Zheng Yuanjie | |
Native Name Lang: | zh-Hans-CN |
Birth Date: | 15 June 1955 |
Birth Place: | Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China |
Occupation: | Writer |
Language: | Chinese |
Nationality: | Chinese |
Period: | 1979–present |
Spouse: | Guo Weiwei (Chinese: 郭维维) |
Children: | Zheng Yaqi (Chinese: 郑亚旗) Zheng Yafei (Chinese: 郑亚飞) |
T: | 鄭淵潔 |
S: | 郑渊洁 |
P: | Zhèng Yuānjié |
Zheng Yuanjie (; 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 (Chinese: 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.
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]