Guest at the ilb 2004, 2008 Xi Chuan (real name Liu Jun) was born in Xuzhou, in the Jiangsu province of the People’s Republic of China, in 1963. He studied English at the Beijing University between 1981 and 1985, and later worked as an editor for the magazine »Huangqiu« (Globe).
Xiaolu Guo was born in 1973 and grew up in southern China. She studied at the Film Academy of Beijing and the National Film and Television School in London. As a prizewinning, but censorship-restricted writer of screenplays, she initially published several acclaimed and widely translated novels. In 2002, Guo moved
born in Hengyang in 1988, is a journalist and author. She came to Germany with her family when she was four years old. She studied at the German School of Journalism in Munich and then worked as a freelance correspondent. Since 2018, she has been reporting from Beijing as China
Yan Lianke was born in 1958 in Luoyang, Henan, China. His parents were farmers. During his time in the People’s Liberation Army, he wrote propaganda texts. Due to their often grotesque-satirical nature and subversive undertones, some of his novels have been banned in China. He often comments on the process
Wei Hui was born in 1973 in Ningbo near Shanghai. In 1990 she was among the first students compelled to complete a full year of compulsory training at a military school, following the student unrests. It was at this time that she began to write. Wei Hui studied Chinese Language
Tianxin Cai was born in Huangyan, in the South East of the People’s Republic of China, in 1963. He studied mathematics and received a doctorate with a dissertation on number theory from Shandong University in 1987. For several years Cai was a visiting lecturer and professor in France and North and
Columnist for Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh. Grew up in Taiwan, and now lives in Cologne. After studying literature at National Taiwan University, she moved to Hamburg and later to Bochum, where she completed her master’s degree and was an instructor of Chinese literature. From 2001 to 2010 she worked in the
Tang Xiaodu was born in 1954 in Yizheng, in the province of Jiangsu. After completing his degree in Chinese Studies at the Nanking University, he worked as an editor for several publishing houses and magazines, including »Poetry Monthly«. Early on in his career he emerged as a translator of European
Sim Chi Yin is an artist making work around issues of history, memory, extraction and conflict. She’s a nominee member of Magnum Photos and was commissioned to make an exhibition for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2017.
born in 1975, is a freelance journalist, writer, podcaster, and co-founder of One Way Space Beijing, a bookstore with an attached culture-centre and online-media company. She has more than two decades of experience in print and internet media, and previously worked as political analyst for the International Crisis Group and
Ouyang Jianghe, a significant figure in modern Chinese poetry, was born in 1956 in Luzhou in the province of Sichuan. According to the »Down to the Countryside Movement«, he was sent to work as a tea grower after leaving school. From 1979 he did four years military service. Ouyang Jianghe
