Zhu Xiao Di
{{short description|Chinese-American writer (born 1958)}}
{{BLP sources|date=July 2020}}
Zhu Xiao Di ({{zh|c=朱小棣|p=Zhū Xiǎodì |w=Chu Hsiao ti}}, born 1958) is a Chinese-American writer. He authored a biographical work, Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China,{{Cite journal|last=King|first=Richard|date=2000|title=Review of Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/23731976|journal=China Review International|volume=7|issue=1|pages=281–283|jstor=23731976|issn=1069-5834}}{{Cite book|last=Li|first=Li|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h2pyDAAAQBAJ&q=%22Zhu+Xiao+Di%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA35|title=Memory, Fluid Identity, and the Politics of Remembering: The Representations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in English-speaking Countries|date=2016-06-09|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-32355-1|language=en}} which was listed for further reading in MSN encyclopedia under the topic of "Communism"{{cite web |title=Communism - Further Reading - MSN Encarta |url=http://encarta.msn.com/readings_761572241/Communism.html |date=5 May 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090505215025/http://encarta.msn.com/readings_761572241/Communism.html |archive-date=2009-05-05 }} along with a few other books. He also authored a novel Tales of Judge Dee,{{Cite book|last=Dover|first=J. K. Van|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7S6QBQAAQBAJ&q=%22Zhu+Xiao+Di%22+-wikipedia+judge+dee&pg=PA23|title=The Judge Dee Novels of R.H. van Gulik: The Case of the Chinese Detective and the American Reader|date=2014-11-04|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-9621-1|language=en}} and 6 collections of essays in Chinese including Leisure Thoughts on Idle Books ({{lang|zh-Hans|闲书闲话}}), {{lang|zh-Hans|地老天荒读书闲}}, {{lang|zh-Hans|闲读近乎勇}}, {{lang|zh-Hans|等闲识得书几卷}}, {{lang|zh-Hans|域外闲读}}, and {{lang|zh-Hans|闲读闲记}}.
Background
Born in 1958 in Nanjing, China, Zhu Xiao Di is a graduate of MIT with a master's degree in City Planning (1991). 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 worked at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University between 1997 and 2012.
Publications
- Thirty Years in a Red House {{cite book |last1=Zhu |first1=Xiao Di |title=Thirty years in a red house : a memoir of childhood and youth in Communist China |date=September 1999 |publisher=University of Massachusetts Press |location=Amherst |isbn=9781558492165}} (University of Massachusetts Press, 1998)
- Tales of Judge Dee {{cite book |last1=Zhu |first1=Xiao di, ... |title=Les nouvelles affaires du juge Ti |date=2012 |publisher=10-18 |location=Paris |isbn=978-2264057969}}{{cite book |title=Xin di gong an |year=2011 |publisher=Zhong guo she hui ke xue chu ban she |location=Beijing |isbn=9787500498155 |edition=Di 1 ban}}(stories about Judge Dee)
- Leisure Thoughts on Idle Books {{lang|zh-Hans|《闲书闲话》}}{{cite book |last1=Zhu |first1=Xiaodi |title=Xian shu xian hua = Leisure thoughts on idle books |year=2009 |publisher=Guangxi shi fan da xue chu ban she |location=Guilin |isbn=9787563384426}}{{cite book |last1=Ross |first1=Terrill |title=The China Quarterly no.202 |date=2010 |pages=458–460 |jstor=20749399 |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/20749399}}(Guangxi Normal University Press, 2009)
- 《地老天荒读书闲》{{cite book |last1=Zhu |first1=Xiaodi |title=Di lao tian huang du shu xian |date=2011 |location=Beijing |isbn=9787300128436 |edition=Di 1 ban}}
- 《闲读近乎勇》{{cite book |title=Xian du jin hu yong |date=2012 |publisher=Jin cheng chu ban she |location=Beijing |isbn=9787515503851 |edition=Di 1 ban}}
- 《朱小蔓朱小棣跨洋对话——出国留学与教育“立人”》{{cite book |last1=Zhu |first1=Xiaoman |title=Zhu Xiaoman yu Zhu Xiaodi kua yang dui hua : chu guo liu xue yu jiao yu "li ren" = ZhuXiaoman yu ZhuXiaodi kuayang duihua : chuguo liuxue yu jiaoyu liren |date=2014 |location=Nanjing Shi |isbn=9787565116711 |edition=Di 1 ban}}
- 《等闲识得书几卷》{{cite book |title=Deng xian shi de shu ji juan |date=2014 |publisher=Zhi shi chu ban she |location=Beijing |isbn=9787501579945 |edition=Di 1 ban}}
- 《朱启銮画传》{{cite book |last1=Zhu |first1=Xiaodi |title=Zhu Qiluan hua chuan : Gong chan dang Nanjing mi mi zhan xian de kai pi zhe |date=2015 |location=Beijing |isbn=9787500096078 |edition=Di 1 ban}}
- 《游学看美国》{{cite book |title=You xue kan mei guo : Gen sui zhong mei qing nian da shi ti wu mei guo zhong xue sheng huo |date=2016 |publisher=Shan dong jiao yu chu ban she |location=Jinan |isbn=9787532894789 |edition=Di 1 ban}}
- 《域外闲读》{{cite book |title=Yu wai xian du |date=2017 |publisher=Zhi shi chu ban she |location=Beijing |isbn=9787501594825 |edition=Di 1 ban}}
- 《闲读闲记》{{cite book |title=Xian du xian ji |date=2020 |publisher=Zhong guo da bai ke quan shu chu ban she |location=Beijing |isbn=9787520206266 |edition=Di 1 ban}}
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