Wang Xiaoni

Wang Xiaoni 王小妮 was born in Changchun, Jilin in 1955, and graduated from Jilin University in 1982. She moved to Shenzhen in 1985, where she now makes a living as a writer. She also teaches at Hainan University. Her first book, A Selection of My Poetry, was published in 1986. She has written books of poetry, short stories, novels, and essays, and has received numerous awards, including the second annual Chinese Literature Media Award in 2004.


Articles by Wang Xiaoni

Friday June 16

Class Notes: A Protest March

September 2012, they chose to take to the streets, band together, and shout as much as they liked. It fulfilled an inner need for which other people abandoned rationality…

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Wednesday September 18

Selected Poems of Wang Xiaoni

The night of the typhoon, the sky was full, the world destroyed. // From west to east, herds of black cattle rolled on their heads / the wind’s hoofs beat at the windows / everything on the ground rose to the sky.