现代中国  (December 1, 1950 AD)

Township：	北京
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　　December 1, 1950 Born in Beijing, one year old with his parents to Europe, grew up in Switzerland in 1956 to return home. 1957-1966 primary school in Beijing, junior high school. 1966 to 1968 were removed from the Cultural Revolution. July 1968 to the countryside in Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps and the days of fighting, and ground fighting, with people fighting more than five years. 1973, reduced to black, at home by their parents to teach yourself. Followed by living in Shijiazhuang, North China Pharmaceutical Factory when the workers. 1978 back to Beijing, into the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social work and graduate school (Department of Journalism Writing professional). University of Massachusetts in 1981 went to study for master's and doctoral degrees in Comparative Literature. Since 1990 teaching at the University of Pennsylvania Digen Sen, has already been made tenured professorship and served as the Head of the Department.