Chen Maiping

Chen Maiping (born November 4, 1952, in Changshu, Jiangsu ) is a Chinese-Swedish writer and poet, known by the pen name Wan Zhi . After the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, he started Jintian for Chinese in exile and dissentients within China.

Chen moved to Sweden in 1990. He has among other things taught Chinese at Stockholm University, and worked as a translator. He is also the vice president and secretary general of the Independent Chinese PEN Centre. He is married to translator and librarian Anna Gustafsson Chen, who, among other things, has translated Nobel laureate Mo Yan into Swedish.