The books focus on how rural parts of China have been left behind by the country in the past few decades as it experienced seismic economic growth.
[3] More recently, she has published two novels, The Light of Liang Guangzheng (Chinese title: 梁光正的光) and Four Forms.
[citation needed] Liang now is a professor in literature at Renmin University, Beijing;[5] specialising in scholarly research on twentieth century Chinese literature.
She was previously a visiting scholar at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
[citation needed] Her academic works include: Yellow Flower Moss and Soap Horn Trees, Construction of New Enlightenment Discourse, Notes of Foreign Affairs, The Disappearance of "Spiritual Light", "Homestalgia" as a Method and her academic essay collection History and My Moments.