Cirrus@Austlit

Xiyan Bi completed Bachelor of Arts and Masters degrees at Beijing Normal University before studying in Australia for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. She has published essays about life in Australia and in 1996 collaborated with A.D. Syrokomla-Stefanowska for the publication of A Classical Chinese Reader. Her Chinese novel Tiansheng Zuoquie [Born a Concubine] was published in 2003. She has received appointment as an Honorary Associate in the Department of Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Sydney. She has also worked as a translator of works into Chinese.