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Fan is a trustee and a long-time volunteer at the British charity The Mothers’ Bridge of Love’ (MBL), which helps adoptive families in the west to understand China, and also builds libraries for rural children in China. In 2016, she co-organized the Southern China International Literary Festival in
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in late 90s. The three years of working in China has allowed her to "witness the unprecedented economic boom, as well as the exploitation of workers from poor provinces and the countryside." She received a
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Tse, Kelly Y.N. (2015). "(En)Gendering Global China: Lesbian Affectivity in Fan Wu's February Flowers". In Yakalı Çamoğlu, Dikmen (ed.).
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writer. She often translates her own work between English and Chinese. She has expressed her dilemma in choosing which language to use.
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issues. Her writing is populated with characters who are travelers, both physically and psychologically. Her debut novel,
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for ten years. She began to write in 2002, while working full time. She currently resides in northern
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and other leading publications. Her short story has been anthologized, translated and nominated for
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has been translated into eight languages and sold in more than fifteen countries
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Chinese Immigrants in Silicon Valley and Beyond - San Jose Awesome Foundation
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living in the US, with a particular focus on women's life, identity, and
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in mid-90s, where she obtained a BA. Afterwards, she went to work in
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Fan Wu On Adventures in Writing and Being Published in the West
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in the United States; multicultural issues; women's issues
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February Flowers review - Curled Up With A Good Book
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February Flowers review - Musings of a Bookish Kitty
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In 2020, she co-founded Society of Heart's Delight (
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Besides writing fiction, she has reviewed books for
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as a story "with intelligence, insight, and heart."
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Fan Wu (2009)
Chinese
Nanchang
Jiangxi Province
Sun Yat-sen University
Stanford University
China
Chinese immigrants
Chinese
Chinese-American
novelist
short story
Nanchang
Jiangxi Province
Cultural Revolution
Chinese Language and Literature
Sun Yat-sen University
Shenzhen
Guangzhou
the United States
Stanford University
Master's degree
Mass Media
Stanford University
market research
Yahoo!
Silicon Valley
California
China
Chinese immigrants

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