Gao Xing was born in Wujiang, Jiangsu in 1963. He majored in Eastern European Literature in Beijing Foreign Study University and graduated in 1987. He was a visiting scholar at Indiana University from 1995-1996. From 2001-2002, he acted as Consul of the People's Republic of China in Constatsa. He is now Deputy Editor-in-Chief of World Literature Magazine. His works include A Concise History of Romanian Literature (1993) and The Drawers of Heart (2004). He also translated and published such books as Selected Poems of Ana Blandiana, An Anthology of Romanian Poems, My First Loves, Vincent van Gogh, among others. He lives in Beijing. [Read]