Wang Zhousheng

Wang Zhousheng, is a Chinese writer now living in Shanghai, China. After working on a state farm in rural China for many years during the Cultural Revolution, Wang Zhousheng later lived in Philadelphia and Los Angeles during the 1980s while accompanying her husband on his studies. She graduated from the School of Literature at Shanghai University majoring in culture management and is currently an associate researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Literature, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. She is also a board member of the Shanghai Writer's Association. Wang Zhousheng has written more than ten books, including The Student's Wife (novel), Madam Red (collection of short stories) and The Trace of a Smile (collection of essays). She is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, such as the Shanghai Novel-Nouvelle Award (1994) and the Tianjin Novel Monthly Bai Hua Award (1995 and 1997).

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