Li Xiao

Li Xiao (born 1950), a Chinese writer originally named Li Xiaotang, is a native of Chengdu, Sichuan, and a son of the writer Ba Jin and Xiao Shan. He graduated from the Department of Chinese at Fudan University in 1982 and later worked as an editor in the Office of Cultural and Historical Materials of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He began publishing in 1986 and has written story collections including Romance in a Small Town, Keep Practicing, The Overpass, The Last Supper, and Standing at Forty. He received the National Excellent Short Story Award and the National Excellent Novella Award, and joined the China Writers Association in 1991. His works are mainly fiction and prose essays, often drawn from daily life and personal experience, with a plain and delicate style. It should be noted that the works held in the collection cover management, finance, law, popular science, and medicine, while public information on his writings in these fields is limited, so no further inference is made here.