Dong Fu (pen name of Wang Dongyu), was born in 1951. His father was a veteran CCP cadre who was earlier a member of the underground party and later in charge of economic policy. In 1969, Dong Fu went to the countryside as a send-down youth, and in 1970 he enlisted in the army, where he served as a press officer, and later as an editor of the Chengdu Military Region's *War Flag* newspaper. After the Cultural Revolution, he studied in the Journalism Department of Sichuan University, later became the director of the editorial office of the *Ethnicity and Nation* magazine, and has been engaged in writing ever since.
