Zhang Xinxin (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???; pinyin: Zhang Xinxin), (Nanjing, 1953) is a female Chinese writer.
She is best known in the west for her book, co-authored with Sang Ye (??), of 100 interviews with ordinary citizens, published as Chinese Profiles (Beijing 1986), and revised as Chinese Lives (1988).
Zhang Xinxin grew up in Beijing.
In the early 1980s she trained in theatre directing at the Central Drama Academy, Beijing.
The fiction she published in the 1980s earned her both acclaim and criticism.
Since then she has written several novels, short stories and poems, and works of non-fiction (essays, commentaries, news reports and scenarios), as well as film, TV and radio work (directing, presenting and scriptwriting).