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Xu Pei was born in 1966 in Sichuan province of China. Pei left China in 1988 and studied in Germany. Pei became a German citizen in 2004, and lives in Cologne Germany. She is a female poet, a writer , and a human rights activist.

Life
Xu Pei was born on March 22, 1966, in Kangding City, the seat of Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province of Southwest China. Pei has three elder brothers and one young brother. In her childhood, Pei was sent to foster care in Chengdu. When she was 8 years old, her parents were transferred to work in Ya'an and Pei was taken back to her parents.

In 1983, Pei was admitted to the German Department at Sichuan International Studies University and graduated in 1987. Then Pei worked in Leshan as a tour guide for German visitor groups.

Pei came to Germany at the end of 1988 and studied German philology and philosophy at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and obtained Ph.D. in 1996.

Pei obtained German Citizenship in 2004, and currently lives in Cologne. She is a female poet, writer , and human rights activist. Pei is specialized in German poetry and published essays, commentaries and papers. She is active in Radio and TV programs and on Internet. She has worked with Amnesty International and the Society for Threatened Peoples.

Works
Xu Pei's books have been illustrated by German artist Jörg Immendorf, Georg Baselitz and Markus Lüpertz, among others. Pei's other German-language publications include: the essay The outlooks of Women in Romanticism Poems (ISBN ISBN 3-928234-57-9) published in 1997, as well as the novel The Long Way of the Red Chamber (ISBN 978-3-95445-015-2) published in 2013.

Awards and Comments
Xu Pei won Düsseldorf's Literary Creation Award in 1991, the Literary Creation Award of the Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia in 1993, the Doctoral Scholarship of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in 1994-1996, and the Heine Literature Creation Award in Lümborg in 1999-2000.

In an interview in 2011, the German Sinologist Wolfgang Kubin commented that Xu Pei's poems were well written and her works of art deserved attention. Prof. Kubin said, unlike other overseas Chinese writers who focused Chinese topics, Pei did not limit herself to Chinese topics.