Zhang Xinxin

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zhang.

Zhang Xinxin (simplified Chinese: 张辛欣; traditional Chinese: 張辛欣; pinyin: Zhāng Xīnxīn), (Nanjing, 1953) is a female Chinese writer. She is best known in the west for her book of 100 interviews with ordinary citizens Chinese Profiles (Beijing 1986),[1] revised as Chinese Lives (1988).[2][3] The book was co-authored with journalist Sang Ye (桑晔).

Works

  • On the Same Horizon a novel
Chinese edition: Harvest Magazine, Shanghai, 1981; Sanmin Pablisher Co., Taiwan, 1988
French edition: Actes Sud; Arles, 1987
German edition: Yashima; Bonn, 1986
Japanese edition: Tokumang Company; Tokyo, 1987
  • Where Did I Miss You? a short story
Chinese edition: Harvest Magazine; Shanghai, 1979
  • The Collected Short Stories of Zhang Xinxin
Chinese edition: Beifang wenyi Publishing Co.; Haerbin, 1985
  • The Dreams of Our Generation a novella
Chinese editions: Harvest Magazine; Shanghai, 1982
Sichuan Literature Publishing Co.; Chengdou, 1985
Xinde Publishing Co.; Taiwan, 1987
English edition: Cornell Eastern Program; Ithaca, 1986
German edition: Yashima; Bonn, 1986
  • Orchid Mania a novella
French edition: Actes Sud; Arles, 2004,1988
Chinese edition: Wenhui Monthly Magazine; No. 9, 1983
Japanese edition (in the volume titled On The Same Horizon): Tokumang Company, Tokyo, 1987
  • Chinese Lives (co-authored with Sang Ye) an oral history
Chinese editions (Peking Man: One Hundred Chinese Self Portraits): Shanghai Wenyi Publishing Co.; Shanghai, 1986; Linbai Publishing Co.; Taiwan, 1987
English editions (Chinese Lives):
Pantheon Books; New York, 1987
MacMillan; London, 1987
Irwin; Ontario, 1987
Penguin Books; London, 1989
(Chinese Profiles):Panda Books; Beijing, 1987
French edition (L'homme de Pekin): Actes Sud; Arles, 1992
Panda Books; Beijing, 1987
German edition (Peking Menschen): Diederichs; Koln, 1986
Japanese edition (The Conditions of Chinese Women and Money Doesn't Fall from Heaven): Heibonsha; Tokyo, 1986
Swedish edition (Leva I Kina): Forum; 1988
Dutch edition (Mensen in China): Wereldvenster, 1987
Norwegian edition (Arvingene hverdag etter Mao): Aschehoug, 1988
Danish edition: Tiden, 1989
Spanish edition: Editorial Ausa, 1989
Russia edition：
  • On the Road non-fiction
Chinese edition: Sanlian Publishing Co.; Hong Kong, 1986
French edition (Au Long Du Grand Canal): Actes Sud; Arles, 1992
  • Feng/Pian/Lian(Postcard and Bandits) a novel
Chinese edition: Writers' Publishing Co.; Beijing, 1986
Liby Publishing Co.; Hong Kong, 1987
French edition (Le Courrier des Bandits): Actes Sud; Arles, 1989
  • Lonely Drifter:
A Wanderer Between the East and the West-- My Journey on The Web non-fiction
Chinese Edition: Intelligence Publishing Company, Beijing 2000
  • Me and the VOA: A Collection of Commentaries non-fiction
Chinese Edition: Chinese Social Science Publishing, Beijing 2000
  • Stylish Adventurer of the World: A Short Essay Collection non-fiction
Chinese Edition: Shen Yang Publing Co., Shen Yang 2002
  • Dark Paradise: My Observations of Hollywood in the New War non-fiction
Chinese Edition: Hua Cheng Publishing Co., Guanzhou, 2003

References

  1. ↑ Modern Chinese Women Writers: Critical Appraisals - Page 215 Michael S. Duke - 1989 "This quotation and other observations about Zhang Xinxin's life and thought are based on personal discussions with the ... 16 Sang Ye, "About Chinese Profiles," Chinese Profiles: 371. l At least one Chinese critic has remarked on the fruitful "
  2. ↑ Chinese lives: an oral history of contemporary China Xinxin Zhang, Ye Sang, William John Francis Jenner - 1988
  3. ↑ Mao's Children in New China: Voices from the Red Guard Generation - Page xxvi Yarong Jiang, David W. Ashley - 2000 "Sang Ye and Zhang Xinxin, eds, Chinese Profiles (San Francisco: China Books and Periodicals, 1987), which contains interviews with 100 ordinary Chinese citizens, some of whom are from the Red Guard generation. One of the earliest works of this type was B. Michael Frolic, Mao's People: Sixteen Portraits of Life in Revolutionary China 1981"
  • Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature
  • Jeffrey C. Kinkley, ‘The cultural choices of Zhang Xinxin, a young writer of the 1980s’, in Paul A. Cohen and Merle Goldman (eds), Ideas across cultures: essays on Chinese thought in honor of Benjamin I. Schwartz, pp. 137–162. Harvard University Asia Center, 1990.
  • Jiang, Hong, ‘The Masculine-Feminine Woman: Transcending Gender Identity in Zhang Xinxin’s Fiction’, China Information 15.1 (2001), pp. 138–65.
  • Kinkley, Jeffrey C., ‘Modernism and Journalism in the Works of Chang Hsin-hsin’, Tamkang Review 18.1–4(1987-8), pp. 97–123.
  • Wakeman, Carolyn and Yue, Daiyun, ‘Fiction’s End: Zhang Xinxin’s New Approaches to Creativity’. In Michael S.Duke (ed.), Modern Chinese Women Writers: Critical Appraisals. New York: M.E.Sharpe, 1989, pp. 196–216.
  • Zhang Xinxin, ‘A “Bengal Tigress” Interviews Herself’ and ‘The “June 4 Syndrome”: Spiritual and Ideological Schizophrenia’, in Helmut Martin (ed.), Modern Chinese Writers: Self-Portrayals. Armonk: M.E.Sharpe, 1992, pp. 137–46 and pp. 165–7.

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