Career
He wrote under the pen name of Xiao Shu (Chinese: 笑蜀. Pinyin: Xiào Shǔ). Chen Minister was born in Yilong County, Nanchong, Sichuan, China in 1962.He graduated from Sun Yat-sen University. Chen worked on a series of non-fiction novels – History of the First Sound (历史的先声), The Truth of Liu Wencai (刘文彩真相).
In 2005, he was expelled from Beijing.
In 2011, he was dismissed from Southern Weekly.