Xiong Dun

Zhong liu jun) (2015).

• Name — Xiong Dun • Birth Name — Xiang Yao • Born — 19 October 1982 • Birthplace — Lishui, China • Died — 16 November 2012 • Occupation — Cartoonist, memoirist

Xiang Yao was from Lishui in Zhejiang province.

Xiang Yao worked as an illustrator for Beijing advertising company, while creating comics using the name Xiong Dun, with titles like A Bachelorette's Diary, Superwoman on Diet, Stories in City, and Maturing into Womanhood. She had six books of her cartoons published. Her style was compared to that of Japanese cartoonist たかぎなおこ. Xiong Dun began to experience symptoms that were diagnosed as Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in August 2011. She blamed her own long hours for her turn of health, saying "I hope my illness will sound alarm bells to those workaholics like me." Despite the grim subject, the cartoon published in book form as Go to the Devil, Mr. Tumor (2013) was upbeat in tone, with humorous illustrations and observations about her cancer and treatments.

Xiong Dun died in November 2012, aged 30. "Death is only a result," she assured her fans. "How you live is the most important." A film based on her life and work, Go Away Mr. Tumor, directed by Han Yan and starring Bai Baihe and Daniel Wu, was released in China in 2015, and was considered a box-office success. Wang Yichuan described it as an example of the "sorrow from joy" theme common in recent Chinese films.

Xiong Dun is recorded as a citizen of People's Republic of China. Recorded with the occupation comics artist. Recorded with the occupation cartoonist. Recorded with the occupation memoirist. Recorded at birth as 项瑶.