A Brief Introduction to the Author of The Fourth Wave

Ding Zhenggeng, 1963, from Hejiang, Sichuan. Member of Chinese Writers Association, editor-in-chief of China Contemporary Art, poet, famous contemporary art critic and art activist. He published more than 10 million words under the pen names of Sangyuan, Moqiu, Qiuyang and Cao, and worked as a porter, barber, clay sculptor and tracker. He used to be a soldier and a spy company in the 43rd Army. Poems such as Children on the Moon and Sleeping Beauty have been translated into English and French and introduced to countries and regions in Europe, America and Southeast Asia. His personal works include Gao Yuanfeng, Yellow Man, Yin Nan, Selected Contemporary Poems, Shen Jie, Introduction to Art Ontology, and lyric poem Ode to the Century (which was written in 30 years and is the longest in the world at present). From 1984, he began to hike in Gobi, desert and southwest minority areas in stages. After 1989, he founded "South Wind of Sichuan" and held "China 1992 21st Century Modern Poetry Exhibition" at his own expense. In the middle and late 1980s, he began to pay attention to the phenomenon of contemporary painting art at home and abroad, and published articles on modern painting. Since 1990, six important works of contemporary art in China have been compiled and published, namely, China Contemporary Art 1990-2000, China Contemporary Art 200 1, Paris Chinese Style, China Contemporary Art 2002, China Case, etc. China contemporary art 2005, China contemporary art 2006, China contemporary art 2007, the fourth wave, China contemporary art 2008 and China contemporary art 2009.