Zheng Xu
Xi'an and Shanghai, China
I studied engineering, yet I wrote fictions and plays in my free time. I even paid my first-year college tuition with the award money from a writing competition. I'm an engineer by title, though I'm actually doing marketing. I work in an underdeveloped region in China, but I promote products based on the cutting-edge technologies of the world. I once lived in a modern apartment in Shanghai for three years, yet I also appreciate my life experiences in a mountainous and impoverished county in Southwest China. I seldom play PC games, but I played an online game in which I managed the second largest airline company in the virtual world. I had a great childhood, but I experienced the intense fear of death when I was stuck in the disaster area after a deadly 8.0-magnitude earthquake. I fear death, but I once spent a whole day watching Hindu cremations in Varanasi.