Name Wang Xiaobo Parents Song Hua, Wang Fang Ming Movies East Palace, West Palace | Role Novelist | |
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Nationality People's Republic of China Books Silent Majority, My Spiritual Homeland Siblings Wang Chen Guang, Wang Xiao Ping, Wang Zheng, Wang Xiao Qin | ||
Wang Xiaobo (Chinese: 王小波; pinyin: Wáng Xiǎobō) (May 13, 1952 – April 11, 1997) was a renowned contemporary Chinese novelist and essayist from Beijing.
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Life
He was a sent-down youth in Yunnan during Cultural Revolution. From 1978 to 1982, he studied at Renmin University of China. He went to the United States to continue his education in 1984 and received a master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1988. After his return to China, he taught at Peking University and Renmin University of China. He became a freelance writer in 1992. On April 11, 1997, Wang died of a heart attack in Beijing.
List of works
Wang Xiaobo wrote several novels, short stories collections and essays, some of which have been translated into English, French and Italian.
Novels
Short story collections and Essays
Filmography
References
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