Tang Xiaolin was born in Yibin City, Sichuan Province in 1959. He has published several collections of literary criticism and his work has appeared in many journals including Contemporary Literary World, Southern Literary World and Chinese Modern Literature Research Series. His essays were selected in the annual China Essay Rankings in 2014 and 2017, among many other selections. In 2012, he won the Journal of Literature and New Criticism’s Newcomer Award, and in 2015 he was awarded the “Important Author Award” for the 30th anniversary of the publication of Literary Free Talk.