Hsiao-Hung Pai is a London-based journalist and writer. Her book ' was short-listed for the 2009 Orwell Prize and her Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants won the Bread and Roses Award in 2013.
Hsiao-Hung has written for The Guardian, OpenDemocracy, Red Pepper, Feminist Review, Socialist Review, Chinese Times UK, Chinese Weekly, The Storm (as a columnist), and other Chinese-language publications worldwide.
Hsiao-Hung Pai was born in Taiwan.
Pai has lived in the United Kingdom since 1991. She holds master's degrees (MA) in Critical & Cultural Theory (University of Wales, College of Cardiff), East Asian politics & history (University of Durham) and Journalism, with distinction (University of Westminster).