Chen Maiping (born November 4, 1952, in Changshu, Jiangsu) is a Chinese-Swedish writer and poet, known by the

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Wan Zhi (). He has written mostly

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the old ...

, and has also translated literature from

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and

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

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. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Chen was an avid contributor to the non-sanctioned, underground literature magazine '' Jintian'' (''Today''). For this, he became watched by the Chinese authorities, and since 1986 he is living in

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. After the

Tiananmen Square massacre The Tiananmen Square protests, known within China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of unsuccessful attempts between t ...

in 1989, he started ''Jintian'' for Chinese in exile and dissentients within China. Chen moved to Sweden in 1990. He has among other things taught Chinese at

Stockholm University Stockholm University (SU) () is a public university, public research university in Stockholm, Sweden, founded as a college in 1878, with university status since 1960. With over 33,000 students at four different faculties: law, humanities, social ...

, and worked as a translator. He is also the vice president and secretary general of the Independent Chinese

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Centre. He is married to translator and librarian

Anna Gustafsson Chen Anna Gustafsson Chen (; born 18 January 1965) is a Swedish literary translator and sinologist. She is notable for translating the work of Mo Yan (the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature winner) into Swedish. Her translations are directly tied to Mo Ya ...

, who, among other things, has translated Nobel laureate

Mo Yan Guan Moye (; born 5 March 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (, ), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. In 2012, Mo was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work as a writer "who with hallucinatory realism merges fol ...

into Swedish.

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