YoYo

YoYo (Liu Youhong) was born in western China, and moved to Beijing in the 70s. She worked as an art editor in the Chinese Theatre Publishing House during the 80s. YoYo began her literary writing in Beijing. She became a visiting scholar at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in early 1989 and was in Auckland when the massacre of Tiananmen Square occurred on 4 June 1989. She decided to remain in exile. YoYo’s writings are based on her complex experience that both troubled and inspired her life in China. She has published several books in Chinese, some of which have already been translated into other languages. Since 1997, YoYo has been living in London and teaching at Eton College in Windsor and at SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies, of the University of London.  Her artistic work includes performances and paintings, which were exhibited in the Berlin Avantgarde gallery. YoYo has been invited to take up writer-in-residence positions and arts projects in China, USA and throughout Europe. She now lives in London and Berlin.

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