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Biographies of Contributors

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XI XI (1938- ) is the pseudonym of the Chinese novelist, poet and journalist Zhang Yan. Born in Zhongshan, Guandong in China, she came to Hong Kong at a young age. A prolific writer of fiction and poetry, she also writes film, art and literary criticism, and translates. Her works are popular in Taiwan and mainland China. Her best known works include My City (1993), A Girl Like Me and Other Stories (1996), Marvels of a Floating City and Other Stories (1997) and The Flying Carpet (2000). Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1989, she wrote an autobiographical novel, Mourning for the Breast (1992),which was rated as one of the ten best books of the year by China Times (Taiwan); the screenplay of the 2006 film “2 Become 1” is based on this work.

FAN XIAOQING 范小青 (1955-), a Nantong native, was born in Suzhou City of east China’s Jiangsu Province. She was enrolled at the Department of Chinese Languages and Literature of Soochow University in 1978 and graduated from the school in 1982. After serving as a lecturer on literary theories at the university for three years, she was transferred to the Writers Association of Jiangsu Province in 1985 and has been writing ever since. She is now the chairwoman of the Writers Association of Jiangsu Province and a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. So far, she has published 18 novels, including “A Woman Comrade,” “Barefoot Doctor Wan Quanhe” and “Incense;” and more than 300 novellas and short stories, including “A Brief History of Country and City.” She has also written many essays and screenplays. Fan’s works have been published in many languages, including English, French, Japanese and Korean. Her short story “A History of Cities and Villages” won the Lu Xun Literature Prize; her novel “Expression of a City” won the Five-One Project Award and the Short Story Award of China Fiction Academy. She also won many awards given out by Chinese magazines such as Selected Stories, Fiction Monthly, Selected Novellas, Selected Chinese Literature Works, People’s Literature and Beijing Literature.

OUYANG XIU 歐陽修 (1007-1072) was a poet, historian, and scholar-official during the Song Dynasty recognized as one of the Eight Masters of the Tang and Song. He wrote in both shi and ci style poetry, and became known for his relaxed, humorous style. In addition to being a prolific poet, Ouyang also promoted the Classical Prose Movement, and was also responsible for compiling the historical text New Book of Tang and wrote the New History of the Five Dynasties.

FU XUAN 傅玄 (217-278) was an official, scholar, and poet of the State of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period and later under the Jin Dynasty.