Truck-driving lyricist makes literary splash

Born in Yongjia town in Chongqing's Tongliang district in 1963, Zhou was a fan of literature as a child.

After his graduation from high school, Zhou spent four years as a farmer and then moved to the city to make a living. He served as a porter, a plumber and electrician in Chongqing and as a sailor in Guangzhou. In the meantime, he signed up for a one-year correspondence course for creative writing in Chongqing and completed the course at age 24.

With a daughter to raise and parents to look after, Zhou and his wife sold their house to buy a truck in 1998, and Zhou became a truck driver hauling general merchandise and construction steel from one district to another in Chongqing.

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