Ge Shuiping is the Vice-Chairperson of the Shanxi Writers Association, the Chairperson of the Shanxi Women’s Writers Association, one of Central Publicity Department “Four Talents,” State Council Special Allowance Expert, and Professor at Shanxi University’s School of Chinese Language and Literature. Her work includes novels Naked Earth and Living Water, collected novellas and short stories Mountain Cry, Humidity of the Land, Swinging Whip, Keep Watching, and collected essays The River Takes Away Both Sides, Bustling Streets, Water Out of Water, and reportage literature An Assembly of Clouds and Stones in the Sand. Her novel Naked Earth won the first Chinese Writers Association’s Jianmen Pass Literature Award and the Ordos Literature Award. Her novella “Dejimeiduo” won the Ding Ling Literature Award. Her novella “Shouting at Mountains” won the fourth Lu Xun Literature Prize, the People’s Literature Prize, and the Selected Novels Prize. Her television series include Crouching Tiger of the High Peaks and Ordinary World.