Yang Jisheng was born in 1940, joined the Communist Party in 1964,
and worked for the Xinhua News Agency from January 1968 until his
retirement in 2001. He is now a deputy editor at Yanhuang Chunqiu
(Chronicles of History), an official journal that regularly skirts
censorship with articles on controversial political topics. He is
the author of the book Tombstone.
Stacy Mosher learned Chinese in Hong Kong, where she lived for
nearly 18 years. She is the co-translator of Yang Jisheng's
Tombstone. A long-time journalist, Mosher currently works as an
editor and translator in Brooklyn.
Guo Jian is Professor of English at the University of
Wisconsin-Whitewater. Originally trained in Chinese language and
literature, Guo was on the Chinese faculty of Beijing Normal
University until he came to the United States to study for his PhD
in English in the mid-1980's. He was a translator of Yang Jisheng's
Tombstone.
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