Xinran was born in Beijing in 1958 and was a successful journalist and radio presenter in China.
She lives in London but travels regularly to China..
Since then she has written a regular column for the Guardian , appeared frequently on radio and television and published the acclaimed Sky Burial and a book of her Guardian columns called What the Chinese Don\'t Eat .
In 1997 she moved to London, where she began work on her seminal book about Chinese women\'s lives, The Good Women of China .
Xinran was born in Beijing in 1958 and was a successful journalist and radio presenter in China