Xu Xiaobin, born in 1953 into an intellectual family in Beijing, is a member of the Chinas Writers Association. She spent nine years in the countryside and at a factory during the Cultural Revolution until 1978 when she entered the Chinese University of Central Finance just after universities had reopened and entrance examinations were held nation wide. She began publishing her writings in 1981. Currently she works as a staff screenplay writer at Chinas Television Production Center. She has published numerous fictions, novellas and collections of prose.