SCAF – Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
in partnership with the Sydney Writers’ Festival, proudly presents

Xue Xinran

a celebrated journalist and radio presenter
Introduced by Gene Sherman

Xue Xinran will share from her latest book Buy Me the Sky, recounting stories of men and women born under China’s single-child policy instituted in 1979. From the businessman’s son unable to pack his own suitcase – to the PhD student who pulled herself out of extreme rural poverty, these revered ‘little emperors and suns’ form the emerging face of China.

Thursday 21 May, 2015
6–8pm
Conversation to commence at 6:30 pm

at Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation
16-20 Goodhope Street
Paddington NSW 2021

RSVP by Wednesday, 20 May 2015
02 9331 1112 or bookings@sherman-scaf.org.au

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Xue Xinran was born in Beijing in 1958 and was a successful journalist and radio presenter in China. In 1997 she moved to London, where she began writing her seminal book about Chinese women’s lives, The Good Women of China (2003). She has also written the acclaimed Sky Burial (2005), Miss Chopsticks (2008), China Witness (2009), and Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother (2011), in addition to publishing a book of her columns for The Guardian titled What the Chinese Don’t Eat (2006). She currently lives in London but travels regularly to China. Her charity, The Mothers’ Bridge of Love, was founded to help disadvantaged Chinese children and to build understanding between the West and China. Buy Me the Sky (2015) is her most recent book.