Literature
Ma Jian
Writer
Literature.
Ma Jian was born in Qingdao, China, in 1953. After working as a photojournalist for a state-run magazine, he left China for Hong Kong in 1987 after a clampdown in which some his works were banned, but continued to return to China, notably to support the pro-democracy activist in Tiananmen Square in 1989. In 1997, he moved to Germany, and in 1999 he again moved to England.
He is the author of Red Dust, winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award; The Noodle Maker, a novel; and Stick Out Your Tongue, stories about Tibet that prompted the Chinese government to ban Ma Jian’s work, and that set him on the road to exile. He is also the author of Beijing Coma, released in 2008.
He now lives in London with his partner and translator, Flora Drew.
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Gregor Benton 班国瑞
Professor of Chinese HistoryEducation. Literature.
Gregor Benton, who graduated in Oriental Studies from Cambridge in 1968, is Professor of Chinese History at Cardiff. Before that, he was Associate Professor in the Centre for Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam (1979-89) and Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds (1989-99).
He has published books on Marxism, political humour, the history of the Chinese Communist Party, Red guerrillas in China in the 1930s, the Sino-Japanese War, dissent in China, Chinese Trotskyism, Hong Kong, the theory of moral economy, and overseas Chinese.
His Mountain Fires: The Red Army’s Three-Year War in South China, 1934-1938 (Berkeley 1992) won several awards, including the Association of Asian Studies’ prize for the best book on modern China.
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Jo Ho
Screenwriter and Film DirectorEntertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Literature.
Jo is an award-winning film director and screenwriter who was born in Dagenham, Essex.
Jo currently has a big budget fantasy kids TV series in development with CBBC. Live action/cgi, the series is described as ‘Buffy set in a Chinese spirit world’. It is envisioned that the series, once commissioned, will be shot entirely in China – a first for the BBC.
After studying art at the University of Westminster, Jo went on to work in feature films in production on varying roles until she eventually realized her dream was to write and direct.
While she was working in production, she was profiled in CREATION magazine as a ‘young, driven and fanatically hardworking woman’.
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Benjamin Yeoh Seng-Loong
WriterArts. Entertainment. Film, TV & Radio. Literature. Theatre.
Ben is an award winning writer. He is one of the first British born Chinese writers to be performed in the UK.
Ben was born near London to a Singaporean mother and Malaysian father. He studied at Westminster School, Cambridge University and Harvard University.
Ben studied experimental psychology, behavioural neuroscience within Natural Sciences at Cambridge. There he also started directing plays. He won a scholarship to Harvard, where he trained in dramaturgy, directing and writing.
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Xinran Xue
Writer and Founder of Mother’s Bridge of Love charityCharities. Literature.
Xinran (full name Xinran Xue) is the founder of the charity Mother’s Bridge of Love. This charity aims to provide help and support for adoptive mothers of Chinese children. Mother’s Bridge of Love seeks to provide overseas Chinese children with a link to their heritage and culture, and also to provide for the millions of Chinese children growing up in poverty, with little chance of a quality education.
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Xiaolu Guo
Novelist, Filmmaker and EssayistFilm, TV & Radio. Literature.
A novelist, filmmaker and essayist, Xiaolu Guo was born in a fishing village in the south of China in 1973. In 2000 she was awarded an MA in Film from the Beijing Film Academy and then came to London to study at the National Film and Television School. Her most recent documentary, The Concrete Revolution, was screened at the Raindance Independent Film Festival, the Oxford International Documentary film festival and the New York film festival.
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