Xu Xiaobin
Xu Xiaobin was born in 1953 in Beijing. She spent nine years in the countryside and at a factory during the Cultural Revolution, until 1978 when she entered the Central University of Finance and ...
Qiu Xiaolong
Qiu Xiaolong was born in Shanghai, China. He published prize-winning poetry, translation and criticism in Chinese in the eighties, and became a member of the Chinese Writers' Association. In 1988, he ...
Mu Xin
Mu Xin, born in 1927 in China, is among the last of his generation to receive a classical education. During the Cultural Revolution he was imprisoned for eighteen months and then lived under house ...
Gao Xingjian
Novelist and playwright Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born January 4th, 1940. He has lived in France since 1987. In 1980 Gao became a ...
Xue Xinran
Xinran was born in Beijing in 1958. From 1989 to 1997, she worked as a
radio-presenter and journalist, hosting the program 'Words on the Night Breeze',
in which she invited women to call in and ...
Liu Xinwu
Liu Xinwu was born on June 4, 1942, in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, and has lived in Beijing since 1950. His short story "The Class Teacher" appeared in People's Literature magazine in November ...
Ruiyan Xu
Ruiyan Xu, who was born in Shanghai but came to the U.S. at age 10 without speaking a word of English, graduated from Brown University with honors in creative writing. She won the 2004 Hochstadt ...
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