Yu Deshui, also known as Sha Bing, is an influential contemporary young writer. His ancestral home is Xiaogan, Hubei, and he grew up in Chongqing. He has successively served as a media reporter, editor-in-chief of newspapers and magazines, and executive deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Local Literature Professional Committee of the Ministry of Culture. He has successively won the title of "National Outstanding Literary Artist", "Master of Chinese Calligraphy", "First Prize of National Reportage", "National Gold Medal of Local Literature" and other honors. He is the author of nearly 20 books including "Guerrillas in Eastern Sichuan" and "Walking through the Swamp of Life".