Major works of Liang Xiaosheng (born in 1949) include: Father (a short story), Snowstorm is to come tonight (a novelle), a series of novel collections including If heaven can show affections, This is a piece of supernatural land, Worldly Life, A Lamp shade made of silver birch cortex, and Black button; full-length novels like A Snowy City and Growth Ring, etc.

Liang’s works approximately fall into two categories: one is Novels about Intellectual Youngsters and the others are relatively realistic and natural novels. His novels about intellectual youngster represent a generation of intellectual younsters’ pursuit for their ideals and their selfhood spirits during the Cultural Revolution, an absurd historical movement while sing the praise of the heroic spirits in a tempest era and a trial environment with passions. In Snowstorm is to come tonight, which has been taken as a milestone masterpiece among Novels about Intellectual Youngsters, there have depicted such admirable images as Cao Tieqiang, Liu Maike, and Pei Xiaoyun in a rough, violent, and severe atmosphere. The whole novelle have a vigorous and firm vigor while being gloom, solemn and stirring and having a strongly fragrant heroic and romantic tinge, which is the overall artistic style of Liang’s Novels about Intellectual Youngsters. The other category of Liang’s works are relatively realistic and natural with all such works coming out of urban, rural, academic and household life, thus representing his intention to explore his living view and embodying a lively realistic style.