Zhang Xinxin (writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Zhang Xinxin (writer)

Chinese writer

Date of Birth: 04-Oct-1953

Place of Birth: Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

Profession: dramaturge, film director

Nationality: China

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Zhang Xinxin (writer)

  • 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).
  • Her key works include:

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