Meet bestselling Chinese author Shuang Xuetao with The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing
- Date
- Wednesday 17 September 2025, 3:30 - 5.45pm
- Location
- Clothworkers North Cinema Room (2.31)
Amazing Literary Event hosted by The Leeds Centre for Chinese New Writing
Date - Wednesday 17 September 2025, 3:30 - 5:45 pm
Location - University of Leeds, Clothworkers North Cinema Room (2.31)
Join The Leeds Centre for Chinese New Writing as it welcomes author Shuang Xuetao 双雪涛 to Leeds, to talk about his writing and the screen adaptations of his work. After the discussion with the author, we will be screening an episode of a TV adaptation of part of his work, 平原上的摩西, which has the English title Why Try to Change Me Now.
Shuang Xuetao is one of the most highly celebrated young Chinese writers. Born in 1983 in the city of Shenyang, Shuang has written six volumes of fiction, for which he has won the Blossoms Literary Prize, the Wang Zengqi Short Story Prize, and, most recently, the Blancpain-Imaginist Literary Prize for the best Chinese writer under forty-five. His short stories and novellas, including “Moses on the Plain,” have been adapted into major television productions and feature films. Rouge Street, translated by Jeremy Tiang, was his first book to appear in English. Shuang lives in Beijing.