Bi Shumin

Bi Shumin is a distinctive writer. She has many roles besides a writer, doctor, soldier, psychologist and mother. Her works are related with these different roles, which give her a distinctive perspective. The style of her writing is gentle and exquisite. When I read her writings, I feel like listening to an old mother.

She starts formal writing after twenty years’experience of a doctor. She has published two million words from 1987.

Her first work is <Kunlun shang>, which describes military training in Kunlun border area. Many young soldiers are freeze to death because of the terrible climate. The inspiration of this story comes from her real experience that serves in the army on the Tibetan Plateau. Many of her works are related with the experience. The experience of soldier makes her work heroic and generous, which distinguish with the trifling style of writing in 1980s.

At the same time, she is a doctor and psychologist. That adds much humanistic concern to her works. She pays attention to the existence and psychology of people in the city. She is good at showing the question of life and death. <endless life> shows us a mother who lost her daughter and is pregnant with another child. The process of that makes us moved. <order death> analyzes death in a deep way. <red prescription> shows her attention to the problem of drug taking. <save breast> shows her loving care for patients of breast cancer.

Besides soldier and doctor, she is also a mother. The style of her writing also has mother’s gentle and wise. She has the perspective of women and writes the life of women. She has many essays about women. Such as <remind happiness>, .

Bi shumin mix soldiers’ hardihood, doctors’ kindness and women’s keenness together. These make her works have both criticize of realism and humanistic concern of romanticism. These are uniqueness of Bi Shumin.