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Introducing Xujun Eberlein

Xujun Eberlein is an e-friend of mine. She grew up in Chongqing and moved to the US in 1988 to study at MIT. She gave up hi-tech for writing and has won a bunch of literary awards. Her first book, Apologies Forthcoming, a collection of stories based on... ...full story at Peking Duck

from Peking Duck on Sun, May 25 2008

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06 Nov 08 visit Woeser: Voice of Tibet (ICT Panel Discussion)  »  YouTube videoDespite Chinas tight control over information flow within its society, a growing number of Tibetan literary elites are playing an important role writing, blogging and interacting with the Chinese populace, voicing their minds through stories, poems, and...
06 Jun 08 visit “Apologies Forthcoming” - A Conversation with Xujun Eberlein  »  Peking Duck Xujun Eberlein grew up in Chongqing, China, and moved to the United States in the summer of 1988. After receiving a Ph.D. from MIT in the spring of 1995, and winning an award for her dissertation, she joined a small but ambitious high tech company. On...
30 Oct 09 visit Xujun Eberlein's Apologies Forthcoming  »  Danwei Hong Kong's Blacksmith Books has published a short story collection by Xujun Eberlein. Below is an introduction to the book by Pete Spurrier, of Blacksmith, followed by an extract from the book. Introduction to Apologies Forthcoming by Pete...
31 Jul 08 visit Swimming with Mao, a memoir essay  »  Danwei Xujun Eberlein's new book of short stories Apologies Forthcoming This memoir piece 'Swimming with Mao' is by Xunjun Eberlein, author of the new short story book Apologies Forthcoming. Though this non-fiction piece does not appear in the story collection,...
28 Apr 09 visit Reprint: Conflicts and Clashes are the Social Norm  »  China Beat China Beat checks in regularly with Xujun Eberlein at her blog Inside-Out China, and we've run pieces by Xujun in the past. In early April, she ran another in her series of translations of Chinese materials. We thought this continuation of her translation...
25 Sep 09 visit Real and imagined opportunites in Beijing  »  Danwei Xujun Eberlein at Inside-Out China reviews Jonathan Tel's The Beijing of Possibilities, a collection of stories about the city: In recent years, there has been no shortage of nonfiction books set in Beijing written by expats, but fiction in the same...

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