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Wang Xiaobo

Died in 1997

Wang Xiaobo was born in Beijing on 13 May 1952; his father, the logician Wang Fangming, had been expelled from the Party, according to China Digital Times. Sent as an educated youth to Yunnan in the late 1960s, then to Shandong, he entered Renmin University in 1978 to study commerce. He obtained a master's degree at the University of Pittsburgh, taught at Peking University and Renmin University, then devoted himself entirely to writing from 1992. He died of a heart attack in Beijing on 11 April 1997.

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