Time: May 19, 2017

Lorsang Gyatso, a Tibetan junior majoring in Chinese language and literature at JNU’s School of Humanities, won a first-class prize in the first iReader Writing Competition on Jan. 5 with his first novella, Pear Blossom Town.

Gyatso started writing Pear Blossom Town in June 2015 and spent a year and half conceiving and completing the story. Based on the local history of southwest China, it depicts the female characters' rough life in the warlord era (1911-1927), the entanglements of their children during China’s social transformation, and their grandchildren’s achievements since the reform and opening-up in 1978. With a female character of the second generation as the narrator, the novel portrays a new image of the people in the southwest, a brave, hardworking group who remember all the sufferings yet still love life and, most important, always look to the future.

The first iReader Writing Competition is a national contest co-sponsored by the iReader Technology, Perfect World Network, Dragonfly FM and 22 famous publishers, including the Citic Press, the Writers Publishing House and Fonghong Media.