{"id":9459,"date":"2026-09-17T15:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallery-puzic.com\/?p=9459"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:08:41","slug":"sun-wei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallery-puzic.com\/en\/uncategorized\/sun-wei\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Wei"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sun Wei\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0 biography<\/strong><\/p>

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A former journalist, documentary filmmaker, and corporate general manager, Wei Sun is a novelist who tells stories of the most authentic contemporary Shanghai and China.\u00a0<\/p>

She\u00a0was\u00a0born and\u00a0grew\u00a0up in Shanghai. Since publishing her first fairy\u00a0tale collection\u00a0Story Cloud\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>in 1992, she has published\u00a031\u00a0books, including novels and short story collections. Her short story collection\u00a0Rich in China<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0was a bestseller in China in 2006. Her novel\u00a0The Map of Time<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0was a bestseller in 2017.<\/p>

Her works have won over 10 national awards.\u00a0She was the winner of the 2013 and 2017 Chinese Writers\u2019\u00a0Erdos Prize for Literature for her novel\u00a0Person in a Bottle\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>and her novella\u00a0\u201cNight Persons\u201d. Her novella\u00a0\u201cThe Mirror\u201d\u00a0was the winner of the 2018 Novella of Beijing Literature Excellence Award.<\/p>

Her novels\u00a0The Temple of Impermanence\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>and\u00a0The Map of Time<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0are in the process of being adapted into TV series and movies. Her novel\u00a0Gold Belt\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>is being made into a TV series, and set to air in the summer of 2025.<\/p>

The Ludwig\u00a0Maximilian\u00a0University of Munich and the Free University of Berlin use her works, which\u00a0include\u00a0the novel\u00a0The Confession of a Bear<\/em><\/strong>, the short story collection\u00a0Rich in China<\/em><\/strong>, and the short stories\u00a0\u201cWho is in Whose Room\u201d \u201cMy Funeral\u201d \u201cBank Robbery\u201d\u00a0as teaching material\u00a0at\u00a0the Institute for Sinology\u00a0and the\u00a0Institute of Chinese Studies.<\/p>

Her works\u00a0have\u00a0been translated into 6 languages. The English version of her novel\u00a0The Confession of a Bear\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>was published in the United States.\u00a0Her\u00a0novellas\u00a0\u201cFarewell\u201d\u00a0\u201cIgnition\u201d\u00a0\u201cThe Second Son\u201d \u201cMagician\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0fairy tale\u00a0\u201cElephants Walking on One-Way Road\u201d\u00a0were translated into English, German,\u00a0Portuguese, French, Spanish,\u00a0Danish\u00a0and\u00a0Bulgarian and published in the respective local literary journals.<\/p>

She has been teaching\u00a0literature, culture, and creative writing for over 20 years. She gave\u00a0lectures, speeches, and readings at universities, institutions, and seminars in China, Ireland, the United States, Denmark, Switzerland, Latvia, Italy, and Germany, and has been honoured with 19 fellowships and scholarships from 15 countries, including Scotland, Sweden, New Zealand, Hungary, Romania, and more.<\/p>

As one of the Shanghai intellectuals and middle class, Wei Sun has conducted a significant amount of research on social issues in contemporary China. She is acutely tuned to the many psychological issues of Chinese urban dwellers, and her works vividly reflect the loneliness, pride, and sense of alienation that these urban dwellers experience. The tension and horror of contemporary life that Wei Sun\u2019s fiction reveals have caused a sensation in recent years.<\/p>

Her research on traditional Chinese philosophy and contemporary\u00a0Chinese society\u00a0has\u00a0also\u00a0been\u00a0published\u00a0in\u00a0academic publications and articles that include\u00a0Malaise of Our Generation:\u00a0An\u00a0Analysis\u00a0of the\u00a0New\u00a0Cultural\u00a0Phenomenons of the\u00a0Mass Media in\u00a0Contemporary China,\u00a0Love of Our Generation: An\u00a0Analysis of the\u00a0Cultural and\u00a0Psychological\u00a0Causes of the\u00a0New\u00a0Relationship\u00a0Forms in Chinese\u00a0Modern<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Marriages<\/em><\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>and so on.<\/p>

Wei Sun writes not only in Chinese but also sometimes in English and German. Starting in 2019, her poems written in English started to be published in European literary journals. Starting in 2023, her poems and stories written in German started to be published in German literary journals and anthologies.<\/p>

She is currently living in Germany and pursuing\u00a0her PhD in\u00a0general and comparative\u00a0literature at Saarland University.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Sun Wei artworks biography Sun Wei\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0 biography \u00a0 A former journalist, documentary filmmaker, and corporate general manager, Wei Sun is a novelist who tells stories of the most authentic contemporary Shanghai and China.\u00a0 She\u00a0was\u00a0born and\u00a0grew\u00a0up in Shanghai. Since publishing her first fairy\u00a0tale collection\u00a0Story Cloud\u00a0in 1992, she has published\u00a031\u00a0books, including novels and short story […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallery-puzic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallery-puzic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallery-puzic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallery-puzic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallery-puzic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9459"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/gallery-puzic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9483,"href":"https:\/\/gallery-puzic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9459\/revisions\/9483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallery-puzic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallery-puzic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallery-puzic.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}