Xinran Xue
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Xinran Xue is a British-Chinese journalist and broadcaster, born in Beijing (Beping) in 1958. Xue often uses her first name, Xinran, to identify herself as the author of work. In the late 1980s, she began working for Chinese radio and went on to become one of China's most successful journalists. In 1997 she moved to London, where she initially worked as cleaner. In London, she began work on her seminal book about Chinese women's lives The Good Women of China where she unearths the truth of Chinese woman in a country ruled by Chairman Mao and Communism also during the Cultural Revolution and her second book Sky Burial. She now has a regular column in The Guardian and many western media outlets. She is married to Toby Eady (whose mother is Mary Wesley) and has a son named Pan Pan Xue from a previous relationship.
In 2006, her book What the Chinese Don’t Eat was published. It is a collection of the letters she has answered about the similarities and differences between China and Britain.
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Sky Burial, her second novel.
