Zhang Xinxin

Zhang Xinxin ( Chinese  張辛欣  /  张辛欣 , Pinyin Zhāng Xīnxīn ; born October 4, 1953 in Nanjing , Jiangsu Province , People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese author .

Life

Zhang was unable to complete her school due to the unrest of the Cultural Revolution as she was sent to work in the country with millions of other youths. It was not until 1979 that she was able to study dramaturgy and directing at the Central Theater Institute in Beijing . Her first novels, which also dealt with the relationship between the sexes in Chinese society, were published in China in the late 1970s.

Zhang's novels On The Same Horizon (1981) and Dream Of Our Generation (1982) were great hits both in China and internationally. In 1986 her volume Pekingmenschen was published in Germany with interviews with people in Beijing , which she put together with the journalist Sang Ye , who was born in Beijing in 1955 . Today she works as a dramaturge and director at the Folk Art Theater in Beijing and continues to write about conditions in Chinese society.

Publications

• 1979: Where did I Miss You. Short story. Chinese at: Harvest Magazine, Shanghai.
• 1981: On the Same Horizon. Novel. Chinese at Harvest Magazine, Shanghai; 1988: Sanmin Publisher, Taiwan.
  • 1987: On the same horizon . Engelhard-Ng, Bonn, ISBN 3-924716-06-4 .
• 1982: The Dreams of Our Generation. Novella. Chinese at: Harvest Magazine, Shanghai.
  • 1986: our generation's dream. Engelhard-Ng, ISBN 3-924716-05-6 .
• 1983: Orchid Mania , short story. Chinese in: Wenhui Monthly Magazine, No. 9, 1983.
• 1985: The Collected Short Stories of Zhang Xinxin . Chinese at: Beifang wenyi Publishing Co., Haerbin, PR China.
• 1986: On the Road , Chinese at Sanlian Publishing Co., Hong Kong.
• 1987: Peking Man: One Hundred Chinese Self Portraits . Chinese at: Shanghai Wengyi Publishing, Shanghai; 1987: Linbai Publishing, Taiwan.
  • 1987: a world full of colors. Construction Verlag, (East) Berlin / Weimar, ISBN 3-351-00758-2 .
  • 1989: Peking people. as dtv paperback, Munich, ISBN 3-423-11072-4 .
• 2003: Dark Paradise: My Observations of Hollywood in the New War . Chinese: Hua Cheng Publishing Co., Guanzhou.

Web links

• Author's website
• Zhang Xinxin , KLfG - Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Foreign Language Literature, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Zhang is the family name here, Xinxin is the first name.