Liu was born in Yanjin, Henan Province in 1958. In 1973 he joined the People's Liberation Army and spent five years in the Gobi desert. In 1978, he took the gaokao and got the highest score in Henan Province admitted into the prestigious Peking University. After graduating from university, he became a journalist at the Farmers Daily.
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This very query was posed to Liu Zhenyun, one of the country's most celebrated literary figures, at an event on Wednesday at the annual London Book Fair... The hilarious tone of Liu's book also left this particular reader in stitches.