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 Performance lunched 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.
