南方周末
Chen Min was born in Yilong County, Sichuan in 1962. He graduated from Sun Yat-sen University. Chen worked on a series of non-fiction novels – "History of the First Sound" (), "The Truth of Liu Wencai" (). In 2000, his works have been suppressed. In 2005, he was expelled from Beijing. In 2011, he was dismissed from "Southern Weekly".