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Zhang Xinxin

Zhang Xinxin was born in Nanjing on 4 October 1953 and grew up in Beijing. Sent as an educated youth to Heilongjiang, she then served in the army as a nurse, and was a nurse in Beijing until 1976. Admitted in 1979 to the Central Academy of Drama to study directing, she worked at the Beijing People's Art Theatre. Attacked in the press in 1983, she collected with the journalist Sang Ye interviews with ordinary Chinese people, translated into many languages. She left to study in the United States at the end of the 1980s and has remained there.

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