Hu Bo (Chinese: 胡波, 20 July 1988 – 12 October 2017), also known by his pen name Hu Qian (Chinese: 胡遷), was a Chinese novelist and film director, best known for his only feature film An Elephant Sitting Still (2018), which garnered widespread praise from critics. He died by suicide on 12 October 2017 at the age of 29, soon after he finished that film. His two novels Huge Crack and Bullfrog, both published in 2017, caused a sensation in China.

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