1980s 'New Realistic Fiction': 1 Ding Ling: The Sun Shines on the Sanggan River 2. Cheng: King of Chess 3 Margaret Atwood: Gone with the Wind 4. Xiao Hong: Life and Death Arena 5 Easy: Torch 6. Shi Zhecun: Spring Silkworm Lu Xun: Diary of a Madman 8 Zhang Ailing: Red Rose and White Rose 9 Maugham: The Moon and Sixpence 10. Ernest Hemmingway: A Farewell to Arms These works all reflected the Chinese society at that time, the fate of women, youth and love, and so on. They were the representative works of the new realism literature.