Xu Xiaobin 徐小斌

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Xu Xiaobin, born in 1953 into an intellectual family in Beijing, spent nine years in the countryside and at a factory during the Cultural Revolution. In 1978 she entered the Chinese University of Central Finance just after universities had reopened and entrance examinations were held nation wide. She began publishing her writings in 1981.

Xu Xiaobin is noted for writings of searing emotional honesty about gender and sexuality, that push the boundaries of what is politically acceptable in today's China. Her novel Crystal Wedding was published in 2015, translated by Nicky Harman and was long-listed for the 2016 Financial Times Oppenheimer Emerging Voices Award and won a PEN Translates award.

For a recent article she wrote for PEN Atlas, see here, Amid a Sea of Red Flags

 

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Book Publications

Crystal Wedding cover

Crystal Wedding

| Nicky Harman

January 01, 2016

Dunhuang Dream cover

Dunhuang Dream

| John Balcom

May 01, 2011

Original Works

Short story (2)

Novel (3)

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