Zheng Yuanjie

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Zheng Yuanjie
Native name
郑渊洁
Born (1955-06-15) 15 June 1955 (age 68)
Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China
OccupationWriter
LanguageChinese
NationalityChinese
Period1979–present
SpouseGuo Weiwei (郭维维)
ChildrenZheng Yaqi (郑亚旗)
Zheng Yafei (郑亚飞)
Zheng Yuanjie
Hanyu Pinyin
Zhèng Yuānjié

Zheng Yuanjie (Chinese: 郑渊洁; born 15 June 1955) is a Chinese children's books author, and founder and sole writer of a children's literature magazine known as the King of Fairy Tales (童话大王).[1][2] The first issue was published in 1984. His characters (including PiPilu, LuXixi, Shuke, Beita and Luoke) are registered trademarks.

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Zheng Yuanjie is critical of conventional Chinese methods of education, claiming that "college education tends to make simple things complicated and hard to understand".[3]

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