Zhang Xian Liang was a Chinese novelist, essayist, and poet, and former president of the Chinese Writers Association in Ningxia.
He was detained as a political prisoner during the Anti-Rightist Movement in 1957, until his political rehabilitation in 1979. His most well known works, including "Half of Man is Woman" and "Grass Soup", were semi-autobiographical reflections on his life experiences in prison and in witnessing the political upheaval of China during the Cultural Revolution.

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