later recorded in the Rubber Man (adapted into the film Panting) and other works. When his business failed, he began to create in idleness again. The merchant's perspective let him know what is suitable for sale, so he chose this mysterious "flight attendant" as the description object, which really hit it off in the contemporary era. He said: "Physical development coincides with three years of natural disasters, and when I was educated, I caught up with the Cultural Revolution. The so-called global malnutrition. He has no skills, only knows about three or five thousand words. It is the kind of person who is ambitious and talented. It should be the stone under others' feet. It is also that life should not be doomed, society has changed, and it is difficult to generalize. In order to make the future world stand in a cone, this is a mystery.

"In the 1990s, he became a rogue writer with domineering words, saying that I was a rogue and who I was afraid of. He made a sudden snatch and tore off the so-called lofty veil. Next, almost all the media participated in this vigorous debate. With the success of TV adaptation such as Desire, Story of Editorial Department, Love You Without Consultation and Addiction, Wang Shuo became popular all over the country. As the frequency of publishing books decreased, Wang Shuo began to be somewhat silent. "It looks beautiful" and "Beauty gives me antiperspirant" seem to be a little tired by Jiang Lang. What really caught the media's attention again was his essay "Ignorance is Fearless", which listed Jin Yonghe as the "four major customs", thus causing a large-scale debate between Jin and Wang. Different from the past, the participation of the Internet made this debate escalate rapidly and become heated, but nothing happened.

In 2007, I published a new book, My Chitose Cold, which contains six words. There has been a new breakthrough in language, especially the opening "My Chitose Cold", which is concise and poetic, and endowed with tenses. There are some common-sense mistakes in the last Outline of Materialism about the universe and matter. According to Lu Jinbo, the publisher, My Chitose Cold is actually a collection of five works by Wang Shuo, including My Chitose Cold, The Diamond Sutra of Peking Dialect, The Outline of Materialism, Days in the Palace and the novel version of Dreams May Come. The book is about * * *130,000 words, published by Writers Publishing House. In the preface to Who am I written for the whole book, Wang Shuo claimed to prefer My Chitose Cold, originally written by Zhang Yuan, and emphasized that "this work makes Chinese nervous". My chitose cold is based on the altar sutra of the sixth ancestor. After the third edition, Wang Shuo said that this work is "the essence of all words. If American writing is called American writing, it is for senior intellectuals. "

20 10 cooperated with Xiaogang Feng to create the script of the film "If You Are the One 2". Sigh written by Wang Shuo and Xiaogang Feng is 10 years ago. When "Fly 2" premiered, it was said that Wang Shuo's cooperation was a deep-water bomb. Wang Shuo's typical Beijing humor in the sequel is not only frequent lines, but also unexpected plot setting.

20 13 cooperated with Xiaogang Feng to participate in the screenwriter creation of the film personal tailor, which is another cooperation with director Xiaogang Feng after If You Are the One. It is reported that the release time of this film is 20 13 12 19.

3 experience

teenagers

Wang Shuo was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, and moved to Beijing with his parents shortly after his birth. He is really a "new" Beijinger (not an old Beijing hutong). His mother is a doctor, and his father is an officer and teacher in the Training Department of the Central Military Commission (later changed to the Military Training Department of the General Staff).

Wang Shuo grew up in a turbulent era, and Beijing was the center of that turbulent era. In fact, Wang Shuo's growth experience is also in line with the background of the great era. When he was a child, he often took part in fights, and even got caught in the public security bureau more than once. After the May 4th Movement, he was imprisoned for three months because others framed him. /kloc-in the summer of 0/976, I graduated from Beijing No.44 Middle School (in fact, I didn't have much classes in high school) and joined the PLA Navy. Trained as a pilot in Jimo, Shandong at the end of the year.

join the army

He recalled, "The biggest pain of eating was in XinBingLian." After three months' training, by chance, Wang Shuo was sent to Qingdao and entered the military hospital to study health worker technology. After studying for half a year, I worked as a health worker on a naval degaussing ship. After the Cultural Revolution, the college entrance examination was resumed, and soldiers in the army could also apply for military schools. Wang Shuo said: "What was admitted at that time was enviable, and it was a shame that people were not admitted at that time. Wang Shuo was thrown out again. " 1978, the navy was reorganized, and Wang Shuo changed to a military warehouse as a military doctor. While working in the warehouse, Wang Shuo wrote his first novel, Waiting, which was published in theNo. 1 1 issue of PLA Literature and Art. 1980 worked as a literary social worker in the people's liberation army for several months, and then retired from the army to work in Beijing pharmaceutical company. 1983 resigned from a pharmaceutical company and tried to do business, but it was not very successful. 1in the summer of 984, Wang Shuo met Shen, who was about to graduate from Beijing Dance Academy.