Yu Xiaohui (; born 1949) is a Chinese novelist. Yu is a member of the

Chinese Communist Party The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the China, People's Republic of China (PRC). Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the CCP emerged victoriou ...

and

China Writers Association China Writers Association or Chinese Writers Association (CWA, ) is a subordinate people's organization of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (CFLAC). Founded in July 1949, the organization was initially named the China National Liter ...

. She shared the

Mao Dun Literature Prize Mao Dun Literature Prize () is a prize for novels, established in the will of prominent Chinese writer Mao Dun (for which he personally donated 250,000 RMB) and sponsored by the China Writers Association. Awarded every four years, it is one of t ...

with her husband Sun Li in 1991.

Biography

Yu was born in

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

in 1949. She worked in Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps in 1968. She graduated from Tianjin Normal University in 1974. After graduation, Yu worked in Tianjin Art Academy () and Tianjin College of Traditional Chinese Medicine () as a teacher. Yu started to publish novels in 1981. She joined the

in 1991.

Works

Novels

* ''Rhapsody of Metropolis'' () (co-author: Sun Li) ** English translation: ''Metropolis'' translated by David Kwan. Beijing: Panda Books, 1992. * ''Wishing We Last Forever'' () (co-author: Sun Li)

Awards

* ''Rhapsody of Metropolis'' – 3rd

(1991)

Personal life

Yu married novelist Sun Li, they co-wrote the novels ''Rhapsody of Metropolis'' and ''Wishing We Last Forever''.

References

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