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Chen Danqing, born in August of 1953 in Shanghai, is a Chinese painter, art critic, and public intellectual. After graduating from middle school in 1969, he was sent to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, where taught himself to paint. In September of 1978, he entered the Department of Oil Painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing as part of the first class of graduate students admitted since the end of the Cultural Revolution. In 1980, he created the highly influential Tibetan Series, Xi Zang Zu Hua. After his graduation he remained in the Central Academy of Fine Arts to teach until 1982, when he came to New York to advance his personal studies as an artist. From 1982 to 2000, Chen lived in New York as a freelance artist. In January of 2000, he accepted the invitation to teach at the Art Institute of Tsinghua University in Beijing. He resigned from teaching in 2006 to devote himself exclusively to writing and painting.
As an art critic and writer, Chen has published more than ten books of essays and several books of his artwork.
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He currently lives in Beijing.
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Joanne Wang is the founding editor at Four Seasons Press. Born in Beijing, she studied English literature at Fudan University in Shanghai. After graduation, she came to New York to advance her studies. Having worked for a number of years in publishing in NY, she resigned to start her own literary agency in 2000. She has, since then, worked as a freelance translator and a literary agent with a strong emphasis on Chinese books. She lives in New York.
Chinese books in English translation represented by Joanne Wang (a selective list)
Mu Xin
An Empty Room, stories
Qiu Miaojin
Last Words from Montmartre, a novel
Xu Xiaobin
Feathered Serpent, a novel, co-translator
Dunhuang Dream, a novel
Yu Hua
To Live, a novel
Chronicle of a Blood Merchant, a novel
Cries in Drizzle, a novel
Brothers, a novel
Wang Gang
English, a novel
Qian Zhongshu
Fortress Besieged, a novel
Gao Wenqian
The Last Perfect Revolutionary, a Biography of Zhou Enlai, co-translator
Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao
Will the Boat Sink the Water? The Life of China's Peasants, non-fiction
Jiang Qisheng
My Life in Prison, a memoir
Zhang Boli
Escape from China: From Tiananmen to Freedom, a memoir
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Other books represented by Joanne Wang (a selective list)
James Keller
Listeners Guide to Chamber Music
Oxford University Press
Peter Rand
Conspiracy of One, non-fiction
Marjorie Shaffer
Pepper, a History of the World’s Most Influential Spice
Mia Yun
Translation of Beauty, a novel
Leslie Li
Daughter of Heaven, a memoir
Lin Yutang, more than ten books in English and Chinese re-published in China
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