Jian Ping/Author - "MULBERRY CHILD"

Jian Ping is the daughter of a high-ranking government official in China. She grew up during the Cultural Revolution, living through traumatic chaos, hardship, and deprivation. She has a bachelor's degree in English from Jilin University, Changchun, China and a master's degree in Film and a master's degree in International Affairs from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. She worked at the China's Film Distribution and Exhibition Company in Beijing for four years as a translator. Her publications in China include A Fool's Paradise, a translation of a collection of short stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer, published by Xiwang Publishing. Her translations of articles on film theory appeared in Art of Film, a quarterly magazine. Her publications in the US include The Chinese Film Theory, published by Praeger, New York. She worked as co-editor and translator on that book. Jian Ping has completed several writing programs, including Creative Nonfiction Writing at Northwestern University and Memoir Writing at the University of Chicago. She held a residency at Ragdale, the fourth largest artist retreat center in the US, and was the recipient of the Florence Bear Picker Fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation. Now Jian Ping works as National Director Tsingtao Beer for the US importer of the brand. Her business dealings with the Tsingtao Brewery has taken her back and forth to China several times a year for twenty years, keeping her abreast with the development of China today and in close contact with her family members. Jian Ping lives with her husband and daughter in Chicago.