Xue Xinran
Sign in to saveXuē Xīnrán (, pen name Xinran, born in Beijing in 1958) is a British-Chinese journalist, author, speaker, and advocate for women's issues. She was a popular radio personality in China with a call-in program named "Words on the Night Breeze" from 1989 to 1997. The program focused on women's issues and life stories. She was well known for travelling extensively in China to interview women for her work. In 1997, she moved to London and began writing stories of the women she met along her journeys. Her first book, The Good Women of China, was published in 2002, becoming an international bestseller
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1958-01-01
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Book of Secrets
- Sky Burial Header
- Promise
- Nacer Mujer En China/ Born a Woman in China
- Nacer Mujer En China. Las Voces Silenciadas
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,371x
- Cancer statistics in China, 2015
· 2016 · cited 11,304x
- Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,908x
- A metagenome-wide association study of gut microbiota in type 2 diabetes
· 2012 · cited 5,942x
- ArcFace: Additive Angular Margin Loss for Deep Face Recognition
· 2019 · cited 5,363x
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- Beijing, China
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- First Military University of People's Liberation Army
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- Xinran
- Writer.spouse
- Toby Eady (died 2017)
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Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 1958
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Xuē Xīnrán (, pen name Xinran, born in Beijing in 1958) is a British-Chinese journalist, author, speaker, and advocate for women's issues. She was a popular radio personality in China with a call-in program named "Words on the Night Breeze" from 1989 to 1997. The program focused on women's issues and life stories. She was well known for travelling extensively in China to interview women for her work. In 1997, she moved to London and began writing stories of the women she met along her journeys. Her first book, The Good Women of China, was published in 2002, becoming an international bestseller. She frequently contributes to The Guardian and the BBC.
==Education== First Military University of People's Liberation Army, 1983–1987; English and International Relations