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, the pen name of Chen Kaihong, was born in Liangzhou, Gansu province. The author of many works of fiction, poetry, and prose, he is a six-time winner of the Dunhuang Literature and Art Award and has been nominated three times for the Mao Dun Literature Prize. is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of . Her previous translations include and , both also published by SUNY Press.