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Fang Min is a renowned environmental literature writer and environmental protection activist in China. Her highly appraised book, Panda Epics, was published in 2008. Her novel A Grand Farewell won the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection's first national Environmental Literature Award. She is the Giant Panda spokesman appointed by the China Wildlife Conservation Association (CWCA), the largest non-profit ecological conservation organization in China.
A longtime environmental protection activist, Min had published series literatures about the subject before her 12 year-long work of Panda Epics began. These literatures include novels A Grand Farewell, Peacock Lake, Rose Valley, The Undercurrent of the Morning, Friendship Robbery, In and Out of Mountains, and novelettes The Grand Migration, The Grand Destruction, The Grand Resistance, Beautiful Cock-fighting and Panda Epics - the Goddesses in Exile. Min's translation works include British and American fictions Ms. Weisz and The Merry Traces. She won the Fifth Annual National Writers Association Award for outstanding children's literature and the Fifth Annual State Press and Publication Award nomination.
Min is member of The Chinese Writers' Association. Her professional experiences included editor, journalist and deputy editor positions at Bai Hua Literature and Art Publishing House, The Green Post of China, the Chinese News Press, and the Chinese Academy of Arts.
Min holds a Bachelor of Art degree in Chinese literature. She resides in Beijing, China and divides her time in Beijing and Sichuan respectively.
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