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Lijian Zhao
Before immigrating to the US, Ms. Zhao was a professor of literature at Nanjing University in China. She first came to Harvard University as a Visiting Scholar in 1987, and now lives outside of Bos...view moreBefore immigrating to the US, Ms. Zhao was a professor of literature at Nanjing University in China. She first came to Harvard University as a Visiting Scholar in 1987, and now lives outside of Boston. Born into a high ranking Communist family, Ms. Zhao was provided with a birds eye view of Chinese society. Her experiences of Chinese political upheaval from the anti-Rightist movement until the Cultural Revolution, the ups and downs, the bitterness and the sweetness, the sorrow and bliss of her personal life have mirrored the metamorphoses of modern China under Mao and provided her with the material for her fiction.view less