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Fan Xiaoqing, a Suzhou-native writer and chairwoman of Jiangsu Writers Association, shared her literary creation experiences and opinions on modern society and life at SIP Library on Apr 26. The event was the fourth session of a cultural dissemination program SIP Public Culture Center launched in January to invite renowned intellectuals to give monthly lectures on different cultures. 

It is learnt that Fan began to publish at the age of 25 and has turned out 20 novels and more than 400 novelettes, short stories, proses and essays, and has received a list of the country’s most prestigious literary awards.

Fan started her talk with the examples of English writer Charles Dickens and several contemporary writers to expound on the relations between literary creation and society to the participants. Then she shared with them her views on selective knowledge acquisition in the era of knowledge explosion, and offered tips for writers to keep a keen insight into social phenomena for their literary creation.


April 26, 2019