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

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, and has also translated literature from

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and

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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 exile. After the

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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

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, 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 Yan ...

, who, among other things, has translated Nobel laureate

Mo Yan Guan Moye (; born 17 February 1955), better known by the pen name Mo Yan (, ), is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine ''TIME'' referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirat ...

into Swedish.

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