Zhu Xiao Di


Zhu Xiao Di is a Chinese-American writer. He authored a novel, Tales of Judge Dee, a biographical work, Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China, and a collection of essays in Chinese, Leisure Thoughts on Idle Books.

Background

Born in 1958 in Nanjing, China, Zhu Xiao Di is a graduate of MIT with a master's degree in City Planning. He also received a master's degree in American Civilization from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1989.
Between 1992 and 1997, he worked at the Center for Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He also worked for Arthur Andersen & Co. as a management consultant between 1995 and 1996. He has been at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University since 1997.

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