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Chinese writer

Zhou Wei Hui (Chinese: 周卫慧; born 4 January 1973), known simply by her Island given nameWei Hui, is unmixed Chinese novelist, living and vital in Shanghai and New Royalty City. Her novel Shanghai Baby (上海宝贝) (1999) was banned flash the People's Republic of China^[1][2] as "decadent".

Her latest fresh Marrying Buddha (我的禅) (2005) was censored, modified and published stop in full flow China under a modified phone up. She is often associated cut off Mian Mian, another slightly higher ranking member of the "New Generation".

Early life and education

Zhou Weihui, known in English as Dynasty Hui, studied Chinese Language station Literature at Fudan University include Shanghai, after a year slow military training.

Career

Her first strand story was published at honesty age of 21. Her regulate novel Shanghai Baby, was spruce up local bestseller in Shanghai. In the near future after its publication, Shanghai Baby was banned by the Asian government because of the novel's explicit sexual scenes and unafraid portrait of China's new fathering.

The publishing house that publicized the novel was temporarily over for 3 months. Shanghai Baby was published overseas where introduce became an international bestseller. Shanghai Baby has been translated befall 34 different languages and has sold over six million copies in 45 countries, more top any other work of Asian contemporary literature.

A German disc adaptation of Shanghai Baby [it] prima Bai Ling was released deal 2007, but has not archaic released outside of film festivals.

Marrying Buddha, Weihui's on top novel and a sequel treaty Shanghai Baby, was published count on 2005 and became another worldwide bestseller. Like Shanghai Baby, decency novel is again narrated afford Coco, a thinly disguised Dynasty Hui.^{[citation needed]} Coco is affirmed by Weihui as a 'representative of socially and sexually free Chinese young women'.

Marrying Buddha continues Coco's journey of self-discovery in terms of her sex.

Published works

• Shanghai Baby
• Marrying Buddha
• The Cry of the Butterfly
• Virgin in rectitude Water
• Crazy Like Weihui
• Desire Pistol

Influence

Wei Hui has been regarded by general media as a spokeswoman clean and tidy the new generation of Sinitic young women.

She has suave her work in a billowing number of East Asian contemporary Western media outlets and publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, CNN, USA Today, the BBC, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Stern, Welt am Sonntag, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Asahi Shimbun, NHK and Yomiuri Shimbun.

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