Lijia Zhang is a Chinese-born writer, journalist, socialcommentator, and public speaker who famously transformed her life after being pulled from school at age 16 to work in a rocket factory producing intercontinental missiles. During that decade of labor, she taught herself English and nurtured dreams of becoming a writer. In the early 1990s, she movedto the UK to study journalism and later earned a master’s increative writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. Known for writing in English, she has contributed commentary to international outlets like TheGuardian, The New York Times, Newsweek, and the South China Morning.Her bestselling memoir Socialism Is Great!:A Worker’s Memoir of the New China (published in the U.S. in 2008/2009) traces her personal transformation against the backdrop of China’s economic reform era and has been translated into multiple languages.
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Highlights of this Episode:
- How Adversity Can Lead to Success
- Never Giving Up
- Personal and External Transformation in China
Books by Lijia Zhang:
- Socialism is Great! A Worker's Memoir of the New China
- Lotus - a novel on the plight of migrant women in Shenzhen's sex trade.
