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XI XI<\/strong>\u00a0(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\u00a0My City<\/em>\u00a0(1993),\u00a0A Girl Like Me and Other Stories\u00a0<\/em>(1996),\u00a0Marvels of a Floating City and Other Stories\u00a0<\/em>(1997) and\u00a0The Flying Carpet<\/em>\u00a0(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.<\/p>\n FAN XIAOQING<\/strong> \u8303\u5c0f\u9752 (1955-), a Nantong native, was born in Suzhou City of east China\u2019s 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\u2019s Political Consultative Conference. So far, she has published 18 novels, including \u201cA Woman Comrade,\u201d \u201cBarefoot Doctor Wan Quanhe\u201d and \u201cIncense;\u201d and more than 300 novellas and short stories, including \u201cA Brief History of Country and City.\u201d She has also written many essays and screenplays. Fan\u2019s works have been published in many languages, including English, French, Japanese and Korean. Her short story \u201cA History of Cities and Villages\u201d won the Lu Xun Literature Prize; her novel \u201cExpression of a City\u201d 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\u2019s Literature <\/i>and Beijing Literature.<\/i><\/p>\n OUYANG XIU<\/strong> \u6b50\u967d\u4fee (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 <\/i>and ci <\/i>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 <\/i>and wrote the New History of the Five Dynasties. <\/i><\/p>\n FU XUAN<\/strong> \u5085\u7384 (217-278) was an official, scholar, and poet of the State of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period and later under the Jin Dynasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Biographies of Contributors X XI XI\u00a0(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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1791,"featured_media":0,"parent":74,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"orig-auth":[],"auth-translator":[],"class_list":["post-349","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/metamorphoses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/metamorphoses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/metamorphoses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/metamorphoses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/metamorphoses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/metamorphoses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/metamorphoses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/349\/revisions\/823"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/metamorphoses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/metamorphoses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"orig-auth","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/metamorphoses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/orig-auth?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"auth-translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/metamorphoses\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/auth-translator?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}