China

Xu Zechen 

Born in 1978 in Jiangsu Province, Xu obtained a master's degree in Chinese literature at Peking University, and is now an editor at People's Literature magazine. Despite this pedigree, Xu's…...

Li Kunwu 

Li Kunwu has had over thirty comics works published as a State Artist in China.

Zheng Xiaolou 

Zheng Xiaolu is the pen name of Zheng Peng, who was born in 1986 in Longhui, Hunan.  His stories have been published in several literary magazines in China. He has also published a collection of short…...

Zheng Peng 

Hsia Yu 

Hsia Yü (sometimes spelled Xia Yu) is the author and designer of five volumes of groundbreaking verse, most recently Pink Noise (2007), a bilingual collection of English-language poems and computer-generated…...

Yu Xiang 

A key figure of the post-70s Chinese poets, Yu Xiang ( 宇向) was born in 1970 and began writing poetry in 2000. She has been actively involved in contemporary art, underground music, and avant-garde…...

Yang Jian 

Born in Anhui Province in 1967, Yang Jian worked as a factory laborer for thirteen years before writing poetry during the mid-eighties. Recognized as one of the greatest living Chinese poets, Yang Jian…...

Xi Xi 

Xi Xi was born in Shanghai, China, in 1938 but has lived in Hong Kong since 1950. She is the author of more than two dozen volumes of fiction, poetry, and belles lettres, and is among Hong Kong’s…...

Chihoi 

Chihoi is a young Hong Kong artist and writer whose graphic fiction has been showcased at the Bilbolbul Festival in Bologna, the Festival BD à Bastia in Corsica, and the “China Comix Now”…...

Yang Zi 

Yang Zi (1963 – ), an acclaimed contemporary Chinese poet, is the author of a dozen books, including Border Fast Train (1994), Gray Eyes (2000), and Rouge (2007). After his university studies in…...

Hermit Tai Shang 

If anyone knows anything about Hermit Tai Shang ("The Eminent Hermit"), please contact the translator.

Cen Shen 

(715-70) was a friend of the illustrious Tang poet Du Fu, and served for some ten years in the northwest frontier. The ninth day of the ninth month (Double Nine, Zhong Yang Jie) is a fall holiday also…...

Su Shi 

's (1037-1101) favorite poet was the fourth-century poet Tao Yuanming. He writes, "Neither Cao Zhi, Liu Zhen, Bao Zhao, Xie Lingyun, Li Bai, or Du Fu achieves his stature. . . . This is not to say…...

Li Bai 

 (701-62) is the Li Po in the Lorine Niedecker poem "Swept snow Li Po . . ."

Cai Que 

(1037-93) was a minister in the reign of Emperor Shen Zhong. He was accused of blasphemy and died in prison.

Gao Shi 

(702-65) was a beggar turned military secretary. He was a "frontier poet"; served in Central Asia and Tibet.

Zhang Wei 

(720-70) was a minor official.

Qi Wu-Qian 

(692-749) was a censor and worked in the Palace Library during the Tang Dynasty.

Wei Tsung-cheng 

Wei Tsung-cheng (b. 1982) is a Taiwanese manga artist whose most recent work, Ma Huang Jiang Lin (King-Ma Has Come), epitomizes the best of kuso, a product of the Asian Internet subculture where outrageous…...

Liu Cixin 

A computer engineer by trade, Liu Cixin began writing science fiction in the early 1990s. Since the publication of his first story in 1999, he has won multiple Galaxy awards for his short fiction and is…...

Liao Yiwu 

Liao Yiwu, poet, novelist and documentarian, lives in Sichuan province, China. His collection of interviews, The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories, China from the Bottom Up, was published by Pantheon in…...

Wang Dan 

Wang Dan, writer, essayist and poet, was the most prominent leader of the Tiananmen student pro-democracy movement. Following the Chinese government's crackdown on June 4, 1989, he was arrested and…...

Xiao Kaiyu 

Xiao Kaiyu was born in 1960 in Sichuan province, and trained and worked as a doctor of Chinese medicine. He is the author of several volumes of poetry and has published poems and essays in various official…...

Zhang Lian 

Zhang Lian was an elementary school teacher for several years, but he has spent most of his life as a farmer, eking out a living growing sunflowers and potatoes.　He has never left the land he tills.　His…...

Airuo 

Airuo was born in 1971 in Tongcheng, Anhui Province, and now lives in Beijing. He was formerly the executive deputy editor in chief of Travel China (magazine) and editor in chief of the website Chinese…...

Zhang Shaomin 

The poet and writer Zhang Shaomin was born in Hunan Province and works in Beijing in the publishing industry.

Zhu Wen 

Born in Fujian (South China) in 1967, Zhu Wen graduated from Nanjing University in 1989. From 1989 to 1994 he worked as an engineer in a thermal power plant, during which time he began writing fiction.…...

Yuan Qiongqiong 

Yuan Qiongqiong has been a prolific author since the 1970s, and is highly acclaimed for her short stories and essays. She has also published poetry under the name Zhu Ling, and has written a novel, numerous…...

Sheng Keyi 

Sheng Keyi was born in Yiyang, Hunan province, in the 1970s. She settled in Shenzhen during the 1990s before moving to Dongbei in 2001. In 2002 she began her career as an author and received the ímost…...

Zhao Ying 

Zhao Ying has published eight novels, including Dawn Shines on the Phoenix Tree and Jordan's Mysterious Letter. She has received numerous literary awards at both the national and provincial levels…...

Wang Anyi 

Wang Anyi (b. 1954) is among the most widely read and anthologized authors of the post-Mao era. A breaker of taboos, she is considered a spokesperson for China's younger generation. Her works are noted…...

Liu Sola 

Liu Sola (b. 1955) is a composer, a highly individualistic vocalist, and a major contemporary fiction writer. She created the first Chinese rock opera, Blue Sky Green Sea, with a libretto based on her…...

Huang Yongmei 

Huang Yongmei was born in Guangxi in the 1970s, and began writing in 2001. The youngest member of the writers' association in Guangxi, she is one of the most prominent young writers in China. Her works…...

Ye Mi 

Ye Mi is based in Suzhou. She began publishing fiction in 1994 and has garnered consistent critical attention and popular readership. Commenting on her own choice of protagonists, Ye Mi says that she likes…...

Yan Lianke 

Yan Lianke was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China. He is the author of many novels and short-story collections and has won China's two top literary awards, the Lu Xun in 2000 for Nian, yue, ri (The…...

Xi Chuan 

Xi Chuan grew up during the upheaval of the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) and is now considered one of the most well-known poets affiliated with the avant-garde literary scene in China. He is professor…...

Can Xue 

Can Xue is the pen name of Deng Xiaohua. She was born in Changsha, Hunan, and still lives there. She first began writing in 1983, and her stories have appeared in various literary magazines in mainland…...

Du Mu 

Du Mu (803-52) is, among the masters of the late Tang dynasty, especially admired for his skill with short poems, many of which were composed in the New Style quatrain.

Ba Jin 

Ba Jin was born in 1904 in the city of Chengdu, Sichuan, China. His real name is Li Yaotang. In 1927 he moved to France and wrote his first novel, Destruction (1929). He has lived in Shanghai, Japan, and…...

Pu Song-ling 

Pu Song-ling, a Qing dynasty writer, was born in Shandong province. His most famous work is the Liaozhai Zhiyi (Strange (Historical) Stories from a Studio for Leisurely Conversations), a collection of…...

Yang Lian 

Yang Lian was born in Switzerland in 1955, and grew up in Beijing. He began writing when he was sent to the countryside in the 70s, and on his return became one of the first group of young "underground"…...

Zhang Wei 

Born in 1956 in the small seaside town of Longkou, Shangdong Province, in Mainland China, Zhang Wei spent his early years in a forested area in Shangdong Province. Much under the influence of his family,…...

Gu Cheng 

Gu Cheng (1956-93) was one of the innovative writers of "misty poetry" (menglung shi) who emerged in the immediate post-Mao years. He began writing poetry as a child in Shandong province where his parents…...

Wang Wei 

Wang Wei (701-61) may be China's most immediately appealing poet, and historically he was no less revered as a painter. Rather than rendering a realistic image of a landscape, Wang is traditionally…...

Zhang Er 

Zhang Er was born in Beijing, China, and moved to the United States in 1986. Collections of her work in Chinese include Seen, Unseen, published by QingHai Publishing House of China in 1999, and Water Words,…...

Li Xiao 

Li Xiao was born in 1950 in Shanghai. He is the son of Ba Jin, China's oldest surviving writer from the 1920s, who is deeply respected at home and abroad for his writings and his personal integrity.…...

Gao Ertai 

Gao Ertai is an artist, calligrapher, writer, critic, and philosopher. He has published four collections of essays on beauty and freedom in Chinese. Parts of In Search of My Homeland have been translated…...

Yu Hua 

Yu Hua is the author of To Live (Anchor Books, 2003) and Chronicle of a Blood Merchant (Pantheon, 2003), a selection of the B&N Discover Great New Writers program. Born in 1960 in Zhejiang, China,…...

Yu Jian 

Yu Jian was born on 8 August 1954 in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan. With the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution in 1966, his schooling was interrupted, and his parents were forced to leave…...

Shan Sa 

Shan Sa was born in 1972 in Beijing. She left China for France in 1990, studied in Paris, and worked for two years for the painter Balthus. Her two previous novels were awarded the Prix Goncourt du Premier…...

Wang Ping 

Wang Ping was born in Shanghai and grew up on a small island in the East China Sea. After three years of farming in a mountain village, she attended Beijing University. In 1985 she left China to study…...

MuXin 

MuXin is the pen name of a renowned Chinese diasporan writer and artist currently living in the New York area. MuXin was born in Wuzhen, of South China, into a wealthy aristocratic family with business…...

Toming Jun Liu 

Toming Jun Liu is the pen name of Liu Jun. Liu was born in Xi'an, China, and is a professor in the Department of English, California State University, Los Angeles, where he teaches American literature,…...

Yan Bin 

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