Zhu Xiao Di

Zhu Xiao Di (Chinese: 朱小棣; pinyin: Zhū Xiǎodì; Wade–Giles: Chu Hsiao ti, born 1958) is a Chinese-American writer. He authored a novel, Tales of Judge Dee,[1] a biographical work, Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood[2][3] and Youth in Communist China, and a collection of essays in Chinese, Leisure Thoughts on Idle Books (闲书闲话).

Background

Born in 1958 in Nanjing, China, Zhu Xiao Di is a graduate of MIT with a master's degree in City Planning (1991). He also received a master's degree in American Civilization from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1989.

Between 1992 and 1997, he worked at the Center for Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He also worked for Arthur Andersen & Co. as a management consultant between 1995 and 1996. He has been at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University since 1997.

Publications

Thirty Years in a Red House (University of Massachusetts Press, 1998)
Tales of Judge Dee (stories about Judge Dee)
Leisure Thoughts on Idle Books (Guangxi Normal University Press, 2009; essays)

References

Dover, J. K. Van (2014-11-04). The Judge Dee Novels of R.H. van Gulik: The Case of the Chinese Detective and the American Reader. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-9621-1.
King, Richard (2000). "Review of Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China". China Review International. 7 (1): 281–283. ISSN 1069-5834. JSTOR 23731976.
Li, Li (2016-06-09). Memory, Fluid Identity, and the Politics of Remembering: The Representations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in English-speaking Countries. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-32355-1.

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[1] Dover, J. K. Van (2014-11-04). The Judge Dee Novels of R.H. van Gulik: The Case of the Chinese Detective and the American Reader. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-9621-1.

[2] King, Richard (2000). "Review of Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China". China Review International. 7 (1): 281–283. ISSN 1069-5834. JSTOR 23731976.

[3] Li, Li (2016-06-09). Memory, Fluid Identity, and the Politics of Remembering: The Representations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in English-speaking Countries. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-32355-1.