You Xie

You Xie
Born October 1, 1958 (age 56)
Hainan
Nationality German
Occupation Author, Journalist

You Xie (Chinese: 友谢) (born Xie Shengyou: Chinese: 谢盛友, October 1, 1958 in Hainan) is a German journalist and author of Chinese origin.

Life

When You Xie was born, there was a famine in China. He grew up during the cultural revolution and could therefore not the school, but had to work in the country. From 1979 to 1983 he studied German and English at the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. After graduation (B.A..), he worked as an interpreter at VW in Shanghai.

In 1988, he came to study at the Otto-Friedrich University, Bamberg and studied German language and literature, journalism and European Ethnology. in 1993 he graduated on the press policies of the Communist Party of China. From 1993 to 1996, he studied law at the Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg.

At the time of the Tiananmen-massacre he was Chairman of the Association of Chinese students and scholars in Germany e.V. in 1999 he founded the Chinese language journal European Chinese news that 2011 was their appearance. You Xie is editor of the Europe of the Christian magazine "Overseas Campus" since 2006.[1] In 2010, You Xie came in the selection of the top 100 Chinese public intellectuals. On 20 April 2013, the members of the Bamberg CSU selected Xie in the county board. He got 141 of 220 votes. So the best result of all county board members.[2] On July 26, 2013, You Xie was elected by the CSU Member Assembly with 97 of 110 votes on the candidate list for 29th place for the City Council election 2014. At the election, Xie was elected with the most votes of all CSU candidate for the City Council.

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Xie is Vice President Association of Chinese language writers in Europe and lives with his wife Shenhua Xie Zhang in Bamberg, where he runs the China Fan snack bar. Since 2010, he has German citizenship.

Xie is a descendant of Xie An (Chinese 謝安, pinyin Xiè Ān, 320-385), the Duke Wenjing of Luling during the Jin dynasty, in 56. Generation. His great-aunt was Xie Fei (Chinese 谢飞, pinyin Fēi Xiè, 1913-2013) from Wenchang, Hainan Province. Xie Fei participated in the long March in 1934 and was the third wife of Liu Shaoqi, the President of People's Republic of China from 1959 to 1968.

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Awards

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Till Mayer: Anker in der neuen Heimat, in: taz, 12. November 2011, S. 39
  2. ↑ Maximilian Kalkhof: Frag nicht, was deine neue Heimat für dich tun kann, in: FAS, 7. Juli 2013, S. 46
  3. ↑ Kandidatenliste Wahlergebnis
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