Sheng Xue

Sheng Xue, or Reimonna Sheng (; born 1962), is the pen name of Zang Xihong , a Chinese-Canadian journalist and writer, and human rights activist.

Background Sheng Xue grew up in Beijing, and moved to Canada soon after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.

Xue is a member of PEN Canada, and also a member of The Independent Chinese PEN Center (ICPC), both of which belong to International PEN. She is a member of the Writers in Prison Committee of ICPC.

Xue is the Canadian correspondent of Radio Free Asia and the North American correspondent of Deutsche Welle (Voice of Germany). She is also a regular commentator or columnist for a couple of media.

In 2001, she received the Canadian Association for Journalists Award for Investigative Journalism, and the Canada's National Magazine Award, for an investigative report, "The Smuggler's Slaves", on the lives of Chinese boat refugees published in the Canadian magazine Maclean's. She is the first Chinese Canadian to win such prestigious awards.

In 2005, Sheng won the Journalism and Media Award from the National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada, for her outstanding achievements, contributions, and community service and in recognition of her efforts in promoting understanding the traditions and the interests of Chinese-Canadian communities, her leadership, courage and dedication for the promotion of multiculturalism, human rights, respect of human and cultural values, integrity and equality among all Canadians.

In 2001, Sheng Xue investigated China's most prominent smuggling case and published a book (in Chinese), Unveiling the Yuan Hua Case , which soon became a best seller in Chinese communities outside mainland China and created shock waves both inside and outside China. The Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party immediately banned the book.

A collection of Sheng Xue's poems (in Chinese), Seeking the Soul of Snow , was published in Jan 2008 by United Writers Press, Hong Kong. The poetry collection has also been banned by authorities in mainland China.

United Writers Press also published a collection of Sheng Xue's essays (in Chinese), Lyricism From a Fierce Critic in August 2008. This book has also been banned in China.

She also starred two Canadian movies, Small Pleasures in 1993, and Chinese Chocolate in 1995. She also starred a stage drama (in Chinese), He Zhu Xin Pei , in 1997.

Sheng Xue was the Writer in Residence at Carleton University, Ottawa, in the winter of 2007, the Writer in Residence at McMaster University for the winter of 2009,

Books Unveiling the Yuan Hua Case , Mirror Books, New York, USA, 2001. . Seeking the Soul of Snow , United Writers Press, Hong Kong, Jan 2008. . Lyricism From a Fierce Critic , United Writers Press, Hong Kong, August 2008. .

All of these three books have been banned in China.

Starring Small Pleasures , 1993 film, Canada. (Reimonna Sheng as Zhao Qing) Chinese Chocolate , 1995 film, Canada. (Remona Sheng as Francis Huang) He Zhu Xin Pei , 1997 stage drama in Chinese, Canada. (Sheng Xue as He Zhu)

Family Grandfather Zang Qifang (, 1894–1961) was the Mayor of Tianjin from 1930–1931, and the president of Dongbei University from 1937–1947. He also held some other important government/academy positions in China before 1949, and in Taiwan after 1949.

Father Zang Pengnian Mother Li Guiqin Husband Dong Xin