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Author Biography

XueMo, formerly known as Chén Kāihóng. A renowned cultural scholar, he also is leading contemporary Chinese writer, Vice-Chairman of Gānsù’s Writers’ Association, Dean of The Guăngzhōu Research Institute for Xiāngbā Culture, and Humanities Tutor at Fùdàn University.

XueMo’s writing is deeply influenced by his native roots in western China and captures the essence of traditional Chinese culture. His writing style combines hallucinatory realism with the depiction of the reality of rural life in China and the inner worlds of Chinese people. He employs a variety of literary forms including novels, poems, and philosophical essays, and his work has investigated the themes of love, freedom, life  and death, and humans’ relationship with nature. His works have enjoyed extensive Chinese media coverage, received critical acclaim and are regularly identified as seminal literature from China’s western provinces.

XueMo is also known as a spiritual writer whose work presents an alternative lifestyle for people today. Many readers claim to have overcome periods of confusion and rediscovered a light within  themselves under his guidance.

XueMo has been nominated three times for the Máo Dùn Literature Prize. He won the Dūnhuáng Literature and Art Award six times in succession, and gained further recognition winning the Féng Mù Literature Prize and  the Red Eagle Literature Prize for Chinese Writers. In 2015 the author ’ s name was recognized as one of the ten leading brands in China thanks to his influence in the field of cultural studies His books have been published by high profile publishers around the world and translated into over 20 languages. Titles available in English are: Desert Rites, Desert Hunters, Curses of X ī xià Dynasty, The Holy Monk and the Spirit Woman, The World is A Reflection of the Mind, The Essence of Mahamudra, and Love letters From the Goddess.

Selected Stories by XueMo has been translated into more than fifteen languages, and the Guardian newspaper selected and published one story in the anthology - "Old Man Xīnjiāng " - in their five top short stories from contemporary China collection.

As Angus Stewart said ,a well -konwn blogger from the Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast in UK,"You couldn’t get to grips with fate, but the enemy

you could see and touch was your own body."“ On this trek, we are like the heroines in the short novel,we get into self-help, we get really close to death, and we take up a rifle loaded with... weirdly sentient bullets. It will make sense when we explain it… maybe…”

Sarah Lam ,A anchor on the BBC Radio 4 ,commented: “What touched me the most is each characters in author XueMo ’ s Book , they are both ordinary and simple women, but lead a tenacious and great life…When you read this book ,You absolutely lived in it,Your heart is in their heart,I cann't come out in the end to three days ,like whole life time ,you can't drive away."