Wang Hai is the vice president of Shaanxi Writer s Association and Xianyang Federation of Literary and Art Circies, resident writer of Ocean Universifit of China, honor ary dean of Xianyang Literature Research Institute, Major works of Wang Hai include: The Ghost Mountain, which is a collection of short stories; novels The OLd Tomb, Prisoner, Paradise, Clty Gates. In 2006, one of Wang Hai s novels, Paradise was adapted into Long Gone the Bell Tone, a stage play, by Shaanxi People s Art Theater, The play was awarded the “outstanding play” by the Ministry of Culture of People s Republic of China and was selected to cast on the China Drama Centennial Memorial and National Outstand- ing Drama Performan nched by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Ministry of Culture of People s Republic of China. The novel was recommended as one of the “mus- read books in Chinese l on the Frankfurf Internationai Book Fair in 2009, City Gates won the national prize of “Five-One Project” of Shaanxi province in 2012, and was adapted into a movie by the same name by Changchun Film Studio.