"Wang Xiaobo was one of China's most innovative writers of 20th Century. Much of his fictional writings are satirical portrayals of the social upheavals in China during his lifetime. He often used sexuality as a platform for exploring issues of human diginity and social repression. His literary influences included Italo Calvino, George Orwell, Marguerite Duras, Milan Kundera, Bertrand Russell, and Ernest Hemingway. Though his writings didn't enjoy much commercial success before he died of heart illness in 1997 at the age of 45, they became hugely popular among young people in China soon after his death."

http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~mrl/WangXiaoBo/

Born around the same time as Yu Hua, Wang Xiaobo was so urbane, so ahead of his time that his works are appreciated the most among young modern Chinese thinkers.

He was vocal about the loss of freedom and humanity in cultural revolution, but in a sarcastic way that makes young Chinese won't mind getting to know that savage and frightening part of history.

Unfortunately, there is only one book that has been translated into English, Wang in love and Bondage:

http://www.amazon.com/Wang-Love-Bondage-Novellas-Xiaobo/dp/0791470652