Xue Yiwei | |||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 薛忆沩 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 薛憶溈 | ||||||
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Xue Yiwei ( Chinese: 薛忆沩, born in 1964 [1]) is a Chinese-born Canadian author.
His hometown is Changsha, Hunan, and his birthplace was Chenzhou in the same province. [2] He attended the Beijing University of Aeronautics (now Beihang University) in a computer science program, gaining a BsC. Next he attended the Université de Montréal, taking a program in English literature, attaining a Master of Arts. Finally he attended the Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in a doctoral program in linguistics and received his degree. [3]
In 2002, he relocated to Canada, [4] due to his disenchantment with the materialism-focused direction of literature in his home country. In February, he occupied an apartment in proximity to the St. Joseph Oratory, [5] in Côte-des-Neiges. [6] In 2016, CBC Radio presented him as having a high level of popularity in China, known to "millions of people". [6] Ha Jin stated that Xue is a "maverick". [6]
Shenzheners was his first work translated into English. [7] Previously, he was not known among Anglophone audiences, and he lived in Montreal in relative obscurity. [5]
[...]The good news is that, unlike Dr. Bethune's Children which the Chinese reader has never had an opportunity to read,[...]