Zheng Yuanjie (; born 15 June 1955) is a Chinese children's books author, and founder and sole writer of a
children's literature
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magazine known as the ''King of Fairy Tales'' (). The first issue was published in 1984. His characters (including PiPilu, LuXixi, Shuke, Beita and Luoke) are registered
trademark
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Zheng Yuanjie is critical of conventional Chinese
methods of education, claiming that "college education tends to make simple things complicated and hard to understand".
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Living people
1955 births
Chinese male writers
People's Republic of China writers
Charter 08 signatories
Chinese children's writers
People from Shijiazhuang
Writers from Hebei
Writers from Beijing
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