Xinran
Xue Xinran (Xuē Xīnrán 薛 欣然; * 1958 in Beijing ) is a Chinese journalist and writer .
In the 1980s and 1990s she worked as a radio journalist in Nanjing . With her broadcast Words in the Evening Wind she became famous all over China and large parts of Asia. She has lived in London with her husband and son since 1997, where she has been writing about the life of Chinese women ever since. She also works for the Guardian and founded the charity The Mothers' Bridge of Love , an organization that cares for Chinese children who have been adopted by Western foster parents (especially girls abandoned under China's one-child policy ).
Works
- Hidden Voices - Chinese women tell their fate
- Heavenly Funeral - The Story of a Great Love (novel, 2004)
- The Nameless Daughters (novel)
- Words Saved - Journey to China's Lost Generation (2008)
- Chinese Don't Play Mao-Mao - Stories From My Country ( Guardian Collected Columns, 2008)
- Cloud Daughters (2011)
Web links
- Interview with Xue Xinran ( Memento from July 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- Author's page (with photo) from Droemer Knaur
- Interview on DCTP
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Xinran |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Xue Xinran |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sino-British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beijing |