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          The writings of Zhang Xianliang (b) present an important case study for tracing the interplay of memory, voice and self-reflection in the first decades..

          Zhang Xianliang was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, in At the age of 19, he moved to the Ningxia Hui autonomous region and began to write.

        1. Zhang Xianliang was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, in At the age of 19, he moved to the Ningxia Hui autonomous region and began to write.
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        3. The writings of Zhang Xianliang (b) present an important case study for tracing the interplay of memory, voice and self-reflection in the first decades.
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        5. He stands apart from Beijing literary politics, living and working in the backward northwest region ofNingxia, to which he was forced to migrate 35 years ago.

          6. Zhang Xianliang

          Zhang Xianliang (Chinese: 张贤亮; December 1936 – 27 September 2014) was a Chinese novelist, essayist, and poet, and former president of the Chinese Writers Association in Ningxia.

          He was detained as a political prisoner during the Anti-Rightist Movement in 1957,[1] until his political rehabilitation in 1979. His most well known works, including Half of Man is Woman and Grass Soup, were semi-autobiographical reflections on his life experiences in prison and in witnessing the political upheaval of China during the Cultural Revolution.[2]

          Life

          Zhang Xianliang was born in 1936 into an upper-middle-class family in Nanjing, then the capital of the Republic of China.

          His father was a Kuomintang official and industrialist who managed a number of companies. Following the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War, Zhang's father was accused of espionage, and later died in prison.[3]

          Zhang began publishing poetry at the age of 13.