Zhu Xiao Di
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Zhu Xiao Di, author of Tales of Judge Dee, has also authored a biographical work, Thirty Years in a Red House: A Memoir of Childhood and Youth in Communist China, and contributed to Father: Famous Writers Celebrate the Bond Between Father and Child, an anthology including contributions by Annie Proulx, John Updike, Dean Koontz, and Calvin Trillin.
Thirty Years in a Red House (University of Massachusetts Press, 1998) was a Choice magazine Outstanding Books in 1998. Paperback came from the same press in 1999 and a new edition was published by Penguin Books India in 2000. Boston Globe calls it “a splendid lesson in 20th-century Chinese history,” and Library Journal says it is “engrossing and engaging.” The book is listed for further readings in MSN encyclopedia under the topic of "Communism" along with a few other books.
Tales of Judge Dee continues a literary tradition created by Robert van Gulik who wrote a series of mystery books based on a historical figure in 7th century China, Judge Dee, who solved numerous amazing criminal cases and became known as the Chinese Holmes in the West.
Born in 1958 in Nanjing, China, Zhu Xiao Di is a graduate of MIT with a master's degree in City Planning (1991). He also received a master’s degree in American Civilization from the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1989.
Between 1992 and 1997, he worked at the Center for Survey Research at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He also worked for Arthur Andersen & Co. as a management consultant between 1995 and 1996. He has been at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University since 1997.
Zhu Xiao Di is a contributor to The Oxford Handbook of Pensions and Retirement Income (Oxford University Press, 2006), and his publications in academic journals include: “Effects of Housing Push Factors and Rent Expectations on Household Formation of Young Adults,” The Journal of Real Estate Research, 2006, and “Does Housing Wealth Contribute to or Temper the Widening Wealth Gap in America?” Housing Policy Debate, 2005, Vol. 16, Issue 2.
As a Senior Research Analyst, he has authored or co-authored numerous Joint Center publications. Recent contributions include:
- “Multiple-Home Ownership and the Income Elasticity of Housing Demand” (2006),
- “Housing Wealth and Retirement Savings: Enhancing Financial Security for Older Americans” (2005),
- “The Importance of Wealth and Income in the Transition to Homeownership” (2005),
- “The Impact of Minority Growth and Minorities’ Rising Household Income on Housing Markets” (2005),
- “Emerging Cohort Trends in Housing Debt and Home Equity” (2005),
- “The Impact of New Census Bureau Interim National Population Projections on Projected Household Growth in the United States” (2004),
- “'Million-Dollar' Homes and Wealth in the United States” (2004),
- “Housing Wealth and Household Net Wealth in the United States” (2003),
- “The Importance of Housing to the Accumulation of Household Net Wealth” (2003),
- “How Local Rent Change and Earning Capacity Affect Natural Household Formation by Young Adults” (2003),
- “Intergenerational Wealth Transfer and Its Impact on Housing” (2002),
- “Young American Adults Living in Parental Homes” (2002),
- “The Role of Housing as a Component of Household Wealth” (2001),
- “Second Homes: What, How Many, Where, and Who” (2001),
- “Cohort Insights into the Influence of Education, Race and Family Structure on Homeownership Trends by Age: 1985 to 1995” (2001),
- “Residential Conversions” (2000),
- “Housing and Economic Development in Suzhou, China: A New Approach to Deal with the Inseparable Issues,” (2000), and
- “Updating and Extending the Joint Center Household Projections Using New Census Bureau Population Projections” (2000).
