Wang Xiaolin (1953– ) was 16 when she went to live and work in the rural areas of Jingmen county, Hubei province, as a sent-down youth. In 1971, she worked at the Yangtze River Shipping Company, and was then admitted to the Telecommunications Department of the Northern Jiaotong University as a Worker-Peasant-Soldier student in 1973. After graduation, she joined the China Academy of Transportation Science as a communications engineer, retiring in 2001. As an independent writer, she has published her works in *[Yanhuang Chunqiu](https://minjian-danganguan.org/collection/%E3%80%8A%E7%82%8E%E9%BB%84%E6%98%A5%E7%A7%8B%E3%80%8B1991%E5%B9%B47%E6%9C%881%E6%97%A5-%E7%AC%AC1%E6%9C%9F)* (*China Through the Ages*, which the archives holds) and *Wengu* (*Reviewing the Past*) magazines, and is the author of *Gu Zhun and His Times* and *The Brothers Mingjian Xue & Yefang Sun*. She is also a volunteer of the Sun Yefang Economic Science Foundation.
