Xu Xingye


Xu Xingye was a Chinese novelist. One of his works, Broken Golden Bowl, won the Mao Dun Literature Prize, a prestigious literature award in China.

Biography

Xu was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang in 1917.
He graduated from Wuxi Academy of the Traditional Chinese Culture in 1937. After graduation, he worked in Shanghai.
Xu started to publish works in 1980. He died in Shanghai in 1990.

Works

Novels

Xu married Zhou Yunqin, her father was Zhou Zongliang, a rich merchant in Shanghai. The couple had two sons, Xu Yuanzhang and Xu Yuanjian.