Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Zhang Xianliang

Born: December 8, 1936
Died: September 27, 2014 (aged 77)
Bio: Zhang Xianliang was a Chinese novelist, essayist, and poet, and former president of the Chinese Writers Association in Ningxia. He was detained as a political prisoner during the Anti-Rightist Movement in 1957, until his political rehabilitation in 1979.
Known for:
- Grass Soup (1994)
- Half of Man Is Woman (1986)
- My Bodhi Tree (1996)
- Getting Used to Dying (1989)
- Mimosa and Other Stories (1985)